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A 15-Year-Old Mass Shooter Killed 5 People in Raleigh
The suspect is in critical condition in a hospital.
David Gilbert
Paul Blest
10.14.22
News

How Koch Industries, Fake Scientists, and Rush Limbaugh Invented Climate Denial
A new book, "The Petroleum Papers", goes inside a 1991 conference whose goal was to make people doubt climate change is real.
Geoff Dembicki
10.14.22
tech-science

Massive Energy Beam Pointed at Earth Appears to Break the Laws of Physics, Scientists Say
Multiple telescopes clocked the massive energy jet coming in at multiple times the speed of light due to its orientation, a new study says.
Becky Ferreira
10.14.22
Tech

CYBER: Nuclear War 101
North Korea is a nuclear state, Russia is threatening to use nukes in Ukraine, and an old Cold War suddenly feels very fresh.
Matthew Gault
10.14.22
Art

People Are Now Making Fake Selfies With AI
New AI tools let you to generate selfies with a variety of styles and angles that will make anyone scrolling Instagram jealous.
Edward Ongweso Jr
10.14.22
machine learning

Students Are Using AI to Write Their Papers, Because Of Course They Are
Essays written by AI language tools like OpenAI's Playground are often hard to tell apart from text written by humans.
Claire Woodcock
10.14.22
Games Reviews

Marauders Is An Extraction Shooter For Evil Little Rats
Extraction shooters have been slowly gaining prominence and popularity since the beta release of Escape From Tarkov.
Renata Price
10.14.22
climate crisis

Climate Activists Throw Tomato Soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
“What is worth more, art, or life?” a protester said after throwing soup over the painting in London's National Gallery and glueing themselves to the wall.
Sophia Smith Galer
10.14.22
Entertainment

Understanding the Complicated Rise of Gujarati Cinema
Gujaratis might be unflinchingly loyal to their love for food and travel, but when it comes to regional pop culture, they keep turning to Bollywood. Why?
Arman Khan
10.14.22
News

A Family Rented Their RV to the QAnon Queen. She Won’t Give It Back.
The family says the QAnon “queen” has voided the rental contract and is not answering their requests to return it.
Mack Lamoureux
10.14.22
oral histories

The Oral History of ‘The Sims’, the World’s Most Enduring Game
"The Sims 4" is about to become free to play. We spoke to the game’s creators about how the whole thing came to be.
Sean Cole
10.14.22
TikTok

Sorry, TikTok – Crystals Can't Actually Heal You
CrystalTok is pretty innocuous till people start suggesting you use pretty stones to treat actual mental and physical health conditions.
Alexandra Theis
10.14.22
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