Amazon gives in: Retailer resolves big publishing dispute with Hachette
The publisher is hailing the agreement as "great news"
Thursday, Nov 13, 2014 5:06 PM UTC 0Amazon.com, amazon v. hachette
Amazon.com, amazon v. hachette
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What "Interstellar" gets wrong about interstellar travel
Christopher Nolan's latest is a gorgeous, ambitious work, but its underlying "science" is downright laughable
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Lee Billings, Scientific American
Amazon.com, amazon v. hachette
Why corporations are desperate to destroy net neutrality
A free Internet is vital to the country's infrastructure. For our plutocrats, it's merely another profit center
Thursday, Nov 13, 2014 11:45 AM UTC 0AlterNet, net neutrality
Wall Street’s radical new rival? Why this investment firm says it’s catering to the 99 percent
Former White House aide Andrei Cherny tells Salon he's building a new investment firm devoted to the middle class
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2014 1:30 PM UTC 0Wall Street, Inequality
Black holes may be destroying stars at the center of the Milky Way
Researchers believe dark matter has built up inside these stars, causing the pulsars to collapse
Tuesday, Nov 11, 2014 12:00 PM UTC 0Scientific American, Milky Way
AOL becomes latest company to abandon right-wing ALEC
The tech giant is cutting ties with the conservative advocacy group
Monday, Nov 10, 2014 10:15 PM UTC 0AOL, ALEC
Ted Cruz attacks net neutrality with totally incoherent Obamacare analogy
The Texas senator lashes out after President Obama urges FCC to adopt robust net neutrality rules
Monday, Nov 10, 2014 5:00 PM UTC 0Ted Cruz, net neutrality
William Gibson: I never imagined Facebook
The brilliant science-fiction novelist who imagined the Web tells Salon how writers missed social media's rise
Sunday, Nov 9, 2014 10:59 PM UTC 0Books, William Gibson, Google
Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss: Religion could be largely gone in a generation
The co-creator of "The Unbelievers," a documentary made with Richard Dawkins, believes religion could disappear VIDEO
Tuesday, Nov 4, 2014 9:27 PM UTC 0Video, Lawrence Krauss, Religion
Tinder’s CEO demoted following sexual harassment lawsuit
IAC demoted Sean Rad to president of the company
Tuesday, Nov 4, 2014 6:00 PM UTC 0tinder, Sean Rad, CEO
“The police of the Internet”: Why the human costs of social media are greater than you think
Whether we realize it or not, a lack of violence or porn in social networks is no happy accident, Adrian Chen says
Tuesday, Nov 4, 2014 5:43 PM UTC 0adrian chen, Wired, Facebook
Fast, cheap and out of control: How hyper-consumerism drives us mad
Hyper-fast, hyper-modern markets demand more, new, now. But all this choice is inefficient and damaging
Sunday, Nov 2, 2014 8:30 PM UTC 0Books, sustainability, Stitch Fix
Rocket explosion may imperil commercial spaceflight
Experts wonder if Orbital Sciences Corp. has the right stuff to meet NASA’s goal of outsourcing orbital flights
Sunday, Nov 2, 2014 5:00 PM UTC 0Scientific American
The sharing economy has a race problem
Heralded as the future of commerce, apps like Uber and Airbnb still aren't immune to the same old prejudices
Sunday, Nov 2, 2014 11:58 AM UTC 0The Sharing Economy, uber, Airbnb
Gamergate’s infuriating myth: Why searching for common ground is a big mistake
A pundit's call to "end" the controversy shows how our fetish for moderation in politics can lead to an ugly place
Saturday, Nov 1, 2014 12:00 PM UTC 0dan auerbach, gamergate
“I get really affected by bestiality”: Meet the moderators who watch horrific videos so you don’t have to
For eight hours a day, these Internet garbagemen stare into the dark underbelly of humanity. The job takes its toll
Friday, Oct 31, 2014 10:45 AM UTC 0AlterNet, Internet, Moderators
I’m terrified of my new TV: Why I’m scared to turn this thing on — and you’d be, too
From facial recognition to personal data collection, this thing is downright scary -- and so are the implications
Thursday, Oct 30, 2014 3:26 PM UTC 0Television, technology
Apple CEO Tim Cook comes out: “I’m proud to be gay”
Although Cook's sexuality has been an open secret for years, this is his first public acknowledgement
Thursday, Oct 30, 2014 11:53 AM UTC 0Tim Cook, LGBT, Apple
“SNL” star responds to viral catcalling video with street harassment joke
Michael Che offers sarcastic defense of creepy behavior with mini-rant
Wednesday, Oct 29, 2014 5:50 PM UTC 0michael che, SNL, The Daily Show
“We’re summoning the demon”: Elon Musk warns about artificial intelligence
Musk spoke at MIT's AeroAstro Centennial Symposium, and thinks we should be "very careful" about AI VIDEO
Monday, Oct 27, 2014 4:08 PM UTC 0Video, Elon Musk
“Be curious, I know I will forever be”: Stephen Hawking joins Facebook and instantly inspires fans
The brilliant cosmologist has already garnered over 900,000 likes
Friday, Oct 24, 2014 10:00 PM UTC 0Stephen Hawking, Curiosity
Richard Dawkins wants to create a “cosmic tombstone” of humanity and blast it into space
The evolutionary biologist wants there to be a record of Shakespeare, Bach and more after we're extinct VIDEO
Friday, Oct 24, 2014 5:05 PM UTC 0Video, Richard Dawkins
Silicon Valley will destroy your job: Amazon, Facebook and our sick new economy
The "sharing economy" makes Silicon Valley rich and takes from the rest of us. We ignore this at our imminent peril
Friday, Oct 24, 2014 10:59 AM UTC 0amazon, uber, technology
“Gamergate is now irredeemably toxic”: The top 10 takeaways from Chris Kluwe’s Reddit AMA
He warns all those associated with #Gamergate to drop the hashtag immediately
Thursday, Oct 23, 2014 8:20 PM UTC 0Chris kluwe, gamergate, gamers
Hundreds of comets seen orbiting distant solar system
The “exocomets” swarming around Beta Pictoris mirror those seen in our own, with a few surprising differences
Thursday, Oct 23, 2014 11:15 AM UTC 0Scientific American, Comets
Actress harassed by Internet horde for speaking up about Gamergate
Felicia Day worried she'd be targeted if she spoke about Gamergate. Her fears came true
Thursday, Oct 23, 2014 9:35 AM UTC 0Felicia Day, gamergate
Vox on Amazon: Way off-base, not entirely wrong
Publishers aren't perfect. But no one who cares about a diverse literary marketplace can actually side with Amazon
Wednesday, Oct 22, 2014 10:59 PM UTC 0amazon, Matt Yglesias, Vox, Books
Study finds the Internet is a garbage place for everyone, regardless of gender
Yes, men get harassed online too. Is that the only way to make anyone care about threats against women?
Wednesday, Oct 22, 2014 8:09 PM UTC 0Pew Research Center
Chris Kluwe: “I hope you all, every #Gamergater, picks up a debilitating case of genital warts”
#Gamergaters get the takedown they deserve
Tuesday, Oct 21, 2014 11:18 PM UTC 0gamergate, Chris kluwe, gamers
The great Amazon debate: A leading Amazon critic and a self-publishing rock star try to find common ground
Amazon fans and foes often talk past each other without engaging. Here, two fierce writers make their best case
Monday, Oct 20, 2014 10:59 PM UTC 0amazon, Self-Publishing
FKA Twigs is the only person who should be allowed to wear Google Glass
Glassholes may be terrible, but this video is beautiful VIDEO
Monday, Oct 20, 2014 10:18 PM UTC 0Video, FKA Twigs, google glass
“They’re going to start destroying each other”: Why TV’s new golden age is doomed
Streaming services may make more hot shows available to you -- but there are only so many subscriptions you'll want
Monday, Oct 20, 2014 4:36 PM UTC 0TV, Television, HBO, Netflix
“I’m not going away”: James Risen unloads to Salon about his government foes
In historic legal fight to protect sources, embattled reporter James Risen tells Salon how he plans to fight back
Saturday, Oct 18, 2014 1:15 PM UTC 0James Risen, War on Terror
Amazon’s Wal-Mart problem: Why low wages, working conditions and disdain for culture will hurt us all
Amazon drives down wages, avoids taxes and destroys intellectual life, while profiting from government subsidies
Saturday, Oct 18, 2014 12:00 PM UTC 0amazon, Jeff Bezos, Walmart, Google
Sean Parker to atone for redwoods wedding debacle by creating an app
The tech billionaire is shelling out $1.4 million as part of the "creative resolution"
Friday, Oct 17, 2014 3:02 PM UTC 0Sean Parker
Slate’s defense of Amazon forgets just one thing: Workers
New hot take celebrating the behemoth is a great example of how elites justify inequality and oppression
Thursday, Oct 16, 2014 6:27 PM UTC 0Reihan Salam, Slate, Peter Thiel
Amazon helped kill the alt-weekly: One more reason your city looks the same as every other one
S.F. Bay Guardian and Providence Phoenix publish final issues, and Amazon is among the many reasons why
Thursday, Oct 16, 2014 4:00 PM UTC 0Alternative press
Updated: Uber calls what amounts to a 2-hour kidnapping an “inefficient route”
The customer was driven nearly 20 miles out of her way to a parking lot
Tuesday, Oct 14, 2014 8:30 PM UTC 0uber, kidnapping, ride-sharing
Amazon’s selfish defender: Hugh Howey’s short-sighted, Ayn Rand-ian argument harms book culture
New York Times keeps letting the same self-published author defend Amazon. He misunderstands Amazon's real agenda
Tuesday, Oct 14, 2014 12:31 PM UTC 0amazon, Jeff Bezos, hachette
Neil deGrasse Tyson rips startup culture: “Society has bigger problems than what can be solved with your next app”
The famed astrophysicist discusses the scientific method, Pluto and the downfall of American Innovation VIDEO
Monday, Oct 13, 2014 6:10 PM UTC 0Video, Neil degrasse Tyson
Scientist created artificial black hole and may have confirmed Stephen Hawking’s 40-year-old theory
What is now known as Hawking radiation may have just been spotted in a laboratory
Monday, Oct 13, 2014 4:13 PM UTC 0Black Hole, Stephen Hawking
