More Evidence Exxon Misled the Public About Climate Change This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Two years ago, Inside Climate News and Los Angeles Times investigations found that while Exxon Mobil internally acknowledged that climate change is man-made and serious, it […]
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Trump’s ‘America First’ Policies Won’t Work in Space
Trump’s ‘America First’ Policies Won’t Work in Space Space is a big place, but our upper atmosphere isn’t. Rapidly increasing numbers of satellites orbit there, in addition to innumerable bits of space debris, and rockets fly through it on missions to the moon, Mars, asteroids, and […]
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 Is a Beast of a Smartphone
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 Is a Beast of a Smartphone After the disastrous launch of the Galaxy Note 7, which saw explosive sales until the moment it started exploding, Samsung considered dropping the Note altogether. It surveyed thousands of Note owners to see just how sullied […]
Airbus’ Vahana Flying Car Uses Laser Sensors to Pick out Landing Spots
Airbus’ Vahana Flying Car Uses Laser Sensors to Pick out Landing Spots Before you can zip about in a flying car, engineers must solve more than a few problems. Oddly, figuring out how to make a flying car fly isn’t among them. The basics of flight […]
The 7 Best Sci-Fi Movies You Can Stream Right Now, From ‘E.T.’ to ‘Ex Machina’
The 7 Best Sci-Fi Movies You Can Stream Right Now, From ‘E.T.’ to ‘Ex Machina’ Science fiction gets a bad rap in some circles for being a genre with nothing but a bunch of spaceships and robots. But it’s so much more than that. It’s also […]
The Cloud Computing Era Could Be Nearing Its End
The Cloud Computing Era Could Be Nearing Its End Fasten your harnesses, because the era of cloud computing’s giant data centers is about to be rear-ended by the age of self-driving cars. Here’s the problem: When a self-driving car has to make snap decisions, it needs […]
Your Handy Guide to the Many Tech Anxieties of Our Time
Your Handy Guide to the Many Tech Anxieties of Our Time Our tech-enabled lives are ruthlessly efficient, endlessly entertaining—and completely panic-inducing. Whether you’ve become uncomfortably dependent on your digital assistant (heyyy, Alexa), addicted to the deluge of political tweetstorms, paralyzed by phishing attacks, or terrified of […]
Virginia Heffernan on Learning to Read the Internet, Not Live in It Of course, every metaphor carries its own baggage. For example, maybe bitcoin is “money.” Money surfaces all the emotional chaos surrounding credit, debt, thrift, riches, banks, bankruptcy.
Self-Driving Cars. Rogue Nuke Launches. Evil AI. What Tech Threats You Should (and Shouldn’t) Worry About
Self-Driving Cars. Rogue Nuke Launches. Evil AI. What Tech Threats You Should (and Shouldn’t) Worry About Technology is transforming our lives so profoundly, so quickly, that it can be scary. We asked experts to weigh in on how much we should be stressed about self-driving cars, […]
Why It’s So Hard to Define What Online Hate Speech Is
Why It’s So Hard to Define What Online Hate Speech Is Shortly after a rally by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, led to the death of a counter-protestor, YouTube removed a video of U.S. soldiers blowing up a Nazi swastika in 1945. In place of the […]