Palmer Luckey on the Pentagon’s future of mixed reality
Palmer Luckey has, in some ways, come full circle. His first experience with virtual-reality headsets was as a teenage lab
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Features and Investigations
Africa fights rising hunger by looking to foods of the past
The first time the rains failed, the farmers of Kanaani were prepared for it. It was April of 2021, and
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DHS plans to collect biometric data from migrant children “down to the infant”
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to collect and analyze photos of the faces of migrant children at
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This grim but revolutionary DNA technology is changing how we respond to mass disasters
Seven days No matter who he called—his mother, his father, his brother, his cousins—the phone would just go to voicemail.
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This town’s mining battle reveals the contentious path to a cleaner future
Minnesota’s Highway 210 threads through the tiny towns of Aitkin County, a poor and sparsely populated stretch of forests, lakes,
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The worst technology failures of 2023
Welcome to our annual list of the worst technologies. This year, one technology disaster in particular holds lessons for the
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How Meta and AI companies recruited striking actors to train AI
One evening in early September, T, a 28-year-old actor who asked to be identified by his first initial, took his
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