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  What If Apple Is Wrong?

  Phones that lock away everything they hold could inhibit law enforcement more than we really want.
• Categorized in Policy

  How Political Candidates Know If You’re Neurotic

  The latest data-driven campaign pitches target you based on your personality, not just your demographics. But does such profiling work?
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  Tech Slowdown Threatens the American Dream

  Despite the allure of apps and social media, today’s digital technologies are doing little to generate the kind of prosperity that previous generations enjoyed, a prominent economist argues. But that doesn’t mean we should give up on innovation.
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  The Rogue Immune Cells That Wreck the Brain

  Beth Stevens thinks she has solved a mystery behind brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s and schizophrenia.
• Categorized in Biotechnology and health

  The Extinction Invention

  A genetic technology that can kill off mosquito species could eradicate malaria. But is it too risky to ever use?
• Categorized in Artificial intelligence

  China Is Building a Robot Army of Model Workers

  Can China reboot its manufacturing industry—and the global economy—by replacing millions of workers with machines?
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  Q&A: Bill Gates

  Microsoft’s cofounder vows to change the “supply side” for breakthrough energy technologies by investing billions of his and his friends’ dollars.