More has changed in the past few years for women who allege rape than in all the decades since the women’s movement began. Consider the evidence of October 2014, when a Philadelphia magazine reporter at a Hannibal Buress show uploaded a clip of the comedian talking about Bill Cosby: “He gets on TV,…
analyzing the Anchor launch using social data. Published in Render-from-betaworks · 5 min read · Feb 23, 2016 -- (full disclosure: betaworks pre-seeded Anchor ) Research shows that densely connected g
This evening I’m flying towards Barcelona for this year’s MWC, the main annual mobile industry conference. I’ve been going since 2001, on and off, when it was in (cold, rainy) Cannes and a tenth of th
A truth is dawning on media owners (or in many cases it has dawned, but they don’t like to talk about it). Publishing is over. Obviously this isn’t true in its purest sense; publishing is actually flo
Logan Wright 6 min read· Feb 16, 2016 -- Server side swift has been an exciting prospect ever since Apple officially released an open source linux compatible version. My curiosity finally got the better of me and it was time to give it a try. I haven’t had any backend experience aside from a few…
February 16, 2016 A Message to Our Customers The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which
The idea of a “smartphone” that could connect to the Internet and run applications was around long before 2007; Apple, though, was the first to put the entire package together, including the device, u
by Nicole Boyce I saw the first denim scrunchie before I’d even reached the venue. A woman in front of me was wearing a Sandlot t-shirt with the caption, “You’re killing me, Smalls!” Another woman, we
A private investigative project, bound by no rules of procedure, is answerable only to ratings and the ethics of its makers. Illustration by Simon Prades Argosy began in 1882 as a magazine for childre
“How much are we going to make tonight?” Illustration: Clay Rodery This article was featured in Reread: New York Hustlers , a newsletter miniseries that resurfaces classic tales of scammers, grifters,
This story was originally published on December 8, 2015. Shortly thereafter, Craig Wright scrubbed much of his digital presence and disappeared for months—until May 2, 2016, when he publicly announced
12 min read · Dec 1, 2015 -- Unless you fell into a post-holiday food coma, you know that Adele’s album 25 just sold more copies in its first week than any album, ever. The average human being had bee
Shrinking Legacy Business Time Inc.'s ( TIME ) print-related goods and services have been on the decline for quite some time. Given that print-related sales showed the three-year average annual declin
Published in Signal v. Noise · 7 min read · Nov 25, 2015 -- I grew up lower-middle class on the outskirts of Copenhagen. Anywhere outside of Scandinavia, the socioeconomic label would probably have be
What follows are some passages of text from a piece about technology in the New York Review of Books . Just as the market or the free play of competition provided in theory the optimum long-run soluti
I don’t know about you, but for me, the raging war between Bernie Bros and the Hillarybots has reached peak absurd. Last week, when I complained on Facebook about anti-Hillary sexism, a pro-Sanders co
Press enter or click to view image in full size Not to mention 400 Duane Reades. What happened to the people that were there before? What happens to those neighborhoods now that their communities are gone forever? Press enter or click to view image in full size This isn’t unique to New York or…
The future of media is here — it’s just not evenly distributed Published in Software Is Eating the World · 8 min read · Nov 15, 2015 -- The success or failure of tech and media products depends on com
The Data & Society Research Institute , with a researcher from NYU, conducted an extensive study of Uber’s labor issues though “sustained monitoring of online driver forums and interviewing Uber drive
11.14. 2015 A few days ago VentureBeat published an article called The 7 martech buying trends shaping sales & marketing strategies in 2016 , a piece of sponsored prose remarkable not for its content,
Audrey Elaine Elrod was in rough financial shape as the 2012 holiday season drew near. She’d been out of work for a year, ever since quitting her longtime clerical job at the county public health depa
Apple devices are widely considered extremely secure and hard to hack. But as the internet adage says, everything can be hacked—even the new iPhone. Over the weekend, somebody claimed the $1 million b
4 min read · Oct 27, 2015 -- If you’re someone that’s spent time working with startups, you’re used to hearing “No” by now. You’ve also probably had to say it a few times too. Chris Dixon had a great
Tom Labus Oct 27, 2015 For the latest quarter, AWS was 8% of total revenue but 52% of Amazon’s profit. Game on!! fredwilson Oct 27, 2015 Q: how do you build the biggest “software infrastructure servic
The Rise and Fall of .Ly Priceonomics Azaz, Syria, 2012 ( Christiaan Triebert ) In 2012, the US imposed sanctions on Syria , for, among other things, their occupation of Lebanon, their apparent suppor
Published in Both Sides of the Table · 9 min read · Oct 19, 2015 -- There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that un
As expected, Tim Cook today took the stage at the Wall Street Journal Digital Live conference for an interview. During his time on stage, Cook discussed a variety of topics, ranging from iPhone to Apple Watch and to Apple Music. The main points are below: New Apple TV available next Monday, Oct. 26,…
Published in Startups & Venture Capital · 5 min read · Oct 6, 2015 -- My previous short article about gratuitous animation really struck a chord with people. The response has been phenomenal and it’s
October 2015 When I talk to a startup that's been operating for more than 8 or9 months, the first thing I want to know is almost always the same.Assuming their expenses remain constant and their reven
Quite a few companies are finding themselves in a situation roughly as follows: they have raised a lot of money at high valuations on a fast growth story, have real customers and the beginning of reve
Hoffman, who founded LinkedIn, has a premise about how the economic world will work from now on. Illustration by Stanley Chow Early on a Monday evening in June, Reid Hoffman, the founder and executive
Akinori Machino 5 min read· Sep 17, 2015 -- iOS 9 is now publicly released. It’s a subtle change but the system fonts of iOS 9 are now changed to the Apple’s new San Francisco fonts, replacing the previous Helvetica Neue. Press enter or click to view image in full size Press enter or click to view…
Dear Neu Venture Capital investor, Our frequent informal communications have generally taken the form of late night discussions where you vent your darkest fears about us losing all of your money and
In a 1997 segment on the short-lived tech TV show The Site , host Soledad O’Brien sits at a bar in front of a laptop computer, talking to Dev Null, a full-scale human avatar with frosted fuchsia tips
Usually, Jaime Prater felt excited on the first day of school. He’d get up early, put on the outfit he’d laid out the night before — he liked bow ties and sweater-vests — and hurry down the hall with
The Macintosh User Interface wasn't designed all at once; it was actually the result of almost five years of experimentation and development at Apple, starting with graphics routines that Bill Atkinso
Why Can’t We Stop Talking About New York in the Late 1970s? See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. The late 1970s were some of the darkest, bleakest years in Ne
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