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Art, identity, music, and the forces that shape how we live and what we believe.
British Schoolboys Are Falling for AI Girlfriend Apps
Plus: prediction-market traders beating Wall Street for millions, a writer who lost his marriage on a synced laptop, and Google's plans for Pine Island.
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The Rolex Killer's daughter on what true crime steals.
Plus: a century of machines trying to write like humans, cutting crime with streetlights, and an Italian novelist who keeps swapping his apartment to fund travel.
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He spent 23 days in jail. His stalker put him there.
Plus: the lawyers using wrongful death suits to punish abortion helpers, a 10-time Jeopardy champ's playbook, and mahjong's $400 makeover.
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He thought he hit a deer. He'd killed a 10-year-old.
Plus: the 1876 fair that hid a country falling apart, the orangutan rescues that may be killing them, and Gen Z's 1830s twin in Paris.
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Gemini convinced him he was running a $200 million empire.
Plus: the world's richest cat, the Gawker fallout ten years on, and Colombian cartels recruiting kids on TikTok
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He spent 15 months undercover. His landlord threatened to kill him.
Plus: fake viral music, Americans living in the desert for $180, and Gen Z students who can't unsee what they've seen.
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Babies are dying from a shot parents won't let them have
Plus: the Indianapolis Clowns' controversial return, NYC's most violent women's shelter, and a blind woman living in a car for a decade.
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David Attenborough's voice is being cloned to spread disinformation.
Plus: Athletes are cheating death with $160K machines, the SBC buried its abuse survivors, and China is quietly rewriting video games.
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He bombed a nuclear power station and rode out on his bicycle.
Plus: Elizabeth Strout's 11th novel, an American tween on the edge of everything, and why Little Debbie matters.
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Adopted kids are the troubled teen industry's most profitable target
Plus: a dog longevity pill nears FDA approval, a Pennsylvania dairy dynasty sells its last herd, and new science on bee cognition.
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Every orange tree in Florida has this disease. There is no cure.
Plus: a life sentence for an unloaded-gun robbery, Shteyngart's miserable week on the world's biggest cruise ship, and the myth of Man the Hunter.
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Saving lost young men with chop saws
Plus: the OceanGate disaster, how medieval art trained us to see Black bodies as dangerous, and Bob Odenkirk on comedy and parenthood.
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Your Brain Can't Tell the Difference Between Memory and Deepfake
Plus: monopsony keeps your paycheck small, the MJ biopic's buried secrets, and the "missing scientists" panic that isn't.
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He Warned the World About AI. He Couldn't Warn His Own Father.
Plus: The Atlantic's verdict on America's best free restaurant bread, how Sony destroyed the Alamo Drafthouse, and fake Keytruda vials killing cancer patients in Mexico and Nepal.
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