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Erotic Poetry and $300 Board Games: The Trial Exposing Silicon Valley’s Secrets

Former venture capitalist Ellen Pao says the big-name VC firm she worked for, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, failed to promote her because she’s a woman. She says she was pressured into an...

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Government Cancels Contract With Prison That Inmates Set on Fire

Willacy County Correctional Center, the privately run Texas prison that inmates set on fire last month to protest inadequate health care, will no longer hold federal prisoners. The Bureau of Prisons...

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This Case of Alleged Juvenile Sexual Abuse By Female Prison Officers Fits a...

Five former inmates at a youth detention center in Idaho sued the state’s Department of Juvenile Corrections last week, saying staff at the facility sexually abused them during their stay. The suit’s...

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Can This Social Network Make You Less Anxious?

Rob Morris started his PhD in media arts and sciences at MIT without having taken a single computer science class—”which, in retrospect, was really one of the dumbest things I’ve ever done,” he says....

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If You’re Not Into Rand Paul or Ted Cruz, There’s a Ninja Running for President

When Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) officially kicked off his presidential campaign more than a week ago, the media heralded it as the official start of the 2016 race. But the presidential field is actually...

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This Video Game Shows What Sexual Harassment Can Feel Like

In most video games, the player’s choices determine the ending. In Freshman Year, a short new work by game designer Nina Freeman, your character can wear jeans or a skirt as she prepares for a night...

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Forget CSI: Real-Life Crime Labs Are a Total Mess

The San Francisco Police Department is auditing 1,400 criminal cases—many involving murder or sexual assault—because one technician in the department’s crime lab allegedly mishandled DNA evidence....

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That Time Neal Stephenson Blew Up the Moon

Neal Stephenson’s latest novel, Seveneves, could have been titled Goodnight Moon, Forever—the latter blows up in the book’s very first sentence. It’s not long before a charismatic scientist (who...

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Book Review: Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman

Give Us the Ballot By Ari Berman FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX Shark attacks are more common in Florida than voter fraud, yet in 2011 the state cut early voting and shut down registration drives in the...

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Film Review: Steve Jobs, Man in the Machine

Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine MAGNOLIA PICTURES At an April showing of his Steve Jobs takedown, which already has generated plenty of heat in tech circles, director Alex Gibney admitted he’s...

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