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The Distributed Robotic Garden emerged out of a summer project at the Distributed Robotic Laboratory, CSAIL, MIT in Summer 2008 and has been developed by Nikolaus Correll and Daniela Rus. Our long-term goal is to implement an autonomous greenhouse based on autonomous robots and sensors. Emphasis of…

David Carr believed that, through the constant and forceful application of principle, a young knucklehead could bring the heavens to their knees. Stephen Chernin/AP Things have been hard since I got let go from TIME. Me and Kenyatta have been scrambling to hold everything together. Relationship is…

There is a scar that runs the entire length of my left arm, wide and treacherous at the elbow, then narrows to a thin white line as it cuts across my palm. I was eight and running on the way to a baseball game with my father when I fell on some rocks in the parking lot. He slung me over his shoulder…

The British Museum still has the first platypus sent back to Europe from Australia, by Captain John Hunter in 1799. There are scissor marks on its duck-bill. That’s because George Shaw, the first scientist who studied the astonishing specimen, was pretty sure it was a hoax, sewn together by…

AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National…

1. How To Use Reddit to Find Story Ideas My favorite three subreddits to find story ideas are /r/AskReddit, /r/explainlikeimfive, and /r/todayILearned. Ask Reddit is a Q&A section of the site, similar to Quora or Ask Metafilter. Explain It Like I’m Five breaks down complex questions into…

The favelas of Complexo do Alemão, one of the largest urban slums in Brazil, spill across 700 hilly acres in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, not far from the city’s international airport. Bounded on three sides by bustling highways and on the fourth by a forested ridge, Alemão can no longer grow…

Der geheime Auftrag der Nazis im Nahen Osten

Born in the United Kingdom, Helen Greiner moved to the United States with her parents when she was five. In 1990, soon after getting a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s in computer science, both from MIT, she teamed up with a professor and a fellow student to found iRobot, a…

A party of school-age swimmers takes to the waters of a municipal pool in north London. Among her peers, one Muslim girl stands out – nine or 10 years of age, brown face and eyes under a yellow cap, sliding gingerly into the water in a cotton salwar kameez that prevents the male attendants, the boys…

Part of the Internet’s beauty is the space it affords people to take an idea and run with it . . . and run with it and run with it, until they end up miles away from where they started. Among a subset of online superfans of the BBC show “Sherlock,” solving mysteries is mere window dressing for the…

Roy DeCarava. Copyright: Sherry Turner DeCarava/RSD Foundation What comes to mind when we think of photography and the civil rights movement? Direct, viscerally affecting images with familiar subjects: huge rallies, impassioned speakers, people carrying placards (“I Am a Man”), dogs and fire hoses…

AP/The Atlantic The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it. March 2015 What is the Islamic State? Where…

A new norm to blunt the callous, arbitrary power of digital mobs Robert Couse-Baker/Wikimedia Jon Ronson's forthcoming book, So You've Been Publicly Shamed , can't reach front porches soon enough, assuming it resembles the adaptation published in The New York Times . The journalist and humorist…

By Mac McClelland The most interesting thing, to an outsider, about the morning J.R. was having on January 7, 2015, was how fervently he spent it wishing his dog would die. He’d gotten up at 7:30 for his usual 9 a.m. shift, and the ancient, squat thing glowered up at him in the elevator ride down to…

Children have much to gain from being on social media

Mario Costeja González spent five years fighting to have 18 words delisted from Google search results on his name. When the Spaniard googled himself in 2009, two prominent results appeared: home-foreclosure notices from 1998, when he was in temporary financial trouble. The notices had been published…

I have worn smartwatches for many years now. The tech has evolved over time but it’s about to take an extremely huge leap with the Apple Watch. I have high hopes for this smart wristwatch based on my earlier experiences: I hope it’ll help me, and you, put down our bloody smartphones and look people…

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Share ON THE MORNING of June 11, 2009, James Rosen stepped inside the State Department, scanned his building badge and made his way to the Fox News office in the busy press room on the second floor. It was going to be a hectic day. Like other reporters working the phones that morning, Rosen was…

Es ist kurz vor 20 Uhr an einem Samstagabend. An einer belebten Kreuzung in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg steht ein bärtiger Mann im grünen Parka an der Ampel. In der einen Hand hält er eine weiße Plastiktüte, in der anderen eine offene Bierflasche. Und in dem Kinderwagen, den er schiebt, sitzt ein bald…

Last November, in the “Clueless Gamer” segment of his late-night talk show, Conan O’Brien played a few levels of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. The video game stars Kevin Spacey as the scheming president of a private military firm; his performance is rendered in striking digital detail, save for…

Years ago I had coffee with a friend who ran a startup. He had just turned 40. His father was ill, his back was sore, and he found himself overwhelmed by life. “Don’t laugh at me,” he said, “but I was counting on the singularity.”

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Facebook Tuesday launched a competitor to Google’s Shopping advertising service, allowing marketers to show users some or all of their product catalogs. With Product Ads, Facebook is challenging one of Google’s most successful new businesses in recent years. Originally called product-listing ads,…

It looks like outer space. The hundreds of thousands of computers look like stars. Across the vast military network, the sparkling connections between them form constellations. The US military’s cyber warriors, unlike soldiers patrolling a battlefield overseas, will not hear the sound of an attack…

Sad YouTube, a website created by Montreal writer and film-maker Mark Slutsky, collects the surprisingly poignant comments left by YouTube viewers as they reminisce about the songs that meant the most to them. Day 6 producer Chris Trowbridge enlisted Mark to track down the people behind some of the…

Photo: Joanna Mari/IG: peacel0vej0anna Author's note: Earlier, I had linked to a tweet from a pro-Gamergate supporter, believing it was a derisive attempt to get suicide hotlines flooded. I have since been informed the tweet was in earnest. I have deleted the tweet. However, the rest of the article…

BY ALEX HAMILTON Massive computers were born behind the ivory walls of universities and the thick concrete of military complexes before transitioning into popular culture during the late 1970s and early ’80s. Similarly, automation—the birthplace of robots—has been around for some time, existing…

A PART-TIME delivery driver named Peter Nunn was recently sentenced to 18 weeks in a British prison for tweeting and retweeting violent messages to Stella Creasy, a member of Parliament. He never saw his victim but the consequences of his virtual crime were real enough. In a statement, Ms. Creasy…

By scanning your face, computers can decode your unspoken reaction to a movie, a political debate, even a video call with a friend. Credit Illustration by Bryan Christie Three years ago, archivists at A.T. & T. stumbled upon a rare fragment of computer history: a short film that Jim Henson produced…

Universally regarded as a ‘genius’ even by his detractors, Jed McCaleb helped create two landmark crypto companies that are now battling for supremacy—first Ripple Labs and now Stellar. He is precisely the sort of ‘surfer-dude man-child’ coders regard as a demigod. But with a long string of failed…

Exclusive By Amir Efrati Global Web companies like Google and Facebook know that most of their future growth will need to come from emerging markets. But as smartphones continue to bring more people online, data-plan costs and other hurdles are preventing those people from using mobile Web…

Luke MacGregor/Reuters The American and British hostages who were barbarically beheaded by ISIS last summer were held at the same location in northern Syria for more than four months and were not moved around as often as previously thought, U.S. and British security sources said, raising questions…

“So much of our manufactured environment testifies to carelessness,” Ive says. Things are “developed to be different, not better.” Credit Photograph by Pari Dukovic I. Launch Day In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play…

Wer auf den Fingerabdruck als biometrisches Sicherheitsmerkmal setzt, hat maximal zehn verschiedene Schlüssel zur Auswahl. Dann sind alle Finger „verbraucht“. Eine Vorführung auf dem 31. Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg zeigte, dass man mittlerweile mit einer Digitalkamera an Fingerabdrücke…

Will another human being be necessary for satisfying sex in the not-so-distant future? ENLARGE Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures/Everett Collection Is another human being necessary for satisfying sex? Secretly—and perhaps especially on Valentine’s Day—many people love the idea of somehow being free from…

People take pictures in front of the Snapchat headquarters at Venice Beach in Los Angeles. Bloomberg The popularity of Snapchat with users is soaring along with its rapidly-rising valuation. Snapchat has entered the elite club of social apps with more than 100 million monthly users, according to…

Ted Schilowitz Futurist 20th Century Fox Ted was founding member, first employee, and integral part of the product development team at RED Digital Cinema, that has made a significant impact on the Motion Picture Industry, with many of the worlds biggest movies now being shot with these ultra high…