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Alfie, Kirsten, Miles, and Elly. Gregg Segal The United States has a trash problem. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces more than 4 pounds of garbage ...

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Speaker A: Then there started to feel like there was deluge or like, okay, a heavy rain of commentary about gift guides, articles and social media posts and tweets and skeets about why there were so ...

Dorian Nakamoto, believed by some to be bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, is surrounded by reporters as he leaves his home in Temple City, Calif., on March 6, 2014. Photo by David McNew/Reuters ...

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The pipeline aims to be commuter- and eco-friendly, unclogging the streets and lowering emissions. Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images This article originally appeared in Wired. In the years since ...

Stream Future's highly-anticipated sophomore album, Honest. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella After a series of delays and even a name change (it was previously titled Future Hendrix), ...

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Anonymous, the anarchic digital collective known for everything from pranks to online vigilantism, is one of the Internet’s most notorious subcultures. Gabriella Coleman, a cultural anthropologist at ...