A Doozy of a Lawsuit Over Self-Driving Cars
Waymo is suing Uber, and says a former employee stole nearly 10 gigabytes of secret files.
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Adnan Abidi / Reuters Uber’s Secret Program Raises Questions About Discrimination
In digital environments, the right to refuse service can be made invisible. That’s not necessarily a good thing.
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters Scandal-Plagued Uber Is Still Dominating App Stores
Downloads of the ride-sharing company’s software largely haven’t waned.
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The Internet’s Impact on Creativity: Your Thoughts
Is the internet helpful or hurtful to human creativity? I posed that question to the reader discussion group known as…
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Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters Now You Can Use NASA's Volcano-Tracking Technology to Monitor Your Baby
Or your cat.
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AP The Government’s Secret Wiki for Intelligence
Analysts reportedly tucked classified information about Russian hacking inside Intellipedia for safekeeping.
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Georgina Voss Welcome to the SXSW of Concrete
A week inside the industry that's building Trump's America brick by brick
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Lucasfilm Ltd. / IMDB The Bounty Hunters Protecting Your Slack Account
Well-meaning hackers are identifying security flaws—and making bank.
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New York Genome Center This Speck of DNA Contains a Movie, a Computer Virus, and an Amazon Gift Card
Meet the storage format that never goes obsolete.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Invisible Fence That Keeps Drones Away From the President
Some drones are programmed to avoid restricted airspace—but it’s not hard to ignore the limits and fly there anyway.
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Library of Congress Why Do the Big Stories Keep Breaking at Night?
Even in the internet age, the rhythms of print publications drive the news cycle.
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Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey / NASA / JPL-Caltech Machine Learning Is Bringing the Cosmos Into Focus
Training neural networks to identify galaxies could forever change humanity’s perspective of the universe.
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Kamenko Pajic / Reuters How the Chili Dog Transcended America's Divisions
The national dish is really a fusion of immigrant fare. An Object Lesson
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Kim Kyung Hoon / Reuters As Uber Melts Down, Its CEO Says He 'Must Fundamentally Change'
The ride-sharing giant’s full-blown PR crisis is getting worse.
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USGS / Reuters The Scary State of Volcano Monitoring in the United States
One of the most volcanically active countries in the world is not ready for a devastating eruption.
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HMD Global The Wisdom of Nokia's Dumbphone
The smartphone’s ubiquity has made it boring and oppressive. A new, retro handset opens the door to a different future.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Elon Musk’s Moon Mission Would Vault SpaceX Past NASA
The company plans to take two people—not astronauts, but private citizens—on a trip around the moon next year.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters How Does Donald Trump Think His War on the Press Will End?
The president has long toyed with the media, but the stakes are much higher now.
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Stephen Chernin / Getty How Long Can Border Agents Keep Your Email Password?
Some data gathered from travelers going through customs can stay in a Homeland Security database for 75 years.
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Harris & Ewing / Library of Congress / ... The Future of Shopping Is More Discrimination
For you, a very special price indeed.
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Does the Internet Breed Creativity or Destroy It?
What the internet does to the mind is something of an eternal question. Here at The Atlantic, in…
