How a team of 40 engineers helped reelect Barack Obama.

A look inside Google’s Ground Truth.

On the ever-expanding world of targeted online advertising.

A visit to the newly on-the-market Jamesburg Earth Station, a massive satellite receiver that played a key role in communications with space, and its neighbors in an adjacent trailer park.

A history of the gravestone laser-etching industry.

What IARPA's project calls for is the deployment of spy resources against an entire language. Where you or I might parse a sentence, this project wants to parse, say, all the pages in Farsi on the Internet looking for hidden levers into the consciousness of a people.

On the battle over solar farms in the Mojave desert. An excerpt from Madrigal’s new book, Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.

How a journalism professor named Dan Sinker became the most entertaining part of the Chicago mayoral race.