Cybersecurity
What Does It Really Matter If Companies Are Tracking Us Online?
A scholar argues that the real issue is protecting consumers from corporations that are developing ever more sophisticated techniques for getting people to part with their money.
Emerging Tech
NASA's Newest Space Telescope Sends Back Its First Images of the Sun, and They're Gorgeous
Early evidence suggests that IRIS is going to be a feast for those who love pretty pictures of space.
Digital Government
Interactive Gettysburg: Using Modern Mapping Tools for a New Look at the Historical Battle
Seeing how Gettysburg played out on a map can help us understand why, in the end, it turned out as it did.
Emerging Tech
NASA: Voyager 1 Is in a 'New Region' of Space
But it hasn't quite left the bubble around our sun yet.
Digital Government
No Red Phone Ever Connected the White House to Moscow
Another case of 'direct access' not being quite what you first thought.
Digital Government
Using Data Visualization to Capture America's Failure to Take Care of Its Veterans
Some 600,000 veterans have seen their disability-benefit claims founder unanswered for more than 125 days.
Emerging Tech
What It's Like to See the Aurora From Space
Two astronauts chatting about seeing the specialness of Earth's beauty from above.
Digital Government
Why Should We Even Care If the Government Is Collecting Our Data?
Kafka, not Orwell, can help us understand the problems of digitized mass surveillance, argues legal scholar Daniel J. Solove.
Emerging Tech
NASA Reveals New, Detailed Portraits of Two of Our Closest Galactic Neighbors
Meet the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two nearby galaxies.
Emerging Tech
This Is What It Feels Like to Finally Reach Space
Smiles on the faces of all the astronauts last night as they boarded the International Space Station
Emerging Tech
'We're Trying to Portray the Universe as a Real Place With Real Landscapes'
The story of the scientists and artists who have given us our most beautiful pictures of space
Modernization
Google Sees More Government Requests to Remove Content 'Than Ever Before'
Two countries -- Brazil and Russia -- stand out for their increased policing of content online.
Modernization
NASA Released a Magical Timelapse of 3 Years of Solar Beauty
You better sit down for this one.
Digital Government
Now, With No Further Ado, We Present ... the Digital Public Library of America!
Three questions with the project's executive director
Emerging Tech
Google Death: A Tool to Take Care of Your Gmail When You're Gone
For years people have been urged to create a social-media will for themselves. Now Google has made doing so very easy.
Emerging Tech
The First Direct Image of a Two-Sun System
Twenty years ago, humans had never identified a single planet outside our own solar system. Now we have pictures.
Emerging Tech
We Still Do Not Know If Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System
The official position remains that the spacecraft has not yet crossed over into interstellar space
Digital Government
Google Street View Goes to Its Most Extreme Destinations Yet: 4 of the Planet's Highest Mountains
It's just like hiking up Mt. Everest -- minus the hiking part.
Digital Government
What Does the Consumer Data Industry Know About You?
Ever been bankrupt? Expecting a child? A whole lot of information about who you are -- and what kind of consumer you are -- is for sale.
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