Stories by laurex

Predicting Loneliness with FitBit Data

A homeless man longs to see his daughter on Xmas. Can he find $27 for the bus?

Vanillanomics

The New York metro area has the lowest rate of population turnover in the US

One-day deliveries are breaking our cities

US raises legal age to buy cigarettes to 21

The AI researcher is trying to ward off a reproducibility crisis

Why two world-renowned AI experts might have to eat 1M Tesla robo-taxis in 2020

Can technology connect us rather than divide us?

The struggle to name lab-grown meat

Two standard alcoholic drinks a day no longer safe, health officials say

Hermit Crabs Have Wealth Inequality

Why Early Startups Need to Be Quick to Fire

‘Request for Exhumation’: QuadrigaCX Creditors Ask for Proof That Cotten Is Dead

10 years. 179 arrests. No white defendants. DEA tactics face scrutiny

Reconstructing English words from neural signals

No one is immune from loneliness, but we have the cure within ourselves

How the Loss of the Landline Is Changing Family Life

The Age of Instagram Face

New prosthetic limbs go beyond the functional to allow people to ‘feel’ again

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