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The Most Hated Sound on Television

For half a century, viewers scorned the laugh track while adoring shows that used it. Now it has all but disappeared. When American viewers flipped...

15.04.2024 5

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Is That Candy or Nicotine?

Zyn pouches are just the latest in a long line of candified nicotine products. For something that isn’t candy, Zyn nicotine pouches sure look a lot...

29.03.2024 3

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Of Course America Fell for Liquid Death

How is a company that sells canned water worth $1.4 billion? When you think about it, the business of bottled water is pretty odd. What other industry...

14.03.2024 20

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He Got 49 COVID Shots in One Month!

If vaccines are so dangerous, how do you explain this guy? On June 3, 2021, a roughly 60-year-old man in the riverside city of Magdeburg, Germany,...

07.03.2024 5

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Did Apple Just Make a Gambling App?

The tech giant’s new sports tool shows scores, betting odds, and little else. On Tuesday, I downloaded the new Apple Sports app just before watching...

02.03.2024 10

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Your Phone Has Nothing on AM Radio

Why Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders are teaming up to save the century-old technology There is little love lost between Senator Ted Cruz and...

21.02.2024 8

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You’ve Been Watching Football in Mixed Reality for 25 Years

The yellow first-down line was the Apple Vision Pro before the Apple Vision Pro. Football is a complicated sport. Offensive players can move around...

08.02.2024 10

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AI in Politics Is So Much Bigger Than Deepfakes

Presidential campaigns have long tailored their ads and emails to specific groups. Now any politician can. Last week, on the eve of the New Hampshire...

31.01.2024 4

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Maybe Vitamins Shouldn’t Taste Like Candy

The bitter truth about gummy vitamins These days, the options for dietary supplements are virtually limitless. And whatever substance you want to...

23.01.2024 10

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Substack Is What Happens When Everything Becomes Social Media

The platform seeded its own content-moderation crisis. When the writer Ryan Broderick joined Substack in 2020, it felt, he told me, like an...

13.01.2024 10

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What Happened to Quora?

The tragedy of Q&A sites is the story of the internet. Every day or two for the past seven months, I’ve received a “personalized” email...

09.01.2024 6

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College Football’s Take on Student Debt

Students go head-to-head for help with their tuition. At halftime of college football’s Big 12 Championship last weekend in Arlington, Texas, two...

07.12.2023 4

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The Vanishing of Ammon Bundy

An anti-government extremist seemed on the verge of another standoff with the law. Then he vanished. Two weeks before chaos hit St. Luke’s hospital...

30.11.2023 2

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You Can Bet on Anything Now

What are the odds this story wins a Pulitzer? As a young boy growing up in East London, Paul Krishnamurty and his friends would bet on pretty much...

13.10.2023 2

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