Technology

Tuesday, May 15
/ / May 2012

The autopsy of a once-dominant site.


Thursday, May 10

An exposé of Internet Marketers.


Tuesday, May 8

From failure to Pixar, Steve Jobs’ “wilderness years.”


Monday, May 7
/ / May 2012

A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, savvy CEO.


Wednesday, May 2
/ / Oct 2000

On board the Perl Whirl 2000, a conference of hard-coding geeks on a luxury cruise ship.


Saturday, April 28
/ / Apr 2012

Competing teams, some powered by billionaires and some by open-sourced code and volunteers, race to land a robot on the surface and claim a massive prize from Google.


Tuesday, April 24
/ / May 2012

How a lonely, self-taught hacker found his way into the private emails of movie stars — and into the underworld of the celebrity-skin business.


Monday, April 23
/ / Apr 2012

On the relationship between Stanford and Silicon Valley.


Wednesday, April 18

How killing by remote control has changed the way we fight.


Monday, April 16
/ / May 2012

Jonathan Blow is both the video game industry’s most cynical critic and its most ambitious game developer. As he finishes his indescribable game-opus, a trip inside the head of a videogame auteur.


Sunday, April 8

A history of the cell phone ringtone.

Many recent hip-hop songs make terrific ringtones because they already sound like ringtones. The polyphonic and master-tone versions of “Goodies,” by Ciara, for example, are nearly identical. Ringtones, it turns out, are inherently pop: musical expression distilled to one urgent, representative hook. As ringtones become part of our environment, they could push pop music toward new levels of concision, repetition, and catchiness.


Wednesday, April 4

A profile Hunter Moore,  the founder of the controversial revenge-porn site Is Anyone Up.