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• The Suspicion Machine

  by dthal on 9/16/2023, 2:54 AM with 31 comments

• Pricing determines your business model (2014)

  by dthal on 4/9/2023, 7:07 PM with 0 comments

• The Suspicion Machine

  by dthal on 3/7/2023, 7:28 AM with 1 comments

• Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944)

  by dthal on 10/11/2021, 8:16 AM with 7 comments

• SARS-CoV-2 exposure in wild white-tailed deer

  by dthal on 8/1/2021, 9:47 PM with 8 comments

• How to talk to conspiracy theorists–and still be kind

  by dthal on 8/17/2020, 9:20 PM with 0 comments

• Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal

  by dthal on 4/26/2020, 3:35 AM with 1 comments

• Domino Chain Reaction

  by dthal on 12/15/2019, 7:27 PM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 12/15/2019, 7:27 PM with comments

• Portrait of an Inessential Government Worker

  by dthal on 10/21/2019, 2:24 AM with 0 comments

• Quantifying Jane Jacobs (2018)

  by dthal on 10/12/2019, 1:20 AM with 0 comments

• Technology Sabotaged Public Safety

  by dthal on 10/11/2019, 2:01 AM with 0 comments

• Where will the West's next deadly wildfire strike? The risks are everywhere

  by dthal on 7/30/2019, 6:27 AM with 0 comments

• Why homeownership is frequently a bad bet

  by dthal on 7/15/2019, 6:29 PM with 0 comments

• The Slackification of the American Home

  by dthal on 7/12/2019, 4:33 AM with 0 comments

• Living Smaller (1991)

  by dthal on 2/12/2019, 10:23 AM with 0 comments

• Quantifying Jane Jacobs (2018)

  by dthal on 9/6/2018, 1:37 AM with 0 comments

• The Lessons of the Seattle Plane Crash

  by dthal on 8/13/2018, 2:48 AM with 0 comments

• Pittsburgh Bus Bunching (2016)

  by dthal on 7/22/2018, 10:57 PM with 60 comments

• by dthal on 6/16/2018, 8:44 AM with comments

• Turn-of-the-Century Pigeons Photographed Earth from Above

  by dthal on 4/15/2018, 5:45 AM with 12 comments

• Apps Are Not Transforming the Urban Transport Business

  by dthal on 2/7/2018, 6:32 AM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 1/9/2018, 4:52 AM with comments

• by dthal on 1/9/2018, 4:50 AM with comments

• New York City Moves to Create Accountability for Algorithms

  by dthal on 12/19/2017, 12:20 AM with 22 comments

• Amazon’s Seattle hiring frenzy slows sharply

  by dthal on 12/11/2017, 5:16 PM with 0 comments

• The First FBI Crime Report Issued Under Trump Is Missing a Ton of Info

  by dthal on 10/28/2017, 12:14 AM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 10/16/2017, 6:30 PM with comments

• by dthal on 9/18/2017, 7:40 AM with comments

• Instead of hacking self-driving cars, researchers try to hack the world they see

  by dthal on 7/19/2017, 3:38 AM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 4/17/2017, 4:50 PM with comments

• by dthal on 4/11/2017, 9:43 PM with comments

• The little-known deal that saved Amazon from the dot-com crash

  by dthal on 4/5/2017, 6:46 PM with 0 comments

• What's Really Driving the Trade Deficit with China

  by dthal on 4/5/2017, 4:38 AM with 0 comments

• We’re losing the information war

  by dthal on 3/30/2017, 8:09 AM with 312 comments

• Why Nothing Works Anymore

  by dthal on 2/23/2017, 7:07 PM with 92 comments

• Battling the Tyranny of Big Data

  by dthal on 1/3/2017, 9:18 AM with 0 comments

• How “open source” seed producers are changing global food production

  by dthal on 12/25/2016, 9:03 PM with 0 comments

• The Applied Learning of War

  by dthal on 12/14/2016, 7:20 PM with 0 comments

• Trump Won Because Leftist Political Correctness Inspired a Terrifying Backlash

  by dthal on 11/14/2016, 8:57 PM with 30 comments

• Lost Cause: Seeing America Through the Losing Candidates’ Map

  by dthal on 11/13/2016, 11:41 AM with 5 comments

• The Polls of the Future Are Reproducible and Open Source

  by dthal on 11/1/2016, 7:55 PM with 0 comments

• Families in the World by Income

  by dthal on 11/1/2016, 7:31 AM with 0 comments

• When Will New York City Sink?

  by dthal on 9/8/2016, 10:19 AM with 0 comments

• What 1M Craigslist rental listings tell us about the housing market

  by dthal on 9/2/2016, 4:53 AM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 8/22/2016, 9:22 AM with comments

• The limits of data-driven approaches to planning

  by dthal on 8/17/2016, 9:32 PM with 0 comments

• America's Addiction to Mercenaries

  by dthal on 8/14/2016, 8:07 AM with 68 comments

• A City of Empty Towers

  by dthal on 8/2/2016, 9:20 PM with 0 comments

• America's Truly Densest Metros

  by dthal on 7/27/2016, 6:27 AM with 0 comments

• 'Largest-ever' Silicon Valley eviction to displace hundreds of tenants

  by dthal on 7/7/2016, 10:12 PM with 2 comments

• by dthal on 7/7/2016, 6:35 AM with comments

• Will Robocars Kick Humans Off City Streets?

  by dthal on 6/26/2016, 5:44 PM with 0 comments

• I’m suing the US government for its data on who’s entering the country

  by dthal on 6/26/2016, 2:11 AM with 7 comments

• What Are People Working on in Coffee Shops?

  by dthal on 5/25/2016, 3:36 AM with 1 comments

• by dthal on 5/9/2016, 5:22 AM with comments

• The Jane Jacobs Century

  by dthal on 5/4/2016, 10:57 PM with 0 comments

• Small Turbines Can Outperform Conventional Wind Farms, with No Bird Kill

  by dthal on 4/29/2016, 7:17 AM with 0 comments

• German nuclear plant’s fuel rod system swarming with old malware

  by dthal on 4/28/2016, 6:50 AM with comments

• Campus Shuttles Want to Speed Ahead in the Autonomous Vehicle Race

  by dthal on 3/28/2016, 7:58 AM with 11 comments

• First driverless buses travel public roads in the Netherlands

  by dthal on 3/21/2016, 11:09 PM with 0 comments

• Copenhagen’s New Traffic Lights Recognize and Favor Cyclists

  by dthal on 2/22/2016, 5:25 AM with 0 comments

• What being a journalist in the Middle East taught me about how censorship works

  by dthal on 2/18/2016, 7:20 PM with 2 comments

• Making Facebook for Whales

  by dthal on 1/17/2016, 10:15 PM with 0 comments

• You've Got Dung Amazon Is Delivering Cow Pies in India

  by dthal on 1/7/2016, 7:06 PM with 0 comments

• What Happened in 2015

  by dthal on 1/1/2016, 11:37 AM with comments

• How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice

  by dthal on 12/25/2015, 2:21 AM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 12/24/2015, 7:09 AM with comments

• by dthal on 12/8/2015, 10:48 PM with comments

• by dthal on 11/19/2015, 8:31 PM with comments

• by dthal on 11/17/2015, 11:40 AM with comments

• America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs

  by dthal on 11/12/2015, 11:33 PM with 44 comments

• by dthal on 11/8/2015, 9:29 PM with comments

• Police Killings Surpass the Worst Years of Lynching, and a Movement Responds

  by dthal on 11/4/2015, 11:19 PM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 10/24/2015, 6:11 PM with comments

• by dthal on 10/23/2015, 1:02 AM with comments

• by dthal on 10/19/2015, 10:29 PM with comments

• by dthal on 10/19/2015, 8:02 PM with comments

• by dthal on 10/13/2015, 7:42 AM with comments

• The International Energy Agency consistently underestimates wind and solar power

  by dthal on 10/12/2015, 6:59 PM with 1 comments

• by dthal on 10/6/2015, 5:05 PM with comments

• The Era of Automatic Facial Recognition and Surveillance Is Here

  by dthal on 10/5/2015, 8:04 PM with 155 comments

• by dthal on 10/2/2015, 6:06 PM with comments

• This “Cycle-In Office” Is a Bike Commuter’s Dream

  by dthal on 9/17/2015, 11:36 PM with 0 comments

• Nick Merrill: the man who may unlock the secrecy of the FBI's subpoenas

  by dthal on 9/17/2015, 9:06 PM with 0 comments

• In Contempt of Bulk Surveillance: It’s Too Easy

  by dthal on 9/16/2015, 7:46 PM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 9/16/2015, 4:52 AM with comments

• by dthal on 9/16/2015, 4:42 AM with comments

• by dthal on 9/2/2015, 9:23 PM with comments

• If we don’t understand both sides of China’s balance sheet,we understand neither

  by dthal on 9/2/2015, 8:41 AM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 9/2/2015, 6:01 AM with comments

• The Limits of Language

  by dthal on 9/1/2015, 7:55 PM with 8 comments

• by dthal on 8/31/2015, 7:16 PM with comments

• by dthal on 8/30/2015, 12:30 AM with comments

• by dthal on 8/27/2015, 9:25 AM with comments

• by dthal on 8/24/2015, 4:07 AM with comments

• by dthal on 8/21/2015, 7:19 PM with comments

• by dthal on 8/20/2015, 8:43 PM with comments

• by dthal on 8/19/2015, 8:05 AM with comments

• Lovin' their elevator: why Germans are loopy about paternosters

  by dthal on 8/14/2015, 6:20 AM with 56 comments

• Frances Oldham Kelsey, Who Saved U.S. Babies from Thalidomide, Dies at 101

  by dthal on 8/8/2015, 6:32 AM with 5 comments

• by dthal on 8/8/2015, 6:28 AM with comments

• by dthal on 8/3/2015, 4:52 AM with comments

• Missed Calls: Is the NSA lying about its failure to prevent 9/11?

  by dthal on 7/30/2015, 4:19 PM with 1 comments

• by dthal on 7/24/2015, 6:29 PM with comments

• by dthal on 7/21/2015, 7:33 PM with comments

• by dthal on 7/12/2015, 9:37 PM with comments

• by dthal on 7/11/2015, 1:58 AM with comments

• by dthal on 7/6/2015, 6:47 PM with comments

• Can DNA testing be trusted? The imprecise science of a courtroom tool

  by dthal on 6/25/2015, 3:29 AM with 0 comments

• How DOJ Gagged Google Over Surveillance of Wikileaks Volunteer

  by dthal on 6/20/2015, 5:46 PM with 26 comments

• by dthal on 5/26/2015, 7:40 AM with comments

• by dthal on 5/9/2015, 8:21 PM with comments

• Here's Why Companies Keep Losing the Battle Against Hackers

  by dthal on 4/16/2015, 4:11 AM with 0 comments

• Baseball’s new metal detectors won’t keep you safe

  by dthal on 4/15/2015, 7:23 PM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 4/13/2015, 6:44 PM with comments

• by dthal on 4/7/2015, 7:50 PM with comments

• by dthal on 4/1/2015, 9:23 PM with comments

• by dthal on 3/22/2015, 3:12 AM with comments

• by dthal on 3/10/2015, 8:31 AM with comments

• Data and Goliath's Big Idea

  by dthal on 3/7/2015, 8:16 PM with 2 comments

• The Eiffel Tower has new wind turbines

  by dthal on 3/3/2015, 5:36 AM with 0 comments

• Cyberweapons Have No Allegiance

  by dthal on 3/2/2015, 7:39 PM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 3/2/2015, 2:47 AM with comments

• Fines Remain Rare Even as Health Data Breaches Multiply

  by dthal on 3/1/2015, 6:18 AM with 1 comments

• Japan Is Holding Actual Funerals for Sony's Robotic AIBO Dogs

  by dthal on 2/26/2015, 9:40 PM with 0 comments

• Gemalto Doesn't Know What It Doesn't Know

  by dthal on 2/25/2015, 7:05 PM with 0 comments

• Police talk about use of “stingrays,” but aren’t saying anything

  by dthal on 2/17/2015, 11:39 PM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 2/13/2015, 9:16 PM with comments

• The Bad Cop Database

  by dthal on 2/13/2015, 8:43 PM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 2/12/2015, 8:35 AM with comments

• Are Your Medications Safe?

  by dthal on 2/9/2015, 9:50 PM with 0 comments

• DEA using license-plate readers to take photos of US drivers, documents reveal

  by dthal on 2/5/2015, 6:07 PM with 0 comments

• Welcome to SubTropolis: The Massive Business Complex Buried Under Kansas City

  by dthal on 2/5/2015, 2:00 AM with comments

• by dthal on 2/4/2015, 5:27 AM with comments

• 8 photos that show how cars seized city streets from pedestrians

  by dthal on 1/30/2015, 6:18 PM with 2 comments

• Nearly every U.S. arms program found vulnerable to cyber attacks

  by dthal on 1/21/2015, 3:48 AM with 0 comments

• How Was Your Credit Card Stolen?

  by dthal on 1/21/2015, 12:25 AM with 0 comments

• Why Almost Nobody Wants to Pay for the 'Netflix of Magazines'

  by dthal on 1/19/2015, 8:00 PM with 2 comments

• Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with police

  by dthal on 1/16/2015, 6:46 PM with 125 comments

• by dthal on 1/16/2015, 12:31 AM with comments

• Delphi's computer chauffeur drives me around Las Vegas at CES 2015

  by dthal on 1/10/2015, 2:51 AM with 0 comments

• Hamburg is burying the Autobahn and putting parks on top

  by dthal on 1/9/2015, 7:09 PM with 51 comments

• Uber’s Latest Experiment Is Uber Cargo, a Logistics Service in Hong Kong

  by dthal on 1/9/2015, 5:46 PM with 8 comments

• FBI says Sony hackers 'got sloppy,' posted from North Korea addresses

  by dthal on 1/8/2015, 3:44 AM with comments

• We Still Don't Know Who Hacked Sony

  by dthal on 1/7/2015, 6:01 PM with 0 comments

• Gogo Inflight Wi-Fi Undermines Encryption

  by dthal on 1/6/2015, 7:24 AM with 0 comments

• 60 Years of Urban Change: Midwest

  by dthal on 12/29/2014, 7:48 PM with 0 comments

• A controversial YouTube video could create a crazy new form of copyright

  by dthal on 12/24/2014, 8:48 AM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 12/22/2014, 8:22 PM with comments

• A Meadow in the Ocean with 'Flowers' Everywhere

  by dthal on 12/22/2014, 7:31 AM with 2 comments

• Uber Wants to Patent Its Controversial Surge-Pricing Plan

  by dthal on 12/19/2014, 6:56 PM with 1 comments

• China to Purge Foreign Technology and Replace with Homegrown Suppliers

  by dthal on 12/18/2014, 3:54 AM with 3 comments

• Smart cities: ‘In the end, they will destroy democracy'

  by dthal on 12/17/2014, 11:43 PM with 0 comments

• Sony leaks reveal Hollywood is trying to break DNS

  by dthal on 12/17/2014, 1:10 AM with 0 comments

• Am I a data scientist?

  by dthal on 12/10/2014, 10:00 AM with 0 comments

• SCOTUS:Amazon Workers Don’t Need to Be Paid During Mandatory Security Screenings

  by dthal on 12/10/2014, 3:33 AM with 1 comments

• Schneier: Why Uber's 'god view' is creepy

  by dthal on 12/5/2014, 9:37 PM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 11/20/2014, 3:37 AM with comments

• U.S. entrepreneur considered suing Uber over tracking activities

  by dthal on 11/19/2014, 9:12 PM with 0 comments

• Gecko-inspired contraption lets you climb glass walls

  by dthal on 11/19/2014, 8:22 AM with 0 comments

• Judges impose rare, stricter requirement for “stingray” use by police

  by dthal on 11/19/2014, 3:17 AM with 0 comments

• Does the TPP (Still) Make Buffer Copies Illegal?

  by dthal on 11/18/2014, 2:20 AM with 0 comments

• Why the Best Supreme Court Predictor in the World Is Some Random Guy in Queens

  by dthal on 11/17/2014, 10:00 PM with 0 comments

• Behind Closed Doors, Ford, UPS, and Visa Push for Net Neutrality

  by dthal on 11/15/2014, 4:37 PM with 0 comments

• Google’s French arm faces daily €1,000 fines over links to defamatory article

  by dthal on 11/14/2014, 3:49 AM with 2 comments

• The Mercenaries: Ex-NSA hackers are shaping the future of cyberwar

  by dthal on 11/13/2014, 5:20 AM with 69 comments

• Hacking Internet Voting via Ballot Tampering

  by dthal on 11/12/2014, 6:32 AM with 0 comments

• Silk Road, other Tor “darknet” sites may have been “decloaked” through DDoS

  by dthal on 11/10/2014, 6:14 AM with 0 comments

• Spritz: A New RC4-Like Stream Cipher

  by dthal on 10/27/2014, 8:06 PM with 0 comments

• Inside San Francisco's housing crisis

  by dthal on 10/22/2014, 8:10 PM with 174 comments

• US Has Test That Can Detect Ebola Virus in Seconds (But It’s Stuck in a Lab)

  by dthal on 10/18/2014, 12:24 AM with comments

• Local cops say your driving history is public-unless you want a copy

  by dthal on 10/16/2014, 2:51 AM with 0 comments

• DEA Used Seized Photos to Make a Phony Facebook Profile and Impersonate a Woman

  by dthal on 10/8/2014, 1:17 AM with 0 comments

• PayPal in Play for Google as Leftover EBay Invites LBO

  by dthal on 9/30/2014, 4:33 PM with 0 comments

• First Selfies, Now Shapies? Scanning Booths Capture the Moment in 3-D

  by dthal on 9/30/2014, 7:11 AM with 4 comments

• Solar power is growing so fast that older energy companies are trying to stop it

  by dthal on 9/30/2014, 6:36 AM with comments

• Ghost of Ronald Reagan Authorizes Most NSA Spying

  by dthal on 9/29/2014, 7:15 PM with 0 comments

• America's Densest Cities

  by dthal on 9/27/2014, 7:05 AM with 1 comments

• How FiveThirtyEight Calculates Pollster Ratings

  by dthal on 9/25/2014, 7:16 PM with 0 comments

• New 'Bash' software bug may pose bigger threat than 'Heartbleed'

  by dthal on 9/25/2014, 1:03 AM with 0 comments

• A Decoy Computer Was Set Up Online. See Which Countries Attacked It the Most

  by dthal on 9/24/2014, 3:29 AM with 0 comments

• How the FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast Model Works

  by dthal on 9/17/2014, 10:06 PM with 1 comments

• Legal memos released on Bush-era justification for warrantless wiretapping

  by dthal on 9/6/2014, 6:40 AM with 0 comments

• NSA bulk collection of phone data under scrutiny as federal case opens

  by dthal on 9/3/2014, 5:19 AM with 0 comments

• Corporations Spy on Nonprofits with Impunity

  by dthal on 8/26/2014, 2:32 AM with 0 comments

• by dthal on 8/15/2014, 6:28 PM with comments

• by dthal on 8/14/2014, 7:14 AM with comments

• Security experts call for government action against cyber threats

  by dthal on 8/10/2014, 5:35 PM with 1 comments

• Amid protests, U.S. FCC proposes new 'net neutrality' rules

  by dthal on 5/16/2014, 12:01 AM with 0 comments

• Tech firms write to U.S. FCC to oppose 'net neutrality' plan

  by dthal on 5/8/2014, 12:31 AM with 84 comments

• Do-it-yourselfers inspire hardware renaissance in Silicon Valley

  by dthal on 5/6/2014, 5:29 PM with 0 comments

• US Contractors Scale Up Search for Heartbleed-Like Flaws

  by dthal on 5/2/2014, 4:44 AM with 2 comments

• The top spook’s stupid gag order

  by dthal on 4/22/2014, 8:14 PM with 0 comments

• BlackBerry's meltdown sparks startup boom in Canada's Silicon Valley

  by dthal on 4/16/2014, 7:35 PM with 0 comments

• Canada Says Taxpayer Data Stolen With Heartbleed Breach

  by dthal on 4/14/2014, 6:41 PM with 0 comments

• Individuals targeted in San Francisco tech money protests

  by dthal on 4/11/2014, 7:21 PM with 0 comments

• Fact checking Experian's talking points

  by dthal on 4/6/2014, 6:32 PM with 0 comments

• Apple, Pfizer, others form 'go slow' U.S. patent lobby group

  by dthal on 4/3/2014, 4:46 PM with 0 comments

• N.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat

  by dthal on 3/22/2014, 9:21 PM with 1 comments

• Indictment says Microsoft searched bloggers email

  by dthal on 3/21/2014, 12:04 AM with 0 comments

• British intelligence watchdog is like Yes Prime Minister

  by dthal on 3/19/2014, 1:06 AM with 0 comments

• Experian Lapse Allowed ID Theft Service Access to 200 Million Consumer Records

  by dthal on 3/10/2014, 5:42 AM with 27 comments

• Silent Technical Privilege

  by dthal on 1/15/2014, 7:54 PM with comments