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Five Things You Had to See Online This Week

Arts, Culture & Media

Ryan Gosling really gets the internet and Key & Peele skewer racism with an incredible musical production.

Report Claiming Iran Employs 30,000 Spies Called into Question

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Wired Wilderness

Google Alerts Users to Suspected State-Sponsored Attacks

Conflict & Justice

The Fall of Yahoo! and Search Engines of the Past

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Global Social Media Manhunts: All Fun and Games?

The infamous Panther Five has pulled an audacious heist: they’ve stolen the world’s 3rd most expensive jewel. Now they’ve split up and fled to five different cities across the globe. And there’s a handsome reward if you can find them. That is the fictional premise of Tag Challenge, a worldwide social media manhunt taking place […]

Atavist: A Place for Long-Form Interactive Journalism

Arts, Culture & Media

Is there a place for long-form journalism among the blogs and the tweets, the Tumblers and the YouTubes? It was this very question that inspired Evan Ratliff, a freelance writer for Wired, The New Yorker, and National Geographic to create The Atavist.

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Fact and fiction about the Apple tablet

Rumors have been swirling for weeks about a new Apple product that’s scheduled to be unveiled next week. What will it look like, and what will it do? We talk to Fast Company’s Cliff Kuang and Wired’s Steven Levy.

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Looking back at the decade’s standout tech inventions

Arts, Culture & Media

Joining us to weigh in on the most notable tech innovations during the last 10 years are Baratunde Thurston, host of ‘Popular Science’s Future Of’ on the Science Channel, and Clive Thompson, a contributor to Wired magazine.

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