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Charging cables look like gasoline hoses — and that’s a problem Clive Thompson Dec 9 · 9 min read Recently I was watching someone recharge their electric car and it struck me: It looks exactly like so

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The flood of Omicron news can be overwhelming. The endless data, anecdotes, and studies are hard enough to synthesize. But what makes the information even harder to parse is that so much evidence (i.e

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I t feels like everyone I know has COVID. During earlier stages of the pandemic, most of my friends were spared a direct brush with the virus. Perhaps they used to be much more careful. Or perhaps the

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It's time for another post in the Tesla FSD series, which is a part of a general self driving car debacle discussed in this blog since 2016 [ 1, 2 , 3, 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ]. In summary, the thesis of this

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C hile always gave the lie to the cold war claim that the United States stood for democracy. When its voters in 1970 showed the temerity (“irresponsibility”, Henry Kissinger called it) to elect social

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