Technology

The Hub

Here’s what you need to know about the book club service that just raised $40 million.

 
By Walker Caplan  January 27, 2021
Astrophysics

An Astrophysicist’s Detective Story: On That Giant Space Object That Passed Through the Solar System

By Avi Loeb  January 26, 2021
The Hub

Cynthia Erivo narrating Jane Austen? Okay Spotify, we’re listening.

By Walker Caplan  January 25, 2021
AI

From the Golden Age to… Roombas: 8 Essential Books About Artificial Intelligence

By Michael Wooldridge  January 25, 2021
The Hub

Wattpad has been sold to Naver, Korea’s leading internet platform, for $600 million.

By Walker Caplan  January 22, 2021
News and Culture

Why AI Can’t Properly Translate Proust—Yet

By Michael Wooldridge  January 20, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
The Hub

Meet Midst, a new writing tool that reveals the editing process behind poems.

By Walker Caplan  January 19, 2021
Religion

Conflagration and Catastrophe: On Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Doom of COVID-19

By Daniel Allen Cox  January 19, 2021
The Hub

A productivity tool company has solved writing by . . . reinventing the typewriter.

By Walker Caplan  January 15, 2021
Bikes

Reading the Literature of the Bicycle As I Learned
to Ride One

Rhian Sasseen Explores the Connection Between Person and Machine

By Rhian Sasseen  January 27, 2021
Mathematics

Sometimes You Just Need a Math Prodigy to Explain the Quotidian Uses of the Fourth Dimension

By Milo Beckman  January 8, 2021
Keen On

Should We Be Optimists or Pessimists About the Future?

By Keen On  January 8, 2021
Climate Crisis Readings

Activists, Scientists, and Poets: Your Climate Readings for January

By Amy Brady  January 7, 2021
Technology

On Artificial Intelligence, White Supremacy, and the Military-Industrial Complex

Yarden Katz Explains the Technology in Service to
the Ideology of Whiteness

By Yarden Katz  December 18, 2020
Social Media

TFW Your Twitter Account Gets Stolen and There’s Nothing You Can Do

By Rob Spillman  December 17, 2020
Keen On

Could We Design the Internet to Function Like a Public Park?

By Keen On  December 17, 2020
News and Culture

Digital Technology Has Made Day-to-Day Living a Game

By Alessandro Baricco  December 10, 2020
New Books Network

The Perils of the Hype Machine When It Comes to Science and Tech

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network  December 10, 2020
Keen On

How Can Machines Learn Human Values?

By Keen On  December 7, 2020
New Books Network

On Big Tech’s Moligopolists, the 21st Century’s Robber Barons

By New Books Network  December 7, 2020
Best Reviewed Books of the Month

The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, November Edition

By Book Marks  November 25, 2020
Keen On

On the Moral Questions Tech Creators Aren’t Equipped to Answer

Larry Downes in Conversation with
Andrew Keen on the Keen On Podcast

By Keen On  November 16, 2020
The Hub

Your next book recommendation will come from a bot living under the Bixby Creek Bridge.

By Corinne Segal  November 12, 2020
Keen On

Make Twitter Fun Again… By Taking Breaks from Twitter

By Keen On  November 12, 2020
The Hub

If you miss visiting the library, try the Internet Archive’s new virtual browsing tool.

By Walker Caplan  January 11, 2021
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