J.K. Rowling Off-the-wall Harry Potter chapter created using predictive text Rusty Blazenhoff

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police Chicago PD's predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results Cory Doctorow

corruption Beyond GIGO: how "predictive policing" launders racism, corruption and bias to make them seem empirical Cory Doctorow

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books I Can't Breathe: Matt Taibbi's scorching book on the murder of Eric Garner and the system that let the killers get away with it Cory Doctorow

Gadgets Review: Punkt's MP01 is the ultimate minimalist dumbphone Rob Beschizza

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Gadgets To hell with the Trolley Problem: here's a much more interesting list of self-driving car weirdnesses Cory Doctorow

law Exclusive: Snowden intelligence docs reveal UK spooks' malware checklist Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Chuck Wendig's Zeroes: a hacker technothriller in the War Games lineage Cory Doctorow

Crystal, an app that attempts to summarize your personality Clive Thompson

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