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Do People in Silicon Valley Ever Turn Off Their Phones?
Elias Stein / Zak Bickel / The AtlanticHearing from the leaders of the tech world is always revealing, and very often surprising. In our second annual Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, a panel of 101...
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How Eyes Are Put Into Dolls
Via the edifying Twitter account How Things Work:This is how eyes are put into dolls pic.twitter.com/xNd4CPYxhy— How Things Work (@ThingsWork) October 14, 2015I guess, if you’d asked me before I saw...
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How Wikipedia Is Hostile to Women
Gary Cameron / ReutersShe got into the habit of Googling her username, just in case. That’s how, earlier this year, a Wikipedia editor who goes by the username Lightbreather discovered that someone was...
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The Car-Free City
A woman walks past bicycles for rent in Oslo. Ints Kalnins / ReutersHumans are really just small walking animals. That’s how the architect Jan Gehl describes the way city planners ought to think about...
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What the Google Books Victory Means for Readers
Beck Diefenbach / ReutersA lawsuit can run on for so long that, even if major issues are still at stake, it can seem dated and even inconsequential by the time it’s resolved. Such is the case with...
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The Pariah of Silicon Valley
Rashid Abbasi / Reuters / Zak Bickel / The AtlanticHearing from the leaders of the tech world is always revealing, and very often surprising. In our second annual Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, a panel...
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How to Get Free Access to Academic Papers on Twitter
Sergei25 / ShutterstockMost academic journals charge expensive subscriptions and, for those without a login, fees of $30 or more per article. Now academics are using the hashtag #icanhazpdf to freely...
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The Most Destructive Wave in Earth’s (Known) History
Geologists believe an ancient mega-tsunami carried giant boulders half-a-mile inland on the island of Santiago. Ricardo Ramalho / Lamont-Doherty Earth ObservatoryRising from the Atlantic ocean,...
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72 Hours With Facebook Instant Articles
One of the company’s Instant Article in use, on an iPhone FacebookOn Tuesday, Facebook debuted its long-awaited Instant Articles feature to all users of its iPhone app. Now, when someone taps a story...
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Are Underwater Internet Cables Vulnerable to Attack?
Jo Guldi / FlickrUnderlying the internet, often literally lying under the sea, is a surprisingly vulnerable array of cables that keep the world connected.When we talk about modern tech warfare, we’re...
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Are the Mobile Ad-Blocking Wars Already Over?
Damir Sagolj / ReutersHave the ad blockers of 2015 already secured their first victory? Last month, the newest version of Apple’s operating system, iOS 9, began allowing users to install ad blockers,...
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The Dawn of the Flying Selfie Sticks
Perhaps the most insidious use of a drone yet:Amanda Ripley, interviewed in the above video by Ross, has a feature on drones in the latest issue—the kind of drones that are quickly proliferating in...
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Not Even Silicon Valley Insiders Have Bought Apple Watches
Apple / Zak Bickel / The AtlanticHearing from the leaders of the tech world is always revealing, and very often surprising. In our second annual Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, a panel of 101 executives,...
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Buy Coal Now!
Stephanie ShaferThe idea is simple.People burn fossil fuels. The fuels emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. If that carbon lingers in the air, it causes greenhousing and contributes to global...
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Which New Startup Will Actually Change the World?
Terrafugia / Zak Bickel / The AtlanticHearing from the leaders of the tech world is always revealing, and very often surprising. In our second annual Silicon Valley Insiders Poll, a panel of 101...
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Our Planet Is Among the First of Many, Many Earths
An artist's rendering of innumerable Earth-like planets that have yet to be born. G. Bacon / NASA / ESAThroughout the universe, trapped in the halos of dark matter, there is enough planet-making...
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First Time I Have Seen This in an Uber
Back seat of an UberX car, October 28, 2015, in Washington D.C. The main appeal of Uber and Lyft is predictability. If I’m trying to find a regular taxi, I have no idea when or whether one might show...
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Volkswagen Lied, 60 People Died, Scientists Say
Sven Stein, a director of Volkswagen Group Japan, apologizes at the start of a presentation at the 44th Tokyo Motor Show in Tokyo on Wednesday. Yuya Shino / ReutersAbout 60 Americans have already died...
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What Makes a Volcano Sacred?
Telescopes near the top of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. Ric Noyle / W. M. Keck ObservatoryThis story begins with an earth-cracking volcanic eruption. One million years ago,...
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Hidden Planets, Ten Times the Size of Jupiter
A spiral galaxy bursting with stars, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope S. Smartt / ESA / Hubble / NASA When a star is born, it is the result of immense pressure on hydrogen atoms until fusion...
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