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The FDA is approving artificial-intelligence software to help diagnose diseases and help treat patients.


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An activist from the Marshall Islands wrote this poem for her young daughter, who may outlive her own country. 

The Marshall Islands has been hit hard by rising sea levels due to climate change. Read more about the Marshall Islands in our three-part multimedia series, here. Read more...

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Editor’s note: This is the final chapter of a three-part multimedia project that spotlights the daily lives of Marshall Islands residents. Kim Wall, Coleen Jose, and Jan Hendrik Hinzel reported from the Marshall Islands and Arkansas in 2014 and 2015.

Ages, figures, and situations related to each character are tied to the on-the-ground reporting. However, some general information has been updated with dates noted in the text where necessary. Wall worked on this series until her untimely death on August 11, 2017. 

Even outside the factory gates, the smell of poultry is inescapable. In Springdale, Arkansas, never-ending truck convoys carry live chickens and turkeys by the thousands into factories to be plucked, butchered, and packaged for consumers nationwide. In one of those factories, Ferdinand Muller hangs the live birds by their feet onto a conveyor belt — one by one, 40 panicking pounds at a time, 400 times every 15 minutes, for 10 hours every day except Sunday. Read more...

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Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part multimedia project that spotlights the daily lives of Marshall Islands residents. Kim Wall, Coleen Jose, and Jan Hendrik Hinzel reported from the Marshall Islands and Arkansas in 2014 and 2015.

Ages, figures, and situations related to each character are tied to the on-the-ground reporting. However, some general information has been updated with dates noted in the text where necessary. Wall worked on this series until her untimely death on August 11, 2017. 

It takes three days on the open sea to journey from the Marshall Islands capital to Enewetak Atoll. You can’t see the atoll until you’re just miles away as it’s only feet above sea level. As you get closer, the sun fades behind clouds and the islands are shrouded in mist. Beaches are fringed not by coconut palms but Australian pines, trees praised for soaking up salt-spray and airborne radionuclides Read more...

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Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part multimedia project that spotlights the daily lives of Marshall Islands residents. Kim Wall, Coleen Jose, and Jan Hendrik Hinzel reported from the Marshall Islands and Arkansas in 2014 and 2015.

Ages, figures, and situations related to each character are tied to the on-the-ground reporting. However, some general information has been updated with dates noted in the text where necessary. Wall worked on this series until her untimely death on August 11, 2017. 

Leaving Majuro was no easy decision, but Mona Jetnil had been ready for months. Here, in the capital of the Marshall Islands, just about everyone seems to be planning to leave. Read more...

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Silicon Valley is no stranger to cannabis culture, so it's no surprise that tech companies are driving innovation in the pot world. And guess what? They've got some seriously impressive products.

When the state of Colorado passed Amendment 64 in 2012, legalizing recreational marijuana for adults in January of 2014, they opened up a world of possibilities. Legalization created countless new industries in which companies could openly innovate without fear of being shut down for working with an illegal substance.  Read more...

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It was a very Apple-like moment for Huawei: At the company's press briefing in Barcelona, a rep held out the MateBook X Pro, a 13.9-inch laptop with crazy-thin bezels, and asked the journalists where the camera was. No one had any idea, and then the man pressed on a key lodged in the middle of the function keys row, and out popped the camera. 

It's the sort of clever solution we've grown accustomed to seeing from Apple, and Huawei managed to get a collective gasp for its engineering smarts, even though the jury is still out on whether this solution is actually any good in real-life use.  Read more...

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