Social Media’s Silent Filter
Under-the-radar workers have scrubbed objectionable material from Facebook and other sites since well before the fake-news controversy.
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Robert Nickelsberg / Getty A Behavioral Economist Tries to Fix Email
Inbox maintenance was taking up a lot of Dan Ariely’s time, so he decided to study it as he would anything else.
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Library of Congress Lady Liberty’s Cloak of Darkness
Why technological failures are such handy metaphors
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Andrew Winning / Reuters A Visual Search Engine for the Entire Planet
Descartes Labs lets you point-and-hop between features in China and the United States.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters When Algorithms Don’t Account for Civil Rights
Do lucrative deals with advertisers have to come at the expense of users’ civil rights?
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Peter Nicholls / Reuters Should Journalists Be More Cautious of WikiLeaks?
With its latest leak, the site is daring reporters to go on a scavenger hunt for scoops.
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Korean Central News Agency / Handout via Reuters The Cyberwar Information Gap
Unlike a conventional military strike, state-on-state cyberattacks can go unreported for years.
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Brad Penner / USA TODAY Sports / Reuters An Acoustic Throw-Back for the New York Knickerbockers
Madison Square Garden went partly silent Sunday night, and not because the Knicks are terrible.
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Korean Central News Agency / handout via Reuters Is It Wise to Foil North Korea’s Nuclear Tests With Cyberattacks?
“This could set off very serious alarm bells in Beijing and Moscow.”
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Reuters/China Stringer Network ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Has Become Meaningless
It’s often just a fancy name for a computer program.
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Adnan Abidi / Reuters Uber’s Secret Program Raises Questions About Discrimination
In digital environments, the right to refuse service can be made invisible. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters Scandal-Plagued Uber Is Still Dominating App Stores
Downloads of the ride-sharing company’s software largely haven’t waned.
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The Internet’s Impact on Creativity: Your Thoughts
Is the internet helpful or hurtful to human creativity? I posed that question to the reader discussion group known as…
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Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters Now You Can Use NASA's Volcano-Tracking Technology to Monitor Your Baby
Or your cat.
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AP The Government’s Secret Wiki for Intelligence
Analysts reportedly tucked classified information about Russian hacking inside Intellipedia for safekeeping.
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Georgina Voss Welcome to the SXSW of Concrete
A week inside the industry that's building Trump's America brick by brick
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Lucasfilm Ltd. / IMDB The Bounty Hunters Protecting Your Slack Account
Well-meaning hackers are identifying security flaws—and making bank.
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New York Genome Center This Speck of DNA Contains a Movie, a Computer Virus, and an Amazon Gift Card
Meet the storage format that never goes obsolete.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Invisible Fence That Keeps Drones Away From the President
Some drones are programmed to avoid restricted airspace—but it’s not hard to ignore the limits and fly there anyway.
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Library of Congress Why Do the Big Stories Keep Breaking at Night?
Even in the internet age, the rhythms of print publications drive the news cycle.
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Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey / NASA / JPL-Caltech Machine Learning Is Bringing the Cosmos Into Focus
Training neural networks to identify galaxies could forever change humanity’s perspective of the universe.
