I t 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 uns
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Enlarge / The final, community-built image stamped onto reddit.com/r/place before the 72-hour experiment was shut down on Monday morning. Reddit Data stored and shared on the Internet is almost univer
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
Product By Friday, 31 March 2017 For the past seven years, everyone who has created an account on Twitter starts out with their default profile photo as an egg. This was a playful way to reference how
The ad network of creative, web and design culture THE DECK During its lifetime, The Deck served up somewhere north of 7.5 billion ad impressions. Privacy Advertisers Long Strange Trip We started The Deck in 2006 and for the first couple years itstruggled. By 2008, it was an OK business and by 2009,…
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
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 strugglin
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
Dear YC Community: In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual letter to the YC community with an update on our progress. Our mission is to enable the most innovation o
“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
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
Reading The Complacent Class , by Tyler Cowen, reminded me of a few questions I’ve puzzled over for the last few years: American colleges like to proclaim that they teach critical thinking skills: Not
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It is certainly possible that, as per recent speculation , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to run for President. It is also possible that Facebook is on the verge of failing “just like MySpa
In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note had been composed by a
Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture Uber offices in Berlin last year. Some current and former Uber employees describe a largely unrestrained workplace culture. Credit... Krisztian
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Published in Render-from-betaworks · 4 min read · Jan 23, 2017 -- Voice interfaces were all over CES this year. Gadget makers added support for voice-based computing to just about everything they coul
10 years. It's safe to say that a single year at a startup is equivalent to several at a big company, and I've got to be real with you, I feel it. Since my very first startup in 2007, in a basement (c
In 2004, ten years after Netscape launched, Tim O'Reilly launched the 'Web 2.0' conference, proposing (or branding) a generational shift in how the web worked. There were lots of trends, and none of t
It’s no secret that Apple’s culture of secrecy forbids even the most powerful at the company from spilling details about upcoming products. But, as CEO Tim Cook has illustrated frequently in the past,
3 min read · Jan 19, 2017 -- The internet has given us an unprecedented abundance of content. Never before have we been able to learn from others so freely. However, with more information comes more n
Early last Monday morning, a friend of mine sent news that a tree we knew, a sequoia, had collapsed in a winter mountain storm. I was in New York, where two inches of hard snow sat on cars and tree br
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