Inside the hacker ecosystem.

The story of an opportunity missed.

A look at Apple stores, where jobs are high stress, with low pay and little opportunity for advancement.

The fifty-year battle over where we store our nuclear remains.

How technological progress slowed from its 20th-century peak, why we’ve shifted from changing reality to simply simulating reality, and whether capitalism is the true culprit.

The game’s past, present, and future.

Invented in 1899, it hasn’t been improved upon since.

Shiva Ayyadurai told the world he invented email. Not everyone agreed.

How Google’s utopian/dystopian plan to scan the world’s books failed and the Harvard-led team that’s picking up the pieces.

Teaching Ted Kaczynski’s anti-technology ideas.

A profile of Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka Sabu, a hacker star of Anonymous and resident of a New York City housing project.

How a surgical innovation allowed Dallas Weins to find a new face.

Inside the ultra-Orthodox Jewish rally at Citi Field to discuss the dangers of the internet:

A man in a black fur hat asked him what, exactly, was an app, and he explained it to him. The man grimaced and walked away.

The autopsy of a once-dominant site.

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.

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

For over one hundred years, a malicious supercomputer named AM has enslaved five tortured survivors who look for a way out.

"Oh, Jesus sweet Jesus, if there ever was a Jesus and if there is a God, please please please let us out of here, or kill us. Because at that moment I think I realized completely, so that I was able to verbalize it: AM was intent on keeping us in his belly forever, twisting and torturing us forever. The machine hated us as no sentient creature had ever hated before. And we were helpless. It also became hideously clear:If there was a sweet Jesus and if there was a God, the God was AM."

How the website mastered “Social Publishing”:

To understand some of the principles underlying BuzzFeed’s strategy, he recommends reading The Individual in a Social World, a 1977 book by Stanley Milgram, who is known, among other things, for his experiments leading to the six degrees of separation theory. “When some cute kitten video goes viral,” says [Jonah] Peretti, “you know a Stanley Milgram experiment is happening thousands of times a day.”

An Iowa dad’s surprisingly short path from commentor to screenwriter.