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Facebook Doesn't Know You're Faking It
I like a total of 34 pages on Facebook, among them The Atlantic Health, my high-school alumni page, and a bacon-themed restaurant in a city where I no longer live. What does this reveal? Not very much,...
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Smoke Without Fire
A tunnel on the D.C. metro filled with smoke Monday afternoon, killing one woman and sending more than 80 people to hospitals. The Washington Post reported it took about 40 minutes before firefighters...
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Google Has Not Solved Human Misunderstanding
Back in 1979, when the British humorist Douglas Adams launched his hapless protagonist Arthur Dent on a hitchhiking tour of the galaxy, he invented a fictional solution to the mutual...
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The Cathedral of Computation
Algorithms are everywhere, supposedly. We are living in an “algorithmic culture,” to use the author and communication scholar Ted Striphas’s name for it. Google’s search algorithms determine how we...
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How the Camera Doomed Google Glass
Since its debut in 2012, Google Glass always faced a strong headwind. Even on celebrities it looked, well, dorky. The device itself, once released in the wild, was seen as half-baked, and developers...
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BuzzFeed Email Newsletters, Reviewed
Every morning, BuzzFeed sends out a morning newsletter, BuzzFeed Today. They are written by an anonymous author, who is surely one of the most beguiling figures in modern literature. Below, a first...
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The Temporary Tattoo That Tests Blood Sugar
A painful prick of the fingertip reveals a mountain of medical information for many diabetes patients. But health professionals have long struggled to find a reliable and painless way to gather blood...
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Netflix Binges and the New Tech Utopia
For over 150 years, many of history's great economists, from Karl Marx to John Maynard Keynes, predicted that machines would usher mankind into a scholarly fantasy of enlightened leisure. Robots would,...
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Adventures With Technology: Time Travel
Last summer, we made our first official call for story pitches at The Atlantic technology channel. We asked for your Adventures With Technology around themes like Erased and Recovered, and Hide and...
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Without Drugs, What's the Point of Bitcoin?
The trial of Ross Ulbricht, which began last week in Manhattan, doesn't lack for entertainment value. The 30-year-old is accused of founding and administering Silk Road, an online market that allowed...
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Groups Are Better Than Individuals at Predicting the Future
Humans are inherently bad at predicting the future. It’s a defect all too apparent in the corporate world, and in the business of managing complex geopolitics. But some people have better track records...
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The Museum of the Future Is Here
Very soon, every visitor to the Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian’s recently reopened design museum, will receive a giant pen. This pen is not really a pen. On the table, it looks like a gray plastic...
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'The Cloud' and Other Dangerous Metaphors
The collection of personal data is now ubiquitous, and people are starting to pay attention. But data-collection policies have been built primarily on what we technically can do, rather than what we...
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Hacking the Power Glove
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Why the Rorschach Test Is So Big in Japan
The Rorschach test has permeated the collective imagination perhaps more than any other psychological tool. The image of the impassive doctor, holding aloft a series of inkblots and asking, “What do...
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For Spambots, Flattery Gets You Everywhere
Spam is the Internet's eternal squatter, the unwanted roommate who sees no reason to pay rent, yet borrows the Netflix password and regularly clogs the plumbing. But for whatever reason, we put up with...
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The Slow, Agonizing Death of the MetroCard
Some day in the not-too-distant future, riding the subway in New York City will require the simple tap of a smartphone or flick of a smartwatch against the turnstile. But when, exactly, the...
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Why Can’t Robots Understand Sarcasm?
Artificial intelligence and algorithms are capable of stunning feats: Computers can sweep Jeopardy! boards, calculate π to a staggering degree, and tweet every word in the English language without...
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Only You Can Stop Facebook Hoaxes
In 1870, a Hungarian inventor named Wolfgang von Kempelen presented a large box to the Empress of Austria. On top of the box was a chess board, and behind it was a mannequin that appeared to be an...
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Why Obama's Cybersecurity Plan May Not Make Americans Safer
On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama appeared before the American people and again acknowledged digital data theft and data destruction as one of the most important issues facing the nation: No...
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