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The Big Story

A Prince Goes on a High-Tech Job Interview

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Sex, Beer, and Coding: Inside Facebook’s Wild Early Days

Gear

How Can We Make Technology Healthier for Humans?

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A Look Inside Theranos’ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture

Science

$@&%*! Why Swearing Reduces Pain

Business

A Child Abuse Prediction Model Fails Poor Families

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Why Teens Aren’t Partying Anymore

Science

The Physics of When, Exactly, Star Wars Takes Place

Culture

A Brief History of Sex on the Internet

Science

How Congress Ignored Science and Fueled Antibiotic Resistance

Culture

Terms of Service Aren't Just Annoying—They're a Failure

Science

Einstein’s Little-Known Passion Project? A Refrigerator

Transportation

Here’s What It’s Like to Control a Predator Drone

Science

Meet the Woman Who Can See With Her Ears

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What Happens When Your Virtual Home Gets a Virus?

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What It’s Like to Stand at the Threshold to Space

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The Top Tech Books of 2016 (Part II)

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How Apps Gentrified and Diminished the Open Web

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Aaron Swartz’s Theory on How to Save the World

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Inside Blue Bottle Coffee’s Sprint to Get Off the Ground

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The Seven Steps Toward Making Humans Obsolete

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How Time Travel Began

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Be Healthy or Else: How Corporations Became Obsessed with Fitness Tracking

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How GPS Became a Human Tracking Mechanism