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This is the third and final installment in our series on the Constitution at the border. Today, we’ll focus on the Fifth Amendment and passwords. Click here for Part 1 on the First Amendment or Part 2 on the Fourth Amendment.

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Latest observation by Ligo brings scientists closer to goal of using gravitational waves to see ancient events invisible to optical and radio telescopes Latest observation by Ligo brings scientists closer to goal of using gravitational waves to see ancient events invisible to optical and

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This seems to be a good week for talking about quantum memories and distributing qubits. The thing about working with quantum states, though, is that you don't have much room to avoid messing it up. And, afterwards, figuring out when you've made a mistake is difficult.

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The following post contains spoilers of Reply All episode #102: Long Distance, which was released on July 27, 2017. If you don't wish to know what happens in that episode, read no further. Here at Ars, we are no strangers to online tech support scammers.

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Your novella “The Vanishing Point” tells the story of a well-intentioned carpenter, Guy, who takes pride in what he does but at the same time seems almost completely ambitionless. Why do you think he is content to take whatever life throws at him?

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Amazon’s extraordinary growth has turned Seattle into the biggest company town in America. Amazon now occupies a mind-boggling 19 percent of all prime office space in the city, the most for any employer in a major U.S. city, according to a new analysis conducted for The Seattle Times.

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This is genuinely upsetting news for me: Locus is reporting the death of Sheri S. Tepper, who wrote the Hugo-nominated novel Grass among many others, and who was given a lifetime achievement award by the World Fantasy Convention just last year.

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"You must be having a difficult time. Very small beings do have difficult times. That's what I create them for." For Sheri S. Tepper, there are too many people. It's why her books have so many plagues.

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Berkeley-based quantum computing firm Rigetti will allow 40 machine learning startups from 11 countries to make use of its devices to help crunch their AI problems. Rigetti is small compared to its main rivals—the likes of Google, IBM, and Intel.

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The plane of our solar system is warped in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt, suggesting the presence of an unknown Mars-to-Earth-mass planetary object far beyond Pluto—but much closer than Planet Nine.

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You know exactly what you want in life. But you can’t seem to get there. You have all these resolves. You’re going to get healthy.

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Practicing paying attention can boost performance on a new task, and change the way the brain processes information, a new study says.

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There are only two problems in life. Isn’t that nice to know? You only have two things you ever need to be concerned about. Not only are there only two problems–they are really quite simple. Ready? Problem #1: You know what you want, and you don’t know how to get it.

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Ancillary Justice was published with little fanfare in 2013. Its author, Ann Leckie, had never published a novel before and was a relative unknown outside the world of science fiction book fandom.

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On a gray January afternoon in Houston, Walt Cunningham leaned into his Eames Lounge Chair and clasped his hands behind his head, the better to try and bend his thoughts back across five decades.

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