If Your Heart Rate Spiked Today, Your Insurance Company Knows
An interview with Priya Kumar, a data expert who is trying to help companies not abuse their customers’ data rights.

August 9, 2018 at 04:55PM
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Meet The Man Who Made Holograms His Life’s Works
“A lightwave is smaller than an ant’s butthole.”

August 9, 2018 at 04:15PM
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Two Faced: The Culture Of Platform Capitalism
Online platforms aren’t simply replacing stores by replicating their function. Instead they are making themselves gatekeepers capable of controlling and regulating commerce

August 9, 2018 at 01:51PM
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How the shared family computer protected us from our worst selves
Like the other shared equipment in our house, its usefulness was focused and direct: it was a tool that the whole family used, and it was our portal to the wild, weird, wonderful internet. As such, we adored it.

August 9, 2018 at 01:15PM
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NASA Is Shooting A Spaceship At The Sun
The Parker Solar Probe will try to solve the decades old ‘coronal heating problem.’

August 9, 2018 at 12:47PM
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What It’s Like To Wallow In Your Own Facebook Data
For the past 13 years, I’ve given the platform my photos, my videos, my likes and untold hours of my time. Sifting through it all was amusing and surprising — and weirdly sad.

August 9, 2018 at 08:04AM
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When Bots Teach Themselves To Cheat
Moments when experimental bots go rogue — some would call it cheating — are not typically celebrated in scientific papers or press releases.

August 9, 2018 at 02:24AM
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The Rubik’s Cube, The Most Popular Toy Ever, Gets Redesigned
The GoCube, a reimagined Rubik’s cube that its creator calls a “FitBit for cubers,” has already raised almost a million dollars on Kickstarter.

August 9, 2018 at 01:09AM
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This Cool New Technology Allows Artists To More Easily Animate Jaws
We had no idea that this much research and design goes into the animating of an open mouth.

August 8, 2018 at 04:01PM
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How Femmebots Captured The Cultural Imagination
Is the Instagram influencer her own sort of femmebot?

August 8, 2018 at 02:59PM
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