How a joke in poor taste exploded into an ever-escalating firestorm of recriminations and tit-for-tats.

Big Think's informative and educational Q&A feature once again produces answers that fail to inform or educate.

What do radical Mexican environmental activists call a nuclear war followed by a totalitarian dictatorship? A good start.

The anger at Marissa Meyer has nothing to do with whether her employees will have to spend more time at the office and everything with why they're being corralled into their cubicles.

A widely covered article about math confuses readers by equating volume of proof and code with quality of proof and code to imply that computers will take over math as a discipline.

Newspapers are attacking online services with which they could partner out of sheer desperation.

Riot is being pitched as a digital, hyper-aware spy. It's nothing more than a simple data aggregator from public social media profiles.

Web 2.0 was all about sharing and networking. Web 3.0 is emphasizing securing your data from all the people with whom you shared and networked.

If you're a Silicon Valley founder without a new idea, you can always just steal and existing one and paper over it with buzzwords, as David Gelernter demonstrates...

If you're openly sorting search results with an AI, you're taking on certain responsibilities for which Google might not be ready...

Coding is a useful skill, but some Silicon Valley luminaries are tackling their mission to teach kids how to write apps with a little too much zeal and overly rosy stats.

If our grid is ever brought down by a cyberattack, the greatest contributing factor will be the carelessness and technical illiteracy of front line utility workers.

No, the tech industry isn't especially terrible at dealing with mental illness. No industry really knows how to deal with clinically depressed workers.

Distributed denials of service attack, once a manageable annoyance, have just become powerful enough to do very real damage.

The march of automation is imminent. How we plan for it is crucial for the future of the global economy.