Seamless Is Probably Killing Your Favorite Restaurant, And Other Facts
Welcome to What We Learned This Week​, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: The CRT’s cult status, Seamless’s stranglehold on food delivery and the potential benefits of an all-meat diet.

February 8, 2018 at 06:50PM
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All The New Emojis That Will Clog Your Keyboard In 2018
The new emojis for 2018 are here. Expect a lot of red hair and random objects.

February 8, 2018 at 04:39PM
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They Considered Themselves White, But DNA Tests Told A More Complex Story
As more people learn of their genetic makeup, unexpected African roots emerge.

February 8, 2018 at 04:13PM
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Everything You Need To Know About The Face-Swap Technology That’s Sweeping The Internet
Sites like Reddit and Pornhub have made moves to ban pornographic deepfakes in recent days, but it’s never been easier for anyone with an internet connection to make disturbingly real-looking fake porn.

February 8, 2018 at 03:04PM
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Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted Online in ‘Biggest Leak in History’
Source code for iBoot, one of the most critical iOS programs, was anonymously posted on GitHub.

February 8, 2018 at 03:04PM
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Inside Airbnb’s Battle to Stay Private
Investors and executives disagreed over when to take the home-rental company public. The stay-private crowd is winning.

February 8, 2018 at 11:49AM
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How many Mechanical Turk workers are there?
Using the capture/recapture method, one computer scientist attempt to gauge the size of one sect of Amazon’s on-demand labor force.

February 8, 2018 at 10:37AM
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American Democracy Is an Easy Target
Americans have become paranoid about foreign cyberattacks on their political system, but they have nobody but themselves to blame.

February 8, 2018 at 08:40AM
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John Perry Barlow, EFF Co-Founder and Author of 1996 Cyberspace Manifesto, Dies at 70
Barlow cofounded the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in 1990 to advocate for digital rights and was a regular in the pages of Wired after the magazine was started in 1993.

February 8, 2018 at 07:12AM
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The Man Who Saw Inside Himself
For years, Larry Smarr has used a supercomputer to monitor his health and peer at his organs. Recently, he used his knowledge to help direct his own surgery.

February 7, 2018 at 06:28PM
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