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Tech companies are quietly phasing out a major privacy safeguard: More and more companies are failing to issue transparency reports to tell consumers how much of their information governments have demanded.
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Does Free Will Exist? Neuroscience Can't Disprove It Yet. – The Atlantic
On September 11, Blind Luck Decided Who Lived or Died – The Atlantic
The U.S. Forgot What Antitrust Is For
Researchers are increasingly using "digital exhaust", passive social media and smartphone data, to conduct scientific health studies, such as for autism
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I Tried to Live Like Joe Rogan – The Atlantic
Meritocracy Harms Everyone – The Atlantic
CTVT – A contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog
How Fentanyl Ingredients From China End Up in the U.S.
The Arrogance of the Anthropocene – The Atlantic
Jeffrey Epstein's Death in Prison Was One of Many – The Atlantic
The Imperial Myths Behind Brexit – The Atlantic
This Land Was Our Land
Trump’s El Paso Photo Is Obscene – The Atlantic
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Profile of Amazon Publishing, which puts out around 1,100 titles a year and, like Prime Video, exists to reinforce Prime memberships
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