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Kelsey Piper

Kelsey Piper

Contributing editor

    Latest articles by Kelsey Piper

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    Offering tax breaks sooner makes people give more, according to a new study.

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    All 730 Qdoba locations will offer Impossible Meat’s plant-based beef alternative.

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    A Q&A with the founders of the cutting-edge AI lab OpenAI.

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    When wells were found to contain arsenic, people in Bangladesh turned to contaminated water sources. Kids died.

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    AI triumphs against the world’s top pro team in strategy game Dota 2AI triumphs against the world’s top pro team in strategy game Dota 2
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    It’s the first time an AI has beat a world champion e-sports team.

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    A new survey asks how cash transfers stack up against services. People want their government to provide the latter.

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    The man who stopped America’s biological weapons programThe man who stopped America’s biological weapons program
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    The Future of Life Institute will give its annual award to Matthew Meselson, who led the campaign against bioweapons.

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    Forecasting world events is crucial for policy. A new study explores how to do it better.

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    The controversial panel lasted just a little over a week.

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    The AI breakthrough that won the “Nobel Prize of computing”The AI breakthrough that won the “Nobel Prize of computing”
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    Three researchers helped take deep learning mainstream — and transformed the world.

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