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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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Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—And Must—Take Our Jobs

By Kevin Kelly
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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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Inside the Mansion—and Mind—of the Net's Most Wanted Man

By Charles Graeber
Gear

Cosmo, the Hacker ‘God’ Who Fell to Earth

By Mat Honan
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Apocalypse Not: Here's Why You Shouldn't Worry About End Times

By Matt Ridley
Security

The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

By James Bamford

The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit

By Jason Tanz

Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation?

By Andrew Curry
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Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion—Not a Holy War

By Jason Fagone
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Going, Going, Gone: Who Killed the Internet Auction?

By James Surowiecki
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Anthrax Redux: Did the Feds Nab the Wrong Guy?

By Noah Shachtman
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A University Researcher Was Denied Tenure—Then Turned to Murder

By Amy Wallace
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The Clever Math That Cracked the Scratch Code Lottery

By Jonah Lehrer
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The Incredible True Story of the Collar Bomb Heist

By Rich Schapiro
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Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness

By Gary Greenberg
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