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David Gray / Reuters

The Rise of Cryptocurrency Ponzi Schemes

Scammers are making big money off people who want in on the latest digital gold rush but don’t understand how the technology works.

  • David Z. Morris
May 31, 2017
Benoit Tessier / Reuters

Cryptocurrency Might be a Path to Authoritarianism

Extreme libertarians built blockchain to decentralize government and corporate power. It could consolidate their control instead.

  • Ian Bogost
May 30, 2017
Lou Dematteis / Reuters

A Brief History of SETI@Home

How astronomers deputized early internet users to help find alien civilizations

  • Sarah Scoles
May 23, 2017
Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters

The Nomad Who’s Exploding the Internet Into Pieces

Could decentralizing online life make it more compatible with human life?

  • Ian Bogost
May 22, 2017
Dale Wilcox / AP

When a Robot Names a New Color of Paint

“Stoomy Brown.” “Burble Simp.” “Stargoon.”

  • Robinson Meyer
May 22, 2017
Google Maps

The Weird Thing About Today's Internet

The world’s biggest tech companies might be bigger than you think.

  • Alexis C. Madrigal
May 16, 2017
Ambulances wait outside the emergency department at the Royal University Hospital in Liverpool, England, in January 2017.
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.

  • Adrienne LaFrance
May 12, 2017
Nesting northern royal albatross on an island off New Zealand's coast
Reuters

An Albatross Census From Space

Researchers are using high-resolution satellite images to count the large birds on remote islands.

  • Marina Koren
May 11, 2017
C.J. Burton / Getty

Online Dating Tries to Flirt With the Workplace

A chat bot that tells you if your co-workers have crushes on you, so you never have to stop working, or dating.

  • Julie Beck
May 3, 2017
An Amazon Tap sits on a white tabletop.
Jeff Chiu / AP

The Internet of Things Needs a Code of Ethics

Technology is evolving faster than the legal and moral frameworks needed to manage it.

  • Kaveh Waddell
May 1, 2017
A man mutes an Amazon Echo Dot
Jeff Chiu / AP

Chatbots Have Entered the Uncanny Valley

When virtual assistants almost pass as human, they only seem more robotic.

  • Kaveh Waddell
April 21, 2017
Ethan Miller / Getty

Don't Use the Force, Luke—Use the Targeting Computer

Machines can now see into the future, and we ignore them at our peril.

  • James Somers
April 12, 2017
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