Even This Data Guru Is Creeped Out By What Anonymous Location Data Reveals About Us.

Using code and the web, a data scientist follows two unnamed people and learns just how much our anonymous location data can say about who we are.

On Primo Levi’s “The Periodic Table” (1975).

The chemical element that sparked a victory in Auschwitz.

Registrierkassenpflicht aus Sicht eines Software-Entwicklers.

The Yamaha NS10 Story.

Love or hate the Yamaha NS10, this unassuming little speaker has found a place in the studios of many of the world's top producers. We trace its history, and investigate why a monitor whose sound has been described as “horrible” became an industry standard.

Rise of the yimbys: the angry millennials with a radical housing solution.

They see themselves as progressive housing activists. Critics call them stooges for luxury developers. Meet the new band of millennials who are priced out of cities and shouting: ‘Yes in my back yard’.

America’s Gun Zealots Are Preparing for a Violent Showdown That Exists Only in Their Minds.

Just 3 percent of the nation owns half its firearms. They’re preparing to live out a twisted fantasy.

Relevant: Mass Shootings Are A Bad Way To Understand Gun Violence.

Virtual Reality and Journalism Ethics: Where Are the Lines?

(…) how do the principles of fair and accurate reporting apply when the camera setup doesn’t simply depict an event, but exploits human perception to place audiences directly in the scene? How are editing choices amplified in such contexts? How to shoot 360-degrees without capturing the journalist and his or her equipment in the middle of it — and are efforts to remove them fair? And how does experiencing a story in virtual reality affect how viewers remember and respond to the story at hand?

Transhumanismus: Den Menschen weiterentwickeln, um ihn besser kontrollieren zu können.

Der Transhumanismus will den Menschen weiterentwickeln, modifizieren, optimieren. Die Ideen, die dieser Denkrichtung zu Grunde liegen, müssen dringend hinterfragt werden. Denn der Transhumanismus geht einher mit einer Utopie der vollständigen Kontrolle menschlichen Handelns. Die Technik-Philosophin Janina Loh unternimmt eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme.

Egg white—also known as egg albumen—is not only good-tasting, it also has very good dielectric properties, along with a high transparency and high elasticity, that make it a promising material for fabricating transparent, flexible electronic devices.

Picturing the Internet (via t3n.de).

We asked 100 Americans to show us, in their own style, how they saw the internet – from the colors and textures that first come to mind to what’s really happening up in the cloud.