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    Oct 16

    NEW ISSUE: Jeff Bezos wants us all to leave Earth—for good. With his company Blue Origin, Amazon's space-obsessed founder is building rockets that will send people up for zero-g joyrides. But for Bezos, suborbital tourism is just the beginning

    26.11 | Inside Blue Origin's Mission to an Alien Future
    At Blue Origin, Amazon's space-obsessed founder is building rockets, and he hopes to someday blast humanity into an extraterrestrial future.
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  2. 9 minutes ago

    Every minute, a dumptruckful of plastic plops into the world's oceans. Which gets into the animals and fish you eat. Which then gets into, well, your 💩.

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  3. 1 hour ago

    By hiring Guillermo del Toro to make a Pinocchio film, Netflix is showing that its children's movies won't just be for children

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  4. 1 hour ago

    Disabled gamers have long been overlooked in the videogame industry. With the Xbox Adaptive Controller, that's starting to change.

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    2 hours ago

    Jim Allison is an iconoclastic scientist who toiled in obscurity for years. Then he helped crack a mystery that may save millions of lives: Why doesn’t the immune system attack cancer?

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  6. 2 hours ago

    In six words, write a courtroom drama set in the year 2058. Submit your six-word story as a reply to this tweet, or with and you could be featured in our January issue!

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    2 hours ago

    Got something massive dropping in tomorrow morning--a story about the malignant power of delusion and how we deal with the incomprehensible. Keep an eye peeled.

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  8. 3 hours ago

    Despite the environmental apocalypse lurking behind much of his work, Kim Stanley Robinson remains one of science fiction's most diehard utopians.

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  9. 4 hours ago

    "They're headed in the wrong direction, but I would defend Facebook’s right to screw this up until the very end."

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  10. 4 hours ago

    Scientists are exploring how evolutionary algorithms can design robot legs tailored to walk on specific surfaces. The results are at once logical, counterintuitive, and bizarre—and could hint at a novel way for roboticists to engineer walking machines.

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  11. 4 hours ago

    Hospitals are beginning to turn to genetic sequencing services to identify the pathogens making us sick. These DNA tests can deliver results much faster than traditional lab methods.

    3 replies 28 retweets 65 likes
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  12. 5 hours ago

    Jiwoo Lee is a sophomore at Stanford studying computational and experimental biology. In high school, she developed a technique using Crispr gene editing to kill cancer cells without harming normal cells. Here's her vision of the future that she presented at our summit.

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  13. 6 hours ago

    If at first you don’t succeed, slash your price and try, try again. Caavo rethinks the universal TV remote for the second time in a year.

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  14. 8 hours ago

    NASA is preparing for a human mission to Mars, but says if our descendants ever shrug off their terrestrial bonds, it won’t be Homo sapiens who leave, but another, more intelligently designed species.

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  15. 10 hours ago

    He’s a hard-living, harmonica-playing Texan—and also an iconoclastic, Nobel prize-winning scientist who helped discover a revolutionary way to treat cancer. And that's not all.

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  16. 11 hours ago

    Talking to our devices is the new normal. Google’s new Home Hub lets you command your smart home—or queue up some YouTube vids, or get a salsa recipe—with just your voice

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  17. 11 hours ago

    Meet the 19-year-old who sets up as many as 15,000 dominoes to make incredible chain reactions:

    Meet The Domino Artist Behind These Amazing Chain Reactions
    19-year-old Lily Hevesh is obsessed with dominos. She spends hours upon hours building insanely intricate designs and chain reactions before knocking them down.
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  18. 13 hours ago

    Since the early 2000s, has quietly received more than $1.5 billion in government subsidies, according to the research group Good Jobs First, in exchange for bringing new jobs to cities and states across the country.

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  19. 15 hours ago

    The three-wheeled, $30,000 Polaris Slingshot may be the funkiest vehicle out there. And it tells us a lot about what driving will look like once the robots take control

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  20. 17 hours ago

    "During the 2016 election, we sent a tracked email out to the US senators, and the people running for the presidency...you could pinpoint almost exactly where they were, which hotels they were staying at."

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  21. 19 hours ago

    "I see a lot of samples of iPhone videos, and sometimes they use different lenses or professional lights. I didn't have any of that." This is how 'Crazy Rich Asians' director John M. Chu shot a short film using only an iPhone XS Max

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