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The human-driven driverless car www.economist.com TECHNOLOGY companies from Google to Audi have made remarkable strides in autonomous vehicle technology over the past few years. This progres |
The Self Profile | Gwynne Monahan gwynnemonahan.com Tweet; Sharebar. Tweet. I'm taking a class, Writing the Other: The Power of the Profile, through the University of Chicago's Graham School o |
The Imagery and Injury of Terrorism www.newyorker.com We used to create images according to our arguments; now we do the opposite. Panicked by our sight, we craft plans to keep us from having to |
Living the GoPro Life www.newyorker.com Nick Paumgarten on the rise of the GoPro camera: “Its charm lies perhaps in its sublimated conveyance of self, its sneaky tolerable narcissi |
How the Man Who Wired Facebook Helped Build the NFL Stadium of the Futur... www.wired.com Dan Williams was the first network engineer at Facebook. As the company's online empire expanded from 10 million users to an unprecedented 7 |
Digital Literacy Is the Key to the Future, But We Still Don't Know What ... www.wired.com The entrance to GitHub is the most Instagram-able lobby in tech. It's a recreation of the Oval Office, and the mimicry is spot-on---except f |
The Open Source Tool That Lets You Send Encrypted Emails to Anyone | Ent... www.wired.com In the wake of the mass NSA surveillance scandal sparked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, all sorts of hackers, academics, startups, and maj |
What It's Like Raising Money As A Woman In Silicon Valley www.forbes.com Editor's note: We don't publish many anonymous pieces on Forbes.com, but this compelling first-person account of sexism in the startup world |
A question of values and violence -- and a lot more www.chicagotribune.com I once interviewed this guy who was gruff and surly, and although he might have appeared to be a thug, he wasn't. He was smart and insightfu |
How to measure illegal drug use www.economist.com IN MUCH of the western world, teenagers and young adults are turning sober. In England and Wales the proportion of 18- to 24-year-olds tryin |
A question of proof www.economist.com JAIME MELENDEZ was a 20-year-old with a chequered past when he raped H.T., a 14-year-old girl, in Dedham, Massachusetts in 2009. H.T. was of |
A Middle-School Cheating Scandal www.newyorker.com One afternoon in the spring of 2006, Damany Lewis, a math teacher at Parks Middle School, in Atlanta, unlocked the room where standardized t |
Little things that mean a lot www.economist.com JUDGING from the condemnation, Facebook just “friended” Satan. The company has been pilloried for academic research it published, showing th |
Why the “everybody does it” defense of Facebook’s emotional manipulation... www.salon.com Yes, we live in which every Internet company is attempting to modify our behavior. That doesn't make it right |
A New Doc Explores The Bright Life And Sudden Death of Aaron Swartz | Co... www.fastcocreate.com Brian Knappenberger talks about his new film, the life and legacy of Aaron Swartz, and the troubling trends that survive the internet activi |
The colour purple www.economist.com REBECCA MEYER was taken too soon, on her sixth birthday. Having survived rounds of treatment for cancer, the girl, one of Kathryn and Eric M |
Becoming a White Walker: how one man turns into a terrifying 'Game of Th... www.theverge.com Earlier this season, Game of Thrones fans got a look at the home of the enigmatic White Walkers. The ghastly snow zombies appear for just a |
Getting Around: Chicago gets closer to mayor's bike lane goal www.chicagotribune.com Chicago is hustling to reach the finish line next spring on Mayor Rahm Emanuel's promise to complete 100 miles of bicycle lanes that are shi |
The Case for Banning Laptops in the Classroom www.newyorker.com A wealth of studies on students’ use of computers in the classroom supports the notion of banning them. |
