Technology
Hawaii’s Thirty Meter Telescope Could End Up in the Canary Islands
The group behind the contested project is still pushing for construction on the Big Island, but has selected an alternate site just in case.
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Facebook Can Somebody Please Tell Facebook's Algorithm That Hillary Lost?
Hopeful pre-election selfies are still high up in news feeds, even after Clinton’s defeat.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters A Stunning Presidential Upset, Told in Newspaper Front Pages
In much of the print world, Donald Trump’s victory won’t show up until Thursday.
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Joe Raedle / Getty Hackers Attacked Clinton's and Trump's Websites Before Election Day
Several different groups went after the candidates’ campaign sites this week, using the same technique that took down the internet in the U.S. last month.
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Benj Edwards The Lost Civilization of Dial-Up Bulletin Board Systems
A former systems operator logs back in to the original computer-based social network.
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Mayte Torres / Getty Most Babies Don’t Need Breathing Monitors
There’s no real evidence that consumer devices keep infants safer, and doctors say “peace of mind” isn’t a good enough reason to buy them.
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Artur Debat / Getty The Dark Web Isn’t All Dark
Despite its reputation for illegal activity, much of what goes on underneath the surface of the internet is legit.
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Randy Montoya / Sandia National Laboratory America's Nuclear-Waste Plan Is a Giant Mess
An explosion caused by cat litter at a storage site was just the beginning.
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Joel Page / Reuters ‘Scum,’ ‘Madman,’ and Other Words Used Most in Trump Coverage
A computer analysis of 60,000 articles about the presidential race finds distinct language referring to the Republican and Democratic nominees.
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Beawiharta Beawiharta / Reuters How the Internet Is Changing Pronunciation
Quick: How do you say the “read” in “read receipts”?
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Thomas Mullaney Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News
The QWERTY keyboard was once the envy of the world, but not anymore.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters How Twitter Bots Are Shaping the Election
Between the first two presidential debates, a third of pro-Trump tweets and nearly a fifth of pro-Clinton tweets came from automated accounts.
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Library of Congress Predictions of a Presidentess
A century ago, prognosticators saw a future in which a woman could be the chief executive—and men would be made obsolete.
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Reuters Facebook Is Overwhelmed With Check-Ins to Standing Rock
… though there’s no evidence that protesters made the request.
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Track of the Day: ‘Toccata’ by Mungolian Jetset
It’s rare to see something end well on the internet. Most ongoing projects—whether blogs, podcasts, or novelty Tumblrs—don’t really ever…
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters How Facebook’s Ad Tool Fails to Protect Civil Rights
The company’s platform lets advertisers exclude people of certain races from seeing their content. That’s a serious problem when it comes to promotions such as housing, credit, and jobs.
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ProSymbols / The Noun Project / Andrew McGill The Inevitability of Being Hacked
We built a fake web toaster, and it was compromised in an hour.
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Núria Talavera / Getty How a Sculptor Adapted to Today's Economy
"I found myself unemployed five years ago for the first time in my life. That was unsettling, but it was not undoing."
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Future of Privacy Is Plausible Deniability
In a hackable world where neither the NSA nor Sony Pictures nor John Podesta could safeguard their private communications, the surest way to keep data secure may be surrounding it with decoys.
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Michael Bonfigli / The Christian Science Monitor Inside a Hacking Competition to Take Down a Water-Treatment Plant
This is how hackers play capture the flag.
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Maxim Shemetov / Reuters Whither Vine?
Twitter is shutting down the social network, which was one of the web’s most vibrant communities.
