How a Florida retirement home became ground zero for self-driving cars
Gary Morse and his family built an empire of convenience for retirees in Florida. But how — and why — did it become a proving ground for autonomous vehicles?
Revisionist racial history reigns at a small college in New England
Today, Vermont’s Middlebury College touts an 1823 graduate named Alexander Twilight as the college’s — and America’s — first black college graduate. It didn’t always.
Meet the Minnesota family that turned a soda machine company into a surveillance empire
Last August, Todd Westby’s employees got ‘microchipped.’ How did they get there? And what’s the connection between diet sodas, prisons, and tracking apps?
The story behind France’s new ban on plastic dishware
How did embattled French politician Francois Hollande accidentally end up passing one of the most sweeping environmental reform laws in recent history?
Inside the secret world of price tag codes
Large retailers like Target and Old Navy build secret codes into product prices to reveal information about how they’ve been discounted. Loyal customers are cracking the codes.
How teenage hackers became tech’s go-to bounty hunters
Today, the best young hackers are millionaires and merit-scholars. When did a criminal exploit become a coveted extracurricular?
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