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Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine
Fill in the Blanks: Using Math to Turn Lo-Res Datasets Into Hi-Res Samples | Magazine
In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | Magazine
Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem | Magazine
"On the last day, they gathered for a group photo. They were videogame programmers, artists, level builders, artificial-intelligence experts. Their team was — finally — giving up, declaring defeat, and disbanding. So they headed down to the lobby of their building in Garland, Texas, to smile for the camera. They arranged themselves on top of their logo: a 10-foot-wide nuclear-radiation sign, inlaid in the marble floor."
Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess
"So how come when you arrive at the most popular dating site in the US you find a stream of anonymous come-ons intermixed with insults, ads for prostitutes, naked pictures, and obvious scams?"
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
might need to find this again (to rebut, most likely, but anyway...)
The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
Henry Blodget: Financial-Industry Scapegoat Reinvents Himself as Financial Reporter
Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
July 7, 1936: Get a Grip — Phillips Screws Up the Toolbox
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
on memory, and an eccentric pole who created some software to help you remember
High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace
The Pedal-to-the-Metal, Totally Illegal, Cross-Country Sprint for Glory
Optimize BitTorrent To Outwit Traffic Shaping ISPs / Wired How To's