Published in Data & Society: Points · 4 min read · May 13, 2016 -- A pair of Gizmodo stories have prompted journalists to ask questions about Facebook’s power to manipulate political opinion in an alr

by Owen Phillips Over the weekend, the New York Times raised concerns over “dark patterns”: web interfaces carefully crafted to manipulate users. For example, there’s the “roach motel,” named after th

Chris Christie Becomes Powerful Figure in Donald Trump Campaign Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey after a meeting of Donald J. Trump’s national finance team in New York in June. The governor has risen

Alton Sterling and When Black Lives Stop Mattering OVER the past several years, we have borne witness to grainy videos of what “protect and serve” looks like for black lives — Tamir Rice, Walter Scott

Let me say this right off the bat: I don’t at all condone any shooting of police officers or attacking them in any way. I hope that the people responsible are caught and punished to the fullest extent

This is not a joke. Hillary’s team had talked to me a few weeks back about doing something, but I didn’t want to do, like, a “If Hillary Were Your President” type thing, and then they got in touch on

6 min read · Jun 20, 2016 -- Gawker is filing for bankruptcy . Peter Thiel, who is a Facebook board member and Donald Trump delegate, secretly sued Gawker in a proxy lawsuit and, even though the case

President Obama pumps air pressure into Extreme Marshmallow Cannon designed by Joey Hudy of Phoenix, before firing a marshmallow across the State Dining Room of the White House during the second White

One of the many tradeoffs that early startup employees choose to make is between cash, and options. For some employees however this may end up being a Faustian bargain of sorts. At first glance, the c

“Even 15 years after Blogger, it’s still hard to publish on the internet,” a Medium executive told a group of publishers this past spring. Medium has now made it its mission to make publishing easier:

Opinion Aziz Ansari: Why Trump Makes Me Scared for My Family Credit... Jon Han “DON’T go anywhere near a mosque,” I told my mother. “Do all your prayer at home. O.K.?” “We’re not going,” she replied.

This image was removed due to legal reasons. I’m sitting here looking at my burgundy-red British passport, with EUROPEAN UNION emblazoned in gold letters across the top. I’ve fastened the shirt I’m we

It's a throwaway line in a longer talk and we probably shouldn't make too much of it, but I will anyway. In five years time Facebook "will be definitely mobile, it will be probably all video," said Ni

Asa Mathat for Vox Media At 9 p.m. on a Wednesday night, at an exclusive resort along the California coast , Elon Musk blew a lot of millionaires’ minds. Musk is the CEO of two audacious companies, Sp

Op-Ed Contributor Stop the Bots From Killing Broadway Credit... Andrew Holder THEY call you Lady Luck, but there is room for doubt” — Frank Loesser, “Guys and Dolls” Almost a year ago, the curtain ros

From Lauren Goode’s interview with Phil Schiller for The Verge , specifically regarding the new 85/15 revenue split after the first year of a subscription (italic emphasis mine): But Schiller insisted

Op-Ed Contributor Gawker Smeared Me, and Yet I Stand With It Nick Denton speaking to the media about Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker. Credit... Eve Edelheit/Tampa Bay Times, via Associated Press I

2016 update: I wrote this essay (blog post, really) years ago as a way of articulating how my most-frequented websites and apps were making me feel. A number of the services listed below as examples o

Pork roll or Taylor Ham? What you call it may depend on where you live in New Jersey. Joel Rose/NPR At the White Rose Diner in Linden, N.J., owner Rich Belfer tosses a dozen round, thick slices of pro

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A Renegade Muscles In on Mister Softee’s Turf transcript 0:00/1:59 -0:00 transcript The Hard Side of Selling Soft Treats When it gets hot in New York, ice cream trucks hit the pavement, often competin

Published on Feb 9, 2016 Flynn Principal Engineer at Ambassador Labs Chad Lung recently put together a tutorial about writing a Python microservice using AWS Lambda, reachable via HTTP. It’s well writ

Illustration: Jim Cooke, Photo: Getty Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has generated an unceasing torrent of press attention that some estimate to be worth roughly $2 billion. Yet the

N.W.A. in the late 1980s. Three different versions of the marketing campaign for the band's biopic Straight Outta Compton appeared on Facebook: one for white audiences, one for black audiences, and on

British democracy has survived all sorts of things: the unraveling of the British Empire, independence movements in Ireland and Scotland, Prime Minister’s Questions . But never before has it confronte

At Google, we spend a lot of time thinking about how computer systems can read and understand human language in order to process it in intelligent ways . Today, we are excited to share the fruits of o

Let’s start with one of the all-time great Museum logos: The Victoria and Albert Museum. Don’t make the same mistake as me and pronounce it ‘vanda’ What are we looking at here? Sure, it’s the name of the museum, but what’s important is that it’s an abbreviation where the two letters get smushed…

Before Evan Spiegel was Evan Spiegel , there were times he wanted to fit in. Like in June 2012, when Spiegel walked across a makeshift stage erected inside Stanford University’s football stadium to co

I n the final years of his third life , Dezhung Rinpoche enjoyed short walks around the block near his home in Seattle’s Ravenna neighborhood. Dressed in the traditional maroon robes of a Tibetan Budd

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Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Joachim Schulz/ullstein bild/Getty Images Ludwigkirchplatz, Berlin, 1997 The twenty-first century is the first urban century in human h

Photo Crossing a ladder just above the Khumbu Icefall. At the beginning of each season a team places up to 200 ladders along the climbing route enabling the climbers to through the crevasse-riddled se

One woman’s story of racism, sexism, and discrimination at Squarespace. 18 min read · Mar 14, 2016 -- As a young black woman in the tech industry, by virtue of my existence, I am bound to face discrim

Tech Google, Facebook and Microsoft among the companies that will back Apple in its iPhone fight with the U.S. government By Deepa Seetharaman and Jack Nicas Updated Feb. 25, 2016 5:07 pm ET Three top

Scott Olson/Getty Images by November 12, 2016 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email [S]ooner or later, as the globalist elites seek to drag the country into conflicts and global commitmen