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How to Cut Your Own Hair at Home (Long, Short, Wavy, Curly, Kids, Bangs) 

If your hair-care professional is still on lockdown, you might be getting desperate for a trim. Let us help you avoid a DIY disaster.

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Don’t Be Fooled by Big Tech’s Anti-China Sideshow 

During Wednesday’s antitrust hearing, tech CEOs leaned into the same pernicious argument to distract from the fact that US tech companies do bad things too.

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Follow the Money: How Digital Ads Subsidize the Worst of the Web 

From Covid conspiracies to election scams, automated advertising software plays a large—and largely unseen—role.

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How Will Covid Be Remembered? 

Emma Donoghue’s new novel, The Pull of the Stars, shows how pandemics—like the 1918 flu—can be woven into history.

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The Terrible Consequences of Australia’s Uber-Bushfires 

The Terrible Consequences of Australia’s Uber-Scientists calculate that the unprecedented wildfires burned 37,500 square miles. For already-endangered species, the conflagration may have spelled doom.

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Can Comic-Con Work From Home? 

The annual confab is going online this year—and there’s a chance it will never recover.

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A New Gadget Stops Voice Assistants From Snooping on You 

Meet LeakyPick, the low-cost audio spy detector for your Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and other network-connected devices.

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Prepare for Artificial Intelligence to Produce Less Wizardry 

A new paper argues that the computing demands of deep learning are so great that progress on tasks like translation and self-driving is likely to slow.

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The Best Gear to Make Beer, Wine, Cider, and Mead at Home (2020) 

Your homegrown tomatoes won’t help you forget how terrible everything is right now. Here’s what you need to make booze at home.

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The UAE’s First Mars Mission Is a Robo-Meteorologist 

The United Arab Emirates is preparing to launch its first Martian satellite, Hope, which will search for clues to the Red Planet’s atmospheric mysteries.

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A Bird’s Epic Migration Stuns Scientists and Wins Online Fans 

As researchers tracked his flight over 27 countries, a cuckoo became a celebrity and raised questions about how climate change could affect his species’ travel.

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We Need a New ‘Legend of Zelda’ Cartoon 

The Zelda videogames were turned into an animated series once in 1989. It’s time for a reboot.

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How to Get Safari’s New Privacy Features in Chrome and Firefox 

Apple’s browser is getting serious about security protections. If you can’t or won’t switch, don’t worry: you don’t have to fall behind.

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Is It Legal for Cops to Force You to Unlock Your Phone? 

Because the relevant Supreme Court precedents predate the smartphone era, the courts are divided on how to apply the Fifth Amendment.

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It’s Time for an End-of-Life Discussion About Nursing Homes 

With residents and staff dying by the tens of thousands, the very future of long-term care should be in question.

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