Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Warnings over the perils of artificial intelligence arms races have made ...
Sometimes, all you need is a virtual sweatshop to get things done. You need to do a lot of mind-numbing, repetitive tasks and you don’t want to pay much for them. The solution may be Amazon’s ...
A mechanical marvel may have helped set Edgar Allan Poe on his life’s creative path. At the beginning of the 1770s, Wolfgang von Kempelen, a European inventor, premiered his newest creation: a robotic ...
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