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These Artists Are Mapping the Earth ... With Facial Recognition Software
The faces of the planet, as seen from space
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The faces of the planet, as seen from space
Nifer Kilakila/Flickr
Well, this is... unexpected.
Reuters
Going underground was the best way for people to stay safe during yesterday's tornado. But there weren't always places for them to do that.
NASA
A gif of the storm from more than 400 miles above gives a sense of the storm's location and scale.
Wikimedia Commons
The Earth is a dartboard, tornadoes are tiny pins, and the big population centers are -- thankfully -- still quite small.
National Weather Service
"We had storms that went from virtually nothing to producing large hail and tornadoes in less than an hour in some cases. So it's gonna go fast today."
Doswell
A backgrounder for understanding the storm that hit Moore, Oklahoma.
AP
House members like Rep. Kevin McCarthy are still avid fossil-fuel proponents, but they've begun to advocate for renewables, too.
NASA
A meditation on the diversity of Earth.
Google/Philip Bump
Ours is a planet and a time deeply shaped by one species -- us.
GeoCities via Yahoo
In 1999, Yahoo acquired GeoCities. The deal left behind little more than a press release.
Werner Kaligofsky
The best metaphor for Google Glass? Not jerks or junkies, but the living dead.
Reuters
The biggest challenge Yahoo will face in its acquisition -- and adaptation -- of Tumblr
Alexis Madrigal
Charting the growth of the big social networks that aren't Facebook.
The Atlantic
Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen, and Steve Clemons discuss the political limitations of the Internet.
And now you can, in a video.
Venue
An hour northeast of Barstow, California, there's an army base the size of Rhode Island, complete with a fake Afghan town known as Ertebat Shar.
Computer History Museum
And it wasn't just Exxon. In Silicon Valley's early days, all sorts of major corporations tried to get a piece of the pie.
NASA
Imagine being alone in space ... and almost not making it back.
Jesper Pedersen
A far-flung team is trying to build the first digital lifeform to work out the basic principles of the brain.
James Fallows on Jerry Brown's second chance. Plus: the mystery of the second skeleton, how gay couples are getting marriage right, the end of the retail salesperson, and more.
