Technology

The Hub

An audio deepfake of Gucci Mane can now read you classic books.

 
By Walker Caplan  March 4, 2021
The Hub

A breakthrough technology allows researchers to see inside sealed centuries-old letters.

By Walker Caplan  March 3, 2021
Keen On

Kenneth Cukier on America’s Failure to Use Big Data to Staunch COVID-19

By Keen On  March 1, 2021
Travel

Edvard Munch taking criticism badly is all of us.

By Walker Caplan  February 24, 2021
The Hub

All the memes in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This, explained.

By Walker Caplan  February 22, 2021
The Hub

Can a robot write a play? We’ll find out this month.

By Walker Caplan  February 18, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Robots

Have Robots… Always Been With Us?

By Rebecca Morgan Frank  February 17, 2021
The Quarantine Tapes

Why We Need to Consider That COVID-19 Might Have Escaped from a Lab

By The Quarantine Tapes  February 17, 2021
Keen On

In the “Fifth Paradigm” of Technology, Will Tech Actually Lead Us to Truth?

By Keen On  February 16, 2021
The Hub

Kazuo Ishiguro thinks artificial intelligence could replace human novelists.

By Walker Caplan  March 4, 2021
Computers

How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers

By Ryan Mungia  February 11, 2021
Keen On

Are We Starving Our Brains by Going Digital?

By Keen On  February 11, 2021
The Hub

Why are there so many book summary apps?

By Walker Caplan  February 9, 2021
Silicon Valley

What Is It Like to Be a Black Woman in the Tech Industry?

LaTeesha Thomas Offers Chad Sanders an Insider's Perspective

By Chad Sanders  February 9, 2021
The Hub

New in TikTok trends: A ten-year-old self-help book?

By Walker Caplan  February 8, 2021
New Nonfiction

New and Noteworthy Nonfiction This February

By Literary Hub  February 5, 2021
The Hub

Is Twitter about to become the new Substack?

By Jonny Diamond  February 2, 2021
The Hub

A robot has some thoughts about the “67 best books to give a woman.”

By Walker Caplan  February 1, 2021
News and Culture

On the Digital Night Shift: Training a Bot Named Carey

By Lydia Paar  February 1, 2021
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
Bikes

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

By Rhian Sasseen  January 27, 2021
Astrophysics

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

Avi Loeb Considers the Greatest Scientific Anomaly of Our Age

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
Silicon Valley

Unmasking the Hackers and Cyber Spies Who Breached Google

By Nicole Perlroth  February 12, 2021
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