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What Does Silicon Valley Win by Backing Cory Booker?
Cory Booker speaking at a TechCrunch conference in San Francisco in the fall of 2012. (Stephen Lam/Reuters) Last week, the New York Times detailed the personal, political, and financial connections...
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An Ode to Kepler, the Planet Hunter
NASAToday, NASA announced that the Kepler Space Telescope, which had been malfunctioning, will not be able to be repaired. Kepler may be used for other scientific operations, but its life as our...
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What Does It Really Matter If Companies Are Tracking Us Online?
APSay you, like me, went to bed a little early last night. And when you woke up this morning, you decided to catch the episode of the Daily Show that you missed. So you pointed your browser over to...
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Here's What the Two Moons of Mars Look Like From the Planet's Surface
Mars has two moons, and on the night of August 1, 2013, NASA's Curiosity rover captured 41 images of them, as the larger moon, Phobos, passed in front of the smaller one, Deimos. In the video above,...
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Astronauts in Bathrobes
I love the readers of this site. In a post last week about how NASA prepared Alan Shepard for space, I noted that before donning a spacesuit, Shepard sat around in a bathrobe. I joked, "Where are those...
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Millennials Working In Coffee Shops Dot Tumblr Dot Com
You want users. Hip, savvy, technology-wielding users. Users who know their way around the Twitter Interactions page. Users who belong to the theorized Creative Class. Users who... work at coffee...
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Huh, Vogue Publishes 12-Page Google Glass Spread in September Issue
Yes, Google GlassFor the uninitiated: Vogue's September issue is a big deal in the fashion world. Packed with fall fashion, it tends to be the most ad-rich magazine in the publishing world. It's such a...
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Yum: Mushy, Extra Sweet Apples, Thanks to Climate Change
MShades/FlickrSome things never change, and one of those things, you would think, would be the flavor of a good, old-fashioned apple. But not so. A new paper in Scientific Reports finds that warming...
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The Genius of Whisper, the Massively Popular App You Haven't Heard Of
I have a secret to tell you: There is a mobile app you've probably never heard of that gets 2.5 billion page views a month, substantially more than all of CNN. It's called Whisper, and the youths just...
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Making Prison Phone Calls Cheaper: Why It Matters
Acting chairwoman Mignon Clyburn at the Global Symposium for Regulators in Warsaw, Poland, earlier this summer (itupictures/Flickr)Earlier this month, the three current members of the Federal...
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The New Tools That Let You Build a Personal GIF Library
An artist's reconstruction of the Library of Alexandria, where they did not have GIFs Yesterday, a new Chrome extension came out. It has a humble, useful purpose: It organizes your GIFs. Here's how it...
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On Bukowski's Birthday Weekend, His Ode to 'The Railroad Yard'
I read a lot of Charles Bukowski once upon a time, back during my Beat-reading phase, when the tragic strictures of the 1950s seemed to reflect my own pre-adult circumstances, and their abandon felt...
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Charting the Fall of Solar Prices
A solar farm in Australia (Reuters) Alexis Madrigal explains how energy really works in AmericaRead more The prices of solar cells are falling rapidly, and will keep doing so for the next few years....
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When Will Solar Get Cheap Enough for Everyone to Use?
Alexis Madrigal explains how energy really works in AmericaRead more Solar is not like other energy sources. Photovoltaic cells are a transformative technology, Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic's senior...
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Among the NSA's Own Tips for Securing Computers: Remove the Webcam
Seems like everything gets hacked these days. Baby monitors. White House employees' personal email. Toilets. If it's connected to the Internet, it seems at least a little vulnerable. But surely we...
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This Software Won't Let You Look Away
(Shutterstock/Phatic-Photography)Updated, 3:45pm.It's hard to imagine a creepier educational technology than "FocusAssist," a new feature announced by online training company Mindflash last week....
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A Gold iPhone: Both Ridiculous and Totally Sensible
Renderings of what a gold iPhone might look like (iMore via TechCrunch)In 1906, Woodrow Wilson, then president of Princeton University, cast a warning about the new technology of the day: automobiles....
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Are the NSA Revelations Changing How We Use the Internet?
ReutersWe are now in, roughly, week 11 of what has become a more or less steady stream of revelations about the NSA's efforts to collect and analyze huge amounts of the data people create every day...
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Good News! The UFO Just Spotted From the Space Station Was Not Really a UFO
This morning, astronaut Chris Cassidy looked out the window of the International Space Station. He saw the usual thing -- the vast expanse of the visible cosmos, unimpeded by the Earth's blurring...
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The World Set a Crazy Record for Tweets Per Second Because of... an Anime Film
TwitterUnless you're an anime fan, you probably were just as oblivious as I was that, earlier this month, a great moment in World Twitter History had come to pass. A new world record for tweets per...
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