Climate Change Will Bust the Housing Market

David Burt was one of the few who predicted the 2008 financial crisis. He's gambling that history is going to repeat itself soon. | Continue reading


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Students are demanding MIT fire a professor who visited Epstein in prison

An engineering professor who accepted donations from Epstein is advising a freshman seminar at MIT this semester. | Continue reading


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1k Employees Are Demanding Google Eliminate Carbon Emissions

Google employees announced a campaign today to push the company to eliminate its massive carbon footprint by 2030. | Continue reading


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NASA Has Found a Weird, Unexplained Boundary in Interstellar Space

Voyager 2 passed through the borderland between the Sun and interstellar space and found something new and puzzling that Voyager 1 missed. | Continue reading


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Mozilla Asks Congress to Investigate ISPs Data Collection Practices

Mozilla's letter comes after Motherboard published a Comcast lobbying document, in which the ISP pushed back against a form of browsing data encryption. | Continue reading


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NASA’s Lonely Rover Took a Beautifully Desolate Shot of Mars

The only working rover on Mars continues its journey through a crater that once held water. | Continue reading


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'Dead Cells' Is Ditching Co-Ops for Capitalism

'Dead Cells' was made in an environment where workers shared equal power, equal pay, and equal profits. That's not how things will work at the new studio, Evil Empire. | Continue reading


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Engineer Says Software Firm Cut Her Maternity Leave Short After Her Baby Died

Even in 2019, women in Silicon Valley experience extreme forms of pregnancy discrimination. | Continue reading


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A 'Big Short' Investor's New Bet: Climate Change Will Bust the Housing Market

David Burt was one of the few who predicted the 2008 financial crisis. He's gambling that history is going to repeat itself soon. | Continue reading


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Millions Use Gabapentin. But There’s Little Evidence It Works

Gabapentin is approved for treating seizures and nerve pain, yet 95 percent of the time it’s used for other conditions, without strong research to back it up. With recent links to overdose and reports of suicide, why is still being used so much? | Continue reading


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Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell was guest at Jeff Bezos's 2018 book retreat

Motherboard has learned Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged fixer attended the Amazon CEO’s exclusive book retreat ‘Campfire' last year. | Continue reading


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Google’s Network Congestion Algorithm Isn’t Fair, Researchers Say

But at least it’s open source and transparent, unlike efforts by countless other companies, those same data scientists say. | Continue reading


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People are deliberately having bad shroom trips

A small group of drug users swear by purposefully bad trips. In them, they find positive gain rather than just sweaty panic. | Continue reading


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Uber Says It Will Sue Los Angeles over Sharing Scooter Location Data

The move comes after Uber decided not to provide the location data according to a Los Angeles Department of Transportation deadline. | Continue reading


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How NSO Group helps countries hack targets

The controversial Israeli spyware company is more involved in hacking targets than previously believed, according to sources. | Continue reading


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People Suspected of Witchcraft Are Still Being Persecuted and Killed

An international group of advocates are urging the U.N. to do something about the ostracization and violence. | Continue reading


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I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb

How easy is it to exploit Airbnb? While searching for my grifter, I found out. | Continue reading


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Silicon Valley Startup Is Dedicated to Detecting UFOs Off the California Coast

UAP eXpeditions is made up of former military officials, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and academics. | Continue reading


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A Western Sydney Gang Got Hold of Military-Grade Rocket Launchers

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Facebook Employees Have Launched Their First Major Protest Against Zuckerberg

As the tech industry transforms into a hotbed of employee dissent, Facebook employees have remained on the sidelines. Are they finally having their moment? | Continue reading


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Twitter Is Banning Political Ads

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the social network will not accept political ads starting on November 22, and promised more details when the final rules are published in two weeks. | Continue reading


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DeepMind's 'Starcraft II' AI Is Now Better Than 99.98% of Human Players

AlphaStar achieved Grandmaster status the old fashioned way: grinding through matches with human opponents to move up the leaderboard. | Continue reading


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Can You Get Too Old to Be Good at Video Games?

It's more likely that it's not that you're getting worse at video games, it's that everyone got a lot better. | Continue reading


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The Largest Single Collection of UFO Material Is Being Cataloged

That's the good news. The bad news is that the files being cataloged are the ones scattered in the photo you see here. | Continue reading


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iPhone Emulation Company Sued by Apple Says It's Making iPhones Safer

Corellium responds to Apple's lawsuit saying the startup is good for society and accusing Apple of owing it money. | Continue reading


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Nearly All Counter-Strike Microtransactions Are Being Used for Money Laundering

"Worldwide fraud networks have recently shifted to using CS:GO keys to liquidate their gains. At this point, nearly all key purchases that end up being traded or sold on the marketplace are believed to be fraud-sourced," Valve says. | Continue reading


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A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion (2014)

The French Foreign Legion is where criminals and transients go for a new identity that's fraught with intense military training. "Dave" from Ottawa jumped into the fray before escaping in dramatic fashion. | Continue reading


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'Pwnagotchi' Is the Open Source Handheld That Eats Wi-Fi Handshakes

The Tamagotchi-inspired device helps wandering hackers to crack Wi-Fi passwords while looking adorable. | Continue reading


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Charger Takes over Your Phone to Poison the Ad Data Amazon Wants

The FANGo charger hijacks your phone and creates junk data by aimlessly clicking, searching, and scrolling through sites like Amazon and Youtube | Continue reading


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$2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using It to Arrest People

Donut crumbs also once tested positive for meth. | Continue reading


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UFO Research Group Signs Contract with U.S. Army to Develop Far-Future Tech

The government will study DeLonge's mysterious 'exotic' metals, active camouflage, 'beamed energy propulsion' and a host of other wild technologies. | Continue reading


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‘Significant Racial Bias’ Found in National Healthcare Algorithm

A series of studies argue that by focusing on costs as a proxy for health, risk algorithms are ignoring the racial inequalities in healthcare access. | Continue reading


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Dear Comcast, I Noticed Your Email About My Tweet and Wanted You to Have This

Comcast has spent the last day trying to tell anyone who shared an article about its lobbying efforts that the lobbying is innocent. | Continue reading


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What Is the Best Shape for a Phone? We Asked Design Experts

Rectangles: A boring shape for boring people. | Continue reading


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Lawmaker Kills Repair Bill Because 'Cellphones Are Throwaways'

A New Hampshire lawmaker suggested that we shouldn't fix the $1,000 devices we buy and instead we will "just get a new one." | Continue reading


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Irish Communities Are Reclaiming One of the World's Dirtiest Fuels

The harvesting of peat has created jobs and heated homes across Ireland for centuries, but local environmentalists say it’s time to start treating the land differently. | Continue reading


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Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer (2018)

Some cybersecurity experts and regular users were surprised to learn about a Chrome tool that scans Windows computers for malware. But there’s no reason to freak out about it. | Continue reading


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What it’s like inside of WeWork

"Nobody is running the day-to-day business. It's such a shit show," said one current employee. | Continue reading


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Paradox’s Creative Director on Getting Rich, Making Bad Games, and More

We spoke with Johan Anderson about his storied career, from early days to dealing with the failings of Imperator: Rome. | Continue reading


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A Roundtable of Hackers Dissects 'Mr. Robot' Season 4 Episode 3

Technologists, hackers, and journalists recap the third episode of the final season of the realistic hacking show. | Continue reading


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US Military and Climate Change

The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects. | Continue reading


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People Forget Things They See If They're Taking in Too Much Information

Visual crashes boil down to a glitch in the way we recognize and understand images. | Continue reading


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The Universe Is Made of Tiny Bubbles Containing Mini-Universes, Scientists Say

'Spacetime foam' might just be the wildest thing in the known universe, and we're just starting to understand it. | Continue reading


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40 Major Music Festivals Have Pledged Not to Use Facial Recognition Technology

Activists declare the first major victory against the spread of commercial facial recognition technology in the United States. | Continue reading


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WeWork’s Implosion Shows How SoftBank Is Breaking the World

Venture capital subsidizes unprofitable businesses like WeWork and Uber. Society pays the price. | Continue reading


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Why People Get Sentenced to 'Weekend Jail'

A look at the logic behind putting those convicted of certain crimes behind bars on weekends while letting them go free during the week. | Continue reading


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Comcast Is Lobbying Against DNS Encryption

Motherboard has obtained a leaked presentation internet service providers are using to try and lobby lawmakers against a form of encrypted browsing data. | Continue reading


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