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AI is Listening in on ‘Call of Duty’
If you plan on firing up your console and chasing kill streaks in your favorite skins, be warned that artificial intelligence is now being used to…
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Boebert Incident Shows You're Always Under Surveillance
The top story last week was Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert misbehaving in a theater. In case you somehow haven’t heard, a Denver theater kicked…
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Josh Centers
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Are Artificial Wombs a Science Horror or Breakthrough?
Managing editor Peter Gietl and founding editor James Poulos debate it.
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Transforming Into Horror, Pornography Is Killing Itself
 • Peter Gietl
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CBDCs In Their Own Words: Technocrats Blackpill Us On The Future Of Money
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H. P. Lovecraft, Prophet Of AGI
 • Jon Stokes
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Who Killed the Dissident Left?
 • James Poulos
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Like Germany, The US Is Greening Its Grid Towards Catastrophe
 • Peter Gietl
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Woke Tech’s War for the Future
In Christopher Nolan's mind-bending time travel movie Tenet, the future battles with the past, literally—here in the present. The film's baffled heroes…
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James Poulos
MTV VMAs Push Nihilism and Despair
A dull pop spectacle brings up a cultural quandary.
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Stephen G. Adubato
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Apple's Underwhelming New Releases
They didn't try anything daring, but if you're in the market for new iOS products we have some recommendations.
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Josh Centers
Octogenarian Oligarchy
Is it possible to be over the hill on the Hill?
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Ensuring AI Obeys Americans
The right way to control AI.
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James Poulos
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You Will Drive Nowhere and Like It
When conspiracy theories abound, what happens when the paranoia becomes real.
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What machines want
The mistake of reading desire into machines
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Duncan Reyburn
What Does ‘Trending’ Even Mean?
You haven't heard of the 'latest trend' because it's not one.
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Katherine Dee
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