A Eulogy for the Long, Intimate Email
While the numbers cannot account for how many emails are personal, it stands to reason that few sent on business accounts are — and that people are often too exhausted from the relentless inundation to compose meaningful letters.
July 11, 2015 at 01:40PM
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The Death of the PC Has Not Been Greatly Exaggerated
Worldwide PC shipments saw their biggest drop in nearly two years, market researchers said this week, reaffirming the ascendancy of mobile and the steady demise of the personal computer.
July 11, 2015 at 01:40PM
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Reddit CEO Ellen Pao’s exit has users asking: who was responsible?
Reaction ranged from celebration to dismay as some wonder whether Reddit used Pao as a scapegoat, a theory rejected by a board member.
July 11, 2015 at 01:40PM
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We have liftoff! 3D-printed, soft-bodied robot makes explosive jumps
It’s made with a 3D printer, which is used to create gradients between flexible and hard material. It carries its own fuel, enough for dozens of hops to new locations. And it moves by pointing itself in the right direction, then setting off a butane explosion underneath itself.
July 11, 2015 at 11:24AM
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The Case Against Laptops in the Classroom
Attention researchers have long known that we humans are lousy at task-switching. Our brains simply aren’t optimized for it. Slaloming between two streams of information almost guarantees that our learning will be shallower; it prevents us from making intelligent and lasting associations with either body of material.
July 10, 2015 at 09:54PM
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The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America
How a team of young people, living in a repurposed McMansion in Maryland, helped rebuild Healthcare.gov.
July 10, 2015 at 04:57PM
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The New York Times
A sense of perspective is unavoidable from 22,000 miles out. Looking down at Earth from that distance — almost three times farther than the diameter of the planet itself — allows a view of the globe as a massive organic system, pulsing with continuous movement.
July 10, 2015 at 02:51PM
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The Rebirth of Cape Canaveral
How NASA became a spaceport landlord to companies like Boeing and SpaceX, and saved its iconic Kennedy Space Center in the process.
July 10, 2015 at 01:49PM
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The rise of the new Crypto War
As more and more criminals presumably “go dark” by encrypting their phones and email accounts, federal agents are finding it increasingly difficult to to intercept their communications.
July 10, 2015 at 12:45PM
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Katherine Archuleta, Director Of Office Of Personnel Management, Resigns
Katherine Archuleta, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, will resign effective Friday, according to a White House official, one day after it was revealed that sweeping cyberintrusions at the agency resulted in the theft of the personal information of more than 25 million people.
July 10, 2015 at 11:40AM
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