Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# tech
# tech
Sometimes, when all you can get for your writing is exposure, the market is trying to tell you something you'd be foolish to ignore.
# tech
Malware peddlers apparently have great customer service. And if you think about it, they really have to...
# tech
EU's latest idea for making the web forget you and your embarrassing posts? Set all data to self-destruct.
# tech
Bitcoin isn't about to crash, but it's very unlikely to scale up to a currency freely used around the world.
# tech
Computers respect the letter of the law, but they can't understand the spirit. That's why they're terrible at real world policing.
# tech
In the tech world, dissing someone's tech stack is a great way to start a small holy war. And Jeff Atwood did just that on his blog.
# tech
Tech skeptic Evgeny Morozov doesn't seem to think smartphone app users have any agency or free will.
# tech
How a joke in poor taste exploded into an ever-escalating firestorm of recriminations and tit-for-tats.
# tech
Big Think's informative and educational Q&A feature once again produces answers that fail to inform or educate.
# tech
What do radical Mexican environmental activists call a nuclear war followed by a totalitarian dictatorship? A good start.