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Instagram Explains Itself, Basically Confirms the Fear That I Had
Instagram is providing a peek into the future of advertising. Let's see if you like it. An Instagram of a restaurant that I would happily advertise. When Instagram changed its terms of service, I...
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Twitter Suspends, and Then Quickly Reinstates, @YourAnonNews Account
Twitter took down the largest Anonymous Twitter account, which has nearly 800,000 followers, following a tweet that included a picture of an email address. A bit before noon EDT today, Twitter...
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The Trash We've Left on the Moon
The lunar surface is strewn with hundreds of manmade items, from spacecraft to bags of urine to monumental plaques. The remains of the Apollo 17 site in the moon's Taurus-Littrow Valley -- an image,...
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Robot Horse Will Stalk You, Fall Down, Get Up, and Keep Stalking
The next logical plot twist in the long history of mechanical horses If you were going to make a list of the "Most Awesome Robots" from the past several years, near the top of that list would probably...
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Archaeologists Find World's Oldest Bra
Way, way older than that ratty favorite that you just can't bear to part with even though it looks like hell. Institute for Archaeologies, University of Innsbruck If a bra feels like a medieval torture...
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The Christmas Card May or May Not Die, but Its Spirit Has Conquered Us All
Don't worry: there'll be humblebrags all year round now!A Christmas card (flickr/meanderingwa).The number of Christmas cards appears to be dwindling, mailbox by mailbox, jolly Santa by red-nose...
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Why the Internet Makes It Hard to Procrastinate
Technology allows us a "read later" mentality. We don't seem to want it. Flickr/Alan Cleaver This morning, the save-for-later service Pocket (formerly Read It Later) posted some highlights from a...
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Boeing Used 20,000 lbs of Potatoes to Test Its In-Flight WiFi
The spuds were, quote, "ideal stand-ins for passengers." Boeing How do you ensure an even distribution of WiFi throughout an airplane's cabin as that cabin moves through the air at 35,000 feet and 500...
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Happy Holidays! Here's a Free E-Book of Our Best Stories From 2012
A free ebook of our best work just in time for the holidays. Makes a great gift for wordy nerds! And much cheaper than a Battlestar Galactica box set.A robot Santa. Sorry, *the* robot Santa...
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How We Think About Technology
The Atlantic Tech's how-to guide for producing meaningful, in-depth stories in a resource-starved, time-crunched media age. One way to think about media, courtesy of the 1970s art/activist collective,...
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Facebook's Latest Monetization Experiment: Email Spam
Facebook forgets that there'e something just a little bit sacred about an inbox. Facebook has announced a new method of money-making: "a small experiment to test the usefulness of economic signals."...
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Offer: Gift a Signed Copy of Our Atlantic Tech Ebook
A beautiful way to read our best stories. Plus, the book is free! Free Download We've heard from some people who say they'd like to give our ebook to a friend, loved one, or archenemy as a gift. This...
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Forgot to Prep for the End of the World? Go to IKEA
Apocalypse survival, with a side of Swedish meatballs Today, you might have heard, is the end of the world. (I know, it comes so quickly, right? It seems like we just had Thanksgiving.) If you, like...
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The Strangest, Most Haunting Images of Saturn You'll Ever See
Our mighty spacecraft has traveled to Saturn's dark side, and captured the majestic planet backlit by our star the sun. Just when you thought everything was wrong with the world, NASA has gone and...
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Wrappers' Delight: A Brief History of Wrapping Paper
Disguising presents with decorative sheets of paper is, like so many other things, an accident of history. Shutterstock/Sanda Cunningham There will likely come a day, sometime in the not-too-distant...
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Looking Ahead at Tech in 2013
Atlantic writers preview the stories, trends, and ideas to watch. See full coverage When we put our heads together to think about what tech looks like in the year ahead, many of the stories are in...
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New Report Finds That West Antarctica Is Warming at an Alarming Rate
In a region where melting could contribute *10 feet* of global sea-level rise, new measurements show temperatures ticking up twice as fast as previously thought. The Byrd Station in West Antarctica in...
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A Brief History of Musical Firsts in Space
Colonel Chris Hadfield recently recorded the first original song written for and performed on the International Space Station. He joins a long and venerable tradition of astromusicians. Astronaut Chris...
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Senate Drops Effort to Prevent Warrantless Email Monitoring
In approving a non-controversial bill about video-rental records, Congress had the chance to stop warrantless email searches, but they passed it up. Reuters As the week would down before the holiday...
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This Is What Life Sounds Like If You Live in Space
On the International Space Station, that is Via astronaut Chris Hadfield, that there is the sound of the International Space Station, the only place humans currently live in space, as it sails around...
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