ENDGAME: “As intriguing as it is ambitious”

from The San Jose Mercury News With Endgame: Proving Ground, Google’s Niantic Labs aims to improve on Ingress formula by Gieson Cacho Google’s Niantic Labs specializes in video games that revolve around the real world. It’s a heady space that mixes elements of...

Günter Grass Gone

from The New Yorker The Greatness of Günter Grass BY SALMAN RUSHDIE CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY RENE BURRI / MAGNUM In 1982, when I was in Hamburg for the publication of the German translation of “Midnight’s Children,” I was asked by my publishers if I would like to meet...

Honey, those spots are getting bigger.

from NATURE Mystery of Ceres’ bright spots grows Data from NASA mission suggest varied origins for tantalizing gleams on dwarf planet’s surface. by Alexandra Witze NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA The surface of the dwarf planet Ceres (shown here) has...