I like a get-rich-quick scheme—what American doesn’t?—and not too long ago I alighted on drop-shipping. The idea came up like this: Plastic straws were in the moral firing line, and […]
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Back to news homeA Stroke Study Reveals the Future of Human Augmentation
It began in early October 2017, when 108 stroke patients with significant arm and hand disabilities turned up for a peculiar clinical trial. The researchers would be surgically implanting a […]
20 Years After 9/11, Surveillance Has Become a Way of Life
Two decades after 9/11, many simple acts that were once taken for granted now seem unfathomable: strolling with loved ones to the gate of their flight, meandering through a corporate […]
When the Game Is Over, Where Do Our Avatars Go?
In the 2003 Major League Baseball season, Oreo Queefs stood five-foot-zero, weighed 385 pounds, and, impossibly, stole 214 bases, obliterating the century-old single-season record of 138. A walrus with the […]
Are Humans the Meanest Species in the Universe?
Melinda Snodgrass got the idea for her science fiction novel The High Ground when she started thinking about how awful human beings can be. “I had a sudden vision of […]
How to Stay Under Your 15 GB of Free Storage From Google
Sign up for a Google account, and you get 15GB of cloud storage space for free, split across three main products—Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. Once you exceed that […]
Looking for a Tablet? These Are Our Absolute Favorites
Tablets aren’t essential, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t nice to have around. A good tablet can be a portable TV screen around the house and a way to get […]
Private Espionage Is Booming. The US Needs a Spy Registry
Years ago, while stationed in Moscow as the bureau chief for a major news magazine, I was approached by a representative of a multinational company and presented with a tantalizing […]
Robert Sheckley Was the Master of Dark, Funny Sci-Fi
Robert Sheckley, author of classic stories such as “Is That What People Do?” and “Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?” was one of the top sci-fi authors of […]