It’s common knowledge that “ideas are worthless”. An idea will bring you nowhere – you need implementation, focus, a good team, the right environment, luck, etc. And I won’t argue with that – obviousl

Google Map Maker One of the big stories in the Bitcoin world these days is the crisis at Mt. Gox, the former undisputed king of Bitcoin trading. Advertisement Advertisement In recent weeks, the site h

Gray Matter Is the Universe a Simulation? Credit... Olimpia Zagnoli IN Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita,” the protagonist, a writer, burns a manuscript in a moment of despair, only t

Recently, our nation’s financial chieftains have been feeling a little unloved. Venture capitalists are comparing the persecution of the rich to the plight of Jews at Kristallnacht , Wall Street titan

Published in The Frontier · 5 min read · Feb 17, 2014 -- The Internet is stuck. It’s stuck inside devices and patterns of interaction that don’t live up to its creative and expressive potential. I’d l

Late last night, CNBC ’s David Faber broke the news that Comcast had made a bid to acquire Time Warner Cable for $159 per share, or about $45 billion. TV watchers everywhere sighed, assuming that comb

The crookedest little bloghouse in Silicon Valley just hit a new low, it appears: A negative story about Birchbox, a beauty-product site with which Pando shares investors, was deleted shortly after be

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 I emailed my 22 year old cousin Eric, who’s graduating Summa in Economics from Harvard, to see if he needed any help getting interviews at prestigious financial institutions

If George Orwell and Laurie Lee were to return from the Spanish civil war today, they would be arrested under section five of the Terrorism Act 2006. If convicted of fighting abroad with a "political, ideological, religious or racial motive" - a charge they would find hard to contest - they would…

If you and your buddies are already chatting with one another via Kik Messenger, then you might as well surf the web together, too. Kik Interactive is embedding a web browser into its native iOS and A

The latest Snowden-related revelation is that Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) proactively targeted the communications infrastructure used by the online activist collective know

Photo by Deanna Fei Late last week, Tim Armstrong, the chief executive officer of AOL, landed himself in a media firestorm when he held a town hall with employees to explain why he was paring their re

Oh, the swagger. When Snapchat turned down between $3 and $4 billion from Facebook and Google , the verdict was that it would be hard to build a business out of Snapchat. But how hard would it be, really? Late last year, Evan Spiegel, Snapchat’s CEO, disclosed the number of shared snaps as 400…

Watch this video, taken from a police raid in Des Moines, Iowa . Send it to some people. When critics (like me) warn about the dangers of police militarization, this is what we’re talking about. You’ll see the raid team, dressed in battle-dress uniforms, helmets and face-covering balaclava hoods…

Microsoft's coronation of new CEO Satya Nadella grabbed most of the headlines on Tuesday. But the news overshadowed a second announcement from the company, one that gives an early indication of how th

If you’ve ridden the New York City subway in the last two months, you know Lucas. You might hate him, but you know him. He’s the mustachioed man who stares at you from subway ads, never quite smiling,

“Pike will pay for this, you wait and see—we’ll destroy him for this.” — Mitchell Rogovin, CIA special counsel, 1976 Last month, former Congressman Otis Pike died , and no one seemed to notice or care

I was born on 148th Street in 1965, and from then until the late 1990s it never dawned on me to live anywhere other than New York City. When I lived on 14th Street in the late 1980s, I paid $140 a month to share an apartment with a bunch of other odd and dysfunctional musicians and artists.

Yesterday, as Facebook launched its news reader app Paper, design-focused startup FiftyThree called out Facebook publicly for using their brand name. Facebook declined to change the name of their bran

PETERSBURG, KENTUCKY-A brightly lit auditorium was packed with young adults wearing bow-ties, young-Earth creationists, and a gaggle of media there to maybe see sparks fly. The sparks could have been generated by Ken Ham, president/CEO of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum, and Bill Nye the…

W hen you’re a writer, you want something you create to have a long life, to be something that readers will remember and revisit for years to come. If such was Caleb Hannan’s wish, it’s been granted,

A letter from Grantland editor-in-chief Bill Simmons on the origins of this story and how it came to be published can be read here . A guest editorial from Christina Kahrl detailing the problems with

This is a story about 5 Low-Severity bugs I pulled together to create a simple but high severity exploit, giving me access to private repositories on Github. These vulnerabilities were reported privat

More About Ben Ben Horowitz is a Cofounder and General Partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Hard Thing About Hard Things and

The announcement of Satya Nadella as Microsoft’s new CEO isn’t the only big news out of the company this week. Today, the company announced a $15 million strategic investment in Foursquare, the New Yo

Old Inwood and new Inwood co-exist—imperfectly but not badly. Photo: Amy Lombard Gentrification: New Yorkers can sense it immediately. It plumes out of Darling Coffee, on Broadway and 207th Street, an

Revenue and Profit Rise at Google, but Mobile Is a Persistent Challenge Google office space in Manhattan. The company said it would sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. Credit... Karste