When SimCity Got Serious: The Story of Maxis Business Simulations
The extraordinary story of how SimCity’s makers created business strategy simulation games for clients.
Google Research
Google has created a compulsively addictive word game built on an AI trained on “billions of conversations from the internet”, with the goal of better predicting what words will come next in a conversation (for anyone feeling competitive the current Journal high score is just over 6000).
Le Cantiche
A beatifully designed and developed tribute to Dante’s The Divine Comedy, released 700 years after the work was written.
Since I Met Edward Snowden, I’ve Never Stopped Watching My Back
A journalist writes about the alarming degree of surveillance and suspected hacking he was subject to after working with Edward Snowden on a major story, and the paranoia it engendered.
The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
The compelling story of a hacker who stopped a massive cyber-attack, only to be arrested.
Number One Id
A 1998 story about The Last King of Scotlland and Idi Amin, written by the novelist Hillary Mantel.
‘I Could Solve Most of Your Problems’: Eric Schmidt’s Pentagon Offensive
A look at the former Google CEO’s engagement with the US military.
The System That Actually Worked
The internet has dealt with unprecendented levels of traffic during lockdown, and has largely managed to cope.
Online collection
The British Museum has revamped its online collection and it is impressive, a treasure trove of high quality images from the collection accompanied with explanatory notes, curated and tagged for easy discovery.