Here’s What Snap’s Expensive Specs Can Actually Do

There is a moment, just before you lift a pair of glasses onto your face, when you are still just a person with a body and a mind. You see…

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Polymarket’s Next Bet? It Can Also Be a Media Company

Every morning, a newsletter arrives in my inbox with a subject line that could easily be mistaken for a breaking news alert from a…

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Why It Seems Like Great White Sharks Are Overrunning Maine

For 55 years, Greg Wilfert had been a lifeguard, which means he had spent more than half a century learning to read the ocean…

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Chipotle Is Working With Palantir to Track Food Safety Risks

1. A Surprising Partnership in the Fast-Food World It’s easy to imagine Chipotle as a company obsessed with what’s inside its burritos: organic cilantro,…

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China Isn’t Buying Silicon Valley’s Call for an AI Slowdown

For years, the dominant story out of Silicon Valley has been one of high-stakes rivalry: America versus China, locked in a technological death match…

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Self-Driving Cars Might Change Crash Testing Forever

Imagine this: you’ve just climbed into a sleek, matte gold car with no steering wheel, no brake pedal, and no obvious way to drive…

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The EU Plans to Ban Social Media For Under-13s

It begins at the dinner table, or in the back seat of a car, or in a bedroom with the door slightly open. A…

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A New Headset to Help With Depression Is Now Available in the US

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For millions of people living with depression, the search for relief can feel exhausting. You try a medication, wait weeks to see if it helps, and sometimes it does—but often…

The FBI Doubles Down on Easing ‘Bestiality’ Hiring Standards

The hearing room on Capitol Hill was already thick with tension when Kash Patel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senators on…

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How Tech Companies Can Use Digital Marketing + SEO to Grow Faster (Without Burning Budget)

Growth in tech is oddly simple and painfully competitive at the same time. Simple because the path is clear: get in front of the…

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Federal Court Deems FBI’s Warrantless “Backdoor” Searches Unconstitutional

The recent ruling by US District Court Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall declaring the FBI's warrantless searches of US citizens' communications under Section 702 of…

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Lawmakers Want States to Crack Down on Flock Cameras—or Pay the Price

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For months, a quiet but fierce battle has been playing out across American roads and highways. Automated license plate readers—especially…

If the US Collapses Soon, Don’t Blame Emily St. John Mandel

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There’s a moment in this conversation that feels almost like a sigh. Two Canadians, now living in New York City,…

Those Viral Bodega Peptides Aren’t Actually Peptides

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The Mr. Green bodega sits on a busy stretch of Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, where the sidewalk is…

‘I Felt Super Violated’: Men Wearing Meta Glasses on Dates Is an Instant Red Flag

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One evening in the summer of 2024, Courtney McAnuff walked into a bar in midtown Manhattan with the kind of…

Why the Postpandemic Tech Bust Sent Billionaires to Trump

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In the spring of 2020, life as we knew it stopped. A highly contagious virus moved through the country with…

The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank

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The Census Bureau has long tried to be the quiet, trusted arithmetic of American democracy. It counts every person in…

Review: System76 Pangolin Pro Linux Laptop

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One of the first things that stands out about the System76 Pangolin Pro is its enormous glass trackpad. For many…

The Supreme Court Just Blocked Trump’s Efforts to Control Mail-In Voting for the Midterms

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There are moments when the Supreme Court hands down a ruling that feels less like a legal technicality and more…

New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites

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For the best part of a decade, a creeping, insidious sickness has been spreading through the dark corners of the…

Best Noise-Canceling Earbuds (2026): Bose, Apple, Samsung, Beats, and More

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Here is the content summarized and humanized into a 6-paragraph, 2000-word format. --- In the ever-evolving world of wireless audio,…

A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work

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Content warning: This piece includes descriptions of nonconsensual sex and intimate image abuse. On Sunday, November 2, 2025, Maddie Kowalski…

The Best Soundbars (2026): Sonos, LG, TCL, Bose, and More

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There are soundbars, and then there are soundbars that make you feel like you’ve invited a small thunderstorm into your…