A call is made to NYC’s 311 Service line every 14 seconds. Explore what’s prompting the calls, uncover patterns, and more using OmniSci Immerse.

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The Trump administration is using new authority to take more aggressive digital action in a warning to Moscow and in a demonstration of its abilities.

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Estranged but not alienated, devout but not obedient, philosophical but not a systematiser, Simone Weil defies conventions

A warning that unintended but disastrous effects on society have resulted from improved and computerized recordkeeping, owing to (1) the habit of limiting the number of variables considered to those easily quantified, (2) the tendency to use ...

A real-time interactive journey through the first landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1969.

This post exposes how real-world highly advanced poker cheating devices work.

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Vintage technology has powered the innards of the NYC subway system for decades—and sometimes, it surfaces in interesting ways. This one’s for you, OS/2 fans.

So... When we got a puppy we registered her with the AKC, because purebred and respectable breeder. The AKC is a little like the old roller derby rule where two dogs of the same breed can't have the same name. Except instead of one dog, it's thirty-seven.…

Selections from the Washington Post's Gilded Age coverage of notable visitors to the city