The New FCC Chairman’s Plan for Undermining Net Neutrality
The current net neutrality rules, FCC chairman Ajit Pai seems ready to argue, will hold back a faster internet for…
Internet Bots Fight Each Other Because They’re All Too Human
A funny thing happens when you lock a bunch of bots in a virtual room: Sometimes they don’t get along.…
The Army Is Converting Missiles Into Ship-Killers. Why? China
An Army missile converted into an anti-ship weapon could prove a powerful deterrent against China’s naval power. The post The…
Trump’s Speech to Congress Was a Peter Thiel Fever Dream
Maybe the future—at least a populist, scant-on-details version—is finally rubbing off on the president. The post Trump’s Speech to Congress…
Trump the Divider Takes a Stab at Unity
A totally completely normal speech provides a new president’s most surreal hour The post Trump the Divider Takes a Stab…
Google Takes on Cable With ‘YouTube TV’—40 Channels for $35
YouTube TV—the much-anticipated TV streaming service from the video company—is official. It’s $35 a month with 40+ channels, cloud DVR,…
The Amazon S3 Outage Is What Happens When One Site Hosts Too Much of the Internet
Corporate consolidation in tech has implications for competition—but it also affects the resilience of the internet itself. The post The…
Bro. BRO! Travis Kalanick Is Totally Sorry.
This totally-not-made-up apology letter proves he’s really trying. The post Bro. BRO! Travis Kalanick Is Totally Sorry. appeared first on…
February’s Best Gear: New Wireless Headphones and Fancy PCs
From the Microsoft Surface Studio and Beats headphones to Android Wear watches and new Samsung Chromebooks, these are the coolest…
Watch Shell’s 1991 Video Warning of Catastrophic Climate Change
A public information film unseen for years shows Shell had clear grasp of global warming 26 years ago but has…