Time Travel: Installing an Atomic Clock at 15,000 Feet
A few months ago I went to Cambridge, Mass. to check in with the Event Horizon Telescope crew and found Shep Doeleman, the project leader, fresh off the completion of a major purchase.
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Google Invests Billions on Satellites to Expand Internet Access
The company's plan to buy 180 small, high-capacity satellites complements its other ventures to expand Internet access to remote and underserved areas
Google Gives the Internet Amnesia in Europe
One of the Internet's greatest assets is also perhaps its biggest curse—it never forgets. Except in the European Union, where a court last month ruled that people have the right to have certain sensitive information about themselves deleted from Google search results...
What Is the Deep Web?
How secure do you feel on the web? It seems like every day there are more revelations about the government tapping your phone calls, reading your email, and watching what you do online...
A Phone That Lies for You: An Android Hack Allows Users to Put Decoy Data on a Smartphone
An Android hack allows users to put decoy data on a smartphone
Angkor Wat's Hidden Paintings Revealed with Digital Technique
The new images may be early attempts to restore the Cambodian temple's decorations or simply old graffiti
Nobody Is Neutral When It Comes to Net Neutrality
The FCC has asked for comment on whether the Internet should be reclassified as a public utility to preserve net neutrality—but the motion faces political and legal hurdles
Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists: A Trove of Billions of Tweets Will Be a Research Boon and An Ethical Dilemma
A trove of billions of tweets will be a research boon and an ethical dilemma
A Meta-Law to Rule Them All: Physicists Devise a “Theory of Everything”
“Constructor theory” unites in one framework how information is processed in the classical and quantum realms
ID’ing a Skull Just Got Easier
CT scans may soon link human remains to missing persons
Where Do Baby Sea Turtles Go?
Tracking the transatlantic journey of young sea turtles reveals surprises
Electric Grid, You Have Software Updates Available
Researchers are developing software that will let renewable energy flow into and out of a decentralized power grid like data on the Internet
Can Machines Produce Art that Moves Us?
This happens more often than you’d think: You tell someone you are an illustrator. They ask you a few questions and then get to what’s really on their mind: “So, do you do all your work on the computer or do you draw everything by hand?” When you respond that you do some (or all) [...]..
Quantify Thyself, Know Thyself
Humans are gradually becoming cyborgs—and that’s a good thing
Predictive Map Leads Fossil Hunters to Pay Dirt
New technique helps paleontologists narrow their search for ancient bones
Internet Addiction: Real or Virtual Reality?
In 1995, Ivan Goldberg, a New York psychiatrist, published one of the first diagnostic tests for Internet Addiction Disorder. The criteria appeared on psycom.net, a psychiatry bulletin board, and began with an air of earnest authenticity: "A maladaptive pattern of Internet use, leading to clinically significant impairment or distress as manifested by three (or more) [...]..
Tape Data Storage Makes a Comeback
Sony's new process lets them store more than 185 terabytes of data on a single tape cartridge. Larry Greenemeier reports
A Look under the Hood of Online Data Visualization
Andy Kirk (of Visualising Data) recently published a clever image-driven post in which he uses automobiles to make a series of points about the practice of data visualization.
Computer Models Improve Odds of Fossil-Hunting Success
Luck has played a big part in many of the world's great fossil discoveries. New models predict where the bones are and put serendipity in the backseat
Developing Countries Still Far From Closing Digital Divide
The United States is not the greatest country in the world, at least when it comes to information and communication technology. Last month, the World Economic Forum released its 13th annual Global Information Technology Report, which ranks the nations of the world by their "networked readiness" - that is, how much each country can use [...]..
