A two-part story on Bill Gates and his revolutionary machine.

We now know that most mass extinctions in Earth’s history were caused by the same thing. What we don’t know is when it will happen next.

A thousand years ago, huge pyramids and earthen mounds stood where East St. Louis sprawls today in Southern Illinois... At the city's apex in 1100, the population exploded to as many as 30 thousand people. It was the largest pre-Columbian city in North America, bigger than London or Paris at the time.

The process of decomposition, recounted in painstaking detail.

What the first-sale doctrine means for the future of copyright.

The fall of PCCare247, an Indian company in the business of selling fixes to problems that didn’t exist.

On the fall of Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged creator of The Silk Road, a hidden black market website where users could buy and sell drugs, guns and, according to the FBI, the services of a hit man.

Convicted and facing jail time plus a crippling fine in Sweden, the founders of the torrent site The Pirate’s Bay have scattered across the world towards new lives: fatherhood in Laos, a junkie’s life in Phnom Penh, and start-up work in Berlin.

The story of an opportunity missed.

The rise and fall of the Internet mogul.