Emerging Tech

Silicon Valley's New Spy Satellites

Three startups are launching services—and orbiters—to provide real-time, better-than-Google imagery of the Earth.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

The New Armor That Lets You Sense Surveillance Cameras

The spaulder gives a creepy little tap on the shoulder when it sense infrared light.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

2014 Sequestration Threatens Planetary Sciences at NASA

Save space exploration because it supports us on Earth in countless ways.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Modernization

How Online Mapmakers Are Helping the Red Cross Save Lives in the Philippines

Volunteers across the world are building the digital infrastructure for the organization's Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

Why a New Taco Recipe Library Is on GitHub and Not a Wiki

Tacofancy's fast success says something interesting about collaboration on the Web.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

Can't Find Women for Your Tech Conference?

Maybe you're just bad at searching the Internet.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

90% of Wikipedia's Editors Are Male

Here's what they're doing about it.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

What Does It Mean for the U.S. to 'Lose Control of the Internet?'

The NSA revelations have thrown open an Internet governance dispute that seemed resolved.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

By Tuesday Afternoon Almost 3 Million People Had Visited Healthcare.Gov

Site and numbers paint a picture of what government (and bureaucracy) look like in 2013.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

How the Shutdown Will Affect One Quiet, Crucial Set of Satellites

Even programs, like Landsat, that remain operational suffer under the shutdown.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

The Government May Have Made the Greatest GIF of All Time

The U.S. Census Bureau, winning the Internet -- and our hearts -- with the data ferret.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

'The First Time a Tumblr Has Been Used in an Argument in a Supreme Court Brief'

"Amicus Tumblr" has a certain ring to it, no?

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

One Map, A World of Temperatures

Microclimates and macro-, blended together in a gorgeous app

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Modernization

NASA Gets an Instagram Account

Goddard and Ames already had accounts.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

This Software Won't Let You Look Away

The creepiest educational technology yet.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Cybersecurity

It Now Appears Possible to Hack a (Fancy, Japanese) Toilet

These are the dangers of putting computers in objects that did not used to have computers.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Modernization

We're close to strengthening the privacy of your cell phone's location! (But only in California.)

Right now, law enforcement can ask your cell provider where your phone is at pretty much any time.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

Nine concrete, specific things we actually know about how social media shape elections

What studies sanely say about democracy in the age of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Modernization

Finally, a new bill requires police get a judge's approval before they see your texts or location

A new bill reconciles Fourth Amendment protections and 21st-century search and seizure.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

In past four years, universities began preserving the web

But while home pages are being archived, social media collections lag.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
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