MARTIN CONNELLY

Can a place be "undiscovered"? Wrap your brain around this: for the past few days geographers, Internet speculators and conspiracy theorists have been making much ado about a place that scientists exists according to Google, even if scientists who have...

Has the mystery of Sandy Island really been "solved"?

With spam, we’ve got something that everyone hates, something that is illegal to varying degrees around the world, and something that has, for the internet, amazing longevity. Why?

I haven’t heard from any desperate relatives, passports lost on a trip to Paris, in more than a year. And don’t think I’ve had a single ad for Viagra, real or fake, hit my inbox in recent memory. As far as I’m concerned, spam is a non-issue. Right?

Some insight into the methodology of Beijing’s bustling online whac-a-mole.

Abraham Lincoln did "not":http://natestpierre.me/2012/05/10/hoax-abraham-lincoln-invented-facebook/ invent Facebook. But he did rely on the Internet to win the Civil War. Just ask Tom Wheeler, a civil war historian who also happens to be the President...

Last September, Foxconn assembly line worker Li Qi (not his real name) moved from the iPad unit to iDPBG, where iPhones get put together. It was a temporary thing, just ahead of the Christmas rush, but he was excited. The move, reports the "First...

You've seen the pictures.

For a short moment last November, the web was totally, complete obsessed with one unlikely thing: a series of curiously anonymous satellite images. Jesus Diaz, over at Gizmodo, broke the story last November, asking, ""Why Is China Building These...

Everything the Great Beyond forbids. Like eating pizza. And banging.

Before he returned to Earth on the Space Shuttle for the last time, Andrew Feustel got something stuck in his eye. On earth, a couple tears would have solved the problem--unlike Chuck Norris, astronauts can apparently shed tears--but the thing is, in...

There's something very innocent about this video. Maybe it's the bed sheet backdrop or the ragtime soundtrack, but it seems very wholesome. And it's really cool to watch the development of a product I use every day of the week. It is also...