Apple and Other Tech Companies Tangle With U.S. Over Data Access Companies like Apple say they are protecting their customers’ information by resisting government demands for access to text messages.
“I think it's kind of beautiful and hilarious to see people eating their organic kale and quinoa salads while gazing across the opaque, fetid water,” Adrian Tomine says of his cover for this week’s is
Threads Bluesky Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com I think that I should begin by evoking René Magritte’s famous painting of 1929, The Treachery of Images, with its simple, literal depiction of a pipe and the provocative caption beneath—Ceci n’est pas une pipe. “This is…
“Get as close to revenue as you can,” I mentioned to a friend over dinner recently. I was offering input on types of opportunities that will exist once she graduates from business school in a few months. Like many of my friends who have an MBA, she wanted to transition into a role where she could…
Last week, the folks behind Product Hunt introduced Product Hunt LIVE, which, in a Medium post about the launch, founder Ryan Hoover described as "a place for the world's most interesting founders, in
"Eat this." Nicole hands me a crystalline pebble of MDMA and her Modelo. It's Saturday, 1 AM, at Webster Hall's "Grand Ballroom." A DJ is standing on the main stage in front of a laptop, the origin of
Update : Want to support healthy habits within your own team? Check out “Leading your team to better results” on the Asana blog. — — — Last week, I spoke to an ambitious group of high school students
There is a Slack bot for everything. Oskar tracks how happy your coworkers are. Shoulda Coulda shows you how many times everyone says "should." Huskybot is "for people who need Siberian huskies, now."
On January 27, 1991, at a record-release party for the rap duo Bytches With Problems in Hollywood, producer/rapper/then-N.W.A. member Dr. Dre brutally attacked Dee Barnes , the host of a well-known Fo
Back when I started out as an equity analyst, in the days when mobile operators were sexy disruptive growth companies, my boss was very fond of comparing the number of customers per employee at fixed
Target, the second largest general merchandise retailer in the U.S., announced this morning that it will start testing beacon technology in 50 of its stores nationwide. With beacon technology, the com
5 min read · May 20, 2015 -- This is the first part of a two part series highlighting the reasons one might raise (or invest in) a pre-seed round. This first part is meant for founders and the second
Why we sometimes use bookmarklets on the design team at Medium Published in Medium.design · 6 min read · Nov 3, 2014 -- In my day-to-day design work, I use many different tools. Some of the most commo
With billions of people buying a device every two years, on average, the phone business dwarfs the PC business, which has an install base of 1.5-1.6bn devices replaced every 4-5 years. PC sales are a
Idle Words > Talks > Web Design: The First 100 Years This is the expanded version of a talk I gave on September 9, 2014 , at the HOW Interactive Design conference in Washington, DC. Designers! I am a
Signaling what it hopes will mark the start of a new phase of growth, Evernote, the company behind the popular cloud-based productivity app of the same name, announced today that Phil Libin will step
Academic publishing is a game at many levels. And usually, it is the ugly parts which come into media focus. Last year, Vox featured a dramatic piece on some scientific publishing scam, purported by t
Published on July 6, 2015 by Eric Benjamin Seufert Both Apple and Google this year revealed information about the amount of money they have paid out to developers (ie. disbursements to developers, min
Prologue Years ago — in the days when companies still hired designers to produce lavish annual reports — I worked on one for a biopharmaceutical firm focused on oncology. Somehow we ended up with a re
Hillary Clinton’s campaign is now telling reporters that she is at risk of losing Iowa to Bernie Sanders in the February caucuses. One ought to view these stories a bit cynically: It almost always ben
How We Changed the Facebook Friends Icon Published in Design at Meta · 5 min read · Jul 7, 2015 -- Facebook headquarters is an amazing place. The snacks are free, the sun always shines and everyone is
One again the Internet has come together for a viral global cyber event — The Button . I am talking about the mysterious Lost-esque button on Reddit which became an Internet phenomenon. Reddit, as we
By the time anyone noticed that he hadn’t moved in at least five hours, the man on Somerton Beach must have started giving off fumes. It was about 6:30 a.m. on December 1, 1948, at the beginning of th
Lots of exciting new things were announced at the latest Apple WWDC this week, but hidden amongst the big announcements was an extension of something that's been bothering me for a while. All programs
David Barnard: “After trying iOS 9 on the iPad Air 2, it’s clear… previous generations of iOS and iPad apps are primitive & clunky.” http://t.co/6bQBG0LJM2
Michelle Rial/BuzzFeed Back in January, in a baptismal post , BuzzFeed's Silicon Valley Bureau Chief Mat Honan christened the next trend to take over the social web: the "screenshort." He explained th
David P. Reed has transferred the domain reed.com to Reed Online Ltd. Links relating to the work of David P.Reed should be updated to point to URLs at www.deepplum.com . If you have arrived at this we
May 28 2015 Food Photo Essays Asia It doesn’t matter how many times you tell the cook to go easy on the peppers, anything you order in Chongqing is going to be hot. It doesn’t matter how many times yo
You Won’t Believe Which Website This Millennial Entrepreneur Bought. Really Makes You Think… 3 min read · May 20, 2015 -- A couple months ago, I read the sad news that LayerVault was shutting down . W
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Pull to Create Estimated read time: 4 mins The act of creation and consumption have always been separated. You create content in one environment and you consume content in another, there’s no dialogue
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