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This week we have for you ... not a whodunnit, but a what did I do? A listener tries a substance he

The single issue that might decide the upcoming presidential election also happens to be: very confu

25 years ago, The Sopranos, the best television show ever created, premiered. This week, a new docum

If you care about animals, but don't want to stop eating them... what's the least you could do while

For years, the must-have phone for the discerning drug trafficker or hitman was a brand you may not

We are in an eighty-eight day sprint to the Presidential election. How would you follow this story i

A trip to Greenland, a chance encounter with Coolio, and the end of the world. (This summer we’re pu

An art heist in the crypto world plunges us headfirst into another mystery — why did so many celebri

This week: Bitcoin. We trace it from its humble origins in a .PDF to the movement it has spawned, al

A story about a strange auction for perhaps the most valuable piece of paper in America. This summer

We travel to Germany to trace techno's history from Detroit to Berlin. The story of how, after the W

Two Americans embark on a quest: fly across an ocean to try to get into the most exclusive nightclub

This week, we try to understand an experience that 74% of Americans routinely report having. The fir

An internet breaking news story. As we told you last week, Google has begun offering AI-generated an

Last week, Google announced a fundamental change to how the site will work, which will likely have d

After stumbling on a new kind of search engine for faces, we called privacy journalist Kashmir Hill.

A listener’s brother dies by suicide, and afterwards, she finds herself angered by trigger warnings

Since not long after the car was invented, we have wanted to stick wings on them and fly them throug

It’s an election year and so Search Engine’s campaign desk is answering the questions you really wan

In part two of our story, we watch the state of New York try to pull off something we rarely see in