Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story presented an economic modeling assumption—the .01 chance of human extinction per year—as a vetted scholarly estimate. Following a correction from the Gl
5 min read · Apr 29, 2016 -- We are living in an era of bundling. The big five consumer tech companies — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft — have moved far beyond their original product l
Before you read this, take a moment to Google “lifestyle and health.” If you do, you will be confronted by over a half-billion results. That figure is mind-boggling—but it’s not surprising when you co
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zbysiu rodak When I worked at the New York Times , from 2013 to 2015, my job was to lead a team in the creation, launch, and development of a new, revenue-driving product that would help restore growt
If you had visited Airbnb’s office yesterday you probably would have noticed something: clapping. I’m not sure why, but sometimes a team will applaud a small victory, then more people will start clapp
It’s been exactly 30 days since Wahoo started shipping their first GPS bike computer, the Wahoo ELEMNT. The unit was announced last year at Interbike in September , and while they had planned to have
Reporter Jason Rezaian (left) and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos aboard a private aircraft before it took off for the U.S. on Jan. 22. Photograph by Douglas Jehl—The Washington Post A jubilant photo
F riday, August 30, 2013, the day the feckless Barack Obama brought to a premature end America’s reign as the world’s sole indispensable superpower—or, alternatively, the day the sagacious Barack Obam
The past few years have seen a sort of entrepreneurial utopia bloom in Silicon Valley. Young kids with big ideas moved to the Bay Area, where they were handed millions of dollars hand over fist by zea
The iPhone Crisis reignited a conflict that should have been settled in the 90s. The loser is our national security. Last week I arrived in San Francisco to hear good news: Whitfield Diffie and Martin
There was a time when I played a lot of MMOs (that’s Massively Multiplayer Online games, to the uninitiated). It started, as it often does, with World of Warcraft , still pretty much the undisputed ki
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA --- After more than four hours of tight play and a rapid-fire endgame, Google's artificially intelligent Go-playing computer system has won a second contest against grandmaster Lee
This is Episode 8 of Real Future, Fusion’s documentary series about technology and society. More episodes available at realfuture.tv . Several months ago, while I was typing a few e-mails at my dining
(Updated April 9th, 2017) More and more devices over the last 1-2 years have begun to include the ability to record your heart rate (HR) data around the clock. No longer are you limited to just workou
Feb 16, 2016 Getting Ready For HTTP2: A Guide For Web Designers And Developers About The Author Rachel Andrew is a web developer, writer and speaker. She is the author of a number of books, including
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After a week of anticipation, Apple today filed to dismiss a court order to assist the government in hacking an iPhone, bringing a variety of legal arguments to bear. Apple acknowledged on a call with
Opinion Why Do We Teach Girls That It’s Cute to Be Scared? Credit... Lauren Tamaki I WAS one of the first women in the San Francisco Fire Department. For more than a dozen years, I worked on a busy ri
It’s the middle of the week. The clock has just clicked to noon. It’s time for a lunch break, a few minutes of personal time before going back to work. What better way to use this time than to take a quick dip in the pool? Swimming a couple of laps is the perfect way to mentally recharge, not to…
Mirinda Carfrae, also known as “Rinny” and “Mighty Mouse,” is a fierce competitor , but it’s her exceptional ability to dig deep and suffer at the end of nine-hour races that makes the 34-year-old Aus
TL:DR You can not observe a developer without altering their behavior. First a story. Several years ago I worked on a largish project as one of a team of developers. We were building an internal syste
How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off Credit... Brian Chippendale THEY learn to read at age 2, play Bach at 4, breeze through calculus at 6, and speak foreign languages fluently by 8. Thei
On January 8, 2015, Swiss sports center Aranea received a text. It read : “More than half the way to the South Pole I have behind me. I am sure that I will break the record;)” The message came from Ge
Silicon Valley is full of startups who fetishize the candidate that comes into the interview, answers a few clever fantasy coding challenges, and ultimately ends up the award-winning hire that will su
Three years ago, Charles Chase, an engineer who manages Lockheed Martin’s nuclear fusion program, was sitting on a white leather couch at Google’s Solve for X conference when a man he had never met kn
Published in Mike’s blog · 18 min read · Jan 14, 2016 -- I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users, hundreds of developers, a
By Noah Lorang, Mr. Data at Basecamp . We’ve always felt strongly that we should share our lessons in business and technology with the world, and that includes both our successes and our failures. We’
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6 min read · Nov 18, 2015 -- When I put my children on the bus in the morning, the wish I call out to them after kissing their heads, is, “Have a good day!” Pure and simple. Now, I know that not every
Why I Will Never Vote for Donald Trump West Des Moines, Iowa Credit... Jae C. Hong/Associated Press See how this article appeared when it was originally published on NYTimes.com. Beginning with Ronald
I've often thought that software developers were akin to Magpies , birds notorious for stealing shiny items to decorate their complex nests. Like Magpies, software developers are unusually smart and c
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Editorial Preview If you have been using Google Authenticator or Authy for two-step verification (“2FA” for short), you may have wondered whether you should switch to 1Password , now that it offers th
TWENTY years ago this newspaper published an essay that hailed a coming “golden age of discovery”. Great expanses of the Earth were beckoning the intrepid to put their footprints on untrodden ground,
Hi everyone. As you know, I have opened 27 new headcount for department heads to fill by end of year. If they succeed our headcount will be 74 in January. Of our 74 employees, 37% will have been at eS
Opinion Commentary Richard Feynman’s idea has a big-time corollary: space exploration, 3-D printing and self-driving cars. By Andy Kessler Dec. 28, 2015 6:32 pm ET A long exposure showing the launch a
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