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More From Pilots and Doctors on the Germanwings Crash
Following this initial item on what could and could not have been foreseen about the Germanwings murder/suicide, and this follow-up in which professional pilots talked about shortcuts in modern...
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When People Feared Computers
In the early 1980s, the age of the personal computer had arrived and "computerphobia" was suddenly everywhere. Sufferers experienced "a range of resistances, fears, anxieties, and hostilities,"...
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Can We Learn Anything From the Germanwings Disaster?
Previously on this topic, see "Could the Crash Have Been Avoided?", "Pilots on Germanwings," and "More from Pilots and Doctors." Here is the next crop: 1) Bruce Holmes, a lifelong flyer and former...
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U.S. Supreme Court: GPS Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure
If the government puts a GPS tracker on you, your car, or any of your personal effects, it counts as a search—and is therefore protected by the Fourth Amendment. The Supreme Court clarified and...
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Tidal: Long Live Millionaire Musicians
A change has come to music, and its color is hex #00ffff. Additionally known as cyan, aqua, electric cyan, and waterspout, the hue in the past 24 hours took over the Twitter avatars of some...
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Re: Our Relationship
As a scientist who studies online-dating data, I’ve spent a lot of time quantifying how other people fall in love. I began to wonder whether it was possible to apply the same methods to my own...
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Morality Report: Precrime Comes to the Office
As an indicator of a job candidate's virtues, the trio of a résumé, a cover letter, and an interview is rudimentary at best: Recruiters have been shown to spend about six seconds pondering the average...
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How Facebook Controls the Future of Messaging
Facebook, which thoroughly dominates the current era of the online social networking industry, is setting itself up nicely for the next. Many see messaging apps as the future of social: Lightweight,...
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The Amazon Button Is Real
"It's not even April 1," a spokeswoman for Amazon told me this afternoon when I asked her to promise—legit, guarantee, pinky-swear promise—that the tech giant's Dash Button is a real product and not an...
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A Pilot Treated for Depression, on Why and How He Flies
Previously on this topic, see "Could the Crash Have Been Avoided?", "Pilots on Germanwings," "More From Pilots and Doctors," and "Can We Learn Anything From This Disaster?" Herewith more responses from...
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The Internet Ruined April Fool's Day
On April 2, 2012, the editor of The Daily Free Press, Boston University’s student newspaper, issued a letter of apology to “the Boston community and whomever else it may concern.” The note addressed a...
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A New Kind of Internet Pirate
Meerkat and Periscope made livestreaming hip again—at least for a few weeks, before much of the hype died down. After all, both are tools for broadcasting what’s happening to the streamer in real time,...
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April Is the Foolest Month
The Internet may have ruined April Fool's Day, but that doesn't mean the gags have ended. News outlets and #brands alike apparently can't resist pulling pranks, but it can be tough to separate the real...
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America’s Immortal Cereal
I was eating a bowl of Corn Flakes in my apartment and I picked out a single flake, looked at it, and wondered what it was. Of course, I could turn the box around and see the list of ingredients. They...
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The Many Americans Who Only Use Smartphones to Go Online
The idea that new Internet users will come online on smartphones rather than computers is now well established. But it is often assumed that this population is composed entirely of people from the...
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Further Proof That It's Hard to Be a Mets Fan
Growing up in central New Jersey, I lived on the border of two great warring empires. To the north were the fractious but proud New York fans. To the south, the tough but often frustrated Philly fans....
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Even Computers Are Unsure About Their March Madness Brackets
By this point of March Madness, with three games left in the men's NCAA basketball tournament, most brackets are busted. My downfall, usually, is that I pick with my heart. (Michigan State all the...
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How Apple Pay Gets People to Part With More of Their Money
Last week, Amazon introduced a program that represents the next notch on retailers’ asymptotic approach toward a perfectly seamless transaction. One element of the program is a collection of branded...
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Teaching a Computer Not to Forget
Imagine if every time you learned something new, you completely forgot how to do a thing you'd already learned. Finally figured out that taxi-hailing whistle? Now you can't tie your shoes anymore....
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How to Get Around Censors in China
The New York Times’ English and Chinese-language websites have been blocked since an October 2012 article about the wealthy family of China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. But according to employees in...
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