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How to Use AI to Talk to Whales—and Save Life on Earth

By Camille Bromley
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Beauty Filters Aren’t Trying to Fool Anyone

By Charlotte Shane
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The World Is Going Blind. Taiwan Offers a Warning, and a Cure

By Amit Katwala
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The Dark History Oppenheimer Didn’t Show

By Ngofeen Mputubwele
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To Navigate the Age of AI, the World Needs a New Turing Test

By Ben Ash Blum
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The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free?

By Gregory Barber
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Uber’s CEO Says He’ll Always Find a Reason to Say His Company Sucks

By Steven Levy
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The Real Reason Steph Curry Is So Damn Good

By Hemal Jhaveri
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The AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous Future of War Is Here

By Will Knight
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The Dark Secrets Buried at Red Cloud Boarding School

By Rowan Moore Gerety
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Meet the Psychedelic Boom’s First Responders

By Chris Colin
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Meet the Humans Trying to Keep Us Safe From AI

By Will Knight, Khari Johnson, and Morgan Meaker
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The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke

By Megan Greenwell
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Boots Riley Says a ‘Gentler Capitalism’ Won’t Save Society

By Jason Parham
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How Christopher Nolan Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI

By Maria Streshinsky
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How to Survive a Devastating Earthquake—and Firestorm

By Cody Cassidy
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The Psychedelic Scientist Who Sends Brains Back to Childhood

By Rachel Nuwer
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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Is Betting Everything on AI

By Steven Levy
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‘Building a Platform Like Twitter Is Not Difficult’

By Brendan I. Koerner
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The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom

By Amy Martyn
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It’s the Age of Ozempic. Do We Need WeightWatchers Anymore?

By Lauren Goode
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The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World

By Gregory Barber
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Pete Buttigieg Loves God, Beer, and His Electric Mustang

By Virginia Heffernan
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Doug Rushkoff Is Ready to Renounce the Digital Revolution

By Malcolm Harris
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