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Inside the Underground Market for Fake Amazon Reviews
Seedy scam networks are using social media to organize campaigns that influence product ratings. They’re a headache for shoppers—and tough to crack d…
3 years, 11 months ago
Would You Sell Your Vacation Days for Cash?
More startups are inviting workers to trade their unused PTO, a perk that can also benefit employers. It may also worsen US workers' vacation deficit…
3 years, 11 months ago
The World Needs More Gigantic Sci-Fi Sea Dams
As solar and wind proliferate, the power lurking in the world’s oceans is yet to make waves. In fact, tides could become the next essential energy so…
3 years, 11 months ago
Elon Musk’s Twitter Will Be Chaos
The entrepreneur’s laundry list of ideas includes scrapping content moderation, charging subscription fees, and even branching out beyond social medi…
3 years, 11 months ago
Where Did Omicron Come From? Maybe Its First Host Was Mice
The Covid virus can infect many animal species. The variant that tore through human populations last winter may have previously circulated in rodents…
3 years, 11 months ago
After the Flood, the Flesh-Eating Bacteria
Hurricane Ian unleashed deadly vibrio bacteria in its wake. They’ll be a growing threat as the world gets warmer and wetter.
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3 years, 11 months ago
Sustainable Farming Has an Unlikely Ally: Satellites
Farmers are using images taken from space to quantify how much carbon is stored in their soil and validate the credits they’re selling. Thanks for li…
3 years, 11 months ago
Worried About Nuclear War? Consider the Micromorts
Calculating the likelihood of dying in a nuclear conflict sounds like an impossible task, but it could give us a whole new way to think about the ris…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Quest to Treat Binge-Eating and Addiction—With Brain Zaps
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3 years, 11 months ago
Ukraine Could Never Afford to Bet on Starlink
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4 years ago