We’re Already Colonizing Mars
This is the way colonization starts: not with comfy habitats and astronauts, but with Instagram posts and discarded parachutes.
This is the way colonization starts: not with comfy habitats and astronauts, but with Instagram posts and discarded parachutes.
Deep learning algorithms are prone to a previously unknown problem, say a team of computer scientists at Google.
Ultranauts has been developing creative ways to hire, manage and motivate a far-flung and diverse work force for seven years.
The next generation of the Internet will rely on revolutionary new tech — allowing for unhackable networks and information that travels faster than the speed of light.
Everything I learned to become a senior software engineer. From good skills to have, to dealing with difficult engineering problems.
Hanging out on Discord with today’s teen-idol ticket scalpers—average guys, no bots
I sat next to a senior software engineer for a year. Here’s what I learnt.
“I honestly just wanted to know why the F train didn’t have clocks. I never expected it to be so complicated.”
At Modern Elder Academy, on the Baja coast, guests share anxieties about ageism and obsolescence.
What do you do when a new feature in a competitor's smartphone app looks a lot like the defining feature of your app? What can you do? That’s the position San Francisco developer Eric Wolfe has found himself in the past few weeks after social fitness giant Strava recently rolled out its Route Builder for Mobile. As
Inspired by Silicon Valley’s hyper-growth, companies elsewhere are burning cash in hopes of being the next big thing.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal is drawing attention to malicious data thieves and brokers. But every Facebook app—even the dumb, innocent ones—collected users’ personal data without even trying.
Spaceport America was supposed to bring a thriving space industry to the southern New Mexico desert—but for now it’s a futurist tourist attraction, not an operational harbor to the cosmos.
The smart city is moving beyond cameras and microphones to stranger surveillance tools.
"I have often, when finding out about a new podcast with a large back catalog, made myself a 100-hour-plus playlist to catch up."
Arizona’s promise to keep the driverless car industry free of regulations has attracted dozens of companies, including Uber, Waymo and Lyft.
A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes.
And the machines are running the asylum.
It’s not because the water comes in. It’s because it is forced to leave again.
Donald Trump is fixated on a vision of masculine, blue-collar employment. But the retail sector has long had a far greater impact on American employment – and checkout-line technology is putting it at risk
Just a power nap in the timescale of the universe.
Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian email thread shows the historical value and irresistible allure of a technology that continues to betray us.
HONG KONG — Sören Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany, and seemed set to go to Europe or the United States, where…
The world’s biggest tech companies might be bigger than you think.
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
And they're pushing the rest of us toward a “Potemkin internet,” a mere shell of the web we know today.