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A Medium publication about tech and science.
How Google Got Its Employees to Eat Their Vegetables
The tech giant is engineering a way to encourage its employees to eat healthier — and it might just help the rest of the country
Jane Black
Feb 6
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18 min read
How WhatsApp Eased the Pain of Losing My Parents
A forum for young orphans to grieve together thrives on the world’s most popular messaging platform
Suchandrika Chakrabarti
Feb 6
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4 min read
Police Officers Are Learning to Spot Sex Trafficking in Virtual Reality
VR could be especially well-suited for teaching officers how to spot problems that aren’t often immediately recognizable
Zara Stone
Feb 6
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6 min read
A Smear of DNA Can Hold 10,000 Gigabytes of Data
Facing a storage crisis, the U.S. is investing $48 million to turn DNA into living hard drives
Emily Mullin
Feb 5
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5 min read
Stop Making the ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Online Privacy Argument
Regulation will require solidarity
Andy Pavey
Feb 6
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6 min read
AirPods Pro Can Help You Hack Your Brain
How to use Apple’s signature noise-canceling earbuds to drop into a creative flow
Adrian Hanft
Jan 1
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6 min read
An ‘Industrial-Scale Glade Plug-In’ Masks Odors from L.A.’s Urban Oil Fields
Public health advocates express concern that the industrial odorizers could be harmful to human health
Kate Wheeling
Feb 5
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9 min read
Read Kim Stanley Robinson’s Surprisingly Accurate Vision for Autonomous Cars — From 1988
Here’s an exclusive excerpt of ‘The Gold Coast’ (1988), which Tor Books is reissuing as part of KSR’s ‘Three Californias’ trilogy
Kim Stanley Robinson
Feb 5
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12 min read
Almost Every Website You Visit Records Exactly How Your Mouse Moves
Services that replay your digital body language like it’s a movie are extremely common and easy to install
Eric Ravenscraft
Feb 5
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4 min read
Nvidia’s New Game Streaming Platform Could Be a Stadia Killer
Nvidia’s unique approach opens the service up to a millions of gamers
Dave Gershgorn
Feb 5
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3 min read
How Google Earth [Really] Works
Everything you need to know about the tech behind the 3D world mapping tool
Avi Bar-Zeev
Jan 30
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16 min read
Those E-Scooters Might Not Be as Dangerous as You Think
A civil engineer looks at traffic data to improve road safety
Annie YJ Chang
Jan 27
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9 min read
The 2020s Must Be the Decade of the Green New Deal
These three essential books explain why a people-first approach to addressing climate change is the only way forward
Paris Marx
Feb 4
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10 min read
The Long Road to Inventing Design Personas
It’s hard to be simple
Alan Cooper
Feb 4
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9 min read
Clearview AI’s Surveillance Dystopia Isn’t New for People of Color
Facial recognition technology is already biased against marginalized groups
Sarah Emerson
Feb 4
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5 min read
The Pixelbook Go Can Do More Than You’d Expect
I relied on the Chromebook — even at work — for a week. It worked great.
Owen Williams
Feb 3
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4 min read
‘Brand Blockers’ Are Trying to Scrub Their Feeds Clean of Every Advertiser on Twitter
I’ve blocked over 1,000 brands on Twitter, and I can’t stop them
Steve Rousseau
Feb 3
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5 min read
Google’s New Chatbot and Aerial Surveillance: This Week’s Most Interesting ArXiv Papers
OneZero rounds up this week’s noteworthy A.I. and robotics papers
Dave Gershgorn
Jan 31
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2 min read
Facial Recognition Makes Changing Your Name Pointless
Whatever precautions I’ve felt necessary to protect my privacy, hiding my face from the world has never been one of them
Lux Alptraum
Jan 31
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5 min read
The Future of Food Is on Instagram
And no, you can’t eat it
Jessica Herrington
Jan 31
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5 min read
Google Ads Targeted at Literally One Person Could Be the Future of Doxxing
It’s easy for anyone to disaggregate your data, and use it against you
Patrick Berlinquette
Jan 31
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9 min read
The Pinched Fingers Emoji’s Creator Explains Its Meaning
Here’s how the most popular new addition to the Unicode was conceived. Its origin has nothing to do with fisting.
Drew Costley
Jan 31
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3 min read
Isaac’s Little Movie Player
A veteran designer for HoloLens, Apple, Google Earth, Second Life, and Disney VR is making an iPad app for his autistic son
Avi Bar-Zeev
Jan 27
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5 min read
Everyone Already Acts Like ‘The Circle’ Contestants on Social Media
A social psychologist explains why I see myself in the worst characters on Netflix’s new reality show
Drew Costley
Jan 30
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5 min read
The Scientist Who Got a Brain Implant to Cure His Alcoholism
Deep brain stimulation could help curb drug and alcohol addiction
Emily Mullin
Jan 30
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8 min read
Inside New Zealand’s High-Tech Plan to Save the Heaviest Parrot in the World
The native kākāpō were nearly driven to extinction, but genetic sequencing and drones are bringing them back from the brink
Ritoban Mukherjee
Jan 30
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6 min read
What the Media Gets Wrong About the Health Dangers of 5G
Misguided caution about the health effects of cellphones and their networks is hindering progress
Alex Wulff
Jan 30
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8 min read
A Grid-Based Mapping App Is Preparing Us for a Future With No Roads
Where what3words is going, you don’t need addresses
Emma Stenhouse
Jan 30
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4 min read
How Google Earth Mapped 98% of the World
And how it overcame device constraints to bring it to your device
Sarvesh Mathi
Jan 30
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7 min read
How to Build Your Own Escape Room
A designer, developer, and tech startup founder reveals the secrets behind creating a tech-inspired escape room
Gregory Koberger
Jan 22
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16 min read
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