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    Mar 19

    Scientists around the globe have spent years using Crispr to study the underlying genetics of disease. Now they're preparing to bring this gene-editing technology out of the lab and into the real world. But just how far do we want Crispr to go?

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  2. 17 minutes ago

    Epic founder and CEO Tim Sweeney sat down with WIRED's to discuss how Fortnite is just the beginning of his vision for a million-person connected experience.

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  3. 32 minutes ago

    Buzkashi is a centuries-old Central Asian sport in which men on horses fight over a decapitated goat carcass. It’s a war of all against all in which the winner is the horseman who successfully carries the carcass past some defined point.

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    and the hits just keep on coming

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  5. 44 minutes ago

    China’s decision may actually prove beneficial. While it’s sparked chaos in the short term, it’s also drawn attention to how the world deals with its waste. If proper alternatives are found, plastic pollution could decrease in the coming years 9/

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  6. 44 minutes ago

    New policies aimed at reducing plastic waste are also in the works. The European Parliament recently approved a ban on single-use plastics, and Britain is planning to tax manufacturers of plastic packaging with less than 30 percent recycled materials 8/

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    But there is reason for optimism—other options are beginning to emerge. Several US materials recovery facilities are modifying equipment and changing practices to better handle recycled materials. And Chinese processors are opening US facilities as well 7/

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  8. 44 minutes ago

    Without China’s help, our already massive waste problem will be exacerbated and the planet’s load of nearly indestructible plastics—more than 8 billion tons have been produced worldwide over the past six decades—will continue to grow 6/

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  9. 44 minutes ago

    Other places, like Philadelphia, are now burning the bulk of their recyclables at a waste-to-energy plant. This practice is becoming more popular in Europe, too, despite major concerns about air pollution 5/

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  10. 44 minutes ago

    In the US, places like Minneapolis have stopped accepting black plastics and rigid No. 6 plastics that are commonly used for disposable cups. Most large cities have found alternatives, but small towns and rural recycling operations have been hit hard 4/

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  11. 44 minutes ago

    This has jammed the works of recycling programs around the world. With nowhere to send plastic, and to a certain degree aluminum and glass, local governments and recycling processors are scrambling to find new markets 3/

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    The crisis started a year ago, when China stopped accepting most recyclable waste. For years it had handled nearly half the world’s recyclable waste, but in an effort to halt a deluge of contaminated materials, it cut imports by 99% 2/

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  13. 44 minutes ago

    When you put something in the recycling, you assume it will be recycled, right? Not always. We’re in a global recycling crisis. Increasingly, recycled materials are ending up in landfills, incinerators, and even the environment as litter. Here’s why 1/

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  14. 1 hour ago

    NEW: Change your Facebook password right now. The company has acknowledged a bug in its password management systems that caused hundreds of millions of user passwords to be stored as plaintext in an internal platform, where any employee could find them.

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  15. 1 hour ago

    In 2017, historians beamed X-rays at a document to photograph the text inside. They haven’t figured out what the document says, but the technique should help historians study texts without damaging the physical objects themselves.

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  16. 2 hours ago

    You can find a great, affordable, weird B&B with just a little sleuthing on the internet. The voluble owners are not for everyone, but the whole thing is an antidote to chic Airbnbs or lonely self-service boutique hotels.

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    5 hours ago

    The new iPad mini is new, but not new. It feels like a product borne from an operations meeting about ways in which to use up existing components. Here's the thing, though: Most of this won’t matter! The iPad Mini is about emotion, and people love it

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  18. 3 hours ago

    Like with any sophisticated technology, more features mean more things for riders to monitor and control, risking stolen attention from what matters most.

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  19. 4 hours ago

    The Mini feels personal in a way that other devices no longer do. Not because of its actual newness, but because it is still here, and slightly reinvented once again.

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    5 hours ago

    Researchers claimed to have built a prototype for an "online lie detector." What they've actually built, critics say, is a demonstration of a lot of what's wrong with overblown machine learning claims and their social implications.

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  21. 5 hours ago

    A group of researchers built an "online polygraph" that uses machine learning to detect deception from text alone. But that notion of an internet lie detector is already turning out to be more problematic than promising.

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