Searching for Lost Knowledge in the Age of Intelligent Machines
As search engines are radically reinvented, computers and people are becoming partners in exploration.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty / The Atlantic A Transcript of the Greg Gianforte ‘Body-Slam’ Audio
Yet again, a recording contradicts the alleged assailant’s account of what happened.
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Internet Archive What It's Like to Use an Original Macintosh in 2017
The Internet Archive’s new software emulator will take you back to 1984.
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Society of Women Engineers Historic Rejection Letters to Women Engineers
“We have not now, have never had, and do not expect to have in the near future, any women students registered in our engineering department.”
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Saudi TV / Reuters The Peculiar Prophecies of Nostradonald Trump
The president’s critics are dipping into his vast Twitter archive to find evidence of hypocrisy—and maybe even fortune telling.
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Yiying Lu The Westernization of Emoji
The takeout box and the fortune cookie are perceived as emblems of Chinese culture, when they’re actually central to the American experience of it.
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters Cyberwar Is Officially Crossing Over Into the Real World
Online warfare already affects wreaks havoc on the physical world, and it's only going to get worse.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters A Conversation With Liz Spayd, the Controversial Public Editor of The New York Times
“My job is not to win any popularity contests.”
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Reuters Who Was the Last Person on Earth Born in the 1700s?
There’s no way to know for sure, but Margaret Ann Neve was one of them.
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Phil Noble / Reuters Global Ransomware Attack Stuns Systems in Up to 74 Countries
Businesses and hospitals were disrupted in a massive wave of cyberattacks Friday. Such attacks have increased by more than 500 percent in recent years.
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Tony Avelar / AP / Paul Spella / ... Another Setback for Uber
The ride-sharing giant is headed to trial with Waymo, and a federal judge is referring the case to the nation’s top prosecutor for further investigation.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Is Donald Trump a Secret Redditor?
Probably not, but his staffers might be.
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Gitte Schirrmacher / U.S. Navy / Reuters Trump Wants ‘Goddamned Steam,’ Not Digital Catapults on Aircraft Carriers
“You have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out.”
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Library of Congress The Technology That Can Destroy a Presidency
From Xerox copiers to secret tapes to missing emails, machines are still at the center of modern political scandals.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters 'An Act of Presidential Imperialism'
Historians of the United States call the FBI director’s firing an extraordinary moment—but not entirely unprecedented.
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Larry Downing / Reuters Why Is USA Today Asking the FBI for Help With Its Facebook Page?
The newspaper is getting bombarded by spam accounts, but it’s not clear why federal investigators might be involved.
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Stephen Hird / Reuters What's So Great About 350 Degrees?
Machines standardize all kinds of behaviors—including how people prepare meals.
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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters Up to 1 Million Gmail Users Affected in Massive Phishing Attack
Google downplayed the enormity of the scam in a series of statements.
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Finbarr O'Reilly / Reuters Did Someone Just Share a Random Google Doc With You?
Don’t click.
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Craig Robinson When a 'Remix' Is Plain Ole Plagiarism
Digital technologies make it easier for people to copy the work of other artists—yet the same tools make it more likely for them to get caught.
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Zak Bickel / The Atlantic The Next Great Experiment
Technology is changing the way people think about—and participate in—democratic society. What does that mean for democracy?
