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Dark Inquiry, Features

Bail Bloc 2.0

By The New InquiryNovember 15, 2018
A cryptocurrency scheme against bail—and ICE.
Dark Inquiry, Features

Bail Bloc

By Francis Tseng, Maya Binyam, Sam Lavigne, Rachel Rosenfelt, Devin Kenny, Grayson Earle and JB RubinovitzNovember 15, 2017
A cryptocurrency scheme against bail.
Dark Inquiry, Features

The Founder

By Francis Tseng and Vicky OsterweilNovember 14, 2017
Unleash your parasitic disruption on the world until it consumes everything and you too
Special Projects

Taxonomy of Humans According to Twitter

By Sam LavigneJuly 5, 2017
By generating automated targeted ads, “The Infinite Campaign” exposes the bizarre rubrics Twitter uses to render its users legible.
Features, Special Projects

You Can Encrypt Your Face

By Sam Lavigne, Aaron Miguel Cantú and Brian CliftonJune 21, 2017
Facial recognition technology turns your face into code that can be archived and traded among strange and suspect parties. Its growing sophistication in the hands…
Special Projects

You Probably Think This Bot Is About You

By Francis TsengJune 20, 2017
When it comes to machines, paranoid assumptions about the world are mutually reinforcing: The New Inquiry’s Conspiracy Bot condenses this recursive symbiosis.
Dark Inquiry

White Collar Crime Risk Zones

By Sam Lavigne, Francis Tseng and Brian CliftonApril 26, 2017
The New Inquiry is pleased to announce the launch of White Collar Crime Risk Zones, a predictive policing application that targets white collar crime. View…
Special Projects

From Our Colleagues at the New York Times

By The New York TimesDecember 21, 2016
In a staff-wide email, the New York Times pledges its commitment to cover the Trump administration fearfully and with favor.
Reading Lists, Special Projects

Speculating Futures

By Francis TsengDecember 16, 2016
Features, Special Projects

Donald Trump: "Donald Trump"

By Sam LavigneApril 13, 2016
A supercut of Donald Trump saying his own name.
Features, Special Projects

Black Friday

By Sam LavigneJuly 13, 2015
Alibaba.com, sometimes known as "the Chinese eBay", connects shoppers looking to purchase commodities in bulk directly with manufacturers from across the world. The site encompasses…
Features, Special Projects

Oculus Rex

By David Tracy and Sam LavigneFebruary 5, 2015
Illustrations by David Tracy Figure 1: The family. Figure 2: 3D scanning of the mother. Figure 3: 3D scanning of the father. Figure 4: The…
Features, Special Projects

Oculus Birth

By David Tracy and Sam LavigneDecember 25, 2014
Experience the miracle of birth from your child's perspective!
Features, Special Projects

Egg Timer

By Pamela LiouDecember 24, 2014
We present, for the very first time in the history of human reproduction, a 100% scientifically accurate method for predicting how much time you have…
Features, Special Projects

Ms. America

By The New InquiryJuly 11, 2014
A free supplement on Lana Del Rey
Features, Special Projects

Huw Lemmey Goes Sunbathing

By Huw LemmeyApril 24, 2014
Contributor Huw Lemmey's tale of flippant Ivy Leaguers in countries exploding with the Eurozone Debt Crisis protests, sweaty and horny and looking for a compatible…
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