The Verge
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Casey Newton
– Jun 19, 5:00 AM
First, he served in the Coast Guard, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant commander. He married, had a family, and devoted himself utterly to his two little girls. After he got out of the military, he worked as a moderator for Facebook, where he…
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The New York Times
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Michael M. Grynbaum
– Jun 19, 6:46 AM
Five anchorwomen at NY1, one of the country's most prominent local news channels, sued the network on Wednesday over age and gender discrimination, alleging a systematic effort by managers to force them off the air in favor of younger, less…
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The Atlantic
– Jun 19, 3:00 AM
'It's not true that no one needs you anymore.” These words came from an elderly woman sitting behind me on a late-night flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The plane was dark and quiet. A man I assumed to be her husband murmured…
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The Verge
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Ashley Carman
– Jun 19, 7:36 AM
The robot showed up at Kenneth Williams' doorstep when he needed it most. Williams had just been laid off from his job when he plugged in Jibo, a social home robot, on November 1st, 2017. “For that year [that I didn't have a job], it was a…
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Los Angeles Times
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Janet Hook
– Jun 19, 5:00 AM
Diversity is taking a back seat to Democrats' desire to dump Trump. The 2020 presidential candidate field is well stocked with women, people of color and millennials, but a majority of voters who said they expected to cast ballots in a Democratic…
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STAT
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Casey Ross
– Jun 19, 1:35 AM
BOSTON — Artificial intelligence is often hailed as a great catalyst of medical innovation, a way to find cures to diseases that have confounded doctors and make health care more efficient, personalized, and accessible. But what if it turns…
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CNBC
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Christina Farr
– Jun 19, 6:05 AM
Uber is moving more deeply into the health sector. And that means striking deals so that employers and health plans will cover the cost of a trip to a doctor's office. The ride-hailing company announced on Wednesday that it is working with Grand…
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CNN
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By AJ Willingham, CNN
– Jun 19, 6:05 AM
(CNN) Is anybody home? Astronomers have pinpointed two planets orbiting a nearby star that meet pretty much every requirement for supporting life. They're almost exactly the same mass as the Earth, they are billions of years old (which means life…
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Los Angeles Times
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Noam N. Levey
– Jun 19, 3:00 AM
Patients who come to the Havelhöhe cancer clinic in the leafy outskirts of Germany's capital are often very sick. Struggling with advanced-stage cancers, many need strong doses of expensive, cutting-edge chemotherapy that can run into the…
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Vanity Fair
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Bethany McLean
– Jun 19, 2:00 AM
On a brilliantly blue spring day, David Sackler, a third-generation member of the now infamous Sackler family, sits in a large conference room high above Manhattan. He's a big, bearded guy in his late 30s, and he's dressed casually, in slacks and a…
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