An engineer and data scientist (formerly at OK Cupid) goes deep in this engaging piece covering how AI, machine learning and ever greater troves of data from social platforms will impact dating.
This three part story examines newly released KGB operational manuals and looks for evidence of their tactics in recruiting foreign targets today, in Russia’s moves in the Middle East, and in their approach to turning Russians worldwide into intelligence assets.
A look at the camel milk industry of China, thriving in a remote northwestern region bordering Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia.
A piece interspersed with evocative images, describing the photographer-author’s 12,000-mile, three-month journey through Australia’s Outback.
A story set in a rural village in Germany over the course of a year as a camp for refugees is built on the outskirts of the village, local concern and optimism ebbs and flows, refugees arrive and then subsequently leave. Measured in pace and tone, observing all the complexities that arose from a complex situation.
A report on the security challenges and failures leaving Europe vulnerable to attack.
A look at the rise of industrial robots in China, a trend that will have a major impact on the global economy.
Is a passport a tool of individual freedom or state restriction and regulation? This piece looks to answer that question and examines the history of identity documentation.
A piece looking at the thieves illegally salvaging sunken battleships.
The author describes his “sordid double life” in Hackmud, a new online multiplayer game set in a dystopian future. The game itself is inaccessible in that you play the role of an AI, it is text based and you can only play by coding scripts, and yet the piece draws you in, painting a vivid picture of a lawless digital outpost, where no one is to be trusted, and everyone is on the make.