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AMERICA IS KEEPING REAL DUBSTEP ALIVE By Seb Wheeler 05 February 2014 AMERICA IS KEEPING REAL DUBSTEP ALIVE We all know the supposed history of dubstep in America, right? A bastard version of the sound blew up around the turn of the decade, igniting a stampede of brostep bangers and seething…

COVER STORY The Ghost Files US historians have long complained about gaps in the National Archives. Can big-data analysis show what kinds of information the government is keeping classified? Published Winter 2013-14 Email Print Download Text Size M atthew Connelly had an idea for a book. The…

I have had it with long-form journalism. By which I mean—don’t get me wrong—I’m fed up with the term long-form itself, a label that the people who create and sell magazines now invariably, and rather solemnly, apply to their most ambitious work. Reader, do you feel enticed to plunge into a story by…

European nations and Japan at the end of the 19th century spread their influence and control throughout the continent of Asia. Russia, because of its geographic position, was the only occupying power whose Asian conquests were overland. In that respect there is some similarity between Russia and the…

Dumb Computers are near-omnipotent cauldrons of processing power, but they’re also stupid. They are the undisputed chess champions of the world, but they can’t understand a simple English conversation. IBM’s Watson supercomputer defeated two top Jeopardy! players last year, but for the clue “What…

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@mperkel #ASKSNOWDEN They say it’s a balance of privacy and safety. I think spying makes us less safe. do you agree? Intelligence agencies do have a role to play, and the people at the working level at the NSA, CIA, or any other member of the IC are not out to get you. They’re good people trying to…

All About Glass You are here On a Pool of Tin: Float Glass All About Glass The auto and building industries boomed after World War II. Plate glass was in extremely short supply. Twin-grinding—used all over the world to make the glass—was too costly and too slow to keep up with the demand. Could…

2 of 12 3 of 12 4 of 12 9 of 12 10 of 12 On a normal Thursday, Greger Huttu sits in the blue glow of a computer screen, in his bedroom in the teeny town of Vaasa on the west coast of Finland. In the afternoons, he joins his fisherman father to land a catch of perch netted from Arctic waters. But not…

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The real program to sabotage Iran’s nuclear facilities was far more sophisticated than anyone realized.