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The dark heart of modern chess
There is a singular misery to trying your very best, after months of training, only to...
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Despite international hires, TikTok is Chinese at its core
When Chinese software engineer Ben joined TikTok’s San Jose office in 2023, he felt as if...
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AI and the End of the Human Writer
In this notion of distributed intelligence, there is something both democratizing and destabilizing—a sneaky but egalitarian...
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Jeff Bridges Returning to the Grid for 'Tron: Ares'
Jared Leto may be the main star of the upcoming Tron: Ares, but we now know...
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How the Food Industry Pays Influencers to Shill Blueberries, Butter, and More
The research side of the checkoff world has yielded a surprising array of food innovations, like...
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The Camorra Never Sleeps (2012)
The thing about being murdered, it usually comes as a surprise. Even in Naples, where the...
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Brutal Welsh Architecture – Pictures
Built according to plans by Spence, Blocks A and B, housing the Magnox reactors, were intended...
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For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter
Eric Ghost's cleverly disguised LSD packaging mirrored the 1960s counterculture's psychedelic vision.The image that follows is...
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Power Laws in Culture
The idea that the Internet would cause media fragmentation is almost as old as the modern...
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Scenes from the last operational Morse-code radio station in North America
Scenes from the last operational Morse-code radio station in North AmericaBy Saahil DesaiPhotographs by Ann HermesMarch...
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TikTok Is Destroying Itself from the Inside Out
At the beginning of 2023, TikTok was one of the weirdest and most delightful places on...
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Gen Z is facing a 'fringe friend' crisis
Nikol Moses felt the itch to head somewhere new.The pandemic made her a little stir-crazy, so...