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Will Khashoggi Doom Saudi Arabia’s Hollywood Play?

Vanity Fair says yes. The Saudi crown prince, now suspected of ordering the assassination of Khashoggi, had positioned himself as a big player in Hollywood, promising to invest hundreds of millions in movie production. It was romantic. While Netflix was falling in love with the Mossad,  other Hollywood titans were swooning for the Saudi crown...

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What Did Jared Know?

The Khashoggi affair has rattled the Washington-Riyadh-Tel Aviv axis and swept the story of the two Russian GRU agents accused of poisoning a Putin critic off the home pages of the planet. The global news cycle, while capacious can only handle one story about a pro-Trump autocrat seeking to assassinate a critic in a foreign...

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Inside DARPA’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains

The brains at the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency are pushing the frontier of neuro-technology. When pressed by reporter Michael Joseph Gross, DARPA officials downplay the sci-fi implications of their work but the goal of integrating computer technology into the human brain seems unmistakeable. And secrecy conceals much of what they do.

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Khashoggi Crisis War Drives Iran Off the Front Pages

Khashoggi’s Watch In a plot twist straight out of a Hollywood horror flick, Jamal Khashoggi’s Apple Watch may have recorded his death. Khashoggi’s “interrogation, torture and killing were audio recorded and sent to both his phone and to iCloud,” Turkish media reported. U.S. intelligence agencies–probably the NSA–had advance notice of Saudi intentions to waylay Khashoggi at the Saudi...