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Dee Tuck has heard all the excuses. “I want to hire more women, but I just don't know where they are.” Yep. “I want to hire more people of color, I just don't know anybody.” That too. She's been working in tech for more than a decade and…

That spatial awareness is fundamental to the whole augmented-reality experience. Snap engineers know this as well as anyone, since the company built seemingly cheeky but technologically impressive AR filters in Snapchat long before bigs…

That afternoon, Coviello published an open letter to RSA’s customers on the company’s website. “Recently, our security systems identified an extremely sophisticated cyberattack in progress,” the letter read. “While at this time we are…

Dear OOO,I'm not ready to travel yet. And it seems silly to use my hard-earned vacation time when I'm just sitting at home. I could just keep working while saving my free days for a blowout trip later this year. But I'm tired, and I really…

Management changes at Arecibo also signaled that the observatory still had a future. In 2011, SRI International—the storied nonprofit research organization that developed the first computer mouse, inkjet printing, and the voice assistant…

The known universe seemed, briefly, muonstruck. But it took only 12 days for another Italian physicist to throw cold water on the bliss. Carlo Rovelli, a founder of loop quantum gravity theory, which seeks to combine quantum mechanics and…

Sometimes I’m really wrong.  In 2008 I heard about a funky new search engine called DuckDuckGo, took one glance, and predicted it would die a quick death. After all, back then Google was on the rise and the fields of tech were littered with…

Dear OOO,I’m a female middle manager at a medium-size company. “Ben,” a male colleague with whom I’m relatively close, just told me that “Steve,” a male colleague with whom I’m not close, told Ben that he’s scared of me. Steve and I don’t…

Over the course of the next decade, Graeb and the team at Wizard introduced countless innovations to revitalize this dying Comic Con, focusing on ways to include the wide varieties of fan communities and their interests. Thanks to the…

"It is only too typical that the ‘content’ of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium.” So said the awesomely gonzo communication theorist Marshall McLuhan some 57 years ago.What McLuhan meant was that, in a discourse dominated…