I’ve Just Seen a (DNA-Generated) Face
The faces here, which look a bit like video game avatars, are actually portraits drawn from DNA.

February 24, 2015 at 07:25AM
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Are Performance-Capture Actors the Most Underappreciated Talents in Hollywood?
Why actors like Andy Serkis (the guy who made an advanced alpha ape one of the most compelling characters of the year) keep getting snubbed by the Oscars.

February 23, 2015 at 11:33PM
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Silicon Valley Could Learn a Lot From Skater Culture. Just Not How to Be a Meritocracy
The last time skateboarding was a healthy model, the Macintosh did not exist. Skateboarding was my life. And in 1983 skate culture drove a stake through my heart.

February 23, 2015 at 08:03PM
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The wild weird world of carbon fiber
How can something that starts out like cloth end up being so strong and light?

February 23, 2015 at 04:43PM
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Google is being investigated by Russia’s antitrust agency
The complaint was filed by Yandex, a Russian-owned competitor to Google, which controls more than half the search traffic in the country.

February 23, 2015 at 04:43PM
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Internet of DNA
A global network of millions of genomes could be medicine’s next great advance.

February 23, 2015 at 02:39PM
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Does Apple’s future depend on income inequality?
There is a very deep and meaningful tension that sits at the core of Apple’s mission: “build products for everyone” versus “build products for everyone, plus some luxury products that only the ultra-rich can afford.”

February 23, 2015 at 01:22PM
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The Spy Cables: A glimpse into the world of espionage
A digital leak to Al Jazeera of hundreds of secret intelligence documents from the world’s spy agencies has offered an unprecedented insight into operational dealings of the shadowy and highly politicized realm of global espionage.

February 23, 2015 at 11:40AM
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Silicon Valley Thinks It Can Learn From Skater Culture. It’s a Terrible Idea
In the ’80s, skate culture devolved from a vibrant, reasonably gender-balanced community into an aggressively narrow demographic of teen boys. If you think tech has sexism issues, skate culture makes tech feel like one big Oprah show.

February 23, 2015 at 11:39AM
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Spies Can Track You Just by Watching Your Phone’s Power Use
Smartphone users might balk at letting a random app like Candy Crush or Shazam track their every move via GPS. But researchers have found that Android phones reveal information about your location to every app on your device through a different, unlikely data leak: the phone’s power consumption.

February 23, 2015 at 08:03AM
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