FTC
The Philosopher Whose Fingerprints Are All Over the FTC's New Approach to Privacy
The brilliant philosopher Helen Nissenbaum has put her approach to privacy at the center of the national agenda.
FTC
The brilliant philosopher Helen Nissenbaum has put her approach to privacy at the center of the national agenda.
Kyle Wiens
A visit to the warehouse in which gadgets donated to Cell Phones for Soliders and other charity programs get a second life.
Johanna Resnick Rosen
A portable printmaking studio shows just how central replication and recombination have been to art for ages.
Alexis Madrigal
The site is like a 1995 Ford Escort with a 500-horsepower advertising engine under the hood.
Alexis Madrigal
A new tablet works well for customers and saves restaurants money, but could it mean the beginning of the end for the waitstaff?
Shutterstock
Who are these companies and what do they want from me? A voyage into the invisible business that funds the web.
Alexis Madrigal
Despite the company's protests to the contrary, Pinterest already knows how to make money, and may already have a model that would work for users, retailers, and itself.
US Marine Corps
Our ability to "upgrade" the bodies of soldiers through drugs, implants, and exoskeletons may be upending the ethical norms of war as we've understood them.
Museum of London
Who says that we cannot form deep connections to places and people with our phones in our hands?
LOC/Alexis Madrigal
An excerpt from a new book offers a tour of the companies that traffic in the data you generate each day on the Internet.
Public Domain
Using technology to enhance our brains sounds terrifying, but trying to better our abilities may be part of our human nature.
Sarah Rich
The Jamesburg Earth Station once played a central role in our country's space ambitions. Now it's been mothballed, gutted, and put up for sale. Here's the story of this weird link between earth and space.
Like photography before it, social media changes the way we perceive the world
Google Books
The popularizer of photography is on its corporate deathbed, but the culture it created is stronger than ever
Alexis Madrigal
17 of our very best stories all in one handy post
XKCD
We are living in a time of better information, quicker fact checks, and endless rebuttals, but the human mind may be immune to the facts the Internet provides
National Reconnaissance Office
The amazing story of how our supersecret, Cold-War spy satellites took photos of the Soviet empire and dropped them to Earth, all without the help of computers or bandwidth.
Reuters
We highlight the stories you should be watching for next year from political tech to the iPhone 5
Northpole
Searching for Christmas is like getting into a time machine that takes you back to a bizarro 2001 in which every single web surfer is a sucker
Eky Studio/Shutterstock
We hear a lot about the ethics of military robots, but little about the ethics of using machines for surveillance and reconnaissance
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