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Your Anti-Social Media Rant Reveals Too Much About Your Friends
Garbage in, garbage out Kruglav_Orda Shutterstock The Times' Roger Cohen ran a not-even delightfully cranky column about that "scourge of the modern world": people sharing on social media. In this...
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A New Way to Forecast Drought (Just in Time for All Those Climate...
Satellite measurements of "plant stress" indicated the arrival of drought a month before the U.S. drought monitor.Reuters This past summer saw one of the worst American droughts of all time, running up...
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Are There Planets Better at Supporting Life Than Earth?
A new study may have found exoplanets that are warmer and waterier than our own. The potentially habitable exoplanets we currently know of (PHL @ Arecibo via America Space) There is, in this crazy...
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Cleanroom: The Machine That Manufactures Air
The story of how one engineer purified air, and made our age of advanced electronics possible. Willis Whitfield with a mobile cleanroom in the 1960s (NNSANews/Flickr) You can scrub all you want but...
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Tim Cook on Creativity at Apple
"Creativity is not a process, right?""Mostly it's Foo Fighters-powered," Cook said. Ok. No, he didn't (Reuters).Bloomberg Businessweek has a loooong interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook. There's a lot of...
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Buggy Software: Achilles Heel of Big-Data-Powered Science?
We've heard a lot about scientific fraud recently, and it's a serious concern. But how reliable are honest research results? On the science website iSGTW, the journalist Adrian Giordani points to a...
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40 Years of Blue Marble: 'A New Kind of Self-Awareness'
"When we originally went to the moon, our total focus was on the moon. We weren't thinking about looking back at the Earth. But now that we've done it, that may well have been the most important reason...
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2/3 of Sandy-Damaged Homes in N.Y. Were Outside the 100-Year Flood Zone
New York, and every other city, was built with certain climactic baselines in mind. This much rain, this much snow, this much heat, this many floods. They form a core set of assumptions about the kind...
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The Tweet-Like News Flash That Announced Pearl Harbor
AP Corporate Archives On this day 71 years ago, the United States experienced a day that would live in infamy. In the news flash above, the Associated Press made its first, terse announcement of the...
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Precisely How Google Killed Google Reader
As you may remember, we argued that Google should take its extant communities and try to make them the core of its social offering rather than building G+ from scratch. That hasn't happened. But the...
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Tim Cook on Creativity at Apple
"Creativity is not a process, right?""Mostly it's Foo Fighters-powered," Cook said. Ok. No, he didn't (Reuters).Bloomberg Businessweek has a loooong interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook. There's a lot of...
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Gmail Outage Also Seems to ... Make Chrome Crash?
"Weird to think an error in some data center can reach its quavering tentacle into your laptop and bring down one of your apps."Quavering cloud tentacle creeping over from Gmail to Chrome (Adapted from...
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Mount Everest Doesn't Look All That Big When You See It From Space
The rocky crest of Earth's crust barely peeks out from the planet around it. Wikimedia Commons At just over 29,000 feet above sea level, Mount Everest's peak reaches the farthest into the sky of any...
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Via the Moon, a Theory of Life on Mars
NASA captures, quite literally, gravity's rainbow. A gravitational map of the moon, depicting newly quantified lunar mass: Red indicates more massive areas and blue indicates less mass...
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The Year in Tech, 2012
Atlantic writers survey the biggest stories and ideas on their beats. See full coverage Technology changes year to year, phone to phone, quarter to quarter. Here at The Atlantic, we like to focus on...
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Google Gives $5 Million to Drone Program That Will Track Poachers
If left unchecked, poaching threatens to annihilate some of the world's biggest and most beautiful species. Can UAVs stop the bloodshed? Rangers patrol a thicket where poachers have been known to hide...
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The State of Intellectual Property Around the World
The United Nations's globe-spanning, definitive guide. Google Patents and The Atlantic Economies are slowing across the globe. But inventors across the globe apparently didn't get that memo. Patent...
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Against 'Objective' Algorithms: The Case of Google News
Whole new categories of weird noise are being introduced into the news world as a result of Google's algorithm, whatever its virtues. If something comes out of a computer on the basis of statistics, it...
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Spy Researchers Are Testing Cyborg Methods for Making Better Predictions...
Could human and machine forecasters work together to increase the intelligence agencies' foresight? We would like to know what the future is going to be like, so we can prepare for it. I'm not talking...
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Netflix Would Like to Tell You About the Internet's Fastest Internet
If you have known the frustration of a buffering movie, you know something else, too: Netflix's terribleness, and Netflix's awesomeness, are pretty much directly correlated to the speed of your...
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