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Phone calls. Web searches. Location tracks. Smart speaker requests.

Revitalizing a curriculum in the middle of a chaos-inducing pandemic? Sure.

Oxford University Hospital tracked infections in 12,500 of its healthcare workers.

Trump vetoed military funding in a bid to repeal Section 230.

Black smudge in Jørgen Brønlund's diary showed he desperately tried to light a fire.

The platform was a haven for communities deemed too racist or hateful for Reddit.

Players aren't the only ones angry about how the game's console versions launched.

Simple organic ices dominate, rather than bigger organic molecules.

A 2,000-year-old quick-serve restaurant had a lot in common with modern ones.

From the archives: After a spate of lawsuits dating back to the late '90s, the feds step in.

And it's a risk in urban fires, too.

The past 12 months teaches us that, yes, attacks do only get better.

Default tip amount slashed following introduction of California's new employment rules.

Explore the macabre history of "anthropodermic bibliopegy": books bound in human skin

Divers trying to clean fishing nets come up with a bit of history.

The Civic Type-R brought the most smiles and a pair of hybrid SUVs surprised me.

Faster and more accurate forecasts can save lives and property.

The levels of certain proteins in bones can reveal how long a body has been in water.

Trump’s defeat hurts movement, but influencers continue to hype conspiracy theory.

Some species experience spontaneous parthenogenesis, best documented in zoo settings.

The best board gaming action... on your phone or computer.

With most major movie releases sidelined until 2021, TV stepped in to fill the gap.

Patty Jenkins' sequel is hampered by nonsensical plot, heavy-handed moralizing

Santa falls into an ambiguous category between "real" and "nonreal" for many children

Yesterday we brought you the most popular stories of 2020. These are the most talked-about.

Nikola has been on the defensive since fraud allegations surfaced in September.

George Clooney directed and stars in adaptation of the Lily Brooks-Dalton novel

It's our annual rundown of the most-read stories.

MuZero handles both rules-based and open-ended games.

Congress already scheduled veto override votes for after Christmas.

Basic impressions of what to expect—and hopes for patches to come.

Agreement means Pfizer will provide a total of 200M doses, with option for 400M more.

Tesla got near bankruptcy as it ramped up Model 3 production in 2017 and 2018.

The phone is due out earlier than ever, in mid-January.

Birx was widely seen as too accommodating to Trump but got sidelined anyway.

"It has surely been a year of challenges."

DOE gets a long list of clean energy R&D projects.

When you haven't been updated since 2016, expiring certificates are a problem.

Research could help slow down deterioration of aging artwork, unmask counterfeits.

Congress also made streaming pirated works a felony.

Mozilla follows Apple's and Google's leads on partitioning, then one-ups them.

The law doesn't love it when competitors promise to cooperate in certain ways.

Porsche designed the 992 around the PDK gearbox; why is the manual so darn good?

Dealmaster also has deals on tons of video games, wireless headphones, and more.

A monitoring program picked up a single case and no indications of wider spread.

Fauci was vaccinated alongside NIH director and HHS secretary.

Help us set a new giving record by adding to our $35,000+ charity haul so far.

These 20 titles helped a quarantined 2020 pass by that much more quickly.

Congress creates $3.2 billion fund for people with low incomes or who have lost jobs.