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Today Is the Release Day for a Video Game Featuring David Petraeus
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 includes a "real-life-hero-turned-futuristic-video-game-politician." Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 via Kotaku Today, you may or may not have heard, is the release day for Call of...
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Google: 'Government Surveillance Is on the Rise'
It's not just Petraeus. Google is seeing ever greater efforts by governments to monitor citizens' online activity. Google Three years ago a small team at Google decided to start releasing data on the...
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Watch This Year's Only Total Solar Eclipse Stream Live Here
Beginning a bit after 2 p.m. EST today, the moon will pass between the sun and the Earth, but you'll need an online stream to see it unless you are in northern Australia. NASA Every year there are two...
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And, Voila, Something That Will Finally Stop Your Crazy Uncle From Sending...
And just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday! As you have probably heard by now, word has it that our radical Muslim president is doing all sorts of terrible things to our country! He's gotten rid of...
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Turning Gadget Lust Into Energy Efficiency
Nest is an awesome gadget that will over time pay for itself. The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal in conversation with industry entrepreneurs shaping our future. See full coverage It would be hard to come...
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Cosmic Dawn: Astronomy's Ancient Quest to Find the Universe's First Stars
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, courtesy of the Space Telescope Science Institute.One morning this fall, I found myself drinking hot tea with Massimo Stiavelli, the Project Scientist for the James Webb...
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Actually, the GIF Is Dying
It may have been named "word of the year," but as an image format, the GIF has never been less popular. Oxford American Dictionaries has named GIF, the acronym for graphical image format, its word of...
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The Wheel of Karma, Microsoft Division
Thirteen years ago, I put in a six-month stint as a member of a Microsoft design team. (For history buffs: we were working on features that became part of Word XP.) I agreed with Microsoft that I...
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Ken Burns: Dust Bowl the Greatest Man-Made Eco Disaster in U.S. History
And what it teaches us about future climate catastrophes. Wikimedia Commons As the East Coast licks its wounds from superstorm Sandy, many in New York and New Jersey are still without power, wondering...
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3 Viable Paths for Fixing Climate in Obama's Second Term
If we tackle this problem in earnest, the rewards far exceed the pain. A tattered flag in front of a home damaged by Sandy in Brooklyn, New York (Reuters) Two things have happened since the obscure...
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A Single, Severed Cable Cut Contact Between Russia and Its Satellites
The cause was, as it always is, all too human. Cosmonauts speak with Russian election commission officials by video in order to communicate their votes at Mission Control in Korolyov outside Moscow,...
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Don't Call It a Redesign
More impact, better engagement, stronger aesthetics -- for TheAtlantic.com's new home page, there's method to the makeover. For much of the last year, my colleagues and I have been working through a...
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The Neanderthal Defense Committee Swings Into Action
The Colbert show tonight was all about traces of the Neanderthal lineage among us. In a derisory tone. And we have this: Background: It seems that I have an exceptionally high proportion of Neanderthal...
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On eBay, the Starting Bid for a Single Twinkie Is Now $5,000
Thus begins the Great Creme-Filled Sponge Cake Run of 2012. Snackcakepocalypse is nigh. With the sad news today that Hostess is closing came even more sad tidings: America's favorite golden-hued snack...
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Don't Believe the Legend: You Wouldn't Want to Eat a Month-Old Twinkie
If you want food to last you, you'll have to look elsewhere. Yummmmm. (Wikimedia Commons) With news today that Twinkies have hit the endangered species list, people are already stocking up on the...
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When the Nerds Go Marching In
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Why Is Belarus the Only Country Where Opera Is the Most Popular Browser?
Authoritarianism. No, not that kind of opera (AP) Opera lives on in Belarus. Not the musical drama, but the world's fifth most popular web browser. StatCounter, which uses data on browser usage across...
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The New Math of Some Things That Have Lately Been Untouched by Technology
New Math is an attempt to quantify the world using words and basic math. #atlGallery .galleryNav { display:none;} #atlGallery .galleryHeader{ height:400px; border-width:0px; !important } #atlGallery...
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The Future of Smartphone Tech Is ... Knuckle-Dragging?
New software tries to expand the "touch" in "touchscreen." Touchscreens were a pivotal innovation for computing: Much like the graphical user interface, much like the trackpad, much like the mouse,...
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In All Probability: Climate Change and the Risk of More Storms Like Sandy
By modeling climate change's local effects, we may finally be able to grasp what it means. MTA/Reuters Earlier this year, the journal Nature Climate Change published a paper that measures hurricane...
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