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The Best Mobile Scanning Apps
Photo: Rozette Rago
Smartphones are the Swiss Army knives of the digital world, and mobile scanning apps are one of the best examples of why. Using your phone’s camera, these apps can scan and extract text from virtually any document—plus whiteboards, books, and more—while automatically correcting for distortion and skew. After spending more than 50 hours researching 22 scanning apps and testing…
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North Korea’s nuclear escalation, explained
North Korea’s nuclear escalation, explained
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presiding over an intercontinental balistic missile launch on March 24, 2022.
Kim Jong Un’s military plans are raising tensions with the South to new heights.
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are at the highest in years after an unprecedented year of missile launches on the part of North Korea — and a more bellicose posturing from South Korea’s president, Yoon…
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Job interviews are a nightmare — and only getting worse
Job interviews are a nightmare — and only getting worse
It should not take endless interviews to get a job. And yet.
Employers are constantly finding new hoops for candidates to jump through.
In late 2022, Jessica found herself in a predicament that will sound familiar to many job seekers: slogging through an extended interview process with seemingly no end in sight.
She was up for a job as a fundraiser at a major social services organization in…
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Monuments to the Unthinkable
Monuments to the Unthinkable
The Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial site in southern Germany (Marc Wilson for The Atlantic)
America still can’t figure out how to memorialize the sins of our history. What can we learn from Germany?
The first memorials to the Holocaust were the bodies in concentration camps.
In January 1945, Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz in southern Poland. As the German forces retreated, officers at…
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Google Pixel 7 buyer's guide: Specs, pricing, availability, and more
Google Pixel 7 buyer’s guide: Specs, pricing, availability, and more
Should you buy the Pixel 7 or opt for a different phone instead?
Google’s latest Pixel 7 series consists of two models. There’s the regular Pixel 7and the bigger Pixel 7 Pro, both of which are minor upgrades over their predecessors. However, they still have a number of new features on board and are more powerful than ever, thanks to Google’s latest SoC.
So, what are the differences between the…
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Trapped in the Trenches in Ukraine
Trapped in the Trenches in Ukraine
Along the country’s seven-hundred-mile front line, constant artillery fire and drone surveillance have made it excruciatingly difficult to maneuver.
One Sunday in early October, I had lunch at an outdoor restaurant on Andriyivsky Descent, in downtown Kyiv, with a thirty-seven-year-old American who went by the code name Doc. I’d rented an apartment on the same cobblestone street back in March,…
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Welcome to Fifth Gen (Information) Warfare
Welcome to Fifth Gen (Information) Warfare
The battleground is consensus of the swarm and your own mind
Congratulations. As we approach 2023, you are now completing and have survived the third year of the largest, most globally coordinated psychological warfare operation in the history of mankind. During this period, on a daily basis, you have experienced the US Government and many western nations deploying highly refined, military-grade…
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Seventy-five Years After Indian Partition, Who Owns the Narrative?
Seventy-five Years After Indian Partition, Who Owns the Narrative?
The moral power of Partition writing has come from its sustained confrontations with violence, especially against women.Illustration by Anagh Banerjee
Literature once filled in archival gaps by saying the unsayable. Now a younger generation is devising new modes of telling the story and finding new stories to tell.
Before it was an edict, and a death sentence, it was a rumor. To many, it must…
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WHERE NOW GRIZZLY BEAR?
WHERE NOW GRIZZLY BEAR?
January 26, 2021 | 3,000 words, about 15 minutes
AFTER CENTURIES OF PERSECUTION, BROWN BEARS ARE SHOWING UP IN SOME UNEXPECTED PLACES.
A bear emerges from dense vegetation and pauses on the shore. It’s early spring, and the young grizzly has only recently roused from hibernation, ravenous and driven. He lifts his head and gazes out across the falling tide to the opposite shore, where forested…
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2022: The year the UK economy soured
2022: The year the UK economy soured
At the beginning of the year, just as Britain was emerging from Omicron curbs, the International Monetary Fund released new forecasts in January predicting the economy would expand by 2.3 percent in 2023. Now it expects just 0.3 percent growth and a recession (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
Let’s not forget that inflation was already a problem heading into 2022.
The final inflation reading of…
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6 reasons why our planet might not be doomed after all
6 reasons why our planet might not be doomed after all
A tigress with her cub at Assam State Zoo and Botanical Garden in Guwahati, India, on October 4.
Surprise! This environmental story is actually not depressing.
MONTREAL, Canada — On a busy street downtown is a life-size ice sculpture of a polar bear. It’s melting, revealing a fearsome-looking bronze skeleton underneath. Designed by artist Mark Coreth, the display is not a decoration but a…
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Putin, his commanders and Russia’s nuclear option in Ukraine: What you need to know
Putin, his commanders and Russia’s nuclear option in Ukraine: What you need to know
A report about Russian military leaders raises fears and new questions about the nuclear threat.
Ever since his invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly reminded the world of the most dangerous weapons at his disposal. Now, for the first time, a report suggests that top Russian military leaders have discussed when and how they might use a tactical nuclear weapon in…
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Everyone Is Sick Right Now
Everyone Is Sick Right Now
For the past two years, social distancing kept seasonal viruses at bay. Now they’re roaring back.
If cold and flu season seems to be hitting your household harder this year, you’re not alone. This is the year when common viruses that took a backseat to Covid-19 finally return.
Positive tests for the flu in the United States stood at 25 percent in late November, according to the US Centers for…
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Big Tech Laid Off Thousands. Here’s Who Wants Them Next
Big Tech Laid Off Thousands. Here’s Who Wants Them Next
Governments, nonprofits, and small startups hope to scoop up people let go by the likes of Meta and Amazon. It’s their big chance to lure top-tier talent.
Remote work. Competitive salaries. A streamlined hiring process. They’re all perks being offered to prospective tech workers from an unlikely employer: the US government.
Soaring Silicon Valley salaries, perks, and stocks have allowed Big…
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6 Ways to Delete Yourself From the Internet
6 Ways to Delete Yourself From the Internet
You’ll never be able to get a clean slate—but you can significantly downsize your digital footprint.
Depending on when you were born, there’s a good chance you’ve spent either several decades online or have never known an offline world. Whatever the case, the internet and its advertising giants know a huge amount about your life.
Amazon, Facebook, and Google all have reams of data about…
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“Avatar: The Way of Water,” Reviewed: An Island Fit for the King of the World
“Avatar: The Way of Water,” Reviewed: An Island Fit for the King of the World
An exclusive invitation from James Cameron to join him at his VF/X Club Med.
Fifteen years separated “The Godfather Part II” from “Part III,” and the years showed. The series’ director, Francis Ford Coppola, enriched the latter film with both the life experience (much of it painful) and the experience of his work on other, often daring and distinctive films with which he filled the intervening…
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An incomplete guide to this very weird year, in charts
An incomplete guide to this very weird year, in charts
From concerts to crypto and from unions to Ukraine: 14 charts that explain this wild year.
It has been nearly three years since the start of the pandemic, and a lot has changed. Some parts of the world are returning to normal, as people go to live events and restaurants, while other things, like going back to the office, feel stuck in time. Internationally, a war is raging, and in the US,…
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