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While imprisoned for being a “reactionary,” physicist and engineer Zhi Bingyi began devising a system to help computing machines read Chinese characters.

Archive of Our Own, the fanfiction database recently nominated for a Hugo, has perfected a system of tagging that the rest of the web could emulate.

Facebook has been updating its privacy settings for more than a decade. Will this time be different?

YouTube and other tech giants have repeatedly turned to Wikipedia to help solve some of their biggest problems.

Hear me out: Mindfulness erodes the psychology of tribalism in subtle and powerful ways.

For the past five years, I've turned off social media in August. This year was different.

Companies seize our time and attention for absolutely nothing in exchange, and indeed, without consent at all. This isn't just an annoyance. It's stealing.

WIRED's new video series uses rationality and logic to battle the scourge of "post-truth" fake news.

If sorrow were a landscape, here’s how it would look from a cruising altitude of 30,000 feet.

Is the information age making us smart in some ways and stupid in others -- or none of the above? Mathematician and Social Dimension blogger Samuel Arbesman highlights a new essay that argues information overload is nothing new.

Shoving more public data into the commons, and into the hands of clever entrepreneurs, could kick-start billions in economic activity.

Information can set you free, but there's also a dark side to the Internet.

How much information is out there? For most of us, “a crapload” is a sufficiently accurate answer. But for a few obsessive data analysts, more precision is necessary. According to a recent study by market-research company IDC, and sponsored by storage company EMC, the size of the information universe is currently 800,000 petabytes. Each petabyte […]

Your mind will probably wander while you read this article. Don’t worry, I won’t be offended. Our modern info-culture lionizes those who possess laserlike focus, particularly at work. Drifting off into a reverie is considered the enemy of productivity, which is partly why some companies control employee access to the Internet. They don’t want the […]

While inferior to many other rifles, the AK-47' reliability, ease of use and ability to stand up to abuse have seen it become the weapon of choice for soldiers and terrorists the world over. The author cites "Weaponomics: The Global Market for Assault Rifles", a paper by Phillip Killicoat of Oxford University: In the case of the AK-47 [the] early advantage may be that as a Soviet invention it was not subject to patent and so could be freely copied.