A NASA Engineer Was Required to Unlock His Phone at the Border
A U.S.-born scientist was detained at the Houston airport until he gave customs agents the passcode to his work-issued device.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroying Journalism
Lip service to the crucial function of the Fourth Estate is not enough to sustain it.
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Zoran Milich / Reuters Anatomy of a Cheese Recall
The Listeria contamination tied to an Indiana cheese factory reveals some of the complexities of the U.S. supply-chain.
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Shea / Flickr The Hidden History of the Laundry Chute
Stains, smells, secrets, thieves, dead bodies, and even a radioactive towel have all found their way down one. An Object Lesson.
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Mike Segar / Reuters How Often Do Airplanes Hit Deer?
Or alligators? Or bald eagles? Or armadillos?
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Vacheron Constantin How a Million-Dollar Superwatch Is Fighting Back Against Computing
Cheap or expensive, mechanical timepieces remind human wearers of their own humility.
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Aly Song / Reuters China’s Artificial-Intelligence Boom
The country’s universities and tech giants are starting to surpass American ones when it comes to researching and implementing AI.
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Mandel Ngan / Staff The Risks of Sending Secret Messages in the White House
Communication apps with disappearing text could run afoul of presidential records laws—and might not be as secure as they seem.
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NCSC When Bad News Was Printed on Milk Cartons
Before push notifications and AMBER Alerts, dairy farmers doubled as publishers.
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Muhammad Hamed / Reuters Biometric Checkpoints in Trump’s America
Technological advances mean border screening could be more expansive than ever, if the government can get past the hurdles to implementing such a system.
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Internet Archive Donald Trump's Lost 1990s Websites
The president was all about GIFs, Flash, and #C5B358, but it wasn’t until the rise of the mobile web that he really found a home online.
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Courtesy of Ingrid Burrington A Surreal Trip to a Domain-Names Conference
… where misspelled URLs are auctioned off for tens of thousands of dollars.
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Mike Blake / Reuters 'Give Us Your Passwords'
What happens if border agents are allowed to demand access to your phone and online accounts—and turn you away if you don’t comply?
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters People Are Finding It Hard to Focus on Work Right Now
A survey finds that nearly a third of people say they have been less productive since the election.
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Noah Berger / Reuters The Myth of Apple's Great Design
The company’s new “spaceship” headquarters shows how its beauty has always been skin deep.
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AP Mapping Countries That Censor the Internet
A new app can test networks around the world for government interference.
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NASA Google Remakes the Satellite Business, by Leaving It
A startup says a 50-trillion-pixel image of Earth, refreshed daily, is coming later this year.
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Evan Vucci / AP What Happened to Trump’s Secret Hacking Intel?
New information that the president promised over a month ago never materialized.
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Fred Prouser / Reuters More Data, Better Dining?
Damian Mogavero, a consultant, argues that analytics can help restaurants become more creative and profitable.
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Christopher DeLorenzo Unsafe at Any Speed
The case against human drivers
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Alvaro Dominguez Our Bots, Ourselves
How the descendants of Siri and Alexa could change our daily lives, thoughts, and relationships
