Book Review articles

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  Amazon cracks down on fake reviews, but shady accounts aren't the only casualties

  By Adi Robertson on December 23, 2012 11:34 am + 51 comments

  Amazon's review system has played host to everything from absurdist humor to political grandstanding Continue reading…

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  Hacking the future: Cole Stryker on why identity is the web's next battleground

  By Laura June on September 14, 2012 10:00 am + 30 comments

  What is privacy? What is identity? What is anonymity? These are questions in the background of Cole Continue reading…

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  Coder uses JavaScript console to create interactive book review

  By Louis Goddard on July 26, 2012 08:22 am + 8 comments

  Searching for a fitting way to share his love for Ellen Ullman's 1997 book Close to the Machine, San Continue reading…

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  Amazon book reviewers as reliable as professional critics, says Harvard research

  By Adi Robertson on May 17, 2012 09:35 am + 16 comments

  Literary pursuits are beset on all sides, it seems. Not only do computers rank student essays about Continue reading…

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  They make us this way: Paolo Bacigalupi's 'The Drowned Cities'

  By Adi Robertson on April 27, 2012 12:41 pm + 12 comments

  Every few years, critics wonder anew whether young adult (YA) fiction, particularly science fiction, Continue reading…

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  'The Idea Factory': How Bell Labs invented the future

  By Jesse Hicks on March 21, 2012 01:15 pm + 74 comments

  THE IDEA FACTORY: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner The Penguin Continue reading…

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  The Verge Booklist 2011

  By Joseph L. Flatley on December 29, 2011 11:18 am + 60 comments

  So much to read, so little time — right? Here is a list of some of the books that were released Continue reading…

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  Book review: 'Steve Jobs' by Walter Isaacson

  By Laura June on October 27, 2011 10:51 am + 10 comments

  Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs is in some ways another product created from the mind Continue reading…

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  'Ghost in the Wires' by Kevin Mitnick with William L. Simon

  By Joseph L. Flatley on August 26, 2011 12:01 pm + 37 comments

  Ghost in the Wires Kevin Mitnick with William L. Simon (August, 2011) Little, Brown and Company, 413 Continue reading…