Is There Any Hope for Facebook's Fact-Checking Efforts?
Research is making clear just how hard it is to stop people from believing false stories on social media.
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters Facebook Will More Closely Monitor How It Makes Money
“Seeing those words made me disgusted and disappointed—disgusted by these sentiments and disappointed that our systems allowed this.”
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Oz Architecture Designing a Better Antarctic Base for Science
The largest community on Antarctica is set for a series of radical upgrades to its decaying infrastructure.
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Alexis Madrigal Facebook's New 'AI Camera' Team Wants to Add a Layer to the World
The most important technological advances of the past decade are converging inside the battle for your phone’s camera.
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Courtesy of James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti The Golden Age of Animal Tracking
Scientists may soon be able to monitor whole ecosystems in real time.
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Rebecca Blackwell / AP The Smartphone App That Tells You An Earthquake Is About to Hit
A deadly quake in Central Mexico on Tuesday was yet another test for the country’s sophisticated earthquake warning system.
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Library of Congress How Air-Conditioning Invented the Modern World
A new book by the economist Tim Harford on history’s greatest breakthroughs explains why barbed wire was a revolution, paper money was an accident, and HVACs were a productivity booster.
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Reuters/Jose Miguel Gomez Facebook's Reckoning Draws Nearer
Sooner or later, the company will be forced to take on the responsibilities that come with being the world's dominant news distributor.
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Susan Walsh / AP The Contentious Physics of Wiffle Ball
An engineer sheds light on the ball’s much-debated curve. An Object Lesson.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Could Facebook Have Caught Its 'Jew Hater' Ad Targeting?
“Facebook can monitor the things it does that make it money.”
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Olly / Santi S / Serg036 / Shutterstock ... You Are Already Living Inside a Computer
Futurists predict a rapture of machines, but reality beat them to it by turning computing into a way of life.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Should Facebook Ads Be Regulated Like TV Commercials?
The company’s sales to a Russia-connected troll farm raise big questions about free speech in advertising and beyond.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Can Cops Force You to Unlock Your Phone With Your Face?
Apple’s new Face ID technology raises questions about constitutional protections for personal devices.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP The Great Thing About Apple Christening Their Stores 'Town Squares'
The company has made the perfect physical metaphor for the problem the internet poses to democracy.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP The Empire of Apple
The company’s new iPhone and retail “town centers” presage a future of Apple as global infrastructure—one that may already have arrived.
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Beck Diefenbach / Reuters Why the New iPhone Is So Important
As Apple unveils the latest version of the most successful consumer product of all time, two charts show the critical juncture the company faces.
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Reuters / Gregg Newton More Than 10 Million People Lost Power in Florida
Thanks to Hurricane Irma, the southwest of the state’s electrical grid will need a “wholesale rebuild.”
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Supri Supri / Reuters Oil Barrels Aren't Real Anymore
Once a cask that held crude, the oil barrel is now mostly an economic concept. An Object Lesson.
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SLIDER by RAMMB / CIRA @ CSU Watch Cargo Ships Skitter Away From Hurricane Irma
Nobody wants to be in the path of this mammoth storm.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters The Banality of the Equifax Breach
With over half of the entire U.S. adult population potentially exposed, what’s left to do but shrug and sigh?
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Matt Cardy / Getty A Cybersecurity Breach at Equifax Left Pretty Much Everyone's Financial Data Vulnerable
For Americans who want to protect their personal information, there is no way, in our current system, to do so.
