Michael Karliner 2 min read· May 8, 2017 -- So, you are a first time CTO in a start-up. You’ve just landed your seed investment, and you and your team are feeling pretty good about yourselves. At last, you have enough money to be able to start the real work of building out your product or service.…

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The state’s $300 million fund to get coastal homeowners to relocate inland isn’t working. New Jersey built this 3.5-mile, $23 million steel wall in Mantoloking after Hurricane Sandy. The state initially closed that section of the beach, amid worries somebody would fall off. Photographer: Katrina…

Now that mobile is maturing and its growth is slowing, everyone in tech turns to thinking about what the Next Big Thing will be. It's easy to say that 'machine learning is the new mobile' (and everyone does), but there are other things going on too. On one hand, we have a set of profound changes…

For a long time I told the same basic joke about Silicon Valley, just updating as some new walled garden network replicated long-existing technology in a format better able to attract VC cash and, presumably, get them ad dollars. 2002, Friendster: At last, a way to connect with friends on the…

Cormac McCarthy is best known to the world as a writer of novels. These include Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. At the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) he is a res

Brian Simpson, Matt Lee, & Daniel Ellis (u/bsimpson, u/madlee, & u/daniel) Each year for April Fools’, rather than a prank, we like to create a project that explores the way that humans interact at large scales. This year we came up with Place, a collaborative canvas on which a single user could…

Though the name GitHub is practically unknown outside technology circles, coders around the world have embraced the software. The startup operates a sort of Google Docs for programmers, giving them a place to store, share and collaborate on their work. But GitHub Inc. is losing money through…

On Tuesday, Reddit announced it was introducing profile pages. The Reddit profile contains a list of the user’s posts in reverse-chronological order, and a follow button for subscribing to them. Co-founder Alexis Ohanian told The Verge that profiles are “a very big level-up for Reddit as a…

Publishing in the Platform Era By Digiday • April 11, 2017 • Facebook’s Instant Article push is in danger of fizzling. Many publishers are deeply unhappy with the monetization on these pages, with major partners like The New York Times throwing in the towel and many others cutting back the amount of…

As the calamities amass at Uber, many people — including me — have called for new leadership. Usually, the job of hiring and firing a CEO falls to a company’s board of directors. Yet in a March 21 pho

An entire library could be filled with books about how the bright minds in Silicon Valley find and fund the next Google or Facebook. But there are four basic steps to startup investing: 1) Persuade people to give you lots of money.

The last edition of Norte, a newspaper in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Responding to killings of journalists, the paper announced on Sunday that it was shutting down.Credit...Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters With the headline “¡Adios!” in large type emblazoned across its front page, a newspaper in Ciudad…

Graphic detail | Daily chart States are losing the battle against deadly drugs like heroin and fentanyl Mar 6th 2017|2 min read By THE DATA TEAM Reuse this content More from Graphic detail Do you really want that computer-science degree? American universities are selling ever more, just when their…

A look at the Manhattan of Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140. (Courtesy Hachette.) In New York 2140, Kim Stanley Robinson, one of the towering giants of the science-fiction genre, envisions our city after it has been vastly changed by global warming. The oceans are about 50 feet higher than…

It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters. The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for the job he was seeking, and said his election would be a “catastrophe.” Still, nothing…

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Amazon Echo Dot YouTube/f0t0b0y We're barely halfway through January of 2017, and it's already looking like this is going to be the year of Amazon's Alexa, the virtual assistant at the heart of the Amazon Echo. In 2016, the Amazon Echo line of devices appeared to have a great sales year, with the…

The company is testing a new Apple TV capable of streaming ultra-high-definition 4K. It may not be enough to take on Amazon and Roku. Why Hasn't Apple Revolutionized TV Yet? Confidential tip?Send a tip to our reporters By This article is for subscribers only. Earlier this month, Apple Inc. poached…

Gaming Did Reddit’s April Fools’ gag solve the issue of online hate speech? Nations battled, voids came and went, and one million pixels said a lot about humanity. Sam Machkovech – Apr 3, 2017 9:29 pm | 214 The final, community-built image stamped onto reddit.com/r/place before the 72-hour…

Twitter has rolled out its new @-replies to me about three or four times now, ambushing me with its unspeakable badness on the iPhone app or web Twitter. Today it rolled out for everyone and it makes

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Facebook is developing an app for set-top boxes including Apple TV, as a way to bring longer-form video content — and video ads — to big-screen TVs in consumers’ living rooms, the Wall Street Journal reported. By pumping video to TVs, Facebook is hoping to capture a bigger slice of ad budgets…

Auto-play videos lurking in unopened tabs. Pop-ups that won’t go away. Photos that won’t load. Text that’s invaded by ads. It’s hard to complain about the internet without feeling like a mom struggling to post on Facebook, but going online has started to feel like an assault on the senses. The…

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Some of Uber’s self-driving cars aren’t driving as smoothly as the company hoped they would. Documents circulated throughout the company’s self-driving group, which Recode obtained, gives us a first l

There’s a moment in most video games where the player bumps, with sinking heart, against the limits of what a game can do. Open a door where the designers haven’t programmed an interior, scale a mount

At some point in every technology's evolution, the world settles on its Right Way To Do Stuff. Having one broadly adopted system just makes life easier, since people don't have to learn a new language and dance routine every time they want to try something. It happened a while ago on desktop PCs,…

“I didn’t become a software engineer to be trying to make ends meet,” said a Twitter employee in his early 40s who earns a base salary of $160,000. It is, he added, a “pretty bad” income for raising a family in the Bay Area. The biggest cost is his $3,000 rent – which he said was “ultra cheap” for…

A 43-year-old Minnesota man has been charged with murdering his wife after a failed attempt to get someone from the dark web to do it. According to investigators, Stephen Carl Allwine tried to use a s

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Adam Howell sums up some of the major issues affecting the iMessage App Store and iMessage apps: I love the idea of the iMessage App Store. I love Apple’s focus on privacy. I love building on top of an app I use all day everyday. But not only is the iMessage App Store dying —I’m afraid it might…

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