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Tech reporter for Boston Globe and author of You Are There, a book on the science of location
PROFILE
Hiawatha Bray
FROM Hiawatha Bray
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Remembering Ray Tomlinson, the Man Who Put the @ in Email In 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent what is thought to be the first e-mail message...to himself . The word “Internet” had yet to be coined, and computers were the size of refrigerators.Today , billions of emails are sent and received every single day. Tomlinson, one of the early tech pioneers who helped make this mode of communication as ubiquitous as it is, died this past weekend.
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Rep. Schiff’s priorities for the House Intelligence Committee In January, Burbank Congressman Adam Schiff is expected to be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. We ask what investigations he will open, and what recourse there will be if Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker shuts down Mueller’s Russia probe.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Why reading on a page is different from reading on a screen Reading literature not only stirs up empathy, it changes our brains. So what happens to our brains when we no longer deep-read, but skim through pages in between digital disruptions, or read only short blurbs on our phones and other devices?
Film Reviews
The Girl In the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story “The Girl In the Spider’s Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story” is a reference to the terrific series that started years ago with “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” The central character in the new installment has the same name, but she’s changed and a lot around her has changed, none of it for the better.