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How Mongolia has kept the coronavirus at bay

Mongolia shares the world’s longest land border with China, but its early and highly centralized pandemic response has been so effective that not a single person in the landlocked country has died from covid-19. A former army colonel turned public health official recounts how Mongolia enacted its extensive quarantine and testing regime under a state […]

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Here’s how to keep California’s grid from buckling under the heat

California’s electricity system is buckling under the strains of a blistering heat wave that may have established the highest temperature ever reliably recorded. As residents cranked up air conditioning en masse to keep cool, the state’s primary grid operator ordered a series of rolling blackouts that have left millions without power in recent days, at […]

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Apple Threatens to Go Thermonuclear on Epic Games; To Terminate Developer Accounts on August 28

Epic Game’s standoff with Apple has escalated further as the developer alleges Apple will terminate its developer account on August 28. Last week, Epic Games added a direct payment method on Fortnite. It is against Apple’s policy to add a direct payment method, and thus Fortnite was removed from the App Store. Soon enough, Epic […]

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Remote workers want to re-create those watercooler moments, virtually

Tom Malone refused to believe that watercooler conversations were dead just because so many people were suddenly working from home during the pandemic. He knew that random workplace chatter can help people build trust and form bonds. And as a researcher who studies technology and organizational design, he says, “it seemed obvious to me that […]

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The 5 best places to explore in the solar system—besides Mars

With the launch of three missions to Mars this summer (including a new NASA rover, Perseverance, that will look for signs of life), our exploration of the Red Planet will soon leap to new heights. And there are good reasons we should be obsessed with it: Mars is the only extraterrestrial world besides the moon that […]