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Revolutionary Phone Failures

Every year, gadget companies like to flaunt out their latest flagship smartphones and show off all of the “revolutionary” features that will make this slab of glass and metal different from the nearly-identical looking slab of glass and metal already… Read More ›

Office Politics

I learned my lesson about the importance of office politics in the beginning of my career. I received two promotions very quickly and thought the secret to getting ahead was doing great work. But after eight years with a company… Read More ›

What Bullets Do To Bodies

The first thing Dr. Amy Goldberg told me is that this article would be pointless. She said this on a phone call last summer, well before the election, before a tangible sensation that facts were futile became a broader American… Read More ›

Why Poverty Is Like a Disease

From one perspective, epigenetics offers a compelling narrative of life experiences feeding back directly onto the basic programming that makes us who we are. But the field also has some foundational controversies. In June of last year, a team of… Read More ›

Fake News

The problem, as I see it, is not the news itself, but how we get our news. There are still lots of dependable journalists and media out there, while keeping in mind that almost all news is slanted, even slightly,… Read More ›

Old mobile games

For some reason I was thinking about Astraware yesterday and some of the amazing games they made for PDAs of the past. They still make great games today, but in an industry that is much larger and very difficult to… Read More ›

Do your children deserve privacy?

Parents worried their children are swapping inappropriate pictures and selfies with friends or even strangers online are being offered a smartphone app to automatically spot suspect images. The firm behind Gallery Guardian says it uses sophisticated image recognition software to… Read More ›