Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of pa
Tyler Comrie for BuzzFeed News In the days following Donald Trump ’s election victory over Hillary Clinton , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg placed a secret, previously unreported call to the president-e
aminTorres Jun 27, 2018 Not quite the same but also not that far off: https://vimeo.com/55996932 Marc, who I used to work with at R/GA took product launches dates from Apple – as an example – mapped i
Today, we’re announcing that Pinterest has entered into an agreement to transfer ownership of Instapaper to Instant Paper, Inc., a new company owned and operated by the same people who’ve been working on Instapaper since it was sold to betaworks by Marco Arment in 2013. The ownership transfer will…
This story is excerpted from Valley of Genius, by Adam Fisher. Everyone who has seen The Social Network knows the story of Facebook’s founding. It was at Harvard in the spring semester of 2004. What p
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Pregnancy Discrimination Is Rampant Inside America’s Biggest Companies Many pregnant women have been systematically sidelined in the workplace. They’re passed over for promotions and raises. They’re f
At its heart, AI is computer programming that learns and adapts. It can’t solve every problem, but its potential to improve our lives is profound. At Google, we use AI to make products more useful—fro
[As always, I preface any discussion of Amazon and Apple by noting that I own some stock in both companies, and that I worked at Amazon from 1997 to 2004] A lot of folks, especially Apple supporters,
The problem with Amazon is not that it doesn’t make a profit, but that you don’t actually know what the profits are. On the face of it, this sounds like an absurd statement - it doesn’t make any profi
Yesterday saw three developer-related announcements, two from Apple, and one from Microsoft. The former came as part of Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote : The iOS App Store, whic
[DISCLOSURE: As always when I write about Amazon, I'll note I worked there from 1997-2004 and that I still own some shares in the company. I still have many friends who work there, though I have no mo
Through various methods, Silicon Valley has drilled into the minds of entrepreneurs the concept of product/market fit. Marc Andreessen says it’s the only thing that matters , and Brian Balfour has an
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President Trump has personally pushed U.S. Postmaster General Megan Brennan to double the rate the Postal Service charges Amazon.com and other firms to ship packages, according to three people familia
The Era of Very Low Inflation and Interest Rates May Be Near an End Moves in global bond markets over the last few months suggest changing expectations about prices. By April 26, 2018 Gas prices on di
I could have seen it only there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my
Eric Risberg / AP Syringes are scattered in the remains of a tent city along Division Street in San Francisco. Mark Farrell had just stepped off a train and was walking through San Francisco's Civic C
A massive storm in the Alps took climbers and skiers by surprise over the weekend and has killed more than a dozen people so far. The storm followed several weeks of warmer-than-usual weather. The bli
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RSS and the Open Web This post is not about the day to day operations of The Old Reader or anything of that nature. It’s about how our team came to get involved with RSS and how we see the future of t
By John Allspaw May 22, 2012 Last week, Owen Thomas wrote a flattering article over at Business Insider on how we handle errors and mistakes at Etsy. I thought I might give some detail on how that act
April 08, 2018 · 2 minute read (After trying to shine on a light on some inconsistencies of Apple’s doing , it seems only fair to give Google the same treatment.) Like most of you (I presume), I’ve us
In this op-ed, Lauren Michele Jackson tackles the recurring use of black people as reaction GIFs and its implications in terms of broader “digital blackface.” Adore or despise them, GIFs are integral
Lessons learned on how to shape the next generation of leaders Published in Redbubble · 4 min read · Feb 19, 2018 -- The move into management is an often discussed topic. We all want to climb the care
Tragically Lost in Joshua Tree’s Wild Interior What may seem like a benign park only two hours from L.A. became the landscape for a high-endurance detective operation to find a missing hiker. Doba wit
On the list of leadership merit badges, “Successfully deliver hard news” is one the hardest badges to acquire. It’s not just that you have news, it’s hard news. It’s an honest something the human sitt
While not definitively saying yes, Mark Zuckerberg says he’s “open” to testifying before members of Congress regarding Facebook’s recent privacy scandal involving Cambridge Analytica . The data firm,
Op-Ed Contributor The Boys Are Not All Right I used to have this one-liner: “If you want to emasculate a guy friend, when you’re at a restaurant, ask him everything that he’s going to order, and then
Congratulations - you’re a new manager! No, really, I’m being sincere. You can hear the sarcasm in my voice? Sorry, I tried, but I know that along with some excitement, there’s plenty of doubt and ang
Del Harvey, Twitter’s resident troll hunter, has a fitting, if unusual, backstory for somebody in charge of policing one of the Internet’s most ungovernable platforms. As a teenager, she spent a summe
by January 25, 2018 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears. When Babe.net publish
Patrick Griffin was high from shooting up as he hugged his sister, Betsy. Their father, Dennis, right, and his ex-wife had spent the afternoon trying, unsuccessfully, to convince Patrick to check into
Published in Product Hunt · 5 min read · Jan 30, 2018 -- Since Product Hunt’s beginning, people have asked, “How will you make money?” Some startups choose to make money on day one while others choose
My new year’s resolution was to give up on reading Twitter and Facebook. I gave up on the feeds because they were making me angry. A lot of times I was angry because of politics, but even on non-polit
Jamie Dimon says he “regrets” his now infamous criticism of bitcoin, in which he called the cryptocurrency a “fraud” . The JPMorgan Chase chief executive on Tuesday softened the comments he made at a
About once a month, on a Friday or Saturday night, the Silicon ValleyTechnorati gather for a drug-heavy, sex-heavy party. Sometimes the venueis an epic mansion in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights; some
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