Emerging Tech
Can Facebook's 'I Voted' Button Really Skew an Election?
Facebook believes that in 2010, its election-day module was responsible for more than 600,000 additional votes.
Cybersecurity
The Ubiquity of Cyber-Espionage
First Look Media's Morgan Marquis-Boire and Crowdstrike's Dmitri Alperovitch on why nation-states are the hackers we should be most afraid of
Digital Government
Megan Smith Thinks Every Child Should Be Able to Code
The U.S. chief technology officer and former vice president of Google[x] believes the key to innovation is early STEM education.
Modernization
A New Tool in Humanitarian Relief: Texting
Understanding how Ebola is impacting the food supply is far easier when a robot is running the survey.
Modernization
When Everything Works Like Your Cell Phone
When a thing connects to the Internet, three things happen: it becomes smart, it becomes hackable, and it's no longer something you own.
Modernization
Pics or It Didn't Happen: The New Crisis of Connected Cameras
From celebrity nudes to Ray Rice’s domestic abuse to the ISIS bombings, an unresolved debate looms behind some of our biggest ongoing news stories.
Digital Government
What Does the Chief Technology Officer of a Country Do?
It’s not an easy question—during President Obama's administration, “technology” has meant different things at different times.
Emerging Tech
Anti-Surveillance Camouflage for Your Face
A special make-up can keep facial-recognition algorithms from detecting a face.
Emerging Tech
NASA's Zombie Spacecraft Learns to Fire Its Engines
As the presumed-dead probe hurtles toward Earth, the deadline for saving it looms.
Emerging Tech
Everything We Know About Facebook's Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment
It was probably legal. But was it ethical?
Emerging Tech
NASA Is Building a Tiny Mothership to Explore Distant Lunar Oceans
In a new approach to planetary science, a small satellite would rain even smaller satellites on Jupiter's moon.
Emerging Tech
Scientists Found a Way to Save a Long-Lost Spacecraft—Now It's Facing Its Biggest Test Yet
The craft's celestial gauntlet includes a possible collision with the moon.
Emerging Tech
Our Mars Orbiter Looked Down and Saw Our Mars Rover
From space, the U.S. Curiosity rover looks scarab-like.
Digital Government
This Coder Is Running for Congress
Dave Cole, whose platform is on GitHub, believes the code-management service will give voters a voice.
Modernization
Meet the Company That Secretly Built ‘Cuban Twitter'
This is what Internet diplomacy looks like.
Digital Government
This Is What a Facial-Detection Algorithm Looks Like in 3D
Mathematics made metallic onto a face of flesh
Emerging Tech
The NASA Rocket That Hovers Like a Helicopter (But Could Land on Mars)
Today, Florida. Tomorrow, Mars.
Modernization
Why Facebook Just Spent $19 Billion on a Messaging App
Facebook wants to dominate in the three areas WhatsApp excels in: apps, messaging, and usage in the developing world.
Emerging Tech
What It Looks Like When One Satellite Sees Another
A rare snapshot of a satellite still in orbit.
Emerging Tech
2 Spiffy—and Privately Owned—New Cameras Were Installed on the International Space Station Today
They’re so high-res that they’ll see people spelling out letters in a field.
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