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Mark Harris

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  • Freelance Science and Technology Journalist, Freelance
Seattle, United States
As seen in: Medium, OneZero, The Startup, Arthritis & Rheumatology, Color Research & Application, The Guardian, 1843, Euronews, NBC News, TechCrunch and
Writing a book on OceanGate! Senior Ed at Anthropocene. Investigations@ TechCrunch Wired MIT IEEE. 2014 KSJ. 2015 Kavli. mark(at)meharris(dot)com, also Bluesky

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Mark Harris is an investigative technology reporter based in Seattle, writing for The Guardian, IEEE Spectrum, Backchannel, MIT Technology Review, The Economist and New Scientist. He has broken stories about self-driving vehicles, giant airships, AI body scanners, faulty defibrillators, and monkey-powered robots. Recently, one of his public records requests for Backchannel triggered Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber. In 2014, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and in 2015 he won the A…

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God Is a Bot, and Anthony Levandowski Is His Messenger | Backchannel

God Is a Bot, and Anthony Levandowski Is His Messenger | Backchannel

Many people in Silicon Valley believe in the Singularity-the day in our near future when computers will surpa…

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Google Has Spent Over $1.1 Billion on Self-Driving Tech

Google Has Spent Over $1.1 Billion on Self-Driving Tech

Google has never publicly shared how much it spends on its self-driving cars. At first, Project Chauffeur was…

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Travis Kalanick's and Anthony Levandowski's Texts Tell the Tale of What Uber Knew About Waymo Tec...

Travis Kalanick's and Anthony Levandowski's Texts Tell the Tale of What Uber Knew About Waymo Tec...

The epic court case between Waymo and Uber over self-driving car secrets took a tabloid turn last week, as Wa…

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How Peter Thiel's Secretive Data Company Pushed Into Policing | Backchannel

How Peter Thiel's Secretive Data Company Pushed Into Policing | Backchannel

When Sergeant Lee DeBrabander marked a case confidential in the Long Beach drug squad's Palantir data analysi…

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A Lawsuit Has Alphabet's Project Loon In Jeopardy | Backchannel

A Lawsuit Has Alphabet's Project Loon In Jeopardy | Backchannel

Last summer, a small company called Space Data sued Alphabet's 'moonshot' X division. At issue was its effort…

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Revealed: Sergey Brin's secret plans to build the world's biggest aircraft

Revealed: Sergey Brin's secret plans to build the world's biggest aircraft

Google co-founder Sergey Brin is building a hi-tech airship in Silicon Valley destined to be the largest airc…

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Safety Officials Probe Army GPS Jamming in Fatal Air Crash

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| Fixing the Future
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is investigating the role U.S. military GPS jamming may have played in the fatal crash of a civilian medevac plane in New Mexico in May. The light aircraft slammed into the side of a mountain in the middle of the night while flying from Roswell to Ruidoso, N.M., to pick up a patient. The two pilots and two nurses on board died, and the impact sparked a massive wildfire that burned for a month.
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Safety Officials Probe Army GPS Jamming in Fatal Air Crash

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By Mark Harris Verified
| Flipboard
4 hours ago Arizona voters have picked their party nominees for governor and two competitive congressional races, as the primary election outcome provides perspective on how voters are thinking in a key swing state. Arizona primaries show GOP voters backing Trump's picks for key posts Trump-backed candidates …
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Canada Missed Chances to Inspect OceanGate’s Titan Before Fatal Implosion

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| WIRED Magazine Verified
A report from Canada’s Transportation Safety Board has highlighted regulatory failures that allowed OceanGate’s unregistered, unflagged, and uncertified Titan submersible to operate out St. John’s, Newfoundland, for years before it imploded on a tourist trip to the wreck of the Titanic in 2023. “When it came to the Titan, critical information existed across multiple federal government organizations, but no one was responsible for connecting the dots,” says TBS chair Yoan Marier in a statement.
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