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Apple Wants to Be the Streaming Music Service for Dads
In a sprawling two-hour-long keynote at its annual developerās conference, executives from the worldās most valuable company touched upon as many of its business commitments as they could. They...
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Dueling Realities
After coordinating scientific research for the United States during World War II, including initiating the Manhattan Project, the engineer Vannevar Bush set his sights on a pacifist instrument for...
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The Great Lie of Apple Music
Drake started from the bottom, now heās at Appleās Worldwide Developers Conference to tell you about a great new product. He took to the stage in San Francisco on Monday with a swagger, joking about...
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How Prisons Kick Inmates Off Facebook
It takes a little bit of work to get off Facebook. To suspend your profile, you have to walk through some settings pages and submit a form explaining why youāre de-activating. And if you want to...
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The Internet in Space? Slow as Dial-Up
Outer space has its perks. But super-speedy Internet is, so far, not one of them. Connection speeds from the International Space Station are āworse than what dial-up was like,ā the astronaut Scott...
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Twitter's Costolo Years: An Annal of Missed Opportunities
Oh, but what is to be done with Twitter. On Thursday, in a press release posted to its eponymous social network, Twitter Inc. announced that its CEO, Dick Costolo, would resign. Jack Dorsey, one of the...
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Hacking and the Future of Warfare
Itās not like government officials didn't see the attack coming. The Office of Personnel Management has faced repeated hacking attemptsāincluding an incident last year when Chinese hackers tried to...
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Science, Technology, and Health: A Guide to Pitching for Freelancers
At The Atlantic, weāve long been interested in questions without easy answers. As we focus on expanding our coverage of health, science, technology, weāre letting that tradition of curiosity and...
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'Hello Earth! Can You Hear Me?'
Philae, the washing-machine-sized robot that landed on a comet late last year, awoke this weekend from a months-long hibernation and surprised scientists with a transmission from outer space. A Twitter...
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Adjusting to a World Where No Data Is Secure
Imagine a piece of information that would be useful to store digitally if it could be kept secure, but that would do more harm than good if it ever fell into the wrong hands. With Fridayās news that...
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Elon Musk Is Building a Hyperloop Test Track
Nearly two years ago, Elon Musk unveiled a blueprint for the Hyperloop: a fantastical, futuristic train that would link San Francisco and Los Angeles by means, essentially, of a giant tube. If the...
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The Relentless Symmetry of a Jellyfish
For many sea creatures, regrowing body parts is a routine matter of survival. The ocean is full of predators to whom the jellyfish, for example, is the perfect hor d'oeuvre: a tasty, gelatinous morsel....
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The Hacking of America's Pastime
A pitcher uses pine tar to get a better grip on a baseball. A batter takes performance-enhancing drugs to knock a pitch out of the stadium. A baserunner steals a catcherās sign to tip off a teammate...
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The Man Who Rebuilt 1920s Harlem in Virtual Reality
Over the course of the last two decades, Bryan Carter has built a small city. Well, itās more of a neighborhood, really. But still, weāre talking about several scale models of some of the most iconic...
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How Apple and IBM Marketed the First Personal Computers
As ubiquitous as they might be now, in the 1970s, few things were more mysterious and unknown than the āpersonal computer.ā For years, these shadowy, ever-shrinking machines had been touted as the next...
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The Earth's Evaporating Aquifers
Manyāif not mostāof the Earthās aquifers are in trouble. Thatās the finding of a group of NASA scientists, who published their study of global groundwater this week in the journal Water Resources...
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Beware the Listening Machines
One of my great pleasures in life is attending conferences on fields I'm intrigued by, but know nothing about. (A second pleasure is writing about these events.) So when my friend Kate Crawford invited...
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Living Simply With a Flip Phone
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Hiring: The First Librarian of Congress for the Internet Age
In a month or six, the United States will get its first new Librarian of Congress in nearly three decades. The current librarian, James Billington, has held the title since his appointment by President...
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A Human Placenta, the Size of a Computer Chip
One of the weirdest things about placentas, if you have to choose just one, is how very little we know about them. For an organ that is so essential to human lifeāit is the dark, pancake-shaped blob of...
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