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Does Tor provide more benefit or harm? New paper says it depends

Sonos Is Having a Big Cyber Monday Sale

A Mission to Make Virtual Parties Actually Fun

Beautiful Yet Unnerving Photos of the Arctic Getting Greener

My Life Is Little House on the Prairie. I Blame TikTok

Was This Poker Player's Luck Too Good to Be True?

Ride-Hail Companies Are Making Life Harder for Scooters

All the Social Media Giants Are Becoming the Same

The Race To Crack Battery Recycling—Before It’s Too Late

The Future of Work: ‘The Long Tail’ by Aliette de Bodard

This Great Electric Bike Is $200 Off for Cyber Monday

The Best Black Friday Deals If You Work From Home

The Best Cyber Monday Phone, Tablet, and Watch Deals

WarGames for real: How one 1983 exercise nearly triggered WWIII

VCs Are Pouring Money Into the Wrong Education Startups

Geometry Reveals How the World Is Made of Cubes

The 7 Best Cyber Monday Deals on Camera Gear and Accessories

What Is the Signal Encryption Protocol?

Early Cyber Monday Deals on Pandemic Supplies

It’s Time to Stop Sharing Your Passwords With Your Partner

11 Early Cyber Monday Weekend Deals on Earth-Friendly Gear

Endangered Vancouver Island Marmots Are Making a Comeback

These Are Our Favorite Small Businesses and Shops

Black Holes Aren't as Bad as You Think

Your TV Sounds Awful. Upgrade It With One of These Soundbars

Is This the Gayest Yuletide Yet?

AI can run your work meetings now

What's a Semi-Log Plot and How Can You Use It for Covid Data?

As Cities Curb Surveillance, Baltimore Police Took to the Air

Our Favorite Black Friday Deals for $50 or Less

Trump’s Election Attack Ends December 14—Whether He Knows It or Not

The Best Black Friday Deals on Health, Beauty, and Sex Tech

The Best Black Friday Deals if You Work From Home

Burn Off That Turkey With These Black Friday Fitness Deals

Our 29 Favorite Black Friday Smart Home and Kitchen Deals

The Absolute Best Black Friday Deals Online

You Really Should Peek at These Black Friday TV Deals

Our Fave Headphone and Speaker Deals for Black Friday

The Ethics of Rebooting the Dead

The 9 Best Smart Speakers With Alexa or Google Assistant

These Are the Very Best Laptop Deals for Black Friday

Can I Save Money by Buying a ‘Dumb’ TV?

The Quest to Unearth One of America's Oldest Black Churches

Our Favorite Dyson Stick Vacuum Is $150 Off Now

The Best Black Friday Deals on Kindle, Fire, and Echo Devices

Every Great Black Friday Deal on Google Devices

A 4K OLED TV for $900? This Vizio Deal Is a Steal

Stay In and Get Cozy With These Black Friday Video Game Deals

Does the AstraZeneca Vaccine Also Stop Covid Transmission?

Comcast raising TV and Internet prices, including a big hike to hidden fees

The Last of Us Is Getting a TV Show, Which Seems Redundant

Biden Must Repair—and Reinvigorate—Tech Diplomacy

The AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine Data Isn't Up to Snuff

Considering a MacBook? Here are Our Favorites

The 13 Best Holiday Movies to Stream This Season

Meet the Microbes Living on Da Vinci’s Iconic Sketches

SpaceX Starlink engineers take questions in Reddit AMA—here are highlights

AI Can Run Your Work Meetings Now

The New Demon's Souls Remake Tries Too Hard to Be Realistic

Why 'Head Empty' Memes Are Dominating 2020

Which Microsoft Surface Device Should You Buy?

From Podcasts to Book Deals, Friendship Is Big Business

The Best Black Friday Phone, Tablet, and Watch Deals

How to Have Productive Conversations About Election Misinfo

How to Make Multiple Smart Speakers Work Together

Facebook Can Be a Boon to Nonprofits—If They Get Verified

A New Study About Color Tries to Decode ‘The Brain’s Pantone’

Our Favorite Mattress Deals for Black Friday

OneWeb exits bankruptcy and is ready to launch more broadband satellites

Comcast to enforce 1.2TB data cap in entire 39-state territory in early 2021

Yes, Chef: Here Are the Year’s Best Cookbooks

This Squishy 3D-Printed Human Heart Feels Like the Real Thing

25 Amazing Gift Ideas Under $25

This Bluetooth Attack Can Steal a Tesla Model X in Minutes

The Surface Laptop Go Is Great—If You Can Get Past Its Screen

Congress Is Eyeing Face Recognition, and Companies Want a Say

The Glitched-Out Sound and Spontaneous Rise of 100 Gecs

The Last, ‘Ultra-Cold’ Mile for Covid-19 Vaccines

The 13 Best Gifts for the PC Gamer in Your Life

Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages

Physicists Pin Down the Nuclear Reaction After the Big Bang

Robots invade the construction site

Here's Every Good Black Friday Deal on Amazon Devices—So Far

Nintendo Has One Decent Switch Deal for Black Friday

Secret Service Investigates 700 Cases of Covid Relief Fraud

13 Smart STEM Toys for the Techie Kids in Your Life

Overcoming Vaccine Skepticism Starts in the Community

This Lower-Cost Roomba Needs Some Navigation Help

Climate Change Is Intensifying the Tsunami Threat in Alaska

Masks Help, but We May Never Know How Much

What the EU Gets Right—and the US Gets Wrong—About Antitrust

Abusive add-ons aren’t just a Chrome and Firefox problem. Now it’s Edge’s turn

Pfizer Seeks Approval, the CDC Urges Restraint, and More News

Why Aren't There More Sci-Fi Movies About Dreams?

How Video Game Historians Resurrected Sega's Lost VR Headset

The Tenuous Promise of the Substack Dream

In Defense of Rockefeller Center’s Ugly, Perfect Tree

Pokémon Go Is Finally Raising Its Level Cap

The Best iPhone 12 Deals (and Which Model to Pick)

A Solar-Powered Rocket Might Be Our Interstellar Ticket

Google Photos Storage Is Changing. Here Are Your Best Options

Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy

All Hail the Electric Bicycle

This Pandemic Must Be Seen

Iowa’s Covid Wave and the Limits of Personal Responsibility

Robots Invade the Construction Site

The Future of Work: ‘Remembrance,’ by Lexi Pandell

The US Could Soon Ban the Selling of Carrier-Locked Phones

Putting 'Wonder Woman 1984' on HBO Max Is a Smart Move

Google is testing end-to-end encryption in Android Messages

What Will Happen to the Far-Right After Trump?

AT&T raises DirecTV prices again amid customer losses and possible sale

A Facebook Messenger Flaw Could Have Let Hackers Listen In

These Are the 10 Best Android Phones

The Physics of Materials at Minus 80 Degrees Celsius

Conquer Your Watch Queue on Any Streaming Service

Apple Will Take a Smaller Cut of Some App Store Revenues

An Enormous Iceberg Is Headed for South Georgia Island—Again

Batch's Trusty E-Bike Won't Let You Down

Watch Dogs: Legion Tackles Dystopia—That It's a Part Of

This GOP Lawmaker Denounced QAnon—and Fears for His Party

One Man’s Search for the DNA Data That Could Save His Life

How a Medication for OCD Ended Up in a Covid-19 Trial

When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks 'Official.' A Woman? 'Smile'

15 Early Black Friday Deals You’ll Want to Snag Now

Are Covid Patients Gasping ‘It Isn’t Real’ As They Die?

Massive, China-state-funded hack hits companies around the world, report says

Apple settles with states for $113M over iPhone battery throttling

FCC takes spectrum from auto industry in plan to “supersize” Wi-Fi

Cisco rolls out fix for Webex flaws that let hackers eavesdrop on meetings

'Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity' Is an Uneasy Mix of Two Very Different Worlds

Marissa Mayer’s Next Act Is Here

Ghostery’s New Search Engine Will Be Entirely Ad-Free

16 Stress-Relieving Gifts to Make 2020 More Bearable

Telegram Still Hasn’t Removed an AI Bot That’s Abusing Women

Google Nest Audio Packs Great Sound and Smarts for Just $100

DoorDash Shows Delivery Can Be Profitable—in a Pandemic

Can You Get Covid-19 on an Airplane? Yeah, Probably

Larry Brilliant: We’ll Beat Covid—After We Go Through Hell

Stay Warm With These 15 Pre-Black Friday Outdoors Deals

The Timelines of Our Lives

How to With John Wilson Is the Year’s Best Nature Documentary

Did a University Use Facial Recognition to ID Students?

Firing Christopher Krebs Crosses a Line—Even for Trump

Firing Christopher Krebs Crosses a Line—Even for Trump

Forget Imposters. Among Us Is a Playground for Hackers

The Senate's Section 230 Discourse Keeps Getting Dumber

Apple lets some Big Sur network traffic bypass firewalls

Hulu raises Live TV price to $65, matching YouTube TV’s latest price hike

Why Isn't Susan Wojcicki Getting Grilled By Congress?

‘One Person’s Apocalypse Is Another Person’s Day-to-Day’

After Trump tweets Defcon hacking video, voting security experts call BS

How to Reduce (but Not Eliminate) Covid Risk at Gatherings

Apple's New MacBook Air With M1 Is a Huge Leap Forward

Microsoft's Making a Secure PC Chip—With Intel and AMD's Help

These Rare Seeds Escaped Syria's War—to Help Feed the World

The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones to Escape Reality

The Adorable, Against-All-Odds Charm of Zoo Tycoon

Donald Trump Could Still Launch Nuclear Weapons at Any Time

Pathologic Hits Different During a Real Pandemic

Death, Love, and the Solace of a Million Motorcycle Parts

Love the USPS? Join the Infrastructure Appreciation Society!

The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders

Wish List 2020: 45 Gift Ideas for Your Social Bubble and Beyond

Happy Little Instagram Feeds Don't Work in 2020

The Art That Defied the Last Four, Terrible Years

Mac certificate check stokes fears that Apple logs every app you run

US gov’s CISO takes leave to help Trump search for election fraud

The old way of handing out corporate hardware doesn’t work anymore

How NASA Finds the Mass of the Dirt Grabbed From an Asteroid

17 Practical Gift Ideas for New Parents

2 Years After Its Debut, This Smart Oven Is Still Underdone

A Lack of Transparency Is Undermining Pandemic Policy

Can Pepe the Frog Ever Be Redeemed?

Ancient Dog DNA Reveals Their Enduring Connection With People

Far Cry 5 Helped Me Escape Real Life, Until It Didn’t

What Happened to the Deepfake Threat to the Election?

Huawei, 5G, and the Man Who Conquered Noise

Covid Threatens College Gains for Black and Latinx Students

I Bricked My Computer With a BIOS Update. But There's Hope!

Our 13 Favorite Headphones and Earbuds for $100 or Less

5 New Features to Explore in MacOS Big Sur

Computer Scientists Achieve the ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography

Step Away From Screens With the 10 Best Family Board Games

This Film Examines the Biases in the Code That Runs Our Lives

7 Simple Tech Tips to Keep Your Family Safe This Holiday

Stay Inside and Enjoy Black Friday With These Shopping Tips

That Pre-Thanksgiving Covid Test Won't Really Keep You Safe

The Best PS5 Exclusives Out Now (and the Ones Coming Soon)

A Ransomware Gang Bought Facebook Ads to Troll Its Victim

The 15 Best Cases and Accessories for the iPhone 12

Hackers can use just-fixed Intel bugs to install malicious firmware on PCs

Zojirushi’s Newest Toaster Oven Excels at All the Basics

The OS Big Sur Launch Might Have Slowed Down Macs Everywhere

Wilderness Rescuers Brace for a Rough Covid-19 Winter

Move Over, Zoom—Voice Memos Are the Real Way to Stay in Touch

14 Early Black Friday Deals on iPads, Home Gear, and More

Hackers sponsored by Russia and North Korea are targeting COVID-19 researchers

A Covid Vaccine Nears, Biden Gets to Work, and More News

Desperate Gamers Camp Out in the Pandemic for $700 GPUs

Broadband power users explode, making data caps more profitable for ISPs

Terry Gilliam Movies Are All About Imagination

The CMAs Were a Good Reminder to Stick to Zoom Award Shows

Garmin's Entry-Level Venu Sq Is a Great Square Tracker

Why Just Zoom When You Can Bend Reality?

SpaceX Is Ready to Launch Its First Official Crewed Mission

Apple’s New M1 Chip Could Reshape the Company’s Future

6 Sci-Fi Writers Imagine the Beguiling, Troubling Future of Work

How the ‘Dead Zone’ Could Help This Car Take on Tesla

We’ll Need More Than One Vaccine to Beat the Pandemic

No One's Riding Transit. So Why Did Voters Support It?

The iOS Covid App Ecosystem Has Become a Privacy Minefield

Which iPhone Should You Buy (or Avoid) Right Now?

The Future of Work: ‘Work Ethics,’ by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

The Scammer Who Wanted to Save His Country

Inside Parler, the Right's Favorite 'Free Speech' App

The GOP Keeps Proving There's No Election Fraud

SpaceX Starlink has some hiccups, as expected, but users are impressed

DNS cache poisoning, the Internet attack from 2008, is back from the dead

Fireball Is Werner Herzog’s Ode to Space Rocks

25 Gift Ideas for People Who Hate Being Inside

An Engineer Gets 9 Years for Stealing $10M From Microsoft

I've Played 'RimWorld' for 700 Hours (And I May Never Escape)

How Biden Can Make Climate Progress With a Divided Congress

All Baby Yoda Does Is Coo and Destroy Things

'Proning' Covid Patients Seems to Save Lives. But How Many?

Going Solar: My Year-Long Quest to Get Off the Grid

Covid Winter is Coming. Could Humidifiers Help?

There’s Something Super Weird About Netflix Anime

What Writing a Pandemic Newsletter Taught Me About America

Free, Unlimited Google Photos Storage Will End Next Year

SITREP: Azerbaijan’s drone war expands with Reaper-like TB2

Ajit Pai urged to accept Trump loss and stop controversial rulemakings

WhatsApp Using Up Your Phone Storage? Here’s How to Fix It

The Best TV Streaming Devices for Cord Cutters

Ubisoft Removes a Controversial Voice in Watch Dogs: Legion

Rebuilding Trump's Broken Global Tech Policy Won't Be Easy

More Safety Data Would Be Nice, But We Need a Vaccine Now

The Pre-Election Polls Were Wrong. The Exit Polls Are Worse

The Plan to Turn Scrapped Rockets Into Space Stations

A Possible Covid Vaccine Means It's Time to Fix Cold Chains

Thinking About a Holiday Gathering? Look at This Map First

Apps Are Now Putting the Parole Agent in Your Pocket

The Strange and Twisted Tale of Hydroxychloroquine

The Best Reason to Get a PS5 Is Its New Controller

With Its Own Chips, Apple Aims to Define the Future of PCs

The Latest Covid Vaccine Results, Deciphered

Ubuntu fixes bugs that standard users could use to become root

Why It's a Big Deal If the First Covid Vaccine Is 'Genetic'

Everything Apple Announced, From New Macs to New Chips

Alphabet delivers wireless Internet over light beams from 20km away

Intel SGX defeated yet again—this time thanks to on-chip power meter