Author Archive
Emerging Tech
Someone Flew a Drone Too Close to a Wildfire, Again
Firefighters in Colorado had to ground their aircraft for an hour.
CIO Briefing
Scott Pruitt’s New Rule Could Completely Transform the EPA
It would not only undermine 30 years of clean-air regulations, but radically restrict what science the agency is allowed to use.
Emerging Tech
Mark Zuckerberg Says He’s Not Resigning
In an interview, the Facebook CEO tells The Atlantic he’s not walking away from the company, but he is looking for outside expertise.
Data
Facebook's Ideological Imperialism
Andrew Bosworth’s memo may seem insidious, but its logic used to be very popular.
Emerging Tech
Shrugging Toward Doomsday
Experts warn that the world is now as dangerous as it was at the height of the Cold War. Many Americans already know it.
IT Modernization
7 Questions About Twitter's Doubled Character Limit
Why now? Why this? And will it make Twitter better?
Data
Could Facebook Have Caught Its 'Jew Hater' Ad Targeting?
“Facebook can monitor the things it does that make it money.”
News
Can the U.S. Government Seize an Anti-Trump Website's Visitor Logs?
The Department of Justice is seeking the 1.3 million IP addresses that accessed a website advertising Inauguration Day protests.
CIO Briefing
Why an Anti-Fascist Short Film Is Going Viral
“I’ve heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America.”
CIO Briefing
2016 Was Hot, Weird, and Unprecedented, Says NOAA
Five lessons from the agency’s report on the year’s record-breaking weather
IT Modernization
Your Smartphone Reduces Your Brainpower, Even If It's Just Sitting There
A silent, powered-off phone can still distract the most dependent users.
CIO Briefing
What Steve Bannon Wants to Do to Google
The White House strategist reportedly wants to treat tech giants as public utilities, an idea that some Democrats also support.
Data
A Visual Search Engine for the Entire Planet
Descartes Labs lets you point-and-hop between features in China and the United States.
Data
Google Remakes Satellite Business, By Leaving It
A startup says a 50-trillion-pixel image of Earth, refreshed daily, is coming later this year.
Cybersecurity
How a Bunch of Hacked DVR Machines Took Down Twitter and Reddit
And Spotify and Github and The New York Times.
Data
Body Cameras Are Betraying Their Promise
They’re not transparent. They’re not independent. They’re not even turned on when they should be.
IT Modernization
Apple Just Reinvented Its Biggest App
Here are four ways to understand the company’s extremely weird iMessage makeover.
CIO Briefing
The Startup That Watches Corn Grow, From Orbit
Descartes Labs is estimating the health of the American corn crop every week this harvest season.
Data