John Zimmer, the co-founder and president of Lyft, wants you to know that he is not — I repeat, not — happy about the chaos that is enveloping Uber, his fiercest rival in the ride-sharing market. There will be no corks popped at Lyft’s San Francisco headquarters over the sudden, stunning downfall of…

A screenshot of what appeared to be the ransomware affecting systems worldwide on Tuesday. The Ukrainian government posted the shot to its official Facebook page. A quickly spreading ransomware attack is hitting countries across the world including France, Russia, Spain, Ukraine and the United…

Design challenges are nothing new- plenty of companies use them in order to assess potential employees’ problem solving skills. But a Google interview challenge in particular seems to have captivated the global design community: Designers from around the world have taken stabs at the question; there…

GIF via WWE/ Youtube When you watch WWE programming for a long time, certain patterns emerge, ranging from production quirks to how matches are laid out to certain tropes that consistently recur in the storytelling. One of these is the way WWE lets show its utter contempt for its audience. Hell, it…

by Jean-Louis Gassée Courtesy: hindustantimes.com Blaming the Uber calamity on the recently deposed CEO Travis Kalanick is convenient, but let’s not forget the less visible but just as problematic role that the Board of Directors played as they let Uber unravel. Given the Board’s complicity, can the…

This article has been updated. The framed copy of Time magazine was hung up in at least five of President Trump’s clubs, from South Florida to Scotland. Filling the entire cover was a photo of Donald Trump. “Donald Trump: The ‘Apprentice’ is a television smash!” the big headline said. Above the Time…

James Berri traveled three hours to Sacramento earlier this month for his first Pride parade, one of hundreds of annual LGBTQ celebrations across America. Berri also talked about the experience on Facebook, reading and reacting to other people’s posts with thumbs-up likes and Facebook’s new rainbow…

To kick off the Women Online panel at VidCon last Thursday, the moderator posed the question: Why do we still have to talk about the harassment of women? I replied, “Because I think one of my biggest harassers is sitting in the front row.” He showed up with several others; together, his group took…

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, V.I. — The United States Virgin Islands is best known for its powdery beaches and turquoise bays, a constant draw for the tourists who frequent this tiny American territory. Yet away from the beaches the mood is ominous, as government officials scramble to stave off the same kind…

Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images As surprising as Trump’s young presidency has been, it’s also the natural outgrowth of 30 years of Republican pandering to the lowest common denominator in American politics. Almost two years ago, I wrote an article for Politico endorsing Donald Trump for president. It…

If there’s anything that typifies the boom times before the Great Recession, it is the McMansion. These sprawling houses proliferated around the country in the 2000s, as banks shelled out easy credit to fuel a housing bacchanalia they thought would never die. McMansions became the ultimate symbol of…

What it survived Enlarge / FireWire had its advantages and was usually faster than contemporary USB ports, but it was never able to gain widespread adoption. Manu on Flickr Since rising to power, a few different kinds of ports have attempted to challenge USB’s dominance. They usually achieve success…

Image credit: Natty Dread Shadow Of The Colossus was broken, unpolished, and incomplete, and the upcoming remake shouldn’t try to fix that. Technically, Team Ico did complete Shadow Of The Colossus . It shipped in 2005. You could put the disc in a PS2 and experience what would become one of the most…

Waking up on a Sunday morning, I received a text about what happened after I left the previous night’s party. “Everyone got high and we played truth or dare. Ted and Ivan docked.” “Are you serious?” I replied. “I thought that only happened in porn.” Defined by Urban Dictionary as “the act of placing…

Mondays Child on Flickr What's in a name? FireWire's original working title, ChefCat, had come from the name of the cartoon on Teener's favorite coffee cup. But on the eve of Comdex '93, a major computer industry trade show, the engineers put forth "Firewire" as a possible official name. Marketing…

Millions of Italians can now say they own a one-of-a-kind Nutella jar. In February, 7 million jars appeared on shelves in Italy , all of them boasting a unique label design . And here's a weird twist: Every single one of those millions of labels was designed by...an algorithm? Yes, algorithm. The…

This story reflects the views of this author, but not necessarily the editorial position of Fast Company. “Amazon just bought Whole Foods,” my friend texted me seconds after the announcement of the proposed acquisition . “It’s over. The world.” This unease is widespread, and has raised new calls for…

It is difficult enough to get one overscheduled rap star in a room during business hours; it’s a herculean task to get ten of them there before noon. On a Monday in April, Vanessa Satten, the editor-in-chief of XXL , the hip-hop magazine, pulled off this feat for the tenth time. The occasion was a…

Dental Work Is So Expensive In The US That Thousands Of Americans Are Going To Mexico To Get It Done Trump’s anti-Mexican rhetoric doesn’t worry the 600 dentists in Los Algodones or the US “dental refugees” they treat, many of whom voted for Trump. “We’re helping the United States take care of the…

As part of our modern obsession with artisan-everything, today’s pickiest coffee drinkers insist upon a hand-brewed cup made right before their eyes. At the cornerstone of this trend is the undisputed king of pour-over coffee, the Chemex Coffeemaker , which graces the counters of hip homes and cafes…

Vintage and antique enthusiasts Collectors Weekly bring us the story of Peter Schlumbohm, a German-American immigrant who invented the Chemex coffee maker over 70 years ago. The design of the cone-shaped glass carafe remains exactly the same today, with only paper filters needed to make a pot of…

The Stranger I could see Bill's* eyes tracking mine in brief furtive glimpses between scrolling lines of green code. We were 12 years old and seated next to each other at a beige school computer in homeroom. We'd started talking that October, never looking at each other when we did, for no other…

Michael Thevis made his fortune by selling porn to millions of Americans in the 1970s. Then a campaign of bombings, killings, and a prison break brought down his peep-show empire. Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast On Friday, Nov. 13, 1970, Michael Thevis slipped into his office…

The Slatest has moved! You can find new stories here . Slate The Slatest Your News Companion [REDACTED] Photo illustration by Slate . Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images. The Trump administration, acting on the fairly sound logic that its supporters don't care in any way whatsoever about the civic…

For the Rest of Your Life In the summer of 2007, a well-rested man wearing pajamas and a nightcap shaved off his mustache and reintroduced himself to the world. This image shift was likely the decision of market studies predicting that a younger-looking man would sell more mattresses, or, that in…

China’s central bank is testing a prototype digital currency with mock transactions between it and some of the country’s commercial banks. Speeches and research papers from officials at the People's Bank of China show that the bank’s strategy is to introduce the digital currency alongside China’s…

Looking for a new job is getting easier. Google today launched a new jobs search feature right on its search result pages that lets you search for jobs across virtually all of the major online job boards like LinkedIn, Monster, WayUp, DirectEmployers, CareerBuilder and Facebook and others. Google…

Earlier this year, Italian food conglomerate Ferrero used an algorithm to redesign the labels for its beloved sweetened hazelnut cocoa spread and sugar blast delivery mechanism Nutella . I know what you’re thinking: another example of data-driven “optimization” encroaching on the art of design. Well…

Though Thom Yorke insists that “OK Computer” was inspired by the dislocation of non-stop travel, it’s now understood as a record about how overreliance on technology can lead to alienation. Photograph by Rex via AP I’ve noticed a nugget of embarrassment buried in the recent avalanche ofcritical…

For six years, I immersed myself in the workings of the adult industry. As editor of the porn blog Fleshbot, I spent hours combing the XXX side of the internet, acquainting myself with all manner of perversions and obscure sex acts. At this point in my career, it’s fairly safe to say that there is…

Audrey Tautou received a camera as a gift for her first communion. As a child, she says, she was inspired by the primatologist Dian Fossey, and imagined herself photographing wild animals in the jungle. “The camera was, for me, more an expression of my desire for adventures,” she says. “It was not a…

TORONTO — As President Trump disrupts alliances across the map, nearly every level of government in Canada has taken on new duties in a quietly audacious campaign to cajole, contain and if necessary coerce the Americans. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s strategy for managing Mr. Trump is unlike…

Photo: JAMES W. MATAITIS BAILEY “I wouldn’t necessarily say I’m not optimistic,” says Vince Staples. Conversations with the Long Beach, California rapper tend to quickly stray into discussions of perspective and experience — Would you believe what you believe if you weren’t who you are? — and ours,…

Finland has been giving 2,000 of its citizens an unconditional income for the last five months and some are already seeing the benefits, reporting decreased stress, greater incentives to find work and more time to pursue business ideas. The scheme is the first of its kind in Europe and sees…

Goldie seemingly spilled the beans in a new interview. There have been whispers that Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja may be the anonymous graffiti artist known as Banksy and Goldie may have confirmed it in a new interview. Appearing on Scroobius Pip’s weekly Distraction Pieces podcast, Goldie said…

https://arstechnica.com/author/aurich-lawson/ A Comcast customer who is dissatisfied with Internet speeds set up a Raspberry Pi to automatically tweet at Comcast each time speeds are much lower than advertised. "I pay for 150Mbps down and 10Mbps up," Reddit user AlekseyP wrote over the weekend .…

After nearly a decade out of the spotlight, the comedian has brought his diabolical level of energy and commitment to a forgettable summer game show. Courtesy ABC If you weren’t around for it at the time, as I was not, you can watchthe original “Gong Show,” the amateur un-talent show that ran on NBC…