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NOBODY'S HOME

The Kangbashi District of Ordos, China is a marvel of urban planning, 137-square miles of shining towers, futuristic architecture and pristine parks carved out of the grassland of Inner Mongolia. It is a thoroughly modern city, but for one thing: No one lives there.
  
WELCOME TO UBERVILLE

With the help of public subsidies, that future is coming fast. The speed with which Uber has entered the public transit sector has stunned industry activists. Will the embrace of Uber and its competitors undermine civic ideals of accessibility and transparency?
  
JAMMING UP R2-D2

Why on Earth are ports standardized but data storage isn’t? Why are data storage formats wildly variable, but file formats are readable across enemy lines? Why is it that I have to carry five dongles so my Macbook can play a PowerPoint presentation but a decades-old Rebel droid needs zero to stay interoperable with an enemy’s state-of-the-art battle station?
  
TEENAGE HERO

As a teenager, Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of lives by forging passports to help children flee the Nazis.
  
THIS IS YOUR DIGITAL MONUMENT

In the weeks after Roman Mazurenko’s death, friends debated the best way to preserve his memory. One person suggested making a coffee-table book about his life, illustrated with photography of his legendary parties. Another friend suggested a memorial website. To Eugenia Kuyda, every suggestion seemed inadequate.
  
FILE TO 'TERRIBLE IDEAS'

Being a vigilante isn't something to aspire to, but this app wants to create them.
  
THE FUTURE OF FREE SPEECH

Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms have immense power in deciding who can speak and who can be heard. Their rules are shaping the future of free speech.
  
AMPED

The fake news problem we’re facing isn’t just about articles gaining traffic from Facebook timelines or Google search results. It’s also an issue of news literacy — a reader’s ability to discern credible news. And it’s getting harder to tell on sight alone which sites are trustworthy.
  
HOLDING GROUND

"It's going to be hard to get people back on track, but it's the women that will do it. It's the women that will stand up and say enough is enough."
  
GOOGLE TAKE THE WHEEL

US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx thinks self-driving technology will revolutionize transportation.
  
THE FIRST LADY OF VR

First Lady Michelle Obama mastered social media. Now she's in VR.