• Technology

    Space!

    Public vs. Private: A Bet Between Two Astronauts to See Who Gets to Space First

    By Nicholas Schmidle  May 17, 2021
    Travel

    A new digital library in Rome lets commuters read unlimited e-books for free.

    By Walker Caplan  May 13, 2021
    The Longest Year: 2020+

    Screensharing: Documenting Our
    Long Year on Zoom

    By Brandon Taylor and Thomas Dworzak  May 6, 2021
    Big Data

    Who is “Public” Data
    Really For?

    By Jer Thorp  May 6, 2021
    Just the Right Book

    Tim Wu on the Corporate Dangers of a Return to Fascism

    By Just the Right Book   May 6, 2021
    Keen On

    Seth Goldenberg on Developing a Practice of Radical Curiosity

    By Keen On  May 6, 2021
    The Hub

    The key to dodging cyber censorship rules might be . . . a Minecraft library?

    By Walker Caplan  May 5, 2021
    Keen On

    The Zuckerberg Effect: What We Get Wrong About
    Startup Stories

    By Keen On  May 5, 2021
    The Internet Age

    Seeking a Counterculture of Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing

    By Pete Davis  May 3, 2021
    The Hub

    What you never knew you’ve always wanted: a speaker shaped like a book.

    By Walker Caplan  April 29, 2021
    Artificial Intelligence

    On What Emotional Attachment to Robots Might Mean for the Future

    By Kate Darling  April 29, 2021
    Conspiracy theories

    False Memories and Manufactured Myths: Growing Up in a Conspiracy Theory Household

    By Faith Merino  April 28, 2021
    The Hub

    You can now read Jane Austen in . . . molecule form.

    By Walker Caplan  April 23, 2021
    Reading

    Why Should You Read?

    By Will Self  April 22, 2021
    Life in a Pandemic

    How I Spent My Plague Year Inside a Video Game

    By J. Robert Lennon  April 20, 2021
    The Internet

    How the Internet Turned “Florida Man” Into a Figure of Indulgence, Decadence, and Bad Decision Making

    By Tyler Gillespie  April 19, 2021
    Keen On

    Nichole Perlroth on Our Digital Path to Mutually-Assured Destruction

    By Keen On  April 16, 2021
    Keen On

    Will the AIs Really Be Kind to Us?

    By Keen On  April 15, 2021
    Space!

    Inside the Secret Facility Where the USSR’s First Cosmonauts Trained

    By Stephen Walker  April 15, 2021
    The Hub

    Gawker is coming back.

    By Walker Caplan  April 14, 2021
    The Hub

    This 1980 George Plimpton TV commercial for video games is a masterpiece.

    By Jonny Diamond  April 14, 2021
    Keen On

    Is Social Media Really Polarizing Us? Or Is it Just… Us?

    By Keen On  April 14, 2021
    Pop Music

    How Björk Helped Iceland Weather the Global
    Financial Crisis

    By Panos A. Panay & R. Michael Hendrix  April 12, 2021
    Big Data

    Why Targeted Ads Are a Disaster for Democracy

    By Carissa Véliz  April 9, 2021
    Scams

    Wet Hot American Scammer: Revisiting the Magnificent Failure of the Fyre Festival

    By Gabrielle Bluestone  April 7, 2021
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