Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click
It has been very frustrating watching the rise of cryptocurrency (which, forgive me cryptographers, I will be calling "crypto" from here on) because a whole bunch of smart people in tech seem to be ve
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Cryptocurrency is a scam. All of it, full stop — not just the latest pump-and-dump “shitcoin” schemes, in which fraudsters hype a little-known cryptocurrency before dumping it in unison, or “ rug pull
Or: “ Everybody likes being given a glass of water .” By Merlin Mann. It's only advice for you because it had to be advice for me. Epigraphs Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! The wind sits
As we start a new decade, it’s a good time to reflect on expectations for the next 10 years. Tyler thinks the Great Stagnation could be ending . Caleb sees cracks . Noah expresses techno-optimism . In
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by Molly White on Sunday, January 9, 2022 ← Back to the collection If you go out seeking to learn from their proponents why blockchains and the systems built atop them are apparently the future of our
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John Maynard Keynes begins his magnum opus, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by explaining why he has titled the book the “General” theory. His intuition was that the prevailing “o
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It was a cold January in 1969, and the Beatles were seated on a vast, even colder, soundstage at London’s Twickenham Film Studios, in the company of the last people in the world they wanted to be with
In an interview in 2000, Wes Anderson explained the psychic charge he felt from The New Yorker magazine as an aspiring fiction writer growing up in Houston. He loved “reading all the stuff [he] wasn’t
corner office C.E.O.s are eager for employees to return — and afraid of alienating those who have grown accustomed to working from home. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift artic
R achel Bovard is one of the thousands of smart young Americans who flock to Washington each year to make a difference. She’s worked in the House and Senate for Republicans Rand Paul, Pat Toomey, and
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I’ve stayed in a couple of hotels recently, and as part of their Covid safety protocols, both had their TV remote controls in plastic bags, seemingly to signify that the remotes themselves had been cl
*by “we’re” i mean front-end developers This is a written version of a talk from Jamstack Conf London in 2019 that I put together for attendees. Because, the day before I was to board a flight for tha
Illustration: Martin Gee This story is the first in a two-part series about the inner workings of Netflix’s homepage. Read the second story here . Ten years ago, Netflix got the idea that its app shou
By John Voorhees Conclusion I have mixed feelings about macOS Monterey. On the one hand, Apple has come a long way from 2018 to reposition macOS so that it’s in step with iOS and iPadOS. Many of the a
What is it about the director that draws stars like Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton again and again? There are many reasons, but the nightly feasts don’t hurt. Send any friend a story As a subscri
T here is no advanced industrial democracy in the world more politically divided, or politically dysfunctional, than the United States today. How did the world’s most powerful country get to this poin
Flo Crivello @Altimor Why did the web take over native on desktop and not on mobile? September 6th 2021 4 Retweets 167 Likes This is the kind of question you can spend a decade learning from while try
“If you can fall in love again and again… if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical… you’ve got it half licked.” “On how one orients himself to
This story originally appeared in the Heat issue of Popular Science. Current subscribers can access the whole digital edition here , or click here to subscribe. They look like mirrors: 32 rectangles n
I use a fairly simple metric to determine which artificially intelligent voice assistant is the best for controlling my smart home: Which one do I swear at the least? Apple’s Siri, which turns 10 toda
Prominent Apple blogger John Gruber kicked off a firestorm on Twitter when he suggested recently that web developers “should not be trying to create a ‘native like app’ in a web browser.” Gruber said
Tension in Chrome and Safari’s Dominance There’s a lot of history here. WebKit — being a part of Apple — plays it slow and a bit close to the chest. Historically, they’re pretty tight-lipped about the
Our long national iOS 15 Safari nightmare ended last month , praise be, but the lesser of the two bad Safari designs unveiled at WWDC persists and actually shipped : the new tabs in Safari 15 for Mac.
What is there to say about an operating system fifteen years after release? Fifteen years after the classic Mac OS was released, it was just two years away from its successor, Mac OS X, coming on the
DuckDuckGo is now carbon negative dating back to our founding in 2008 through 2020, and is committed to being carbon negative in perpetuity. We've poineered new estimation techniques, given our distri
In my career as an iOS reviewer, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a response as universally positive and enthusiastic as the general public’s reception of iOS 14 last year. From the “Home Screen aesthetic” popularized by TikTokers to the incredible success of widgets and the resurgence of custom icons,…
This is our big fall update for iOS 15. It’s packed with great improvements, including two new widgets for iPad, widget customization, support for Live Text,and much more! Available now in Things 3.15
The vast majority of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers decision in Epic v. Apple is both straight-forward and predictable; I wrote that the iPhone company would likely win when the lawsuit was filed , and
What does the future of email look like? How can you be a better digital citizen? And, why is online privacy so important? We answered all these questions and more when we sat down with Ricardo Signes
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As we await the beginning of Apple’s latest WWDC keynote and all of the new software products it will unveil, let’s talk about metaphors. Specifically, the metaphors we use to talk about Apple’s ecosy
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