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The story of a lead squandered.
Kurt Eichenwald Vanity Fair Aug 2012 30min Permalink
The story of a machine.
Carolyn de la Peña Boom Apr 2013 10min Permalink
A history of spam on the internet.
Kevin Driscoll Los Angeles Review of Books Aug 2013 20min Permalink
A profile of a virtual kingpin.
Andy Greenberg Forbes Aug 2013 Permalink
“Let me say that again: Hedy Lamarr, arguably the most glamorous star of the pre-war period, also helped invent your cell phone and WiFi connection.”
Anne Helen Petersen The Hairpin Aug 2013 25min Permalink
A startup’s rocky search for profitability.
Austin Carr Fast Company Sep 2013 20min Permalink
What remains of the past’s cutting edge.
Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic Jul 2013 10min Permalink
Was justice served in Steubenville?
Ariel Levy New Yorker Aug 2013 40min Permalink
A profile of Amar Bose, founder of the Bose Corporation.
Tom Clynes Popular Science Dec 2004 15min Permalink
Countries that the NSA has defined as close friends, or “2nd party,” include the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. These countries, documents indicate, cannot targetted. “3rd Party” nations, like Germany, are offered no such protection and spying all the way up to the office of the Chancellor is suspected.
Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Fidelius Schmid, Holger Stark, Jonathan Stock Der Spiegel English Jul 2013 15min Permalink
A startup’s plan to launch a fleet of cheap, small, ultra-efficient imaging satellites and revolutionize data collection.
David Samuels Wired Jun 2013 15min Permalink
The long, strange trip of the Wikipedia founder, who went from being an Insane Clown Posse fan who owned the “Bomis Babe Report” to a jet-setter married to “the most connected woman in London,” all without turning much of a profit.
Amy Chozick New York Times Magazine Jun 2013 20min Permalink
Inside the world of high-priced online reputation management.
Graeme Wood New York Jun 2013 15min Permalink
“As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. In other words, the case for privacy always comes too late.”
Jill Lepore New Yorker Jun 2013 15min Permalink
What happens when a 26-year-old Kentucky resident decides to investigate a rape case from his computer.
Adrian Chen Gawker Jun 2013 30min Permalink
The emerging political consciousness of Silicon Valley.
George Packer New Yorker May 2013 40min Permalink
On cushy jobs in web development, deeply un-cushy opportunities in writing, and our assumptions about the value of labor.
James Somers Aeon Jun 2013 15min Permalink
Tracing a secretive cyber-war’s battles and casualties.
Michael Joseph Gross Vanity Fair Jul 2013 30min Permalink
On artists using their bodies to blur the line between human and machine.
Sally Davies Nautilus Apr 2013 15min Permalink
How Wall Street won.
Khadeeja Safdar The Atlantic May 2013 15min Permalink
The outing of a failed writer who spent years anonymously grinding axes on Wikipedia.
Andrew Leonard Salon May 2013 20min Permalink
How the case of a poisoned college student in China, cold for 18 years, has suddenly turned into “what may be the largest amateur online manhunt in history.”
Kevin Morris The Daily Dot May 2013 15min Permalink
The con man who cost Google $500 million.
Jake Pearson Wired May 2013 20min Permalink
In the not-so-distant future, all of our objects will talk to each other. They’ll make our coffee, find our keys, save our lives. The roadmap to a fully networked existence.
Bill Wasik Wired May 2013 Permalink
The possibilities and pitfalls of massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Nathan Heller New Yorker May 2013 35min Permalink