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Revenge of the SuburbsEditor’s Note: This article is part of “ Uncharted ,” a series about the world we’re leaving behind, and the one being remade by the...
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Reddit Is Finally Facing Its Legacy of RacismIn 2015, the Southern Poverty Law Center called out Reddit as home to “the most violently racist” content on the internet, citing a...
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The Silence of the Never FacebookersUpdated at 1:14 p.m. ET on June 10, 2020. To commemorate the company’s initial public offering in 2011, LinkedIn gave some of its employees...
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Why K-pop Fans Are No Longer Posting About K-popUpdated at 8:48 p.m. ET on June 7, 2020. On early Sunday morning, when the Dallas Police Department tweeted asking people to submit...
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The Facebook Groups Where People Pretend the Pandemic Isn’t Happening“Has anyone seen my friend Josh?” a man at a crowded concert asked last week. “I went to the bar for beers and now I can’t find him.” “Josh?...
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Trump Is Doing All of This for ZuckerbergAs the United States enters a pandemic summer, with more than 100,000 Americans already dead, and as tear gas engulfed Minneapolis last night,...
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The Secret Lives of Perfect Social Distancers“When I look at my choices as objectively as possible, I should not be doing this,” a 26-year-old speech pathologist told me, referring to the...
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Something in the AirPhotographs by Sarah Illenberger I n the 1970s, the bogeyman was power lines. Low-frequency electromagnetic fields were emanating...
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Don’t Give Hong Kong’s Government the CreditIt was January when I first heard about the mysterious viral pneumonia circulating in Wuhan, China. I had some major worries—was this SARS redux,...
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It’s Boom Times for Augmented RealityI am alone in my apartment, as always, and I’ve just replaced my left eyeball with an orange springing out of its peel. A mile away, a...
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How ‘Karen’ Became a Coronavirus VillainIn the ongoing, tense conversation over how long America has to remain locked down during the coronavirus pandemic, one of the more absurd...
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The Easy Questions That Stump ComputersOne evening last October, the artificial-intelligence researcher Gary Marcus was amusing himself on his iPhone by making a state-of-the-art...
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Pandemic Advertising Got Weird FastA few weeks ago, as millions of Americans settled into home confinement in a desperate effort to stymie an era-defining pandemic, Little Caesars...
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Is the FaceTime Haircut Here to Stay?One Saturday earlier this month, my mom grabbed a pair of dull shears, a comb, and a spray bottle; sat my brother in a wicker chair on our back...
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Women Are Buying ‘Essential AF’ Shirts, Candles, and Wine GlassesSpread love, not germs , reads the label on a hand-poured soy candle listed on Etsy for $24.95. Light after a long day of being essential ,...
