From where I’m standing, the city-sized Baogang Steel and Rare Earth complex dominates the horizon, its endless cooling towers and chimneys reaching up into grey, washed-out sky. Between it and me, stretching into the distance, lies an artificial lake filled with a black, barely-liquid, toxic…

In early 2013, Kevin Lynch accepted a job offer from Apple. Funny thing about the offer: It didn’t say what he would be doing. So intense is Apple’s secrecy that all Lynch knew was his vague title, vice president of technology, and that he’d be working on something completely new. ¶ It was odd that…

In 1985, police on Long Island arrested John Restivo in connection with a rape and murder. He remembers a detective telling him, “This is un-America: you have no rights here.” As teen-agers on Long Island, John Restivo and Marge Neidecker spent hours in her blue Road Runner, cruising around the…

Photo illustration by Juliana Jiménez Jaramillo. Photos by Mark Mainz/Getty Images and Chris Weeks/Getty Images for Reebok Genius, formerly known as Rap Genius, the annotation site that launched in 2009 to decode Cam’ron lyrics and now dreams of “annotating the world,” has assigned me an IQ of one…

(hmbbfdi, 8.4.2015) Der Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit hat mit Erlass eines Widerspruchsbescheids das im vergangenen Jahr in die Wege geleitete Verwaltungsverfahren gegen die Google Inc. beendet. Das Unternehmen wird damit verpflichtet, die notwendigen Änderungen…

ENLARGE Former venture capitalist Ellen Pao, at her desk in Reddit’s office in San Francisco, said ‘you need to work through these issues’ and men need to be part of the conversation. Photo: Laura Morton for The Wall Street Journal Warning “you can’t just hide” from the problem of workplace sexism,…

Seated at the head of a table for 12 with a view of the city’s soaring skyline, Peter Thiel was deep in conversation with his guests, eclectic scientists whose research was considered radical, even heretical. It was 2004 and Thiel had recently made a tidy fortune selling PayPal, which he co-founded,…

The venture capital-eating unicorn. (Illustration: Susie Cagle) Silicon Valley investors recently bet $50 million on a luxury sock company. And the most surprising part was how normal it seemed. Advertisement — Continue reading below Venture capital investment is at its highest point since the late…

Abstract:      As we increasingly create spaces where robotic technology interacts with humans, our tendency to project lifelike qualities onto robots raises questions around use and policy. Based on a human-robot-interaction experiment conducted in our lab, this paper explores the effects of…

Snapchat, the photo-messaging app raising cash at a $15 billion valuation, probably isn’t actually worth more than Clorox or Campbell Soup. So where did investors come up with that enormous headline number? Here’s the secret to how Silicon Valley calculates the value of its hottest companies: The…

Am 1. April verschickten Felix Stalder und Ted Byfield eine erstaunliche Mitteilung an die Maillingliste “nettime” , sie kündigten (nach fast 20 Jahren) deren Ende an. Ein Aprilscherz mit erstaunlichen Folgen. Eine kleine Debatte über den Wert der unbedingt empfehlenswerten Liste wurde ausgelöst –…

By Mary H.K. ChoiPhotographs by Elizabeth Renstrom and Alex Thebez It’s 6:30 and I’m waiting in a dive bar with a mug of hot tea. Peppermint. It’s 20 degrees out and my feet are numb. I feel like a narc and look like one and if the guy I was meeting wasn’t someone with whom I’d already attended two…

On March 27 The following message was posted on the official GitHub blog: We are currently experiencing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in github.com's history. The attack began around 2AM UTC on Thursday, March 26, and involves a wide combination of attack vectors. These…

Page 1 of 11 Using Baidu 百度 to steer millions of computers to launch denial of service attacks or How the Great Fire Anti Censorship Project and Amazon's Cloud Front are under Denial of Service attack. The Greatfire.org's Internet Project has successfully unblocked websites inside China by deploying…

This story was co-published with Gawker. Update, March 27, 6:48 p.m.: This story has been updated to include responses from the FBI and the State Department. Starting weeks before Islamic militants attacked the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, longtime Clinton family confidante Sidney…

Auch mich hat Fefe gefragt, zu seinem 10jährigen eine Kritik in sein Blog zu schreiben. Mein erster Impuls war ne Holofernes zu pullen, denn es ist mehr als nur ein geflügeltes Wort, dass Fefe die Bildzeitung der Nerds ist. Der Vergleich trifft es auf vielen Ebenen, auch und gerade auf den…

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internet was becoming a site of shaming eroded the feeling of safety that had once made it seem such a haven for the lonely

It happens all the time when my husband and I are at work events together. Cocktail Party Guy asks my husband about how things are going at his news site, and he answers. Then Cocktail Party Guy asks me how our dogs are, and I answer, before pivoting the conversation back to work — and later rolling…

The craziest Bitcoin saga in history just got a whole lot crazier. On Monday, DEA agent Carl Force was charged with committing numerous instances of fraud during an investigation into Silk Road, the infamous illicit marketplace that sold drugs, guns, and other goods on the so-called “darknet.” The…

There’s a predictable social media formula for what women’s pictures online should look like. Breasts in barely-there bikinis are good (thumbs-up emoji, even), but breasts with babies attached them are questionable. Women wearing next to nothing is commonplace, but if you’re over a size 10 your…

On the so-called dark web, drug dealing and other illicit sales have thrived in recent years, the authorities have said, through hidden websites like Silk Road and hard-to-trace digital currencies like Bitcoins. On Monday, the government charged that in the shadows of an undercover investigation of…

Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images Updated at 4:25 p.m. with more information. Nearly 18 months after the Silk Road online drug market was busted by law enforcement, the criminal charges rippling out from the case have now come full circle: back to two of the law enforcement agents involved in the…

View this image › Augmedix / Via Augmedix.com When Dr. Darren Phelan started wearing Google Glass more than a year ago, he did it with some trepidation. Though the internal medicine physician thought the novel device might help him at work, he was unsure how patients would react. Now, Phelan dons…

​Image: hasachai/Shutterstoc ​Two federal agents have been arrest​ed on charges stemming from their undercover investigation into Silk Road, the online black market that was taken down in 2013. Lawyers for Ross Ulbricht, who was convicted for operating the site in February, said they knew about the…

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Page File Hotly-trailed biography Becoming Steve Jobs is the first major book on the turtlenecked Apple godhead since Walter Isaacson’s authorised bio. Written by US business journalist Brent Schlender with help from Fast Company editor Rick Tetzeli, primarily in the first person, it arrives…

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WIRED The most important spec on any portable gadget—phone, tablet, laptop, watch—isn’t processor speed or a pixel-packed display. It’s how long you can use it before it becomes a blank brick in need of an outlet. And while the next big battery-life breakthrough may still be a few years away, recent…

Der Absturz des Germanwings-Fluges 4U9525 - die dramatische Wendung des heutigen Tages: die französische Staatsanwaltschaft geht davon aus, dass der Co-Pilot absichtlich den Jet zerstörte. Es überrascht nicht, dass innerhalb von Minuten an vielen Stellen im Netz, besonders bei Twitter, Name und…

Reddit, the front-page of the Internet, hasn’t exactly had a banner year. In August, it served as an early incubator for the Gamergate movement, which would go on wreck the lives of several innocent women and baffle America’s non-gaming populace. Not long after, it became the main distribution…

The Internet story of the year — perhaps of many years — began with a breezy, under-punctuated blog post on the Tumblr of some 21-year-old no one had previously heard of. “Guys please help me,” the blogger wrote, ignorant of the fact that her words would echo in eternity. “Is this dress white and…

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Ever since Siri appeared as a regular feature on the iPhone, certain young children — and, let’s face it, some of their parents — have spent hours chatting up the virtual assistant, curious about the details of her humanoid back story. Siri, where do you live? Siri, do you have a boyfriend? Siri,…

“Why don’t we punt on her and find 2 guys who are awesome,” he wrote. “We can add 4-8 women next year.” There was no ski trip the next year.

In 2004, Andy Rubin made an urgent call to his friend, Steve Perlman. Rubin’s startup, Android, was in trouble, he explained. Rubin didn’t like asking for money again, but the situation was dire. Android, which was creating mobile software for phones, was out of cash, and other investors weren’t…

Like everything else in Norway, the tw­o-­hour drive southeast from Oslo seemed impossibly civilized. The highways were perfectly maintained and painted, the signs clear and informative and the speed-­monitoring cameras primly intolerant. My destination was the town of Halden, which is on the border…

A worker packs a truckload of sand near Raipur Village. Adam Ferguson Indian workers crush stone into sand at an Illegal mine near Raipur Village in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India on March 18, 2015. Adam Ferguson Aakash Chauhan and Preeti Chauhan stand for a portrait at their home. Adam…