In a recent story, Wired devotes considerable attention to media and media startups, thanks in large part to the hefty investments in many of these entities, like Vox, Vice and Buzzfeed. They all have

Credit... Illustration by Andrea Wan Raising Teenagers: The Mother of All Problems Children are characters in the family story we tell — until, one day, they start telling it themselves. Credit... Ill

4 min read · Mar 21, 2015 -- As the smoke begins to clear from the shut-down of my former employer and the rubble that was left behind starts to take shape, a number of nagging questions remain. That’

Y ou could measure out a theatre-going life in Tom Stoppard innovations. His best plays are evolutionary staging posts. In 1966 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead brought characters from the wings

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Slack is a dream for every startup founder, investor and VC. It’s the fastest growing startup ever, which is amazing considering it’s a SaaS startup. And all that within its short 2 years of existence

Science & technology | Hail and farewell Aug 1st 2015 This picture of Pluto’s atmosphere, backlit by the sun, is a Parthian shot of the place taken on July 15th (but transmitted to Earth a week later)

It began as a simple open letter from mom to the kids, before summer. But soon enough, the letter went viral … and I really understand why. This mom seriously cracked me up. I kind of wish I knew her

Trump Is the Poison His Party Concocted The adults patrolling the playpen of Republican politics are appalled that we’ve become a society where it’s O.K. to make fun of veterans, to call anyone who is

T he red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis , plus the expectation that the banks would be nationalised, revived briefly a 20th-century dream: the forced destruction of the mar

For a long time, iOS apps have been able to open links as web views. When you tap a link in a Twitter client, an RSS reader, or a bookmark utility, it usually opens in a mini browser that doesn't leave the app, providing you with the convenience of not having to switch between Safari […]

Several years ago, I was given as a gift a remote session with a bibliotherapist at the London headquarters of the School of Life, which offers innovative courses to help people deal with the daily em

Aesthetically, I prefer print to most digital text. The Kindle's screen is crap at displaying photographs or charts, and while its e-ink text is easier on the eyes than an iPad, it's harder on the eye

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In recent years, the United States has been confronting a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases---most notably, a measles outbreak that began in California's Disneyland in December, spurred on by

I’m a voracious web reader. I spend most of my working days either writing or checking Twitter, NewsBlur, Nuzzel , Techmeme, and The Tech Block looking for interesting stuff I can link to or longer ar

Q. How else does this period of apparent equity overvaluation compare to equity booms in the past? Robert Shiller: This time around, bonds and, increasingly, real estate also look overvalued. This is different from other over-valuation periods such as 1929, when the stock market was very overvalued,…

Illustration by Tim O’Brien "Come general, the affair is over, we have lost the day," Napoleon told one of his officers. "Let us be off." The day was June 18, 1815. By about 8 p.m., the emperor of Fra

W hen Tom Stoppard was writing T he Hard Problem , his play about the conundrum of human consciousness , one of the scientists he consulted was American evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson . The

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3 min read · May 16, 2015 -- [There are a billion of these on the web. Maybe you care about another one. Maybe you don’t. YMMV. ☺] It is, fundamentally and essentially, just this: a wristwatch. If you

3 min read · Jul 19, 2013 -- Meetings may be toxic, but calendars are the superfund sites that allow that toxicity to thrive. All calendars suck. And they all suck in the same way. Calendars are a rec

Common Sense Verizon Takes to the Battlefield The actress and singer Selena Gomez, center, visiting a Verizon Destination store in Bloomington, Minn., in 2013. With its $4.4 billion purchase of AOL, V

I t’s been ​ four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The killing was the high point of Obama’s first t

By Ryan Mac, Heng Shao and Frank Bi Frank Wang Tao has never been arrested. He pays his taxes on time. And he rarely drinks. But on the eve of a January sit-down with FORBES--his first public intervie

Europe’s Google Problem Have you heard the term Gafa yet? It hasn’t caught on here in the United States — and I’m guessing it won’t — but in France, it has become so common that the newspapers hardly

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The language of politics stays the same, and it is a dead language. Photograph by Danny Wilcox Frazier/Redux Earlier this month, the Upshot —the Times ’ s “politics and policy vertical,” as it’s known

Twitter’s blog is generally a cheery place, with one big exception from 2012: the innocuously named Changes Coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API , and in particular, the section called “Changes to

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THE pens were on the table in Minsk, Belarus’s capital, for the leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine to sign a deal to end a year-long war fuelled by Russia and fought by its proxies. But on

There has been a lot of speculation about the identity of Startup L. Jackson . One theory is that “he” is actually composed of machine learning algorithms and a database of the insight of a few well-k

Published in Making Instapaper · 4 min read · Mar 27, 2015 -- In 72 hours… It’s amazing how a (somewhat) slight product change can define a whole new set of behaviors. On October 29th 2013, Twitter la

Paying for TV has been a curious consumer phenomenon. There was a time when TV was free to consumers. It was delivered as a broadcast over-the-air and paid for either by commercials (US mostly) or by

Why is the world so troubled right now? Rejection of modernity and technology may be to blame.

An audio version of this essay is available to subscribers , provided by curio.io . The deep infiltration of digital information into our lives has created a fervor around the supposed corresponding loss of logged-off real life . Each moment is oversaturated with digital potential: Texts, status…

It’s YC fundraising season and the perennial discussion about valuations has begun. It’s frankly kinda tired. Smart investors will do fine investing in YC companies at “exorbitant” pricing, and crappy

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