This Is What It's Like To Be At War With Your Body

A YEAR OR SO before Patrick’s operation, a psychologist asked him if he would take a pill to make his BIID go away, should such a treatment exist. It took a moment for him to reflect and answer: maybe when he had been a lot younger, but not anymore. “This has become the core of who and what I am,” he said.This is who I am. Everyone...

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Our Internet Sucks

By EDWARD WYATTPublished: December 29, 2013 WASHINGTON â€" San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States, a progressive and economically vibrant metropolis of 1.4 million people sprawled across south-central Texas. But the speed of its Internet service is no match for the Latvian capital, Riga, a city of 700,000 on the Baltic Sea. Riga’s average Internet speed is at least two-and-a-half...

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Computers Are Finally Learning

By JOHN MARKOFFPublished: December 28, 2013 PALO ALTO, Calif. â€" Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head. The first commercial version of the new kind of computer chip is scheduled to be released in 2014. Not only can it automate tasks that now require painstaking programming â€" for example,...

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Jesse Willms, The Dark Lord Of The Internet

How one of the most notorious alleged hustlers in the history of e-commerce made a fortune on the Web Willms, at his office near Edmonton, has been sued by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft, Oprah Winfrey, the company behind a product...

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The Most Memorable Photos Of 2013

Pope Francis waves at his followers, as they stand along the beachfront in Rio de Janeiro awaiting mass on July 28, 2013. Foreign Policy named Pope Francis a 2013 Global Thinker -- for bringing "the freshness of the gospel to the Catholic Church." A note to readers, some of the following images contain graphic content.  EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images ...

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