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The Pioneer Detectives
I published a short book with The Millions.
It's the story of the Pioneer Anomaly, a long-standing mystery. The book is short and fun—the length of a novella—but also, in the words of Amazon's reviewer, "powerful and sad". If you've got any curiosity about how NASA works behind the scenes or why scientists believe what they do, I think you'll enjoy the book.
It is available on Amazon as a Kindle Single and also on Apple's iBooks.Drone Wars
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Why Are Drone-Makers Helping Governments Crack Down on Drones?
28 January 2015
DJI’s brute force regulation through software
The dangers of users lacking control over the devices they use, as illustrated by one drone-maker’s reaction when one of its aircraft crashed on the White House grounds.
[Slate]
clips, Drones
tags: DJI, drones, Lawrence Lessig, Phantom, Slate, software, UAVs, White House Drone
The trouble with software
25 November 2004
Managing complexity
Most software projects fail to meet their goals. Can this be fixed by giving developers better tools?
CASE HISTORY: Adobe Acrobat
12 December 2002
Trapeze artists
Intelligent design and clever marketing have made Adobe the king of online documents. But mistakes made along the way were just as important.
Technology
tags: acrobat, adobe, software, The Economist