Jeffrey Martin (previously) writes, "I shot this gigapixel image last year in mid November. It's made of 8000 photos, shot with a fullframe SLR and a 600mm lens. It was… Read the rest of the article: Behold! A 400,000 megapixel panorama of Prague!

Jenny Odell is an artist and critic whose Bureau of Suspended Objects report on dropshipping (previously) was a fascinating dive into the weird, scammy world of crapgadgets and farcically poorly… Read the rest of the article: Probing a mysterious network of dropshippers, evangelicals, crapgadgets, and semi-vacant Manhattan department stores

Are you a PhD with interest in "the intersection of digital technology and public life, including experts in computer science, sociology, economics, law, political science, public policy, information studies, communication,… Read the rest of the article: Princeton's interdisciplinary Center for Information Technology Policy is seeking visiting scholars

CCTV footage from a wave of after-hours robberies in Houston has birthed a viral sensation, thanks to the robbers' tactic of commando-crawling on the floor, which has led to them… Read the rest of the article: Houston's "inchworm bandits" create performance art while robbing restaurants on their bellies

A family of Armenian refugees have been sheltering in Bethel Church in The Hague for 27 days, avoiding a deportation order because officials are not legally permitted to interrupt a… Read the rest of the article: Dutch church holds 27 days of round-the-clock services to protect immigrant family from deportation

Once again, Comcast is repeating its annual tradition of hiking "broadcast TV" and "regional sports network" hidden fees at a rate far above inflation, typically raising them from $14.50 to… Read the rest of the article: Comcast cranks up extra charges on cable bills, again, even for people who signed contracts promising a lower rate

Prince's music videos are a lot more obscure than his catalog of 40 albums; he was ambivalent about the form and many of the videos he created were only released… Read the rest of the article: Prince's entire catalog of obscure, hard-to-find music videos, collected and annotated

On January 15th, Google will disappear all Youtube annotations, which have lots of structural problems (spammy, don't work well on mobile or big screens), but which have been a font… Read the rest of the article: Before Youtube nukes annotations, take one last look at these amazing, creative projects that showed how much annotations could do

Ten years of austerity in the UK have produced a definitive answer to the question: does austerity drive economic growth? (Spoiler: No)

I can't believe this has to be said (again), but cyberpunk was meant as a warning, not a business plan.

Last June, 18-year-old Daniel Fabian of Pasco County, Florida was playing Grand Theft Auto Online, when he informed the other players in his team chat that he was going to… Read the rest of the article: Man arrested for rape after his Playstation mic allegedly broadcast audio from the crime to other players

For the second year now, the MIT Media Lab has awarded a "Disobedience Prize" of $250,000, no strings attached, awarded to people whose disobedient work has benefitted society; this year's… Read the rest of the article: MIT Media Lab announces this year's Disobedience Prize winners: #MeToo and #MeTooSTEM

Ganbreeder uses a machine learning technique called Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate images that seem like photos, at least a first glance.

For years, a secret Google team planned a Chinese search-engine that would censor search results and spy on users for the Chinese state authorities; when the existence of this plan… Read the rest of the article: Amnesty will stage global protests over Google's spying, censoring Chinese search engine plan

The Supreme Court hearing on Pepper v Apple has not gone well for Apple; the Supremes are considering whether App Store customers are entitled to sue Apple over its monopoly… Read the rest of the article: Supreme Court looks ready to let customers sue Apple for abusing its App Store monopoly

Our New Gilded Age is defined by its oligarchic concentration of wealth and power: not just how much wealth is controlled by the 0.001%, but how many of our key… Read the rest of the article: A visual guide to America's concentrated, uncompetitive markets

Between Trump's massive tax-breaks for the super-rich and rules like California's disastrous Prop 13, our cities perennially cash-starved and have led to the erosion of the same public services that… Read the rest of the article: US tax shortfalls have our public schools begging for donations

The same disinformation campaigns that epitomize the divisions in US society — beliefs in voter fraud, vaccine conspiracies, and racist conspiracies about migrants, George Soros and Black Lives Matter, to… Read the rest of the article: Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker

Michael Lewis is a national treasure, whose gift for explaining how finance grifters think and operate has spawned a whole genre, which he dominates with books like Liar's Poker (an… Read the rest of the article: The Fifth Risk: Michael Lewis explains how the "deep state" is just nerds versus grifters

Many open source projects attain a level of "maturity" where no one really needs any new features and there aren't a lot of new bugs being found, and the contributors… Read the rest of the article: Malware vector: become an admin on dormant, widely-used open source projects