An analysis of Leonid Bershidhskyâs article in which he rails against the spread of Russian misinformation or âMedia Hackingâ, which in deep self-referential irony is from its headline to the body, a
Gigaom's sudden collapse this week seemingly caught its journalists by surprise. Keeping them informed of the financial state of affairs â how money gets made and spent â can lead to better decisions on all sides.
Over the course of investigating the Apple Watch, Iâve spoken to several sources who have spent extended time with it. There are a lot of interesting details, some of which weâll get into. But, by far, the biggest recurring theme is how little you use your iPhone once you have one. After theseâŠ
Joe Klein and Jeff Greenfield on the state of cable news April 27 at 92nd Street Y. Subscribe for more videos like this: http://bit.ly/1GpwawV Facebook: http://facebook.com/92ndStreetY Twitter: https:
Gerrymandering -- drawing political boundaries to give your party a numeric advantage over an opposing party -- is a difficult process to explain . If you find the notion confusing, check out the char
Translated: THE WORLD GOVERNMENT How Silicon Valley controls our future Oh, My! Published in Fear and Technopanic · 6 min read · Feb 28, 2015 -- Just 12 hours ago, I posted a brief piece about the con
Yesterday Pando Daily published an article about indie.vc. I wasnât contacted for the piece, but I think they did a reasonably good job summing up the terms and timelines I outlined here last week. On
The Most Important Push Notification Metric · 5 min read · Feb 18, 2015 -- Yes, Push Notifications are a viable retention tactic . And app developers have prudently started to take all the right measu
LIAD Feb 12, 2015 FOMO + YOLO = #YOMOorFOMO + YOLO = #FOLOeither way â gimme my damn phone. Lucas Dailey Feb 12, 2015 I think #YOMO sums up the result of FOMO + YOLO = You Only Miss Out. On the presen
An Appraisal David Carr, a Journalist at the Center of the Sweet Spot David Carr in 2008. Credit... Stephen Chernin/Associated Press For a while, a few years ago, there was a weekly video on the New Y
Ximena Vengoechea Contributor Nir Eyal Contributor Nir Eyal is the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and blogs about the psychology of products . More posts by this contributor 3 pillars of the most successful tech products Hereâs what your boring app would look like as aâŠ
Expulsion From the Garden of Eden, by Massacio. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons This article originally appeared in New Scientist . Entomologist E. O. Wilson is a professor emeritus at Harvard Universit
O ne spring morning in Tucson, Arizona, in 1994, an unknown philosopher named David Chalmers got up to give a talk on consciousness , by which he meant the feeling of being inside your head, looking o
One afternoon in 2004, Mikel Ellcessor walked into his bossâs office with a big idea. At the time, he was the head of local content for New York public radio station WNYC. It was making all sorts of interesting shows, but connecting them with the right audience could be difficult. Distributing themâŠ
On October 29th and December 18th, 2014, something very strange happened to the iTunes top apps chart. Like an earthquake shaking up the region, all app positions in the chart were massively rearrange
Nobody ever wants to talk about money. But current and prospective indie app developers could really use more information on the subject. Iâve seen some very informative and helpful posts from develop
Seven years into the smartphone world, it seems like itâs time to change the questions. The questions that we asked and argued about for the last few years have now mostly been answered, become irrele
After dismissing Mr. Williams, who was one of its senior news analysts, NPR argued that he had violated the organizationâs belief in impartiality, a core tenet of modern American journalism. By renewi
A day on, the terrorist attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris continues to shock and outrage. But it has also provoked a show of resolve, in displays of the phrase â Je Suis Charlie ,â which wa
Modern Love To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This Credit... Brian Rea More than 20 years ago, the psychologist Arthur Aron succeeded in making two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. Last summer,
O nce were we young in the Garden... The Internet is us, connected. The Internet is not made of copper wire, glass fiber, radio waves, or even tubes. The devices we use to connect to the Internet are
The research Why you should trust us Autumn Whitefield-Madrano laid the foundation for the original version of this guide in 2016 and 2017. Autumn also wrote Wirecutterâs guide to the best mattress an
8 min read · Jan 5, 2015 -- I was recently quoted as saying , âI donât give a shitâ if Instagram has more users than Twitter. If you read the article youâll note thereâs a big âifâ before my not givin
We all make a lot of bad decisions . With careers : More than half of teachers quit their jobs within four years. In fact, one study in Philadelphia schools found that a teacher was almost two times m
The Imitation Game not only fatally miscasts the mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing as a characterâit also completely destroys any coherent telling of what he and his colleagues were trying to do.
WHAT IS HUMANISM? Some say itâs a godless worldview, a philosophy free of supernaturalism. But humanism is both more and less than that. More, because it is about affirming what we do believe, not jus
The Media Equation How the Hacking at Sony Over âThe Interviewâ Became a Horror Movie A worker removed a poster for "The Interview" from a movie theater in Atlanta, Ga., following Sony's announcement
The idea that computers are people has a long and storied history. It goes back to the very origins of computers, and even from before. There's always been a question about whether a program is someth
Digg is partnering with Emergent , a real-time rumor tracker, to tell the facts behind the stories that spread online. This is the second in the series, which began with a look at the pumpkin spice condom that never was. Her smile launched thousands of retweets, and inspired many news articles.âŠ
Op-Ed Contributor Sony Caved to Terror. No One Else Should. Movie posters for "The Interview" were on display in Los Angeles last week. COPENHAGEN â Sonyâs decision to pull âThe Interviewâ â an enormo
The most powerful people in Hollywood were so fearful to place themselves in the cross hairs of hackers that they all refused to sign a simple petition of support that Clooney circulated to the top people in film, TV, records and other areas. Here, Clooney discusses the petition and how it is justâŠ
Update, 12/18: More Peter Singer on the fallout from the Sony hackâ"This will be a case study I can guarantee will be both used and misused in everything from legislation to cybersecurity sales pitche
David Bloomer/Showtime As the Season 4 finale of Homeland ironically coincides with the United States draw-down of combat troops from Afghanistan at the end of the month, we wanted to use this opportu
Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife When the Bank of England learned that the artist J.S.G. Boggs was making money, the authorities were not pleased. On October 31, 1986, three inspectors from
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