Sitting in a hallway at University College London, there is a cabinet in which you'll find a wax head mounted on a…

1. The first people to walk on a new volcanic island are tourist entrepreneurs seeking to sell the experience of…

Today's edition is guest-edited by subscriber Dorothy Santos, a writer, editor, and curator focused on new media and…

1. What happened to the guy who wrote the Anarchist's Cookbook?

1. In praise of the shitphone, by John Hermann, who is on a tear.

On the back of the new Apple Watch, there are two sets of lights and sensors. One sends out and receives visible…

1. Maybe we should take Venus not Mars.

1. How Y2K really went down.

1. The future of eyewitness testimony, which is often garbage.

Last season, the NBA took its stats game up a level. The league began tracking the movements of every single player…

People have been asking me: why does your newsletter show up at all different times of the day? Some have asked…

The future will be all glass and light and grass and height. Yoga will be done under glass canopies, the people…

Andrew Ng builds artificial intelligence systems for a living. He taught AI at Stanford, built AI at Google, and…

American Internet companies love flaunting their far-flung research projects: Google has its self-driving cars…

1. How the American Sign Language community works out how to sign new words like "selfie" and "photobomb."

1. The brutal beginning of the sulfur supply chain is in an Indonesian volcano.

1. Dating bots make me … uncomfortable. Do coders really need one more special advantage?

1. Phone battery life should be longer. Battery innovation is hard, though, so maybe phones should be thicker.

1. The codes that reveal the presence of network infrastructure all over New York City.

1. These are all the sounds discarded when Suzanne Vega's 'Tom's Diner' was compressed to MP3.