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Justin Sullivan / Getty New Mexico’s Sad Bet on Space Exploration
Spaceport America was supposed to bring a thriving space industry to the southern New Mexico desert—but for now it’s a futurist tourist attraction, not an operational harbor to the cosmos.
Nigel Young / Foster and Partners Could Facebook Be Tried for Human-Rights Abuses?
The legal path is murky.
Ralph Orlowski / Reuters A Surreal Trip to a Domain-Names Conference
… where misspelled URLs are auctioned off for tens of thousands of dollars.
Courtesy of Ingrid Burrington Why Amazon's Data Centers Are Hidden in Spy Country
The company powers much of the Internet, but its cloud facilities are difficult to find.
Ingrid Burrington How Mobile Carriers Skirt Net-Neutrality Rules
“There’s something stomach-twisting about a company offering free video streaming but charging for the data used when filling out an online job application.”
Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Environmental Toll of a Netflix Binge
The data centers that support the Internet use a huge amount of energy.
Yves Herman / Reuters The Secrets of an Abandoned Microwave Tower in Kansas
A mysterious AT&T relic reveals connections between telecommunications infrastructure and the Cold War.
Ingrid Burrington A Network of Fragments
There’s a poetry in the bits and pieces of Internet infrastructure that hide in plain sight all around us.
Ingrid Burrington A Journey Into the Heart of Facebook
How the “sharing” company’s data centers reveal its values
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