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06/29/2017
Rolling Stone
When a programmer shut down a hospital website to defend a sick girl, he raised a crucial question: What are the bounds of protest in the digital age?
11/15/2016
Outside
American tourist Noel Santillan became an unlikely folk hero in Iceland after he entered a typo into his GPS and drove hundreds of miles out of his way. How can anyone wander so far off the mark? Research suggests GPS might be altering our brains.
08/10/2016
Rolling Stone
Joe Passalaqua claims "103 kills," but one judge described his elaborate tales as little more than "criminal fantasy"
07/07/2016
Foreign Policy
Eugene Mallove gave up everything to pursue the holy grail of nuclear energy. Did it cost him his life?
05/16/2016
Wall Street Journal
Guillaume Olivier Madiba is helming one of the world’s most innovative videogame companies—not in Silicon Valley or Japan, but in Africa, where Kiro’o Games is diversifying a $100 billion industry
05/23/2016
Rolling Stone
How a teenager created Oculus Rift in his parents' SoCal garage, sold it for $2 billion and may have launched a virtual reality revolution.
04/26/2016
Foreign Policy
To spies, David Vincenzetti is a salesman. To tyrants, he is a savior. How the Italian mogul built a hacking empire.
02/01/2016
Rolling Stone
Sexy, single and artificially-intelligent — fake profiles are wooing lonely hearts on sites far beyond Ashley Madison
11/23/2015
Backchannel
In a town where everyone has been pwned, or soon will be, there’s no such thing as false paranoia. Which brings us to Oliver Stone and his upcoming Snowden biopic.
11/17/2015
Rolling Stone
An exclusive account of how Aziah "Zola" Wells' road trip to Florida with an exotic dancer, a boyfriend and a pimp went south.
