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Found: Artifacts from the future
Found: Artifacts from the future
Contributing editor Joshua Davis has traveled the world reporting for Wired (Colombia, China, Nepal, South Korea, Iraq, Israel, Russia). His writing is anthologized in the 2012 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and he is the author of The Underdog, an account of his adventures as a ... Read More
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Casio’s Fluffy AI Robot Squeaked Its Way Into My Heart
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