May 10, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Federal prosecutors indict eight people for stealing $45 million from thousands of ATMs in just a few hours.
- For many, Twitter verification is badge of self-worth—but with good reason, others have rejected the offer.
- Entomologists inject mosquitos with bacteria that could permanently rid the insects and their offspring of malaria.
- Cultural interpretations of morning: breakfast platters from around the world.
- Publishers in Africa envision cell phones, not e-readers, as the primary channel for literature.
- Like Google, the Whole Earth Catalog changed the world.
- A teenager won a coding competition for inventing software that blocks TV spoilers from Twitter.
- Related: Matthew Baldwin on why spoilers ruin everything.
- They whisper the title across the table, because...no one else knows this yet, and because with Daft Punk nearly everything is a secret.
- Ian Buruma's review of "David Bowie Is" at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
- In 1969, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, and Paul McCartney almost formed a supergroup.
- Geoguessr: Get dropped into a random Google Earth location, then guess where you are.
- Isaac Newton's unsuccessful foray into linguistics.
- "This Is Water": a video reimagining of David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement address at Kenyon College
