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
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.
A new study shows experts are split on whether artificial intelligence will boost—or decimate—the economy.
A look into the nostalgia machine powered by big data
The newspaper's new archival search function offers suggested terms, and a window into how it categorizes world events.
For a century and a half, The New York Times has been earnestly—and hilariously—defining topical terms.
"The machine produces a particularly good and unique drink or confection."
Sickness-related isolation used to involve banishing patients to islands; now the ill are kept separate in our midst.
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