Technology
How Self-Driving Cars Will Threaten Privacy
Automated vehicles will learn everything about you—and influence your behavior in ways you might not even realize.
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Mark Byrnes / CityLab The Forgotten History of Female Mapmakers
Looking back at a few of the women who quietly made their mark on cartography
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NASA Through Hardship to the Stars
Bob Ebeling, the engineer who foresaw the Challenger disaster, and lived with guilt for decades, has died.
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Yves Herman / Reuters The FBI May Be Able to Unlock the iPhone Without Apple’s Help
The Justice Department is testing a new method to get into the San Bernardino shooter’s phone.
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David Gray / Reuters An Apple Security Flaw Left iMessages Vulnerable to Attack
Bugs like this one reveal the difficulty of keeping data completely safe.
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RYGER / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic What Is a Robot?
The question is more complicated than it seems.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters New iPhones, for the Small of Hands
On Monday, Apple did something it has never done before.
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John Gentner / AP The Violent Remaking of Appalachia
When mining a century’s worth of energy means ruining a landscape for millions of years.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Twitter Is 10
A decade of the great and terrible experiment
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New York Public Library Live Blogging a New Phone, in 1877
The 19th-century equivalent of the modern Apple event
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The Internet Pope
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Mike Brown / Reuters What Engineers Can Learn From the Design of the Penis
The mechanics of the erection may have applications for robotics: An Object Lesson.
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Tyrone Siu / Reuters Machine Unlearning
A possible crack in the brain-computer analogy.
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Terry Colon The Best Magazine on the Early Web
A glance back at a time before Chartbeat.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Will Any Oil Company Ever Drill in the Arctic?
The Obama administration opened three new Alaskan reserves this week. Will anyone use them?
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Alastair Grant / AP A Brief History of Robot Law
A new paper looks at how courts have handled a few notable conflicts between man and machine.
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Vivek Prakash / Reuters Instagram's Biggest Change Since 2013
The app is piloting an algorithmic, non-chronological feed.
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Library of Congress Wikipedia and the Momentum of Tiny Edits
What motivates hundreds of thousands of volunteers to build the world’s go-to online encyclopedia?
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Medium Medium Evolves Again
The service will add human editorial decisions to its mobile app.
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U.S. Coast Guard / Reuters Obama Abandons Plans to Drill in the Atlantic Ocean
Oil and gas exploration off the coast of Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico will move forward.
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Mary Altaffer / AP Making a More Empathetic Facebook
The company’s compassion department researches ways to make confrontations and breakups a little easier online.