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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
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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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Why No One Clicked on the Great Hypertext Story

By Steven Johnson
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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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Inside the Mansion—and Mind—of the Net's Most Wanted Man

By Charles Graeber
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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
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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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The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet

By Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff
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Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure

By Thomas Goetz
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Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists

By Steven Levy
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