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NASA's New Posters and the Retro Travel Ads That Inspired Them
An artist's rendering of Jupiter, imagined as a travel destination NASA / JPLNASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is out with a new collection of dazzling, retro-inspired tourism posters. They’re colorful...
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Did the Supreme Court Doom the Paris Climate Change Deal?
An activist protests near the site of the UN conference on climate change last December, which produced the agreement. Thibault Camus / APOn Tuesday, the Supreme Court did something without precedent....
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The Perfect Email
Ciro Luca / ReutersOkay, here’s a little test. See if you can decide which email is most likely to elicit a response:1. Hey, I was thinking about you earlier. Do you want to get pizza? 2. Hey, I’d...
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Will a Reconfigured Supreme Court Help Obama's Clean-Power Plan Survive?
A worker clears snow from the Supreme Court after the blizzard this January. Joshua Roberts / ReutersThe death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Saturday sets up a battle between the...
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A Trippy Look at Data Organization
Over the years, including in a number of posts collected on this Thread page, I’ve talked about some of the “artisanal” Mac-based programs I’ve used in my daily work since I made the PC->Mac switch...
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I Analyzed a Year of My Reporting for Gender Bias (Again)
Workers arrange the pages of The Voice Daily newspaper at a press machine house in Yangon, in 2013. Soe Zeya Tun / ReutersEvery time I write something about diversity in Silicon Valley, and the gross...
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Apple vs. the FBI
Richard Drew / APApple CEO Tim Cook says the company will fight an order that instructs it to provide “reasonable technical assistance” to unlock an iPhone that belonged to one of the San Bernardino...
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A Hospital Paralyzed by Hackers
Larry Washburn / fstop / CorbisA hospital in Los Angeles has been operating without access to email or electronic health records for more than a week, after hackers took over its computer systems and...
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Escaping the Amish for a Connected World
hutch photography / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel / The AtlanticWhen Emma Gingerich left her Amish community in Eagleville, Missouri, she was 18 and had an eighth-grade education. She barely spoke...
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Art for Instagram’s Sake
Gabriel Dawe's 'Plexus No. 10' on display at the Renwick, with Patrick Dougherty's 'Shindig' in the background The Renwick GalleryIn November 2015, after two years closed for extensive renovations, the...
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The Optics of Apple’s Encryption Fight
Robert Galbraith / ReutersUnder different circumstances, it would be a public-relations coup for Apple: The company has proved that its consumer software is so secure that even the federal government,...
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Twitter Is Not a Failure
Dado Ruvic / ReutersTo listen to Wall Street tell the story, Twitter is an abject failure. The stock is down more than 50 percent since co-founder Jack Dorsey took over as CEO last year. User growth...
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The Supreme Court Didn't Block These Obama Climate Policies
Marine One takes off from the White House lawn on November 29, 2015. President Obama was on his way to the Paris climate conference. Joshua Roberts / ReutersThe Obama administration’s signature climate...
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The Conscription of Apple's Software Engineers
Eduardo Munoz / ReutersWhen software engineers at Apple designed the iPhone’s security features, they labored knowing that millions were relying on them to safeguard their privacy. Insofar as their...
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Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself
No Man's SkyEvery particle in the universe is accounted for. The precise shape and position of every blade of grass on every planet has been calculated. Every snowflake and every raindrop has been...
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Alphabet, Jigsaw, and the Puzzle of Google's New Brand
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, demonstrate a phone using Google's Android software in 2008. Jacob Silberberg / ReutersWhen Google abandoned its former mantra, “Don’t be evil,” last...
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Twitter’s Account Suspensions Are Surprisingly Effective Against ISIS
An unloaded Twitter website is seen on a phone in front of an ISIS flag in this photo illustration in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dado Ruvic / ReutersPlagued with complaints from lawmakers and...
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The Hottest January in History
Eric Risberg / AP This is ‘Not Doomed Yet,’ The Atlantic’s weekly newsletter about global warming. It lives here in the science section; you can also get it in your inbox:Enter your email...
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Hearing the Lost Sounds of Antiquity
Meteora, Greece Sharon GerstelHistory is mostly silent to us now.Thousands of years of human stories have been told in paintings, and sculptures, and sheet music, and text; in shards and shells, and...
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The First Campaign Websites
Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, photographed in 2000 ReutersOne of the strange delights of the ephemeral web is that some sites, against all reason, seem never to die.Take, for instance, the Dole/Kemp...
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