Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story feels more prescient every year. The 2010 dystopian fiction novel imagined a world where holographic, smartphone-like devices called äppäräts project everyone’s personal information all of the time, while a mammoth…

Juicero tickled social media’s insatiable schadenfreude for rich people getting swindled – but it shed light on a bigger problem.Photograph: Company handout I f you’ve used the internet at any point in the past few weeks, you’ve probably heard of Juicero. Juicero is a San Francisco-based company…

Equal access to online information is once again under serious threat. John Oliver encourages internet commenters to voice their displeasure to the FCC by visiting www.gofccyourself.com and clicking "express" to file your comment. Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last Week…

Source Not a lot of people know about Ray Dalio, and he prefers it that way. Considered one of the “100 most influential people in the world” by Time magazine, Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world, with $122 billion under management. So he’s kind of a…

In 2013, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley walked into a bakery and bought a cake. Almond, with meringue on top. It was sweet — but the milestone was sweeter. For more than a decade — since his grad school days — he’d been pursuing one big idea: a product that understands how users move through…

About The Author Bruce has been working on accessibility, web standards and browsers since 2001. That’s why he looks that bad. You can follow him at @brucel , or read his …More about Bruce … March 13, 2017 World Wide Web, Not Wealthy Western Web (Part 2) Upgrade your inbox and get our editors’ picks…

About The Author Bruce has been working on accessibility, web standards and browsers since 2001. That’s why he looks that bad. You can follow him at @brucel , or read his …More about Bruce … March 6, 2017 World Wide Web, Not Wealthy Western Web (Part 1) Upgrade your inbox and get our editors’ picks…

Cleese as Nearly Headless Nick in the Harry Potter movies ( Source ) John Cleese is obsessed with creativity. He kind of needs to be. He’s the co-founder of Monty Python, the comedy troupe behind Monty Python and the Holy Grail — one of the greatest comedy films of all time. The group’s impact on…

How a team of designers, engineers, and prototypers injected new life into Microsoft. From StrXur.com To fully understand how Microsoft made the leap from being the software company in dad jeans to the most talked about maker of elegant hardware in the industry, you have to understand what goes on…

Trump unilaterally imposes sanctions on Iran, but keeps giving Israel a free pass

In the mid-’90s, when he was 10 years old, Mark Lopez walked around his home of East Los Angeles, knocking on doors to tell people about the dangers of lead in their house paint. Lopez’s grandmother had, in 1986, helped to found the advocacy group Mothers of East Los Angeles (MELA), which made it…

“The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won’t happen if you compromise away the entire process.” ― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman I get inspired reading about how…

The concept is one part of Roosegaarde’s larger Smog Free Project . At TED 2017, Roosegaarde, who works in both the Netherlands and China, outlined the project so far, including a seven-meter tall tower designed to sit in parks or playgrounds and purify surrounding air (though there are some…

Andrew Welch ·Insights · #frontend #gulp #package.json Mak­ing the web bet­ter one site at a time, with a focus on per­for­mance, usabil­i­ty & SEO Published 2016.12.23 , updated 2017.12.16 · 5 min read · RSS Feed For more tools, technologies, and techniques, check out the devMode.fm podcast !…

While Domain-Driven Design is supposed to take care of complexity in the very core of software, REST is usually treated a plain remoting technology. In the talk we're going to explore some commonalities of the two when it comes to the design of both the domain and resources. We're going to discover…

Er ist CEO und Founder einer der erfolgreichsten eco-fairen Brands in Deutschland. Mit Armedangels hat Martin Höfeler, 35, zusammen mit seinem Partner Anton Jurina geschafft, wovon viele andere Slow Fashion-Labels noch träumen: Er ist im Mainstream angekommen, verkauft über das Design, statt allein…

Photo by Nick Statt / The Verge The rumblings started months ago. Through a series of peculiar job listings and key hires, it became clear Facebook was up to something unlike anything it had ever pursued. Building 8, as the company would name it, was to be a new division under famed technologist…

Guess what Steven A. Ballmer has been up to for the last several years. (No, not just cheering for the basketball team he owns, the Los Angeles Clippers.) It’s a novel project, and he plans to take the wrapping off it Tuesday. But first the back story, which is a valuable prelude to a description of…

You’re no doubt familiar with the dictum to “do one thing every day that scares you.” The quotation is often misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt , who said something far more meaningful (if less meme-able): “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to…

Business & Technology By on Apr 17, 2013 Share The notion of “externalities” has become familiar in environmental circles. It refers to costs imposed by businesses that are not paid for by those businesses. For instance, industrial processes can put pollutants in the air that increase public health…

Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Trust the Compiler When Brendan Eich created the very first version of JavaScript for Netscape Navigator 2.0 in merely ten days, it’s likely that he did not expect how far the Slack Desktop App would take his invention: We use one JavaScript code base to build a…

The Future of APIs I don’t think we talk about the future of APIs nearly enough. I don’t remember a discussion about what the API future holds. Not a single one. But if we start to think about it, we must feel APIs as we know aren’t the endgame. They won’t stay here with us forever. So let’s take a…

Source When people ask me to recommend a good fantasy read, The Name of the Wind is always the first book on my list. Hell, I like it even more than Lord of the Rings . Now that the book has sold millions of copies and hit all the bestseller lists, every young fantasy writer wants to be Patrick…

St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of ethical offsets, isn’t having your shit. In the last few months I’ve had a lot of designers ask me “Where can I do good work?”And they don’t mean “good” as in quality. They mean good as in “on the side of the angels.” They look at the world, they see a garbage…

Sam Meder, Vadim Antonov & Jeff Chang | Pinterest engineers, Growth In early 2015 Pinterest engineers ran an experiment that improved mobile web home landing page performance by 60 percent and mobile signup conversion rate by 40 percent. However, the experiment was a hacky solution that used a lot…

Many consider Peter Drucker the most influential thinker in the history of management. His prolific writings — over 30 books — have gone on to sell millions of copies and inspire young managers all over the world. That’s great. But what if you’re not a manager? What if you’re a freelancer, an office…

German journalists Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, co-authors of the "Panama Papers" investigation, pose on April 7, 2016, in Munich. Photo credit: Christof Stache of AFP via Getty Images. A year has passed since our Panama Papers investigation shook the world and showed how enormous the…

“What are 10 words to describe the way you experience your sadness?” “What makes you feel tenderness?” “Describe a lonely day in one sentence.” This is how Leslie Feist , the Canadian singer and songwriter best known by her last name, returns to public life: armed with 16 emotional prompts that she…

Getty Images Silicon Valley is coming for death. But it’s looking in the wrong place. After disrupting the way we love, communicate, travel, work, and even eat, technologists believe they can solve the ultimate problem. Perennially youthful Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan…

O n a brisk autumn afternoon in 1952, 16 wounded soldiers were brought aboard the Canadian destroyer Cayuga patrolling the Yellow Sea off the coast of Inchon, South Korea. Casualties of the Korean War, the men were in bad shape. Several would not survive without surgery. Luckily, the ship’s doctor…

How do you walk 500 miles? Extreme hiker Sarah Marquis explains how pain gives way to pleasure during an epic trek through the wilderness. Sarah Marquis will call her parents to let her know she’s coming to visit — and she’ll be there in a week. That’s because her preferred mode of transport is on…

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Creative Blocks I don’t know if I’ve ever had one. I’m not trying to say I’m somebody with a volcanic output coming out of me all the time, but if somebody ever says, “Well, what do you do about writer’s block?” I’m like, “I don’t think I’m a writer.” I don’t put any of those titles on myself, so I…

‘An intellectual joy’: Yuval Noah Harari.Photograph: Antonio Olmos for the Observer New Review L ast week, on his Radio 2 breakfast show , Chris Evans read out the first page of Sapiens , the book by the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari. Given that radio audiences at that time in the morning are…

"I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem." The American physicist Richard Feynman said this about the notorious puzzles and paradoxes of quantum mechanics, the theory physicists use to describe the tiniest objects in the…

I was a wayward kid who grew up on the literary side of life, treating math and science as if they were pustules from the plague. So it’s a little strange how I’ve ended up now—someone who dances daily with triple integrals, Fourier transforms, and that crown jewel of mathematics, Euler’s equation.…