In his first year in office, President Obama gave two speeches—one in Cairo, the other in Oslo—that bear directly on the crisis in the Middle East today. The Cairo speech, in June, 2009, offered a message of peace and coöperation between America, the West, and the Muslim world. It sketched an…

Photographed by David Sims, Vogue, October 2014 Photographed by David Sims, Vogue, October 2014 How Apple’s under-the-radar design genius, Jonathan Ive, has found the way to our hearts. I first catch sight of Jony Ive across the Apple campus, in a plain Dodger-blue T-shirt and white painter’s pants,…

By Talib Kweli Greene Yasiin Bey and I make beautiful music together. We are yin and yang, our styles complement each other very nicely. While it’s always a treat for us to perform together as Black Star, the style and pace of our solo performances are different. Yasiin and I have very different…

I was at an Italian restaurant in Melbourne, listening as a woman named Lesley talked about her housekeeper, an immigrant to Australia who earlier that day had cleaned the bathroom countertops with a bottle of very expensive acne medication: “She’s afraid of the vacuum cleaner and can’t read or…

"Die durchschnittliche Bewertung des IT-Sektors ist vollkommen okay"

Lauren Goode Following reports that the new iPhone 6 Plus has been getting bendy — and not in a good way — Apple has actually gone as far as pulling back the curtain to its top-secret testing lab, as part of an effort to demonstrate the rigorous tests it puts its products through. It’s not a new PR…

Mitnick showing a keylogging device to a crowd in 2010. Credit: Eneas De Troya | CC BY As a young man, Kevin Mitnick became the world’s most notorious black hat hacker, breaking into the networks of companies like IBM, Nokia, Motorola, and other targets. After a stint in prison, he reinvented…

This story contains interviews with Martyn Williams, a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University and the editor of the North Korean Tech blog; and Dan Bowerman, IT consultant and editor of the Opening Up North Korea blog. It is commonly accepted that the people of North Korea are cut…

Spruce takes a targeted approach to telemedicine. Spruce Ray Bradford is convinced technology will change the way we interact with our doctors. And it starts with an iPhone app that lets you get prescription drugs for your acne. With Spruce, out today, Bradford’s taking a fresh approach to the…

The jihadi group’s origins and why United States forces attacked it alongside ISIS. WASHINGTON — Some time last year, a Kuwaiti man in his early 30s who had spent more than a decade hiding from the American government arrived in northwest Syria, where he met up with other members of Al Qaeda who had…

Israel’s N.S.A. Scandal

185 171 SlateFuture TenseWhat’s to come?Sept. 23 2014 10:51 AM Is Apple Picking a Fight With the U.S. Government? 185 171 Not exactly. By Matthew Green …

Akten schwärzen ist nur eine Methode, um Aufklärung im NSA-Skandal zu verhindern. Die Regierung will die Bundesdatenschützer zwingen, nicht zu viele Fragen zu stellen. Fotografieren und Telefonieren verboten: Baustelle des BND in Berlin | © Adam Berry/Getty Images Ein Maulkorb soll Hunde daran…

Screenshot: WIRED To hear the FBI tell it, tracking down the secret server behind the billion-dollar drug market known as the Silk Road was as easy as knocking on a door. The bureau’s latest court filing in the case describes how the hidden site accidentally revealed its location to anyone who…

But for the Court to outsource to Google complicated case-specific decisions about whether to publish or suppress something is wrong

Loading… Loading… Loading… Loading… Our memory is dissipating. Hard drives only last five years, a webpage is forever changing and there’s no machine left that reads 15-year old floppy disks. Digital data is vulnerable. Yet entire libraries are shredded and lost to budget cuts, because we assume…

Over the weekend, actress and U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson gave a powerful and heartening speech proclaiming both her feminism and the need for feminism around the world. The speech, which has since gone viral, countered prevailing notions of the feminist movement as one for women only, or…

View this image › Illustration by Perrin for BuzzFeed There was a cascade of input — triangles and sky and gravel sound and music on the radio and wind and the feeling of rough cloth near my hands. I could not make sense of it all; I did not know the small triangles were trees, the larger ones…

We often take it as a given that the Internet is a cruel place, a natural haven for those who seek to harass and threaten others. But to some people, social networks are not mere conduits for our worst impulses. They’re structures whose design can influence how we behave, for good as well as for…

Apple said Wednesday night that it is making it impossible for the company to turn over data from most iPhones or iPads to police — even when they have a search warrant — taking a hard new line as tech companies attempt to blunt allegations that they have too readily participated in government…

As a black sedan pulled into downtown Washington traffic earlier this week, a man in the back seat with a specially outfitted smartphone in each hand was watching for signs of surveillance in action. “Whoa, we’ve just been hit twice on this block,” he said, excitement rising in his voice, not far…