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Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph

Making connections: inside one of Google’s data centres, the Dalles, Oregon. Photograph: Google/Rex Features Thinking about Google over the last week, I have fallen into the typically procrastinatory…
AUTHOR:Tim Adams
PUBLISHED: Jan. 19, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4192 words)

The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal

Drugs are tested by their manufacturers, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques that exaggerate the benefits.…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4207 words)

How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking | Gadget Lab

Meet Mat Honan. He just had his digital life dissolved by hackers. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired. Illustration: Ross Patton/Wired In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First…
AUTHOR:Mat Honan
PUBLISHED: Aug. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3578 words)

How Google Can Beat Facebook Without Google Plus

Look, Google, we've got a plan to help you win on social. There's only one catch: you have to give up the notion that animates Google Plus. Out in the Mojave Desert, there's a place called California…
PUBLISHED: May 24, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2547 words)

Duran Duran: I've hated them for 30 years but they're the perfect band for the Olympics

Duran Duran Photograph: Fraser Gray All through the 80s, I hated Duran Duran, when for some they were the kings of pop. I hated them because they acted as though they were minor members of the royal…
PUBLISHED: May 5, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1449 words)
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'Magazines will always have a place on people's shelves'

In the basement of a London bar, gathered like a resistance movement or thralls to some secret perversion, 100 people have come together to discuss their passion for magazines. They particularly like…
AUTHOR:Tom Lamont
PUBLISHED: April 15, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1594 words)

Peter Dinklage Was Smart to Say No

In January, the actor Peter Dinklage surprised himself during his own Golden Globe acceptance speech. Dinklage had won the award for best supporting actor in a TV series for his portrayal of…
AUTHOR:Dan Kois
PUBLISHED: March 29, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3740 words)

Marx at 193

In trying to think what Marx would have made of the world today, we have to begin by stressing that he was not an empiricist. He didn’t think that you could gain access to the truth by…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5838 words)

Five centuries before Facebook and the Arab spring, social media helped bring about the Reformation

IT IS a familiar-sounding tale: after decades of simmering discontent a new form of media gives opponents of an authoritarian regime a way to express their views, register their solidarity and…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 17, 2011
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2627 words)
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