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SHAPE SHIFTERS

Whether exercise is already part of your daily routine or you've just embarked on a sweat-based self-improvement plan, this collection of workout gear will help you level up.

Cloud Support: Are Mental Health Apps Helpful?

\"Everyone's so gung ho about therapy these days. I've been curious myself, but I'm not ready to commit to paying for it. A mental health app seems like it could be a decent stepping stone. But are they actually helpful?\" -Mindful Skeptic

SCALING UP

How one Scottish startup is using data as bait to lure the very analog seafood industry into the 21st century.

DRIP, BABY, DRIP

To produce pure hydrogen, just inject the right microbes into depleted oil wells. The technique could help fuel a zero-carbon future.

Juggling Act

Working from home makes it easier to secretly take on multiple full-time tech jobs. The extra cash is nice-but overlapping Zooms can be tricky.

The Rise and Fall of Alphabay, Part 2: Into the Trap

The stunning culmination of a worldwide quest to capture the dark web's biggest kingpin-and destroy the underworld economy he ruled.

Feed Me

Pitcher plants are beautiful, rare, and life-consuming-in every way. How one collector's obsession became a nightmare.

Inside Facebook's conscience

Mark Zuckerberg established the oversight board to investigate how Meta handles controversial posts. Two years in, the panel's members want to expand their mission and transform the way social platforms work.

A tweet before dying

The revolutionary internet is over, and we don't have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.

The Hibernator's Guide to the Galaxy

Scientists are on the verge of figuring out how to put humans in a state of suspended animation. It could be the key to colonizing Mars.

The Big Fight Over 403 Very Small Wasps

Earth is teeming with unknown species, and they're dying off faster than ever. Now biologists are in an urgent battle over an old question: how should humanity catalog life?

Meeting of Music Minds

MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Dear Cloud Support: "I'm a white person, and despite there being a range of skin tones available for emoji these days, I still just choose the original Simpsons-esque yellow. Is this insensitive to people of color?" -True Colors

I realize, True Colors, that this discussion has probably only complicated the dilemma you posed, rather than simplified it.

SEE NO EVIL

Companies pay millions to get their digital ads in front of humans. Shady networks show them to bots instead. And everyone is fine with this.

HIGH IMPACT

Photographer Neil Buckland captures the mosaic of minerals in meteorites.

The Digital Payments Mastermind

DIARY OF AN ENTREPRENEUR

ONCE MOORE

Rereading the most influential article of the 20th century.

Tara McGowan – Ms. Info

A former Democratic millions into Meta's ad operative is sinking networks to build a digital media machine for the left. Her strategy: Target potential voters with grabby local news stories, then get them to the polls.

Stay

The search for a pill that can help dogs, and eventually humans, live longer.

Fully Charged

EV companies are figuring out ways to turn a car's frame into a giant battery, making their vehicles cheaper, roomier, and able to go twice as far.

Nils Frahm – Stranger Thing

On his new album, German audio artist Nils Frahm adds a spooky instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin to his eclectic aural menagerie.

A Column on the Principle of Population

Elon Musk wants you to have more babies. Should you?