Niraj Chokshi

Niraj Chokshi is a former staff editor at TheAtlantic.com, where he wrote about technology. He is currently freelancing and can be reached through his personal website, NirajC.com. More

Niraj previously reported on the business of the nation's largest law firms for The Recorder, a San Francisco legal newspaper. He has also been published in The Hartford Courant, The Seattle Times and The Age, in Melbourne, Australia. He's also a longtime programmer and sometimes website designer.
Creating Art With Code

Creating Art With Code

A forthcoming book -- and our slideshow -- shows how designers, artists and architects are turning to programming to create their works More »

Satellite Photos of the Devastating Floods in Pakistan

Satellite Photos of the Devastating Floods in Pakistan

The side-by-side provides some context on the massive natural disaster More »

Henry Ford, Data Center Pioneer

Henry Ford, Data Center Pioneer

The 20th century industrialist's factories and business methods are surprisingly suited to modern data center design More »

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What the Web Means for Underground Music

How Mobile Phones Are Transforming Indian Agriculture

How Mobile Phones Are Transforming Indian Agriculture

From remote-controlled irrigation to instant weather and crop technique information, farmers are reaping huge benefits from their phones More »

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Assessing the Carbon Footprint of the Internet

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10 Psychological Insights From Studies on Twitter

Should Companies Sell Privacy Offsets?

Should Companies Sell Privacy Offsets?

Letting users choose between continuing to use a service for free or paying to opt out of being tracked could be good for everybody, even if no one uses it More »

Degenerative Design

Degenerative Design

A new design method uses 3D scanners to create minimalist, "low-resolution" products More »

WikiLeaks War Data Visualizations

WikiLeaks War Data Visualizations

Journalists and academics are coming up with novel ways to illustrate the thousands of military reports from the war in Afghanistan More »

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Scientists Develop Augmented Eating Technology

The Rules of 4chan, the Machine That Feeds the Web

The Rules of 4chan, the Machine That Feeds the Web

Court testimony from the founder of the popular meme-generating site sheds some light on the language that guides its subculture More »

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230,000 Species Identified in World's First Marine Life Census

The History Behind North Korea's Official Website

The History Behind North Korea's Official Website

The Spanish webmaster tells us why he made a site for a country whose own citizens can't view it More »

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Should We Crowdsource Some Government Services?

Microsoft Word: A Poet in the Machine

Microsoft Word: A Poet in the Machine

The software's "autosummarize" feature churns out astonishingly apt -- and lyrical -- summaries of long texts More »

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Indian Data Hacks Solve Everyday Civic Problems

The Strength of North Korea's Code

The Strength of North Korea's Code

A look at the patriotic programming behind the homepage of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea More »

Why I Tried to Download 170 Million Facebook Profiles

Why I Tried to Download 170 Million Facebook Profiles

There's a lot of pointless alarmism about the release of the user data, but it's really not that big a deal More »

New British Site Hosts 750 Years of Laws

New British Site Hosts 750 Years of Laws

The U.K. website shows how governments can accessibly offer up troves of previously obscure and hard-to-find data More »

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