Cole Rise is a San Franciscoâbased photographer and entrepreneur. He recently launched Lite.ly , an iPhone app that commercializes his Lightroom presets and Instagram filters. He has worked for both Y
Thereâs something unsettling about all this Uber stuff. Maybe itâs the fact that I have to wade through all the technorati tweets about â#Ubergateâ to find topics that are more important (news out of Ferguson , for instance). But every once in a while a story pops up that takes SF by storm andâŚ
oberto Chicas doesnât use Uber anymore. Actually, he doesnât do much anymore, not since he met Patrick Karajah. It was one night in late September, when Chicas, a bartender in San Francisco, did what
S ince 2001 a plethora of writers have made calls for an Islamic " Reformation ". Many hopes (and careers) are pinned on the idea, but there is no such thing coming. The Islamic reformation has alread
The cable industry used the following model to build out the industry in the US:
1) cable operators were given local monopolies as incentive to build out the expensive last mile networks into every home in the market
2) cable operators leveraged this last mile monopoly to determine which cableâŚ
One of the most hyped technology products in recent years has been Google Glass. The revolutionary gadget is expected to be life changing. It has been something Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) ( NASDAQ: GOOGL
For the past two months, quite a lot of us have been trying to solve a murder case. On crowded tube carriages, in the gym, while drifting off at night, we have pored over the evidence and attempted to make sense of a mystery to rival anything in the Agatha Christie canon. Serial is a new podcastâŚ
Disruptions Artificial Intelligence as a Threat Credit... Jamec C. Best, Jr./The New York Times Ebola sounds like the stuff of nightmares. Bird flu and SARS also send shivers down my spine. But Iâll t
Send out those brain signals! Mary Levin, U of Wash. Researchers at the University of Washington just demonstrated that two people could work together telepathically to play a video game. One player c
From the moment I became involved in the creation of new technologies, their ethical dimensions have concerned me, but it was only in the autumn of 1998 that I became anxiously aware of how great are the dangers facing us in the 21st century. I can date the onset of my unease to the day I met RayâŚ
November 6, 2014 Amazonâs Echo Chamber I used to give Amazonâs consumer hardware strategy the benefit of the doubt. I liked the original e-ink Kindles, even though they were made out of cheap plastic.
The most important part of any review I write for Ars is the experiential componentâthatâs what I seek out whenever Iâm reading a review somewhere, and thatâs the part I try to focus the most effort o
'There are many incentives to getting something built and very few to getting it right' - Nate Soares, research fellow, Machine Intelligence Research Institute Š Annie Tritt The scene in the cramped o
The other day, I saw that one of my favorite products, Slack, just raised $120mm at a $1.12 Billion valuation . The company is doing about a million a month in recurring revs. Personally, I think it w
This is the most terrifying election to take place in years. It is terrifying by design â a huge number of campaign ads are explicitly tailored to scare Americans about the virtual non-threats of Ebola and ISIS.
Working at Instapaper 8 min read ¡ Nov 2, 2014 -- Before summer began this year, I received an email from Brian Donohue, the general manager of Instapaper, asking me what I was doing for the summer. H
Note: The content of this article was written by Dr. Jennifer Raff for her blog, Violent Metaphors . It is being rehosted here with permission. You can click on the above hyperlink to view the origina
Last night I came across a headline in the WSJ about how this company, UBeam , just raised $10M to create wireless ultrasound phone charges, and it grabbed my attention because it illustrates the fund
As I look out to 2015, so much froth in the media-tech market, and it is still all on the up, mostly Newtonâs law, but the cracks are beginning to show in medialand, and it will likely get ugly. The b
What's happening? And why now? The word podcast is roughly ten years old, after all, and the "pod" to which it refers has been discontinued. Still, the genre seems more alive than ever.
While I have never denied my sexuality, I havenât publicly acknowledged it either, until now. So let me be clear: Iâm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.
We shared this in our News Ticker already, but I still can't believe that an office of Uber -- a company valued at $18 billion and held up as a bastion of modern entrepreneurship -- posted an ad that encouraged, played on, and celebrated treating women who may choose to drive cars to make extraâŚ
Is Rooms the anonymous Facebook app people were expecting ? âNo. Unequivocally NoâŚbecause you cannot be anonymous in our app,â Josh Miller tells me. The Branch founder turned Facebook product managerâ
More people are watching TV online than ever---a lot more. Viewers may not be cutting the cable cord altogether, but growth in the number who want to watch TV over a different set of pipes is surging,
Enthusiasts of the maker movement foresee a third industrial revolution. Illustration by Harry Campbell In January of 1903, the small Boston magazine Handicraft ran an essay by the Harvard professor D
Schadenfreude |ËSHädÉnËfroidÉ | noun | pleasure derived by someone from another personâs misfortune. ORIGIN German Schadenfreude, from Schaden âharmâ + Freude âjoy.â Samsung has reported a 60% fall in
The New Yorker recently featured an interesting overview of the Maker movement â a welcome bit of exposure for a subculture that is nearly invisible to the mainsteam. Itâs refreshing to see the hacker
Before we speak ill of Amazon, let us kneel down before it. Twenty years ago, the company began with the stated goal of creating a bookstore as comprehensive as the great Library of Alexandria, and th
Intelligence Share Comment ByBoF Team October 9, 2014 23:16 Today, BoF can reveal that the Apple Watch will make its fashion editorial debut on the cover of Vogue Chinaâs November issue, featuring supermodel Liu Wen. We spoke to Angelica Cheung, editor-in-chief of Vogue China, to get the storyâŚ
correction An earlier version of this story inaccurately said that downloads of podcasts through iTunes reached 1 billion last year. Subscriptions of podcasts, not downloads, reached 1 billion. The st
It is time, twenty-five years on, to discuss the cold war again. In the decade following the events of 1989, we spoke about little else. None of us anticipated the rapid breakup of the Soviet empire,
In all the coverage and hype concerning Appleâs event on Tuesday Iâd like to concentrate on one easily-overlooked product I feel is by far the most revolutionary of those announced. I am of course tal
Consider Vertu , the company that sells $6,000 Android phones (and which, back in the day, sold $6,000 Symbian phones). Back in January 2012, I wrote a short entry saying that Vertu always reminded me
A quarter-century ago, Timothy Berners-Lee designed the world's first Web browser and server, kicking off a thing that people started calling the World Wide Web. In a visit to The Washington Post, on
A few weeks ago I swore off TwoDots. The free-to-play game is the successor to the highly acclaimed and highly addictive Dots , changing up the formula by adding levels, characters and objectives, and
A population of 100,000 is no longer a guarantee that a city like Richmond, California can sustain a thriving daily paper. Readers have drifted from the tactile pleasures of print to the digital grati
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently taped a lengthy, two-part interview with Charlie Rose, and the first half of their discussion will air tonight. Thanks to some preview clips that've been released ahead of
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