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Thousands of new fossil-fuel power sources are quietly firing up across the state to power the AI boom, thanks to a regulatory loophole, leaving res…
British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted
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To build one family’s dream house on a flood-prone Mississippi bayou, AD100 architect Tom Kundig decided the sky’s the limit.
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The Death of the Starter Home
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Designing the Dream House of an 87-Year-Old Tech Visionary
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Traditional Home Insurance Is Collapsing. Here’s What Could Fill the Gap
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Anguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles Outbreak
The state’s outbreak means adapting to America’s new reality, in which vaccine-preventable diseases become common again.
Afroman Is Back—and He’s Bitcoin’s Latest Freedom Fighter
Earlier this year, the “Because I Got High” rapper went viral for winning a case against the cops. Now he’s crypto’s free-speech hero, even though h…
Take This Mandatory AI Workplace Training Right Now—or Else
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Ahead of the hit show’s finale, cocreators Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello talk about media consolidation, the perils of censorship, and why they fi…
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