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The Laborers Who Keep Porn and Violence Out of Your Facebook Feed

By Adrian Chen
Culture

Big Hero 6 Proves It: Pixar's Gurus Have Brought the Magic Back to Disney Animation

By Caitlin Roper
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Why Inventors Misjudge How We’ll Abuse Their Creations

By Steven Johnson
Security

Finding a Video Poker Bug Made These Guys Rich—Then Vegas Made Them Pay

By Kevin Poulsen
Design

Why Getting It Wrong Is the Future of Design

By Scott Dadich
Culture

After His Public Downfall, *Sin City'*s Frank Miller Is Back (And Not Sorry)

By Sean Howe
Science

Why Are We So Fat? The Multimillion-Dollar Scientific Quest to Find Out

By Sam Apple
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I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me

By Mat Honan
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How Stewart Butterfield Created Slack From a Failed Video Game

By Mat Honan
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The Inside Story of Oculus Rift and How Virtual Reality Became Reality

By Peter Rubin
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One Startup’s Struggle to Survive Silicon Valley's Gold Rush

By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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How Silicon Valley Is Rushing to Cash In on Cannabis

By Mat Honan
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The Most Insane Truck Ever Built and the 4-Year-Old Who Commands It

By Brian Raftery
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How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love

By Kevin Poulsen
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How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet

By Steven Levy
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The World's Best Bounty Hunter Is 4'11". Here's How She Hunts

By Randall Sullivan
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The Rise and Fall of the World's Largest Bitcoin Exchange

By Robert McMillan and Cade Metz
Business

A Radical Way of Unleashing a Generation of Geniuses

By Joshua Davis
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The Boat That Could Sink the America’s Cup

By Adam Fisher
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Step Behind the Scenes of the Frantic, Madcap Birth of WIRED

By Ted Greenwald
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He Put Secret Compartments in Cars. So the DEA Put Him in Prison

By Brendan I. Koerner
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John McAfee Fled to Belize, but He Couldn't Escape Himself

By Joshua Davis
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They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society

By Noah Shachtman
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Elon Musk's Mission to Mars

By Chris Anderson
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