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The Suspicion Machine
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on 9/16/2023, 2:54 AM with
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Pricing determines your business model (2014)
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on 4/9/2023, 7:07 PM with
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The Suspicion Machine
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on 3/7/2023, 7:28 AM with
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Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944)
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on 10/11/2021, 8:16 AM with
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SARS-CoV-2 exposure in wild white-tailed deer
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on 8/1/2021, 9:47 PM with
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How to talk to conspiracy theorists–and still be kind
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on 8/17/2020, 9:20 PM with
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Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal
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on 4/26/2020, 3:35 AM with
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Domino Chain Reaction
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on 12/15/2019, 7:27 PM with
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on 12/15/2019, 7:27 PM with
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Portrait of an Inessential Government Worker
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on 10/21/2019, 2:24 AM with
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Quantifying Jane Jacobs (2018)
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on 10/12/2019, 1:20 AM with
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Technology Sabotaged Public Safety
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on 10/11/2019, 2:01 AM with
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Where will the West's next deadly wildfire strike? The risks are everywhere
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on 7/30/2019, 6:27 AM with
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Why homeownership is frequently a bad bet
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on 7/15/2019, 6:29 PM with
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The Slackification of the American Home
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on 7/12/2019, 4:33 AM with
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Living Smaller (1991)
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on 2/12/2019, 10:23 AM with
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Quantifying Jane Jacobs (2018)
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on 9/6/2018, 1:37 AM with
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The Lessons of the Seattle Plane Crash
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on 8/13/2018, 2:48 AM with
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Pittsburgh Bus Bunching (2016)
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on 7/22/2018, 10:57 PM with
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on 6/16/2018, 8:44 AM with
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Turn-of-the-Century Pigeons Photographed Earth from Above
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on 4/15/2018, 5:45 AM with
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Apps Are Not Transforming the Urban Transport Business
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on 2/7/2018, 6:32 AM with
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on 1/9/2018, 4:52 AM with
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on 1/9/2018, 4:50 AM with
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New York City Moves to Create Accountability for Algorithms
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on 12/19/2017, 12:20 AM with
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Amazon’s Seattle hiring frenzy slows sharply
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on 12/11/2017, 5:16 PM with
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The First FBI Crime Report Issued Under Trump Is Missing a Ton of Info
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on 10/28/2017, 12:14 AM with
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on 10/16/2017, 6:30 PM with
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on 9/18/2017, 7:40 AM with
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Instead of hacking self-driving cars, researchers try to hack the world they see
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on 7/19/2017, 3:38 AM with
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on 4/17/2017, 4:50 PM with
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on 4/11/2017, 9:43 PM with
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The little-known deal that saved Amazon from the dot-com crash
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on 4/5/2017, 6:46 PM with
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What's Really Driving the Trade Deficit with China
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on 4/5/2017, 4:38 AM with
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We’re losing the information war
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on 3/30/2017, 8:09 AM with
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Why Nothing Works Anymore
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on 2/23/2017, 7:07 PM with
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Battling the Tyranny of Big Data
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on 1/3/2017, 9:18 AM with
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How “open source” seed producers are changing global food production
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on 12/25/2016, 9:03 PM with
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The Applied Learning of War
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on 12/14/2016, 7:20 PM with
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Trump Won Because Leftist Political Correctness Inspired a Terrifying Backlash
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on 11/14/2016, 8:57 PM with
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Lost Cause: Seeing America Through the Losing Candidates’ Map
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on 11/13/2016, 11:41 AM with
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The Polls of the Future Are Reproducible and Open Source
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on 11/1/2016, 7:55 PM with
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Families in the World by Income
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on 11/1/2016, 7:31 AM with
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When Will New York City Sink?
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on 9/8/2016, 10:19 AM with
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What 1M Craigslist rental listings tell us about the housing market
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on 9/2/2016, 4:53 AM with
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on 8/22/2016, 9:22 AM with
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The limits of data-driven approaches to planning
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on 8/17/2016, 9:32 PM with
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America's Addiction to Mercenaries
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on 8/14/2016, 8:07 AM with
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A City of Empty Towers
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on 8/2/2016, 9:20 PM with
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America's Truly Densest Metros
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on 7/27/2016, 6:27 AM with
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'Largest-ever' Silicon Valley eviction to displace hundreds of tenants
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on 7/7/2016, 10:12 PM with
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on 7/7/2016, 6:35 AM with
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Will Robocars Kick Humans Off City Streets?
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on 6/26/2016, 5:44 PM with
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I’m suing the US government for its data on who’s entering the country
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on 6/26/2016, 2:11 AM with
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What Are People Working on in Coffee Shops?
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on 5/25/2016, 3:36 AM with
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on 5/9/2016, 5:22 AM with
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The Jane Jacobs Century
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on 5/4/2016, 10:57 PM with
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Small Turbines Can Outperform Conventional Wind Farms, with No Bird Kill
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on 4/29/2016, 7:17 AM with
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German nuclear plant’s fuel rod system swarming with old malware
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on 4/28/2016, 6:50 AM with
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Campus Shuttles Want to Speed Ahead in the Autonomous Vehicle Race
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on 3/28/2016, 7:58 AM with
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First driverless buses travel public roads in the Netherlands
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on 3/21/2016, 11:09 PM with
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Copenhagen’s New Traffic Lights Recognize and Favor Cyclists
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on 2/22/2016, 5:25 AM with
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What being a journalist in the Middle East taught me about how censorship works
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on 2/18/2016, 7:20 PM with
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Making Facebook for Whales
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on 1/17/2016, 10:15 PM with
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You've Got Dung Amazon Is Delivering Cow Pies in India
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on 1/7/2016, 7:06 PM with
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What Happened in 2015
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on 1/1/2016, 11:37 AM with
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How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice
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on 12/25/2015, 2:21 AM with
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on 12/24/2015, 7:09 AM with
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on 11/19/2015, 8:31 PM with
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on 11/17/2015, 11:40 AM with
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America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs
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on 11/12/2015, 11:33 PM with
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on 11/8/2015, 9:29 PM with
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Police Killings Surpass the Worst Years of Lynching, and a Movement Responds
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on 11/4/2015, 11:19 PM with
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on 10/24/2015, 6:11 PM with
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on 10/13/2015, 7:42 AM with
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The International Energy Agency consistently underestimates wind and solar power
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on 10/12/2015, 6:59 PM with
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on 10/6/2015, 5:05 PM with
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The Era of Automatic Facial Recognition and Surveillance Is Here
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on 10/5/2015, 8:04 PM with
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on 10/2/2015, 6:06 PM with
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This “Cycle-In Office” Is a Bike Commuter’s Dream
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on 9/17/2015, 11:36 PM with
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Nick Merrill: the man who may unlock the secrecy of the FBI's subpoenas
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on 9/17/2015, 9:06 PM with
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In Contempt of Bulk Surveillance: It’s Too Easy
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on 9/16/2015, 7:46 PM with
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on 9/2/2015, 9:23 PM with
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If we don’t understand both sides of China’s balance sheet,we understand neither
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on 9/2/2015, 8:41 AM with
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on 9/2/2015, 6:01 AM with
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The Limits of Language
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on 9/1/2015, 7:55 PM with
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on 8/31/2015, 7:16 PM with
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on 8/19/2015, 8:05 AM with
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Lovin' their elevator: why Germans are loopy about paternosters
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on 8/14/2015, 6:20 AM with
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Frances Oldham Kelsey, Who Saved U.S. Babies from Thalidomide, Dies at 101
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on 8/8/2015, 6:32 AM with
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on 8/8/2015, 6:28 AM with
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on 8/3/2015, 4:52 AM with
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Missed Calls: Is the NSA lying about its failure to prevent 9/11?
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on 7/30/2015, 4:19 PM with
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on 7/24/2015, 6:29 PM with
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on 7/21/2015, 7:33 PM with
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on 7/6/2015, 6:47 PM with
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Can DNA testing be trusted? The imprecise science of a courtroom tool
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on 6/25/2015, 3:29 AM with
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How DOJ Gagged Google Over Surveillance of Wikileaks Volunteer
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on 6/20/2015, 5:46 PM with
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on 5/26/2015, 7:40 AM with
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on 5/9/2015, 8:21 PM with
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Here's Why Companies Keep Losing the Battle Against Hackers
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on 4/16/2015, 4:11 AM with
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Baseball’s new metal detectors won’t keep you safe
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on 4/15/2015, 7:23 PM with
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on 4/13/2015, 6:44 PM with
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on 3/22/2015, 3:12 AM with
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on 3/10/2015, 8:31 AM with
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Data and Goliath's Big Idea
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on 3/7/2015, 8:16 PM with
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The Eiffel Tower has new wind turbines
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on 3/3/2015, 5:36 AM with
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Cyberweapons Have No Allegiance
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on 3/2/2015, 7:39 PM with
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on 3/2/2015, 2:47 AM with
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Fines Remain Rare Even as Health Data Breaches Multiply
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on 3/1/2015, 6:18 AM with
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Japan Is Holding Actual Funerals for Sony's Robotic AIBO Dogs
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on 2/26/2015, 9:40 PM with
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Gemalto Doesn't Know What It Doesn't Know
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on 2/25/2015, 7:05 PM with
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Police talk about use of “stingrays,” but aren’t saying anything
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on 2/17/2015, 11:39 PM with
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on 2/13/2015, 9:16 PM with
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The Bad Cop Database
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on 2/13/2015, 8:43 PM with
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on 2/12/2015, 8:35 AM with
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Are Your Medications Safe?
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on 2/9/2015, 9:50 PM with
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DEA using license-plate readers to take photos of US drivers, documents reveal
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on 2/5/2015, 6:07 PM with
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Welcome to SubTropolis: The Massive Business Complex Buried Under Kansas City
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on 2/5/2015, 2:00 AM with
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on 2/4/2015, 5:27 AM with
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8 photos that show how cars seized city streets from pedestrians
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on 1/30/2015, 6:18 PM with
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Nearly every U.S. arms program found vulnerable to cyber attacks
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on 1/21/2015, 3:48 AM with
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How Was Your Credit Card Stolen?
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on 1/21/2015, 12:25 AM with
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Why Almost Nobody Wants to Pay for the 'Netflix of Magazines'
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on 1/19/2015, 8:00 PM with
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Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with police
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on 1/16/2015, 6:46 PM with
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on 1/16/2015, 12:31 AM with
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Delphi's computer chauffeur drives me around Las Vegas at CES 2015
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on 1/10/2015, 2:51 AM with
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Hamburg is burying the Autobahn and putting parks on top
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on 1/9/2015, 7:09 PM with
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Uber’s Latest Experiment Is Uber Cargo, a Logistics Service in Hong Kong
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on 1/9/2015, 5:46 PM with
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FBI says Sony hackers 'got sloppy,' posted from North Korea addresses
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on 1/8/2015, 3:44 AM with
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We Still Don't Know Who Hacked Sony
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on 1/7/2015, 6:01 PM with
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Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi Undermines Encryption
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on 1/6/2015, 7:24 AM with
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60 Years of Urban Change: Midwest
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on 12/29/2014, 7:48 PM with
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A controversial YouTube video could create a crazy new form of copyright
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on 12/24/2014, 8:48 AM with
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on 12/22/2014, 8:22 PM with
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A Meadow in the Ocean with 'Flowers' Everywhere
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on 12/22/2014, 7:31 AM with
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Uber Wants to Patent Its Controversial Surge-Pricing Plan
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on 12/19/2014, 6:56 PM with
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China to Purge Foreign Technology and Replace with Homegrown Suppliers
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on 12/18/2014, 3:54 AM with
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Smart cities: ‘In the end, they will destroy democracy'
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on 12/17/2014, 11:43 PM with
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Sony leaks reveal Hollywood is trying to break DNS
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on 12/17/2014, 1:10 AM with
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Am I a data scientist?
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on 12/10/2014, 10:00 AM with
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SCOTUS:Amazon Workers Don’t Need to Be Paid During Mandatory Security Screenings
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on 12/10/2014, 3:33 AM with
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Schneier: Why Uber's 'god view' is creepy
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on 12/5/2014, 9:37 PM with
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on 11/20/2014, 3:37 AM with
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U.S. entrepreneur considered suing Uber over tracking activities
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on 11/19/2014, 9:12 PM with
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Gecko-inspired contraption lets you climb glass walls
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on 11/19/2014, 8:22 AM with
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Judges impose rare, stricter requirement for “stingray” use by police
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on 11/19/2014, 3:17 AM with
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Does the TPP (Still) Make Buffer Copies Illegal?
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on 11/18/2014, 2:20 AM with
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Why the Best Supreme Court Predictor in the World Is Some Random Guy in Queens
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on 11/17/2014, 10:00 PM with
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Behind Closed Doors, Ford, UPS, and Visa Push for Net Neutrality
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on 11/15/2014, 4:37 PM with
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Google’s French arm faces daily €1,000 fines over links to defamatory article
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on 11/14/2014, 3:49 AM with
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The Mercenaries: Ex-NSA hackers are shaping the future of cyberwar
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on 11/13/2014, 5:20 AM with
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Hacking Internet Voting via Ballot Tampering
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on 11/12/2014, 6:32 AM with
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Silk Road, other Tor “darknet” sites may have been “decloaked” through DDoS
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on 11/10/2014, 6:14 AM with
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Spritz: A New RC4-Like Stream Cipher
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on 10/27/2014, 8:06 PM with
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Inside San Francisco's housing crisis
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on 10/22/2014, 8:10 PM with
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US Has Test That Can Detect Ebola Virus in Seconds (But It’s Stuck in a Lab)
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on 10/18/2014, 12:24 AM with
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Local cops say your driving history is public-unless you want a copy
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on 10/16/2014, 2:51 AM with
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DEA Used Seized Photos to Make a Phony Facebook Profile and Impersonate a Woman
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on 10/8/2014, 1:17 AM with
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PayPal in Play for Google as Leftover EBay Invites LBO
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on 9/30/2014, 4:33 PM with
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First Selfies, Now Shapies? Scanning Booths Capture the Moment in 3-D
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on 9/30/2014, 7:11 AM with
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Solar power is growing so fast that older energy companies are trying to stop it
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on 9/30/2014, 6:36 AM with
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Ghost of Ronald Reagan Authorizes Most NSA Spying
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on 9/29/2014, 7:15 PM with
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America's Densest Cities
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on 9/27/2014, 7:05 AM with
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How FiveThirtyEight Calculates Pollster Ratings
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on 9/25/2014, 7:16 PM with
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New 'Bash' software bug may pose bigger threat than 'Heartbleed'
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on 9/25/2014, 1:03 AM with
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A Decoy Computer Was Set Up Online. See Which Countries Attacked It the Most
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on 9/24/2014, 3:29 AM with
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How the FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast Model Works
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on 9/17/2014, 10:06 PM with
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Legal memos released on Bush-era justification for warrantless wiretapping
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on 9/6/2014, 6:40 AM with
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NSA bulk collection of phone data under scrutiny as federal case opens
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on 9/3/2014, 5:19 AM with
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Corporations Spy on Nonprofits with Impunity
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on 8/26/2014, 2:32 AM with
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on 8/15/2014, 6:28 PM with
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on 8/14/2014, 7:14 AM with
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Security experts call for government action against cyber threats
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on 8/10/2014, 5:35 PM with
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Amid protests, U.S. FCC proposes new 'net neutrality' rules
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on 5/16/2014, 12:01 AM with
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Tech firms write to U.S. FCC to oppose 'net neutrality' plan
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on 5/8/2014, 12:31 AM with
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Do-it-yourselfers inspire hardware renaissance in Silicon Valley
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on 5/6/2014, 5:29 PM with
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US Contractors Scale Up Search for Heartbleed-Like Flaws
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on 5/2/2014, 4:44 AM with
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The top spook’s stupid gag order
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on 4/22/2014, 8:14 PM with
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BlackBerry's meltdown sparks startup boom in Canada's Silicon Valley
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on 4/16/2014, 7:35 PM with
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Canada Says Taxpayer Data Stolen With Heartbleed Breach
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on 4/14/2014, 6:41 PM with
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Individuals targeted in San Francisco tech money protests
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on 4/11/2014, 7:21 PM with
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Fact checking Experian's talking points
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on 4/6/2014, 6:32 PM with
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Apple, Pfizer, others form 'go slow' U.S. patent lobby group
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on 4/3/2014, 4:46 PM with
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N.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat
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on 3/22/2014, 9:21 PM with
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Indictment says Microsoft searched bloggers email
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on 3/21/2014, 12:04 AM with
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British intelligence watchdog is like Yes Prime Minister
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on 3/19/2014, 1:06 AM with
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Experian Lapse Allowed ID Theft Service Access to 200 Million Consumer Records
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on 3/10/2014, 5:42 AM with
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Silent Technical Privilege
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on 1/15/2014, 7:54 PM with
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