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FAQ: Analyzing Social Data to Understand the US Electorate Nov 14, 2016

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Social analytics firm Networked Insights is spending Election Day gauging the feelings and intentions of the American electorate and sharing the findings exclusively with WIRED. Here's a peek into the methodology. Where are you getting your data? Our analytics engine Kairos processes unstructured data from millions of sites, blogs, and social platforms like Twitter and Tumblr.

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How Facebook Is Transforming Disaster Response Nov 11, 2016

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David Moran was all set to go out that Saturday night. He thought he might hit Parliament House, Orlando’s oldest gay nightclub, or maybe make it over to Pulse, another mainstay. But after he and a friend ended their shift at the restaurant where they both worked, car trouble kept them marooned in the parking lot for an hour. So Moran went home and fell asleep watching Bob’s Burgers on Netflix instead.

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Facebook’s Race-Targeted Ads Aren’t as Racist As You Think Nov 10, 2016

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In late October ProPublica released a scathing investigation showing how Facebook allows digital advertisers to narrow their target audience based on ethnic affinities like “African-American” or “Hispanic.” The report suggested that Facebook may be in violation of federal civil rights statutes and drew parallels to Jim Crow Era “whites only” housing ads.

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Let’s Build the Next Twitter Like the Green Bay Packers Nov 08, 2016

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For Nathan Schneider, the future of Twitter is the Green Bay Packers. Twitter is struggling to make it as an independent business, unable to increase revenues or expand its audience as quickly as Wall Street would like. So, in recent weeks, it tried selling itself. But no one wanted to buy—not Google or Salesforce or Disney or Microsoft.

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Big AT&T Deal Proves It’s Time to Stop ‘Zero-Rating’ Nov 07, 2016

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Facebook and several other Western companies tried to give away free Internet in India, but regulators wouldn’t allow it. The trouble is that the service provided free access to some online apps—including Facebook—but not others. This is called zero-rating, and regulators believe it harms online competition, giving certain companies an unfair advantage over others.

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Inside the Battle to Bring Broadband to New York’s Projects Nov 04, 2016

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The second week of August isn’t ordinarily a time given over to novelty and ambition in New York. The air is a jellied vapor of sweat and refuse, and anybody who can afford to be elsewhere is. But the vast Queensbridge housing complex was an unlikely scene of neon-vested hustle. The six-story brown-brick apartment blocks along 41st Avenue had been encased in green scaffolding and draped with long, heavy bolts of cream burlap, which gave the blunt rectilinear forms a veil of anticipation.

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Hey Silicon Valley, John Kerry Wants You to Help Save the World Nov 02, 2016

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When the Secretary of State pitches Silicon Valley, he’s looking for more than just series-A capital. John Kerry’s looking for help—for technological innovations that could help win the online war with extremist groups like ISIS, find a path between privacy for US citizens (and dissidents abroad) and unbreakable encryption available to terrorists, and maybe even provide energy without damaging Earth’s climate or global economies. So, you know, that’s a pretty big job.

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What Silicon Valley Can Learn From Buddha’s Diet Oct 31, 2016

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As we walk, Dan Zigmond pulls on a black baseball cap. The sun is high, and the trees give little shade. It’s a big park—stretching across a good nine acres of grass, mulch, shrubs, and gravel paths—but from where we are, it looks much bigger. Beyond the nine acres, all we can see are more trees, more green, and the mountains in the east, so the park seems almost endless. “That always amazes me,” I say.

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How AI Is Shaking Up the Chip Market Oct 28, 2016

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In less than 12hours, three different people offered to pay me if I’d spend an hour talking toa stranger on the phone. All three said they’d enjoyed reading an article I’d written aboutGoogle building a new computer chip for artificial intelligence, and all three urged me to discuss thestory with one of their clients. Each described this client as the manager of a major hedge fund, but wouldn’t say who it was.

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An AT&T-Time Warner Merger Won’t Do Jack for Consumers Oct 25, 2016

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In announcing its $85.4 billion agreement to acquire media giant Time Warner, AT&T said this blockbuster deal was very good news for you—the good old American consumer. “We intend to give customers unmatched choice, quality, value and experiences that will define the future of media and communications,” AT&T chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson said in a canned company statement. But don’t take his word for it.

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