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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Bettmann / Getty The Computer That Predicted the U.S. Would Win the Vietnam War
A cautionary tale about the dangers of big data
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Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP How Sputnik Launched an Era of Technological Fragility
Sixty years after the historic achievement, a world without satellites seems difficult to imagine.
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Does Technology Need to Be Ethical?
The entrepreneur Anil Dash believes that the tech world has an obligation to be more humane.
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David Madison / Getty The Social Experiment Facebook Should Run
What would happen if the platform matched you with people who share your interests but live outside your political bubble?
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Krishnendu Halder / Reuters What Would Flying From New York to Shanghai in 39 Minutes Feel Like?
Elon Musk’s proposed Earth transport system better stock barf bags.
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Jamie Cullen When Working From Home Doesn’t Work
IBM pioneered telecommuting. Now it wants people back in the office.
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Steve Marcus / Las Vegas Sun / Reuters Google and Facebook Failed Us
The world’s most powerful information gatekeepers neglected their duties in Las Vegas. Again.
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Christie Hemm Klok Mayonnaise, Disrupted
How did Josh Tetrick’s vegan-mayo company become a Silicon Valley darling—and what is he really selling?
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AP The Man Who Live-Tweets World War II
@RealTimeWWII spent the last six years chronicling the violent conflict online—and now it’s starting all over again.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Why the Times' White House Reporter Quit Twitter
Even in the age of a tweeting president.
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Steven Senne / AP The False Dream of a Neutral Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg wants the platform to be seen as having a huge effect on voting—but no impact on votes.
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters Twitter's 280-Character Tweets Are Fine
Seriously, just don’t worry about it.
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Richard Drew / AP 7 Questions About Twitter's Doubled Character Limit
Why now? Why this? And will it make Twitter better?
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Lynn Scurfield The Coming Software Apocalypse
A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes.
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Carlos Giusti / AP How Puerto Ricans on the Mainland Are Getting News From Relatives
Members of the island’s diaspora are coping with the trauma of Hurricane Maria by using technology to connect with family and help people on the island.
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Adnan Abidi What, Exactly, Were Russians Trying to Do With Those Facebook Ads?
From what we know now, it was too small to seriously influence the election, but too big to be an afterthought.
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Toby Melville / Reuters London's Uber Beef Has Deep Cultural Roots
The ride-sharing app has clashed with traditional taxis before—but this is different.
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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.
