Microsoft miracle: How Satya Nadella revived tech giant in just three years
At a time when Apple could do no wrong, Facebook was changing the world of communication and Amazon was blowing everyone away in cloud computing, Microsoft was the uncoolest 40-year-old imaginable.

February 10, 2017 at 04:15PM
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Guy Fishes His Lost Drone Off A Rooftop Using A Hodgepodge Of Hangers Attached To Another Drone
Dillion Stucky got his drone really stuck on his neighbor’s roof. This building manager told him not to retrieve it using a ladder and so he had to get creative.

February 10, 2017 at 04:13PM
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What Programming Languages Are Used Most on Weekends?
On the weekends, many engineers tend to tinker with side projects — so what languages are they using for those?

February 10, 2017 at 02:11PM
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The Tech Resistance Awakens
Silicon Valley employees are emerging as a potent group of anti-Trump activists. Can they make a difference?

February 10, 2017 at 09:50AM
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Google’s DeepMind pits AI against AI to see if they fight or cooperate
AI computer agents could one day manage all sorts of systems, which presents a potential problem: will these agents be able to play nice with one another? What happens if one AI’s aims conflict with another’s? Will they fight, or work together?

February 10, 2017 at 08:46AM
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This Teen Hacked 150,000 Printers to Show How the Internet of Things Is Shit
On Saturday, February 4, 2017, a self-described “pissed off high school student” in the United Kingdom sat in front of his computer, building a short program in C. Within hours, roughly 150,000 internet-connected printers across the world began spitting out ASCII art and messages.

February 10, 2017 at 07:03AM
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The Next Big Blue-Collar Job Is Coding
Silicon Valley employs only 8 percent of the nation’s coders. All the other millions? They’re more like Devon, a programmer I met who helps maintain a ­security-software service in Portland, Oregon. He isn’t going to get fabulously rich, but his job is stable and rewarding: It’s 40 hours a week, well paid, and intellectually challenging.

February 9, 2017 at 03:30PM
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The Army is Developing Computerized Sights for Snipers
The Army is developing the Ballistically Optimized Sniper Scope or BOSS, a ballistic computer-mated to a sniper scope that speeds up the sighting-in process.

February 9, 2017 at 03:30PM
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Fling shut down after blowing through $21 million and turning into a porn site
While the app’s founder splurged on Ibiza vacations and mistreated employees, the company burned through cash.

February 9, 2017 at 12:40PM
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How Uber could become a nightmarish monopoly
Because any such nationwide taxi monopoly would also have powerful high-tech tools at its disposal, it could be the first company in history to be able to attempt perfect price discrimination — adjusting individual prices so that every taxi customer pays as much as she can afford.

February 9, 2017 at 10:32AM
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