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British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

By Matt Burgess and Mark Wilding
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Interactive. Violent. Gross. Inside Fishtank, the Unhinged Future of Reality TV

By Owen Long
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What Do Americans Spend on Housing?

By Sandra Upson
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Traditional Home Insurance Is Collapsing. Here’s What Could Fill the Gap

By Katie Thornton
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My Father Wants to Age in Place. AI Will Be Watching

By Steven Blum
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Designing the Dream House of an 87-Year-Old Tech Visionary

By Steven Levy
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Streamer IShowSpeed Is Gen Z’s ESPN

By Jason Parham
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The Untold Story of the Google Buses That Took Over San Francisco

By Jonathan Weber
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Anguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles Outbreak

By Amy Maxmen, KFF Health News
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Afroman Is Back—and He’s Bitcoin’s Latest Freedom Fighter

By Jessica Klein
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Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’

By Steven Levy
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Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School

By Todd Feathers
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The Romance Scammer Who Made a Small Fortune Posing as a WWE Superstar

By Carlos Barragán
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The Painful Truth About Long Covid

By Alan Levinovitz
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AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened

By Steven Levy
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AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World

By Kate Knibbs
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To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant

By Joel Khalili
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I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?

By Chris Colin
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Meet the Sad Wives of AI

By Alessandra Ram
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Why Soccer Still Defies Statistical Analysis

By Nick Greene
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What Happens When You Try to Treat OCD With Psilocybin

By Simone Stolzoff
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I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

By Ruth Fowler
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The iPhone That Never Was

By David Epstein
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He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?

By Todd Feathers
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