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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
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Future Smartphones Will Tell You What's Killing Your Plants
A farmer in the Philippines walks through his rice paddies and sees worrying orange smears on his crops.
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The Plan to Give Every Cellphone ser Free Data
More than half the people on the planet still don't have Internet access. But figuring out how to get them online is as much of a political challenge as it is a...
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The High-Stakes Race to Rid the World of Human Drivers
The race to bring driverless cars to the masses is only just beginning, but already it is a fight for the ages.
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The Room Where the Internet Was Born
Starting a cross-country drive to New York in Los Angeles is pretty inconvenient, unless your cross-country drive is also a vision quest to see the Internet.
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The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the gliest Corners of the Internet
When President Obama launched his Twitter account in May, people noticed his rapid accumulation of followers, a silly back-and-forth with President Clinton, but...
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The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America
Loren Yu was on a weekend trip in Los Angeles when he received an urgent email from a friend. The friend, Kalvin Wang, had a proposition.
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The Man Who Rebuilt 1920s Harlem in Virtual Reality
Over the course of the last two decades, Bryan Carter has built a small city. Well, it’s more of a neighborhood, really.
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Hacking the Brain
The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries—the notion that, with the right tools, the right approach, the right...
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The Internet Mapmakers Helping Nepal
The night after the earthquake hit Nepal, people feared to sleep in their homes, worrying about powerful aftershocks toppling the few buildings left standing.
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Facebook Is Eating the Internet
Facebook, it seems, is unstoppable. The social publishing site, just 11 years old, is now the dominant force in American media.
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A Brief History of the Atm
Eyes glaze over when I mention my interest in researching automated teller machines.
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How Isis Succeeds on Social Media Where #stopkony Fails
Social networks offer an incredible tool for tapping into the collective unconscious, a virtual Jungian arena in which competition might be expected to amplify...
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Watching the Universe in Real Time
Even though the sky looks about the same every night to those of us here on Earth, cataclysmic things happen in outer space constantly.
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The Attention Machine
Human attention isn't stable, ever, and it costs us: lives lost when drivers space out, billions of dollars wasted on inefficient work, and mental disorders that...
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The Voice-Activated Video Game
When he was in grad school, the roboticist Daniel Wilson installed 150 binary sensors in his house.
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A Visit to the Corporate-Industrial Robotics Competition For Teenagers
Sometimes I think of school as an overlapping set of calendars.
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Dudes With Drones
No one knows exactly how many personal drones are buzzing through our skies, but Chris Anderson, the longtime editor of Wired magazine who now heads a drone manufacturer...
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How to Tweet Like a Robot on Mars
When a worried 5-year-old named Timur asked Chris Hadfield in September whether the Voyager 1 satellite—now careening through Deep Space 11 billion miles from Earth...
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Helen Keller and the Glove That Couldn't Hear
On the second day of March 1950, Helen Keller showed up at MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics. There, she encountered Norbert Wiener, the mathematician and...
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How Two Men nlocked Modern Encryption
In September of 1974, when he was 30 years old, Whitfield Diffie was obsessed with cryptography.
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