The autopsy of a once-dominant site.

An exposé of Internet Marketers.

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

A profile of Mark Zuckerberg, savvy CEO.

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

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.

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.

On the relationship between Stanford and Silicon Valley.

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

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.

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.

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