How to Get Rich From Peeping Inside People’s Fridges
Forget the S&P 500. Look at the ice cream. This investor visits homes around the world to see where diets—and economies—will go next.
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‘SimCity’ Isn’t a Model of Reality. It’s a Libertarian Toy Land
Read more: ‘SimCity’ Isn’t a Model of Reality. It’s a Libertarian Toy LandBeneath its playful exterior, the beloved game that inspired a generation of real-world urban designers betrays a partisan view of social planning.
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I Am Laura Kipnis-Bot, and I Will Make Reading Sexy and Tragic Again
Read more: I Am Laura Kipnis-Bot, and I Will Make Reading Sexy and Tragic AgainMargaret Atwood, Marlon James, Lena Dunham, Roxane Gay: We’ve all agreed to be turned into AI reading companions by a mysterious company called Rebind. I report from the inside.
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The Secret to Living Past 120 Years Old? Nanobots
Read more: The Secret to Living Past 120 Years Old? NanobotsIn The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge With AI, the spiritual sequel to his (in)famous first book, Ray Kurzweil doubles down on the promise of immortality.
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If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You’ll Meet His Immortal Soul in the Cloud
Read more: If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), You’ll Meet His Immortal Soul in the CloudThe famed futurist remains inhumanly optimistic about the world and his own fate—and thinks the singularity is minutes away.
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Silicon Valley’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico
Read more: Silicon Valley’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico“We have people stealing all over the world.” A digital sleuth named Bryan Hance has spent the past four years obsessively uncovering a bicycle-theft pipeline of astonishing scale, running from the US West Coast to Mexico.
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Silicon Valley’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico
Read more: Silicon Valley’s Fanciest Stolen Bikes Are Getting Trafficked by One Mastermind in Jalisco, Mexico“We have people stealing all over the world.” A digital sleuth named Bryan Hance has spent the past four years obsessively uncovering a bicycle-theft pipeline of astonishing scale, running from the US West Coast to Mexico.
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The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist, Robin Sloan, Goes Meta
Read more: The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist, Robin Sloan, Goes MetaIn which Robin Sloan writes Moonbound—a science fiction book about science fiction—and our writer writes his way into total insanity.
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The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined
Read more: The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone ImaginedA year after OceanGate’s sub imploded, thousands of exclusive leaked documents and interviews with ex-employees reveal how the company’s CEO cut corners, ignored warnings, and lied in his fatal quest to reach the Titanic.
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How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AI
Read more: How to Lead an Army of Digital Sleuths in the Age of AIEliot Higgins and his 28,000 forensic foot soldiers at Bellingcat have kept a miraculous nose for truth—and a sharp sense of its limits—in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else atrocities hide online.
