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New research shows that July may have been the deadliest month for young adults in modern American history.
A new statistic shows that health-care workers are running out of space to treat COVID-19 patients.
The upward redistribution of income has cost Americans workers $50 trillion over the past several decades. On average, extreme inequality is costing the median income full-time worker about $42,000 a year.
We are all Roy Batty. All of our moments will be lost, like tears in rain…but weren’t they extraordinary moments?
The prescription, he argues in "Being Mortal," is to rethink our priorities for the dying—and give 'em something to live for.
Palestinians Blocked from Getting Smartphone Service; NSA Technology Simply Too Old to Search; Who Owns Your Data When You Die?; New Computing Physics Soon to Emerge from NASA-Google Partnership; GED Gets a Digital Makeover and Faces Competition
Lewis Black will gladly give up all of his private information, just so long as the future contains robotic beer butlers.
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