Cybersecurity

How a Bunch of Hacked DVR Machines Took Down Twitter and Reddit

And Spotify and Github and The New York Times.

  • By Robinson Meyer, Quartz
Digital Government

Body Cameras Are Betraying Their Promise

They’re not transparent. They’re not independent. They’re not even turned on when they should be.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Modernization

Apple Just Reinvented Its Biggest App

Here are four ways to understand the company’s extremely weird iMessage makeover.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

The Startup That Watches Corn Grow, From Orbit

Descartes Labs is estimating the health of the American corn crop every week this harvest season.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

Uber Takes to the Skies

The satellite-imagery giant DigitalGlobe will now provide high-resolution Earth imagery to Uber.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

Google's Satellite Map Gets 700-Trillion-Pixel Makeover

It’s the cloudless map’s first major makeover since 2013.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

The New App That Could Revolutionize How the Postal Service Delivers Mail

A British startup is assigning a unique name to every meter of Earth’s surface. Should addressing systems be universalized—and privatized?

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

Navy Is Making a New GPS for Drone Submarines

Right now, GPS signals can barely travel below the surface of the ocean.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Modernization

No One Will Save You From Cellphone Tracking

Unless the Supreme Court acts

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

The Promise of Terrapattern: The Visual Search Engine for Satellite Imagery

Finding empty pools for skateboarding has never been so easy.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

How Facebook Could Tilt the 2016 Election

It would only take one little button.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

This Very Common Cellphone Surveillance Still Doesn't Require a Warrant

And a court just ruled in favor of the government, again.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

How Should the US Fund Research and Development?

The United States leads the world in dollars invested in furthering innovation. It won’t for long.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

How Many Elephants of Fuel did a Saturn V Burn Per Second?

How much fuel did the rocket use per second, as measured in giant land animals?

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Modernization

Apple's New Twist: A Smaller iPhone

The tech giant did something it had never done before.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

A New 50-Trillion-Pixel Image of Earth, Every Day

Thanks to a small group of Silicon Valley’s satellite startups, we may never look at our planet again the same way.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Digital Government

Facebook Is Making a Map of Everyone in the World

And it's using a brand new AI technique and a whole lot of computing power to do it.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

Elon Musk Triumphs: SpaceX Vertically Launches Orbital Rocket

The company has finally achieved the goal it has pursued for years.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Emerging Tech

NASA’s About to Have Its Biggest Budget in a Decade

The space agency will be able to spend $19.3 bil­lion next year, ac­cord­ing to the budget, an in­crease of more than $1.3 bil­lion over 2015 fund­ing levels.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
Modernization

Where Americans Can Be Tracked Without a Warrant

Can cops look at cellphone-location records without a warrant? It depends where you live.

  • By Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic
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