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Annalee Newitz

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Annalee Newitz is a science journalist and author. Their novel Autonomous won the Lambda Literary Award and they are the co-host of the Hugo-nominated podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.

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What would Earth look like in 25 years? I asked the experts

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What would Earth look like in 25 years? I asked the experts

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EM8P22 AshleyMadison.com, the dating site for primarily married people, is seen on Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Avid Life Media, the parent company of Ashley Madison, announced that it will be pursuing a initial public offering in London this year hoping to raise $200 million. (? Richard B. Levine)

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What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandal

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How the US used science to wage psychological war

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Is the truth out there? Yes, but it doesn't involve aliens

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Is the truth out there? Yes, but it doesn't involve aliens

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2WHYG59 Taylor Swift kisses Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce after the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game against the San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, in Las Vegas. The Chiefs won 25-22. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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The Taylor Swift 'psy op' conspiracy theory offers a troubling lesson

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I'm teaching again after 20 years away. The tech is pure absurdity

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A road sign is posted near a parcel of land recently purchased by Flannery Associates near Rio Vista, California on September 15, 2023. A stealth campaign by Silicon Valley elites with a dream of turning a swath of California farmland into a new age city has ranchers who live here challenging their tactics as well as their motives. The project first surfaced when a mysterious buyer started gobbling up parcels of land in this rural outback between San Francisco and Sacramento. The buyer, first revealed by the New York Times in August, turned out to be a secretive outfit called Flannery Associates. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

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The weird tale of California Forever, a tech billionaire instant city

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A tale of two Silicon Valley Sams – Bankman-Fried and Altman

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A tale of two Silicon Valley Sams – Bankman-Fried and Altman

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Trust and safety – the most important tech job you’ve never heard of

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2T17MYG Los Angeles, United States. 12th Oct, 2023. File photo dated October 06, 2019 of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith attend Paramount Pictures' premiere of Gemini Man in Los Angeles, CA, USA. Jada Pinkett Smith has revealed in a new interview that she and her husband Will Smith have been separated since 2016. Though the actors were living completely separate lives for seven years, they were not ready to publicly confirm the news before, she confessed to NBC. Photo by Lionel Hahn/ABACAPRESS.COM Credit: Abaca Press/Alamy Live News

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Don't click on the war

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2MBG96A FILE - Books written in the Quechua Indigenous language sit behind a student during a class on medicinal plants, at a public primary school in Licapa, Peru, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically translate emails and text messages into the most widely spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas was nearly impossible before Google introduced it into its digital translation service Wednesday, May 11, 2022. The internet giant says new artificial intelligence technology is enabling it to vastly expand Google Translate?s repertoire of the

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How artificial intelligence is helping keep Indigenous languages alive

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Members of SafeStreetRebel, a group of anonymous anti-car activists, place a cone on a self-driving robotaxi to disable it in San Francisco, California on July 11, 2023. Members of SafeStreetRebel, a group of anonymous anti-car activists, have been actively calling for participants to help protest the spread of robotaxis for malfunctioning and blocking traffic. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP) (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

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Our priorities are all wrong when it comes to new technologies

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