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Cynthia Weil, Who Put Words to That ‘Lovin’ Feeling,’ Dies at 82
With her husband and songwriting partner, Barry Mann, she wrote lyrics for timeless hits by the Righteous Brothers, the Animals…
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Don Bateman, Trailblazer in Airline Safety, Dies at 91
His cockpit warning system, which alerts the crew if an aircraft is heading toward a mountain, a building or the…
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A.I.’s Inner Conflict, Nvidia Joins the Trillion-Dollar Club, and Hard Questions
Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | Google Hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton…
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Eusebius McKaiser, Acerbic South African Political Analyst, Dies at 44
Adamantly progressive, openly gay and politically fearless, he cast a sharp eye on the country’s post-apartheid politics and culture.
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Are the Warnings About A.I. Overblown?
More from our inbox: When a Public Bathroom Produces Anxiety‘Immoral’ Conditions in State PrisonsExecutives from three of the leading A.I.…
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Was Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Originally ‘Mongolian Rhapsody’?
One of Freddie Mercury’s early drafts, which is being auctioned by Sotheby’s, shows that he crossed out “Mongolian” and substituted…
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In ‘Fancy Bear Goes Phishing,’ Tales of Harmful Hacks
A new book by Scott J. Shapiro, a law and philosophy professor at Yale, examines breaches of cybersecurity and their…
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Four Questions About the Biden-McCarthy Deal
If the debt ceiling deal between President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy wins Congressional approval, it will tell us a…
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A Rapper’s Detention Shows Iran’s Crackdown Is Failing
It was a balmy 1:30 a.m. nearly a year ago in Shahin Shahr, a city in central Iran, and the…
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Don’t Kid Yourself, China Is Still a Formidable Foe
On my first trip to China in more than three years, I awoke to an uncharacteristically brilliant blue Beijing sky.…
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