Shouts & Murmurs November 17, 2013 Illustration by Istvan Banyai W_henever a friend asks me if I have any interesting tales involving text-messaging, I think of Jeremy. Jeremy, a man I am no longer in touch with, was someone I once considered a friend. It started out very simply: one day I received…

President Kennedy, minutes before he was assassinated. Photo by Walt Cisco/Dallas Morning News via Wikimedia Commons Fifty years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 59 percent of Americans still believe it was the work of a conspiracy. I was once among them. Back in the early…

About a year ago, I was on a conference call. The customer was a Fortune 500 company with a correspondingly enormous web presence, and they wanted some help validating that their new Sass architecture would result in CSS that would perform well across devices. One of their developers was giving an…

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November 14, 2013 by Brian de Haaff Share on Bluesky Somehow I managed to become what I thought was hellbanned on Hacker News. I was ready to apologize for sinning — to bow down to the Internet gods of geeky and fresh content and atone for my evil ways. But, it was not clear why I needed to. Here is…

Become a member Sign in Wells Riley Design at @envoy 157 Following 830 Followers · Profile Claps Highlights Responses Latest May 11 · 9 min read Powering a Sonos Play:1 with a USB-C battery pack (instructions + photos) 57 Wells Riley in Envoy Design Mar 8 · 5 min read Behind the scenes of our film…

One of the many benefits of the Web is its ability to create a unique, tailored experience for the individual user. It’s more engaging to see news from friends and favorite brands when logging into a social network, rather than updates from strangers or random content. When done well,…

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A hand-drawn emoticon ought to be enough to push Silicon Valley over the edge. The goading smiley-face sketch on a leaked NSA slide that pinpointed a weakness in the connection points of Google’s and

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A hundred and forty characters doesn’t sound like much, but as Twitter has shown over the course of its short, intense life, they’re enough to aid a revolution, ruin a reputation or direct help after a disaster. Critics tend to focus on the irresponsibility or narcissism of the form, or to say it…

In his office within the gleaming-stainless-steel and orange-brick jumble of MIT’s Stata Center, Internet elder statesman and onetime chief protocol architect David D. Clark prints out an old PowerPoint talk. Dated July 1992, it ranges over technical issues like domain naming and scalability. But in…

Apple's maps have turned out to be a hit with iPhone and iPad users in the US - despite the roasting that they were given when they first appeared in September 2012. But Google - which was kicked off the iPhone after it refused to give Apple access to its voice-driven turn-by-turn map navigation -…

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…

AirbnbEng 10 min read· Nov 11, 2013 -- By Spike Brehm This post has been cross-posted on VentureBeat. At Airbnb, we’ve learned a lot over the past few years while building rich web experiences. We dove into the single-page app world in 2011 with our mobile web site, and have since launched Wish…

Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, details the charges against Liberty Reserve in May (Reuters). Money laundering, that staple of films, both comic and thriller, has changed since the days when gangsters ran local fronts that only dealt in cash. A recent…

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There’s a strain of triumphalism coursing through the blogosphere today, on the grounds that the bonkers wing of the Republican party is going to have achieved exactly none of its own goals, while inf

38% Of People Who Are “Single And Looking” Have Used A Dating Site Or App, Says Pew Catherine Shu 6:12 AM PDT · October 21, 2013 One in 10 Americans have used a dating site or app, including 38% of people who currently describe themselves as “single and looking,” according to Pew Research Center’s…

Will the usually obscure Internet Engineering Task Force – that open-to-anyone group of engineers who design and keep the ‘net functioning – step up and fight back against mass surveillance? That possibility is now in the air, following a talk in Vancouver today by cryptographer Bruce Schneier (see…

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By: Brian, Live Free Live Natural. July 29, 2013, a sperm whale was stranded on Tershelling, a northern island in the Netherlands. A rescue attempt was attempted, but unfortunately the whale died. A y

I quit my my last job after a little more than 2 months. Why? Did I jump into a position I was not excited about? No. In fact, I faced major struggles trying to persuade myself NOT to take that offer (and ultimately, failed). I had been looking for a job after my second contract at SAP was about to…

Nov 07 2013 At their core, Everpix and Snapchat are both well designed, super hyped software services centered around photography. For the unfamiliar — Everpix is a freemium photo hosting service that

This is probably the most painful bug report I’ve ever read , describing in glorious technicolor the steps leading to Knight Capital’s $465m trading loss due to a software bug that struck late last ye

The NSA, working with its British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), secretly taps into the internal networks of Yahoo and Google, the two biggest Internet companies by ov

Developers seeking to create apps for Google's Glass headset have had limited options so far, but the company will break things wide open during a two-day hackathon — like the ones held earlier this year to show off its Mirror API — starting on the 19th. An invite sent out today describes a San…

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Ron Dollette/Flickr Updated, 4 p.m. This weekend, on a blustery evening, his tummy full of steak and apple tacos, journalist and technologist Dan Sinker embarked on a spiritual journey. Which is to say, he made Tacofancy: an online, collaborative library of taco recipes. And how he made it reveals…