None The rise and fall of ATL’s wildest spring break street party, as told by those who lived it. As told to Angel Elliott ( @AngelElliott ) Atlanta, 1992. A burgeoning Black mecca teeming with young
An Autonomous Car Might Decide You Should Die But that prospect isn’t as scary as it sounds Published in Backchannel · 8 min read · Mar 10, 2015 -- The “trolley problem” is an old, familiar thought ex
According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, he first learned about Steve’s need for a liver transplant in January 2009. By that time Steve wasn’t coming into the office at all, and Cook would visit him at home j
If you want to imagine how the world will look in just a few years, once our cell phones become the keepers of both our money and identity, skip Silicon Valley and book a ticket to Orlando. Go to Disn
Wunderkind. Jerk. Innovator. Tyrant. (All of the above.) Even now, almost four years after his death, it’s hard to read a story about Steve Jobs that doesn’t rely on these kinds of generic labels to e
Okay, I’ll be honest with you right away. The title is a little misleading. I started learning Swift 4 months ago and I knew some coding before that. But I have never created a native app for any plat
The alarm bells of the climate crisis have been ringing in our ears for years and are getting louder all the time - yet humanity has failed to change course. What is wrong with us? Many answers to tha
America’s crumbling infrastructure: It’s not a sexy problem, but it is a scary one. Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as
L ooking west from the scrub and boulders of the Sandia Mountains, the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, sprawls across the valley of the Rio Grande, surrounded by the vast openness of the high desert.
For the benefit of the TL;DR crowd, here’s the gist of this piece: CarPlay is a fundamentally flawed product that should be scrapped to give the engineers in Cupertino the space to come up with an in-
FoxSports.com FoxSports.com Where do you want to be 10 years from now? If you’d like to be an FBS head coach, there’s good news for you. No matter where you are in the football world, a head coaching
Years before he was a national figure, Barack Obama delivered a speech at a rally against the proposed invasion of Iraq that became integral to his underdog primary campaign in 2008. "I don't oppose a
Jameis Winston’s side called just one witness at his December 2014 CoC Hearing, Jason Newlin– his testimony raised plenty of questions. On December 2-3, 2014, Florida State University conducted a Code
4 min read · Feb 24, 2015 -- Disclosure: I’m the Founder & CEO of DuckDuckGo , the search engine that doesn’t track you. I may be biased, but I’m also well-informed. We already put legal limits on fin
INDIANAPOLIS -- He arrived at the NFL Scouting Combine and blazed a trail of reputational redemption, quickly shedding his stigma as an immature knucklehead and impressing coaches and talent evaluator
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Kanye West is pissing everyone off. Again. I can’t speak for other people, but when I tune in to awards shows like the Grammys, I’m doing so for three reasons. One, for the live performances. Two, for
“Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes
You didn’t have to look too far to spot the action at Clive Davis ‘ pre-Grammy gala on Feb. 7. Ground zero was table 108, where Apple CEO Tim Cook , senior vp Internet software and services Eddy Cue ,
Jazz became popular because an opera-loving engineer developed radio, which opened the door for an ignored art form to spread. And rock and roll was enabled by the transistor radio and the FM band. Mo
I. Launch Day “So much of our manufactured environment testifies to carelessness,” Ive says. Things are “developed to be different, not better.” Photograph by Pari Dukovic In recent months, Sir Jonath
“What the hell happened?” It is a cold day in early December in Midtown Manhattan, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has barely taken his seat on stage when his interviewer throws out that brusque query. It’s
Peter Welch is a writer and programmer. He is the author of the book And Then I Thought I Was a Fish and the blog " Still Drinking ". Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something
We were smart enough to eradicate measles, but arrogant enough to invite it back. Welcome to a four-part series on the precise ways we’re fucking up 50 years of medical progress. By Leigh Cowart The g
There is perhaps no idea this blog has litigated against more fiercely than the idea of low-end disruption and the inevitable doom of the iPhone. It’s hard to imagine now, but when I started Strateche
More children are “growing up godless” than at any other time in our nation’s history. They are the offspring of an expanding secular population that includes a relatively new and burgeoning category
Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Osmani, the Taliban’s military leader for southern Afghanistan, sat stolidly, his great bulk supported in an overstuffed chair to my left. It was October 2, 2001, and events ha
W hy are we still so obsessed with the Nazis? Hardly a day goes by without a television programme or a newspaper article about them. Movies featuring them continue to pour out of the studios, from Tar
Six months after buying the subscription music service Beats Music, Apple is actively working to launch a completely new paid streaming music service that will compete with Spotify and Rdio. Yet to be
I n the days leading up to Super Bowl XXV, then–New York Giants defensive coordinator Bill Belichick was searching for any weakness the opposing Buffalo Bills might possess. Powered by four future Hal
The Patriots and Seahawks aren’t built for one another. These are two teams built around dominant secondaries that were designed to target other opponents. These are defenses built to stop the Broncos
One normally wouldn’t expect farmer psychology and technology to have much in common, but drawing unexpected connections is the mark of truly innovative thinkers, and Geoffrey A. Moore’s Crossing the
Warner Bros. I love war movies: not for the explosions or the patriotism, but because they gave me a window into the world that structured the days of my onetime boyfriend and best friend Luke, who le
Published in Monday Note · 9 min read · Jan 18, 2015 -- by Jean-Louis Gassée A flurry of recent software accidents in iOS and OS X raises questions about Apple’s management of its relentless increase
In Mandy Len Catron’s Modern Love essay, “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This,” she refers to a study by the psychologist Arthur Aron (and others) that explores whether intimacy between two strangers
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