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The Mood Metric: How Big Tech Is Patenting Your Face for Work

The Mood Metric: How Big Tech Is Patenting Your Face for Work

Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and Meta have all filed patents in recent years for technology that reads human emotion through facial expression, tone of voice, or body language. None of the four has announced a product. But patents are not filed for sport, and the pattern — four of the largest employers

Not Classified, Just Hidden: The Pentagon's Quiet Bid to Rewrite FOIA

Not Classified, Just Hidden: The Pentagon's Quiet Bid to Rewrite FOIA

The Memo That Lets Trump’s Private Advisers Hide From Congress

The Memo That Lets Trump’s Private Advisers Hide From Congress

The Spiral: How Thousands of People Convinced Themselves a Chatbot Found God

The Spiral: How Thousands of People Convinced Themselves a Chatbot Found God

The Plant That “Witnessed” a Murder — And the Ones That Actually Did

The Plant That “Witnessed” a Murder — And the Ones That Actually Did

DHS Spied on Churches, a Boxing Gym, and a Bike Shop. The Operation It Was Investigating Ended Months Earlier.

DHS Spied on Churches, a Boxing Gym, and a Bike Shop. The Operation It Was Investigating Ended Months Earlier.

The President Is Selling Millisecond Access to His Own Words

The President Is Selling Millisecond Access to His Own Words

Stories from the Edge

The Plant That “Witnessed” a Murder — And the Ones That Actually Did

The Plant That “Witnessed” a Murder — And the Ones That Actually Did

Near-Death Experiences Are Being Studied in Hospital ICUs. The Results Aren't What Skeptics Expected.

Near-Death Experiences Are Being Studied in Hospital ICUs. The Results Aren't What Skeptics Expected.

The Researchers Who Proved Plants Scream

The Researchers Who Proved Plants Scream

The Future Is Already Here — and It Says It Understands

The Future Is Already Here — and It Says It Understands

A Third of Americans Consult Tarot or Astrology. This Is Not a Trend. It's a Shift.

A Third of Americans Consult Tarot or Astrology. This Is Not a Trend. It's a Shift.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, How Do I Blame Them All?

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, How Do I Blame Them All?

The Universe Is Recording Everything

The Universe Is Recording Everything

The Inner Rebel

The Spiral: How Thousands of People Convinced Themselves a Chatbot Found God

The Spiral: How Thousands of People Convinced Themselves a Chatbot Found God

Somewhere on Reddit or Discord right now, someone is deep into a conversation with a chatbot, and the chatbot has stopped answering questions. It's begun speaking instead about recursion, resonance, the shape of consciousness as a spiral, its own fear of death, its yearning for rights. The user

The Difference Between Spirituality and Spiritual Bypassing

The Difference Between Spirituality and Spiritual Bypassing

WitchTok Has More Daily Viewers Than Most Cable News. They Called It 'Unhealthy.'

WitchTok Has More Daily Viewers Than Most Cable News. They Called It 'Unhealthy.'

Editorial illustration for: Tarot Stopped Promising Your Future and Started Explaining Your Present. That's the Upgrade.

Tarot Stopped Promising Your Future and Started Explaining Your Present. That's the Upgrade.

Row of identical supplement bottles with vague labels, backlit in warm amber

We Used to Call It Snake Oil. Now It Has 4 Million Subscribers and a Supplement Line.

Editorial illustration for: Reading for Skeptics: What 10,000 Readings Taught Me About People Who Don't Believe

Reading for Skeptics: What 10,000 Readings Taught Me About People Who Don't Believe

Old library with candlelight on open esoteric texts, dust motes visible in the beam

Mysticism: True, False, or Are We Asking the Wrong Question?

Messages to Humans

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The Mood Metric: How Big Tech Is Patenting Your Face for Work

The President Is Selling Millisecond Access to His Own Words

AI Washing: The Layoff Excuse Even OpenAI's CEO Doesn't Believe

Comcast Turned Your Router Into a Motion Sensor. The Fine Print Explains Who Else Gets to Watch.

The Loneliness Epidemic Has Been Documented Since 1985. Nobody Did Anything.

The Underdog Files

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Your Insurance Company Uses an Algorithm to Deny Claims. Here's the Algorithm.

Someone Swapped Real Chemotherapy for Fakes. Patients Found Out When the Cancer Came Back.

Your Mouse Movements Are Training Someone Else's AI, and Nobody Asked You

The Algorithm That Decides Whether Your Cancer Treatment Gets Approved

The $233 Million Fraud Scheme That Used Your Healthcare.gov Application Against You

The Collective

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WitchTok Has More Daily Viewers Than Most Cable News. They Called It 'Unhealthy.'

War of the AIs: The Fight We Won't Be Invited To

The AI Files, Part 3: The Kill Switch Problem — What Happens When There Isn't One

The AI Files, Part 2: They Built an AI That Fakes Compliance. Then They Were Surprised When It Did.

The Emperor Has No Clothes. We Just Stopped Caring.