Technology
The Internet May Be as Segregated as a City
New research traces the divides in people's paths around the web.
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Jim Mone / AP How I Came to Love the En Space
In typesetting, the spaces between words, lines, and letters are never really empty. An Object Lesson.
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Nick Ut / AP The Iconic Photograph That Didn't Make it Past Facebook's Censors
Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph that turned the tide of American public opinion against the Vietnam War was removed because of nudity. Facebook later relented.
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John Sommers II / Reuters A Peek at Babe Ruth’s Private Scrapbooks
Twenty-five volumes from the National Baseball Hall of Fame's collection have been digitized for the first time.
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Andrew Cullen / Reuters The Legal Case for Blocking the Dakota Access Pipeline
Did the U.S. government help destroy a major Sioux archeological site?
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U.S. Launch Report / Reuters SpaceX's 'Difficult and Complex' Failure
Elon Musk says his company is investigating why the Falcon 9 rocket exploded last week before a scheduled launch.
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Apple Plugs / Nicer Studio How Apple Sells its Controlling Ways as Futurism
The company’s controversial design choices make it hard to imagine the alternatives they preclude.
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Beck Diefenbach / Reuters Apple’s ‘Courageous’ Leap
The company has been praised for killing floppy disks and CDs. Will its decision to remove the headphone jack inevitably be seen the same way?
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters A Quest to Save America’s Dying Regional Slang
The podcast network Acast is attempting to resuscitate endangered terms like bat hide, bonnyclabber, ear screw, fleech, whistle pig, and popskull.
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CW Why Modern Human Interactions Are So Hard to Film
Text messaging is boring to watch.
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AP What Programming's Past Reveals About Today's Gender-Pay Gap
When men enter a female-heavy field, perceptions of women don’t improve—perceptions of the job do.
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Boeing Press SpaceX Is Cribbing From Boeing's 1920s Playbook
Elon Musk’s audacious plan for a passenger service to Mars mirrors the genius strategy that got everyday people on airplanes.
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William Philpott / Reuters How Harambe Became the Perfect Meme
The slain gorilla signifies nothing—except maybe our increasingly weird post-everything world.
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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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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters 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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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
