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Adrienne LaFrance is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Technology Channel. Previously she worked as an investigative reporter for Honolulu Civil Beat, Nieman Journalism Lab, and WBUR. More
Four Atlantic staffers discuss the latest installment of the podcast, in which listeners finally learn more about Jay.
Serialized nonfiction is an old-school journalistic format; it's the fandom around this real-life murder mystery that makes it feel different.
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Software company Esri's database files Americans into one of 67 consumer groups.
More than an inconvenience, these mollusks are a decent metaphor for broadcast's evolution in the Internet age.
The Golden Record made it to interstellar space in four decades and could last for hundreds of millennia, NASA says.
But younger Americans value library services less than more senior cohorts, study finds.
Who really owns a great writer’s legacy?
The logarithmic magnitude scale is confusing to many, but it's here to stay.
New features in software programs like Slack let people go on tangents and have side conversations more easily—more like talking out loud.
The music streaming service has more female employees than many of its peers in tech.
Imagine a web where you could choose the information filters that shape your experience on social media.
An author of the infamous emotional-contagion study says it might not be reasonable to expect informed consent about social experiments online.
'Small data' technology could finally replace food products' expiration dates.
It ended up sticking with the one it already had.
No, NASA says.
A man who has spent the last decade trying to make the Internet better tells the story of how he launched one of the most hated online features.
This summer, a flock of tech companies released numbers on the diversity of their employees. But others have been doing it for years, and little has changed.
The state's voters used to revere longtime officeholders. On Saturday, that changed, when the state's governor, Neil Abercrombie, lost in an unprecedented upset—but the man he controversially handpicked as U.S. senator may win.
Scientists say fracking is part of why Oklahoma now rivals California in quake activity.
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