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Technology — Silcon Valley

Facebook has a plan to speed up the internet in big cities too

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Facebook has made no secret about its plans to beam the internet from lasers, drones, and satellites to remote parts of the world.

International — Asia

Toilet, toilet everywhere in India, but where does all the shit go?

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After Narendra Modi came into power in 2014, the prime minister announced that building toilets

Technology — Trending

“Sweden must change quickly”: Spotify threatens to leave the country

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Spotify’s founders have written an open letter to Sweden’s politicians, saying they’ll be forced to divert thousands of jobs away from Sweden if major changes to the country.

Sport — Basketball

What the Golden State Warriors did—on and off the court—to make history

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It’s official: the Golden State Warriors have broken the record for the most regular-season wins in NBA history.

Science — Trending

Research shows being married helps cancer patients live longer

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Marriage is hard work, but when it comes to facing cancer, it can help you live longer, a pair of studies examining nearly 800,000 cancer patients show.

International — Asia

Odd-even won’t fix Delhi’s air, but it will feed the selfishness of Delhi’s car owners

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It is amazing how you have convinced yourself that the odd-even car rationing is the best thing to have happened to transport in Delhi.

Art & Culture — Trending

Photos: Hong Kong’s overwhelming urban density—captured from a drone

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Photographer Andy Yeung takes drone photos to capture the beauty of one of the world’s most densely populated cities: Hong Kong.

Election 16 — Democratic

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are done being nice

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Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders put all niceties aside from the first minutes of the CNN Democratic debate in Brooklyn on Thursday

Business — Trending

Is $19.6 million too outrageous a pay package for the CEO of BP? Shareholders say yes

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Shareholders of BP, the British oil and gas giant, sent a clear message to the company’s board today by voting down recommended 2015 pay

Art & Culture — Trending

Photos: China’s teenage parents raise kids with the help of their families

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Chinese women who aren’t married before their late 20s are sometimes derided as sheng nu, or “left-over women.”

Election 16 — Trump

The “Trump effect” is spiking racist bullying in US schools: Survey

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The controversial 2016 presidential campaign is having a “profoundly negative impact” on schoolchildren around the country.

Art & Culture — Trending

Finally, a textbook that treats finance as an art form

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Here it is, finance wonks: The textbook of your dreams.

National — Trending

Inky the NZ octopus has fired the opening shot in the cephalopod uprising

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An octopus has gone on the lam.

Technology — Funding news

Yes, startup funding really is slowing in San Francisco

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For a long time, it felt like Silicon Valley was the only place to build a successful startup.

International — Europe

Angela Merkel is in a diplomatic nightmare—all thanks to an obscene poem

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IWhen a German comedian on a niche TV show prepared to read a poem about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Opinion — Trending

A Stanford dean on adult skills every 18-year-old should have

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The crutch: We teach kids not to talk to strangers instead of teaching the more nuanced skill of how to discern the few bad strangers from the mostly good ones.

Science — Outerspace

Stephen Hawking and a Russian billionaire want to send tiny light-propelled “nanocrafts” to Alpha Centauri

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Innovation in space exploration requires bright minds and deep pockets. A new ambitious space project, announced today (April 12), boasts the best of both those worlds.

Technology — Trending

We are now witnessing Elon Musk’s slow-motion disruption of the global auto industry

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In 2007, Nokia was the biggest and most fashionable name in cell phones, with an unassailable lead in hand-held technology. Things had been so good for so long that company executives saw little chance for any competitive challenge

Opinion — Editorials

The scientific way to train white people to stop being racist

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No one wants to be called fragile. And if you’re white, what you feel reading the title of this article may be indicative of the term.

International — Europe

Angela Merkel is in a diplomatic nightmare—all thanks to an obscene poem

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IWhen a German comedian on a niche TV show prepared to read a poem about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Opinion — Trending

Why Western attempts to understand Muslims so often end up reinforcing stereotypes

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This week, Britain’s Channel 4 released “an extensive and rigorous survey to get a better understanding of British Muslims.”