Facebook’s Evidence of Russian Electoral Meddling Is Only ‘the Tip of the Iceberg’
The ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee believes Facebook, Google, and Twitter aren’t searching hard enough to learn the extent of Russian interference.
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China Stringer Network / Reuters The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans
DeepMind’s new self-taught Go-playing program is making moves that other players describe as “alien” and “from an alternate dimension.”
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Stefan Wermuth / Reuters The World's Most Powerful Publishers Refuse to Admit What They Really Are
Facebook and Google's push to personalize the news is the latest seismic shift in tech giants’ influence on the information landscape.
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SWNS A Catfishing With a Happy Ending
Emma Perrier was deceived by an older man on the internet—a hoax that turned into an unbelievable love story.
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Alexis Madrigal Free Money at the Edge of the Tech Boom
A 27-year-old mayor is implementing a $1 million experiment in guaranteed income for residents of a poor city just outside the Bay Area.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters Your Bones Live On Without You
The human skeleton inspires wonder and terror because it lasts much longer than its owner. An Object Lesson.
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Ruth Black / Radu Bercan / Shutterstock / ... Google Maps' Failed Attempt to Get People to Lose Weight
Not everyone wants to be reminded of calories when trying to get directions.
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Reuters Twitter's Harassment Problem Is Baked Into Its Design
Many women recently boycotted the social network, protesting its failure as a public sphere where all voices are welcome.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters The Underclass Origins of the Little Black Dress
The upper classes once imposed the fashion staple on their servants—then they stole it back from them. An Object Lesson.
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Radio Atlantic: Derek Thompson and the Moonshot Factory
Inside the secretive lab where Google's parent company is researching advanced technology
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Ina Fassbender / Reuters Octopus-Inspired Material Can Change Its Texture
The U.S. Army is funding the creation of shape-shifting sheets that mimic the abilities of the ocean’s masters of camouflage.
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Luchenko Yana / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel / ... What Facebook Did to American Democracy
And why it was so hard to see it coming
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Simon Marcus Taplin / Getty / Katie Martin ... Against the Travel Neck Pillow
This useless accessory has one job—which it fails at.
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Turn on / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel / ... Doctors Get Their Own Second Opinions
A new tool helps primary-care physicians draw on medical expertise from all over the world.
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Bruce Weaver / AP Space Travel's Existential Question
Have we become too squeamish about the inevitable human cost of exploration?
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Christopher DeLorenzo Google X and the Science of Radical Creativity
How the secretive Silicon Valley lab is trying to resurrect the lost art of invention
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Axel Heimken / AP AIM Was Perfect, and Now It Will Die
A eulogy for the chatting service, which will shut down on December 15
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Louis Nastro / Reuters How to Escape a Death Spiral
The aviator’s hazard offers a lesson about responding to supposed crises. An Object Lesson.
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How Da Vinci 'Augmented Reality'—More Than 500 Years Ago
Here’s how Leonardo Da Vinci brought the Mona Lisa to life.
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Alvaro Tapia Hidalgo The Science Behind Mona Lisa’s Smile
How Leonardo da Vinci engineered the world’s most famous painting
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The CW / Netflix Gossip Girl's Prophetic Relationship With Technology
The 10-year-old show predicted the codependent, toxic relationships people would one day have with their phones.
