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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 us. A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that Facebook…

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 having to fire up an app. A notification lets you know you have a new email, a new text message, a new…

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 coloring and Eulerian paths and circuits. I brought in a pile of sample graphs I had prepared, and all the…

Threat Response posted 05 May 2026 updated UPD 08 May 2026 DAEMON Tools software infected — supply chain attack ongoing since April 8, 2026 posted 30 Apr 2026 updated UPD 05 May 2026 Information about the Copy Fail vulnerability, which allows attackers to gain root access on virtually any modern…

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 attempts to quantify the disgust women feel with regard to body hair – their own, and that of other…

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 has been hot for the past several months. But I think it overlooks the truly interesting aspect of…

MG Siegler: The 20th App https://t.co/yvzJznXeK7

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 hundred years ago, it would have been a wonder, something on display at the Great Exhibition of 1851,…

Watch and learn Julie Zhuo 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-up corporate lingo. It brings to mind whiteboards scrawled over with strong-smelling blue marker depicting arrows connecting abstract…

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 horror of the Internet with one of business lore’s greatest vulgar one-liners. Karmazin, a swaggering…

How we discover games and apps is broken, hitting indie developers hardest. Here’s one way to fix it. Andy Baio 5 min read· Jun 19, 2014 -- I love indie games, and follow the indie game scene pretty closely. I read gaming blogs, follow dozens of game devs, and keep a close eye on interesting new…

Here's a question: What exactly are headlines for, on the internet? This post doesn't have a canonical headline (that is, a single, main, authoritative headline, chosen by me, that isn't a joke). But it has a large number of other headlines that you can't see right now. It has, for example, three…

BY MARK CRANNEY One of the myths of SaaS is that the products are so good, so easy to use, so quick to deploy … that the product sells itself. Given the popularity of try-before-you-buy and freemium-to-premium models for software as a service, it’s easy to see where that myth comes from. But as many…

People often ask me how I started BetaList. Many companies have unusual origin stories and this one is no exception. I have told parts of the story before, but never sat down to write and share the whole story and reveal how BetaList was really nothing more than a hack tricking TechCrunch into…

“I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far away that I’d never be able to make my way home again. But I have no idea why.” -Jessica Warman When you lie down on your back on a clear, dark, moonless night, what is it that you see? If your vision…

Policy FCC gets Comcast, Verizon to reveal Netflix’s paid peering deals YouTube’s agreements with ISPs will also be sought in name of transparency. Jon Brodkin – Jun 13, 2014 12:15 pm | 118 Credit: Simon Cunningham/Lending Memo Credit: Simon Cunningham/Lending Memo Story text Size Width * Links *…

“This is actually good for Tesla and EV industry, that’s really important to appreciate, and I really do believe that,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on a call today. He’d just done something a little off-kilter: told his competitors to use his technology without the threat of a lawsuit. “I did get some…

Culture Desk June 13, 2014 “Bill Murray, Internet Jester,” by Ian Crouch. Bill Murray is your Facebook friend—or else, a friend of a friend, showing up with regularity in your feed. You know what he’s up to. This week, he was the guy joining a couple in Charleston, South Carolina, during their…

R. Stanley Williams works at HP Labs, and he has for a long time. In the video of him that I am watching, his pony tail flows out over his blue-collared shirt, and onto his lumpy sweater. He wants to tell us about Leon Chua, the Einstein of circuit theory, and the mathematics of voltage, charge,…

Jun. 18, 2014 12:30 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... If there’s one person who has absolutely zero business criticizing anyone for how they’re running the country, it’s Dick Cheney. This should be obvious to pretty everyone by now, but apparently the Wall Street Journal didn’t get the message. Today, the…

Across the board, the more CEOs get paid, the worse their companies do over the next three years, according to extensive new research. This is true whether they’re CEOs at the highest end of the pay spectrum or the lowest. “The more CEOs are paid, the worse the firm does over the next three years,…

Coworking 10 Brilliant Coworking Spaces in Brooklyn, NY A selection of Brooklyn coworking spaces that offer top-notch amenities and strong and unique community character. June 8, 2026 by Matthew Preston National Office Report Monthly analysis of U.S. office leasing, vacancy, construction, and…

Policy Father of “net neutrality” runs for office, wants to block Comcast/TWC merger Tim Wu, running for Lt. Governor in New York, says “cable prices are too high.” Jon Brodkin – Jun 17, 2014 11:29 am | 63 Tim Wu. Credit: Stanford Center for Internet and Society Tim Wu. Credit: Stanford Center for…

After serving thirteen years behind bars and struggling to rebuild his life, an ex-con finds solace in a surreptitious trip to the most unexpected place of all — his former cell.

I’ve been spending a lot of time in Silicon Valley for my day job at CalendarTree. I feel like an embedded journalist. You might be interested in some of the things I’ve discovered. The most fascinati

Justin Kan Nov 12, 2016 · 3 min read June 16, 2014 This year I went to Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Croatia and had a chance to visit startups in each of those countries. One lasting impression from all my trips was the quality of products being created. These is no question in my mind that…

Member-only story felix salmon 91 min read· Jun 11, 2014 -- The media mogul (twice over) on being both contagious and sticky By Felix Salmon Illustrations by Young Professionals I first got to know Jonah Peretti in February 2011, very shortly after the Huffington Post was sold to AOL. At the time,…

American slang has its roots in the Irish American urban experience. Just before he died, Daniel Cassidy released a pioneering book, "How the Irish invented Slang," that begins to prove how American slang has a root in the Irish American urban experience. As usual, snoots would rather fall on the…

David Marcus, who runs the PayPal online payments service for eBay, is moving to Facebook to become head of its messaging products. He has been at PayPal for three years, coming to eBay after it bough