Technology
Are Tote Bags Really Good for the Environment?
They’re green in principle, but not in the way people use them. An Object Lesson.
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Toby Melville / Reuters How Ransomware Became a Billion-Dollar Nightmare for Businesses
One cybersecurity firm estimates that extortive attacks now cost small and medium companies at least $75 billion in expenses and lost productivity each year.
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Labor Day Software Update: Tinderbox, Scrivener
Over the eons, starting with a word processing program called The Electric Pencil back in the late 1970s, I’ve mentioned…
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Trump’s Media Saturation, Quantified
In the mobile internet age, there has been an astonishing leap in how much is written about leading presidential candidates—not just Trump.
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Robert Nickelsberg / Getty How Instagram Opened a Ruthless New Chapter in the Teen Photo Wars
The two apps that dominate high-school social life
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Richard Drew / AP Apple Pushes Back
Tim Cook, its CEO, described as “maddening” the European Commission’s finding that Ireland should recoup 13 billion euros in back taxes from the tech giant.
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Amazon The Comfort of a Digital Confidante
A new app for Amazon Echo joins the long tradition of tech that fulfills the need to shout into the void.
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Toru Hanai / Reuters You Can Pinch to Zoom in Instagram Now
No more screenshotting and going to your photos
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Vladimir Gjorgiev / Shutterstock Hooked on Q-Tips
People can get addicted to almost any product. Do manufacturers have a responsibility to stop them?
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Did Facebook Defame Megyn Kelly?
Which is a different way of asking: Can a bot commit libel?
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Warner Bros. / IMDB Willy Wonka, Technology Critic
A look back at one of Gene Wilder’s most memorable roles, in a film that is as much about technology as it is about childhood
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Yuriko Nakao / Reuters The Kids Who Lie About Their Age to Join Facebook
Social media’s millions of “invisible” users may be especially vulnerable to cyberbullying.
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Miles Aubert / Duke Robotics Will Pedestrians Be Able to Tell What a Driverless Car Is About to Do?
For self-driving vehicles to succeed, they’ll have to earn the trust of walkers, joggers, and bicyclists.
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Virginia Mayo / AP Why the EC Ruled Against Apple
The European Commission ordered Ireland to recover up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) from the tech giant over what it called “illegal tax benefits.”
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Facebook Purges Journalists, Immediately Promotes a Fake Story for 8 Hours
Why did the company trend a false article about Megyn Kelly?
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters How Electronic Voting Could Undermine the Election
As foreign hackers target election data, voters may lose faith in digital ballots.
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Larry Downing / Reuters The Quiet Work of a Civil Engineer
Eileen Velez-Vega, who specializes in projects for airports, talks about being a woman in a male-dominated field.
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#MakeEveryWeek 4: A Button That Orders Your Favorite Salad
There’s a whole literary subgenre devoted to inventions that ultimately destroy their inventors. Frankenstein didn’t turn out so well for…
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Osservatore Romano / Reuters What Would the Pope and Mark Zuckerberg Even Talk About?
The bishop of Rome and the CEO of Facebook met at the Vatican on Monday.
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Tim Rains / National Park Service #NPS100: The Simple Joy of Celebrating the Public, in Public
People are posting Instagrams of American national parks, and they’re delightful.
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Pete Souza / The White House This Wild Picture of Obama Wearing a VR Headset Explains Everything
40,000 years of visual media in one surprising White House photograph
