Founded by Dropbox and MIT alums, a new startup called Inbox is launching out of stealth today, hoping to power the next generation of email applications. Similar to the newly launched Gmail API, Inbo

A Lyft car in San Francisco. Lyft recruits regular people who wish to make extra money by offering rides in their own cars. Jeff Chiu/Associated Press A pink mustache grows in Brooklyn. Hundreds of th

The San Francisco fog creeps over the city. Nick Bilton/The New York Times Living in San Francisco is a predictable affair. Each day you awake to layers of fog, the temperature is always the same, and

Published in Both Sides of the Table · 5 min read · Jun 30, 2014 -- By now almost everybody knows that Marc Andreessen has taken Twitter by storm. By Tweetstorm, that is. Marc seems to single handedly

Maybe it’s the foolish amounts of venture capital swirling around Silicon Valley, but it often seems as though we are all playing a game in which the contestants have to determine what is a parody and

Lessons from NYC’s improperly anonymized taxi logs Recently, thanks to a Freedom of Information request, Chris Whong received and made public a complete dump of historical trip and fare logs from NYC

I got a resume from someone a few days ago who among other accomplishments mentioned they were a top commenter on ProductHunt. Pretty cool. And then when I saw a post on HN about ProductHunt vs. TechC

You’re about to publish that blog post but really want more people to engage — read, share, and respond to it. What do you do? Naturally, turn it into a catchy list of items perfectly packaged for cli

In reading the recent Piper Jaffray Internet Advertising report, I was struck by what the report lists as trend number three in the "Media World Order:" Indeed, I think the implications of this concep

Published in The Message · 5 min read · Jul 2, 2014 -- Trench notes By Craig Mod Illustration by Luis Mendo How are apps made? Painfully with deliberation or effortlessly without thought. Blind inspir

1 / 7 Last Saturday, a few blocks north of Times Square, a nineteen-year-old named Virgilia Reyes was wearing a red Elmo costume, with a drawstring bag slung across her back and an Android phone in he

Avoiding innovator’s dilemma I realize it’s impossible to say in a few hundred words what people much smarter than me have written about in a series of books, but I’ve been thinking again about a topi

George Takei (Facebook) Former Star Trek actor George Takei blasted Monday’s decision by the Supreme Court allowing the craft store Hobby Lobby to opt out of the contraceptive mandate of the Affordabl

Want to know why Comcast’s merger with Time Warner Cable has any chance of passing despite huge opposition from even the company’s own customers , look no further than emails recently uncovered by Muc

A “superathlete” gene that helps Sherpas and other Tibetans breathe easy at high altitudes was inherited from an ancient species of human. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which finds that the ge

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Wait, WUT? Every so often, when I am sitting alone with my phone (sad panda) and have some time to kill, I log into the anonymous internet: usually WUT and Secret. After spending most of the last deca

After a breakup, a half-minute-long forgotten iPhone recording takes on new meaning.

Facebook’s methodology in a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences raises serious ethical questions. Photo by Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Facebook has been experimenting on

I got invited to write for the Huffington Post today. I really did. A nice man from Huff had seen my tweets, read some of my blog, and wrote a very kind email to me suggesting that I’d make a good contributor. Of course it appealed to my ego, which is as susceptible to flattery as yours is. About 2…

When iOS 8 hits, the notification center is going to be the most important screen in your iPhone. Think about it: Notifications already are the way you know about everything that happens without havin

As a guest today in my daughter’s second-grade classroom, full of math-enthusiastic seven-and-eight-year-old girls, I led a mathematical investigation of graph coloring, chromatic numbers, map colorin

Cyberthreat talks 20 Jun 2023, 4:00pm 60 min Unveiling the Darknet’s Malware-as-a-Service model Alexander Zabrovsky Cyberthreat talks 07 Jun 2023, 5:00pm 60 min Cyberthreats to modern automotive indus

Photo: Getty Images Social scientists will try to measure anything, it seems, and in the most recent issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly , a professor at Arizona State has published a paper that at

A few weeks back, a Google Ventures portfolio company revealed itself to the public: WUT . A lot of the press focused on the anonymity aspect of the service, which is understandable, because that area

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Earlier this month, investors poured $1.2 billion into Uber , a tech company whose smartphone app connects taxi drivers to passengers. The share of the business these investors received suggests that

See it sway: three-eyed blind bat hanging from a wire. Or perhaps there: perched atop a pole, lights moving from top to bottom--green yellow red green yellow red--in its unvarying sequence. Two hundre

Watch and learn Published in The Year of the Looking Glass · 6 min read · Jun 17, 2014 -- All right, you caught me. The title of this article is a bit too fancy-pants. Product Critique is some dressed

Google co-founders Larry Page (right) and Sergey Brin in 2008 in New York City. Photo by Michael Nagle/Getty Images In the summer of 2003, Viacom executive Mel Karmazin managed to sum up old media’s h

How we discover games and apps is broken, hitting indie developers hardest. Here’s one way to fix it. Published in The Message · 5 min read · Jun 19, 2014 -- I love indie games, and follow the indie g