List of Science and Technology articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Radio Days in South Sudan
To reach people in a conflict, sometimes low-tech is the best tech.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Video: Two Aerial Daredevils Buzz Dubai Skyscrapers In Jetpacks
Beautiful 4K video documents insane aerial stunts over futuristic skyscrapers and desert dunes.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Will 2050 Look Like?
From China’s population to NATO’s irrelevance, we actually know more about the future of the world’s power dynamics than we might think.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Telenovela That Wasn’t
The firing of crusading Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui has become the latest cause for free press activists. But is her salacious story as straightforward as it seems?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Short Life and Speedy Death of Russia’s Silicon Valley
In 2009, Moscow unveiled an ambitious plan to build a world-class technology incubator. Then corruption, brain drain, and Putin killed it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Buy the Hardware When China Is Getting the IP for Free?
IBM is sharing proprietary technology with Beijing in exchange for market access. Is it savvy or suicide?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China, Start-up Nation
Why everyone from Beijing to Beihai is trying to become the country’s Mark Zuckerberg.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Clear as Mud
NGOs criticize companies’ transparency on “conflict minerals” as firms prepare to file their second annual report on the use of gold, tin, tungsten, or tantalum from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why We Can’t Just Read English Newspapers to Understand Terrorism
And how Big Data can help.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 To Catch a Spy
Biometrics is making it far more difficult for the U.S. intelligence community to conduct clandestine operations.
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Villagers Offer Up Gifts To Volcano As Part Of Yadnya Kasada Festival Longform’s Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Greener Pope
Francis is about to put climate change front and center on his papal agenda. But can his Holiness heal the political divide?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Innovations: A Drone Called WANDA
The U.S. military is studying the movement of fish to design the next generation of autonomous underwater vehicles.