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A message for today from last century's vast telephone exchanges

A telecommunications museum in Seattle, with a working exchange from the 1940s, shows how telephones brought us together – but also tore us apart, says Annalee Newitz

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We need to accept that deepfakes are here to stay in film and TV

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We need to accept that deepfakes are here to stay in film and TV

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Original Sin review: Was space flight tainted from the get-go?

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Google's AI is best yet at answering medical and health questions

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Web3 promises to reclaim the internet from tech giants – will it work?

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Web3 promises to reclaim the internet from tech giants – will it work?

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Attention Span review: A welcome injection of evidence

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Attention Span review: A welcome injection of evidence

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Achieving nuclear fusion would be building on the shoulders of giants

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Achieving nuclear fusion would be building on the shoulders of giants

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TOPSHOT - Ukrainian Emergency Ministry rescuers attend an exercise in the city of Zaporizhzhia on August 17, 2022, in case of a possible nuclear incident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant located near the city. - Ukraine remains deeply scarred by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, when a Soviet-era reactor exploded and streamed radiation into the atmosphere in the country's north. The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine was occupied in the early days of the war and it has remained in Russian hands ever since. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)

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Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine started a new kind of nuclear war

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Is our evolving relationship with tech shifting our view of reality?

This year saw the launch of ChatGPT, an AI that anyone can converse with, and the news that a quantum computer simulated a wormhole. Are our sensibilities about what is real changing, asks Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Why the tech apocalypse of 2022 was largely a good thing

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Nuclear fusion researchers have achieved historic energy milestone

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Magnetic tape: The surprisingly retro way big tech stores your data

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Plym to Pamlico review: Nuclear test veterans find poignant voice

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