Zuckerberg’s Free Speech Bubble The Facebook chief executive doubles down on a flawed defense of a company policy that allows Trump to post dangerous comments. Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a c
D ie dominanten Digitalkonzerne dokumentieren, wie die Corona -Pandemie rund um den Globus in das Leben der Menschen hineinwirkt. Zahlreiche Unternehmen haben in Windeseile Arbeitsabläufe umgestellt.
5-min read So, there was a time when there was … no time. Before the Big Bang (a dot that exploded) there was no time. Are we pre dot? Sheltering in place, time feels amorphous and nonlinear. Time has
Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists Kevin Kelly About Futurism Cool Tools Art Archives Moving hay on a lake high in a snow-covered Himalayan valley of Kashmir, from Vanishing Asia A
Why the U.S. Immigration Policy is Crippling Creative Talent in the Advertising Industry The collapse of the U.S. labor market has been severe and sudden. In the advertising industry, agencies that ha
Published in Public Stories · 3 min read · May 20, 2020 -- These are the baseline principles of Public. They are the core values under which we operate. Public runs on ten core principles: Honesty kil
Twitter Must Cleanse the Trump Stain The president is spreading a vile conspiracy theory on the platform. Maybe Twitter should finally hold him to its rules. May 26, 2020 President Trump has been prom
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told staff at a companywide meeting that he won’t change his mind about a decision to leave up posts shared by President Trump last week that many workers
4-min read An Etch A Sketch is a mechanical drawing toy invented by André Cassagnes of France. Two knobs move a stylus that displaces aluminum powder on the back of the screen, leaving a solid line. T
Jerry Hildenbrand had an eye-opening piece at Android Central last month — “ The Cheapest iPhone Has a More Powerful Processor Than the Most Expensive Android Phone ”: 1 I expect that some people are
Amsterdam’s historic Red Light District is rife with English-language city signs admonishing tourists: “Don’t pee in the street”; “No alcohol in public spaces”; “Put your trash in the bin”; “Fine: 140
“It’s not close to what we wanted,” Jeffrey Katzenberg said of consumer response to Quibi, which went live on April 6. Credit... Taylor Jewell/Invision Downloads of the $1.8 billion short-form streami
W here were you planning to be on the Fourth of July this year? Backyard barbecue with your crankiest relatives, fighting over who gets to light the illegal fireworks that your derelict cousin smuggle
4-min read An unlock is the discovery of an accelerant for the brand, product, or service invisible in plain sight. The mold on cheese curing disease was a substantial unlock (penicillin). So is admin
Ringer illustration In the weeks since April 16, when Yahoo Sports writer Keith Smith first suggested that the NBA use Walt Disney World as a “bubble” site to resume play without fans or precedent, th
Earlier today, Airbnb Co-Founder and CEO Brian Chesky sent the following note to Airbnb employees. This is my seventh time talking to you from my house. Each time we’ve talked, I’ve shared good news a
When I was in middle school, I taped up a poster of Michael Jordan in the bedroom I shared with my younger brother. The photographer had caught him mid-flight, like a regent astride an invisible horse
7-min read My mom raised me on her own, on a secretary’s salary. Each day she’d wake up at 6:30 so she could be in her car by 7:30 to make the drive downtown to the Southwestern School of Law, where s
Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade,
The 2020 iPhone SE is a device where, for the most part, what you see is what you get. The one thing you get that you can’t see is the A13 Bionic chip — although you can see, particularly with Portrai
Greatly anticipating its arrival, I unboxed the iPad Pro Magic Keyboard as soon as it appeared at my door, and before I even attached my iPad Pro, I was put off. It felt too stiff to open. Then I did
Apple and Google, who last Friday jointly | announced new capabilities for contact tracing coronavirus carriers at scale, released a new statement yesterday clarifying that no government would tell th
7-min read Lenin said nothing can happen for decades, and then decades can happen in weeks. Yes, a pandemic pulls the future forward, and there’s a lot to learn. Another phenomenon that forms rain clo
6-min read After COVID-19, nothing will be the same. The previous sentence is bullsh*t. On the contrary, things will never be more the same, just accelerated. Over the last two weeks, organizations ra
A German Exception? Why the Country’s Coronavirus Death Rate Is Low The pandemic has hit Germany hard, with more than 100,000 people infected. But the percentage of fatal cases has been remarkably low
The new 2020 iPad Pros are, in most ways, minor spec bump updates to the 2018 iPad Pros. The camera system is better, there’s a new lidar sensor that greatly improves AR, and the built-in microphone s
Will Our Most Important Industry Survive the Coronavirus? Governments need Big Tech now more than ever. March 24, 2020 As more consumers turn to online delivery and entertainment services, companies l
7-min read It feels like a lifetime ago, but on Monday, private equity firm Silver Lake announced a $1 billion investment in Twitter, and Twitter agreed to 3 new board seats. To distract myself from c
5-min read Tim Ferriss and Sequoia Capital are encouraging people not to go to SXSW and to adjust for the “black swan event of 2020.” Firms cancelling, and minimizing their burn, is understandable. Wh
4-min read My book agent, Jim Levine, gave me a piece of parenting advice that has stuck with me — find moments of engagement. As I have no real manly skills (fishing, building fences) to bond with my
Nachtrag: Mit einem am 15.4.2021 veröffentlichten Beschluss hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht den Mietendeckel für verfassungswidrig und nichtig erklärt . Die Regelungen sind daher nicht anwendbar. Das
Was ist der Mietendeckel? Was wurde gesetzlich festgelegt? Formal heißt der Mietendeckel »Gesetz zur Mietenbegrenzung im Wohnungswesen in Berlin«. Kernelement des Gesetzes ist eine Begrenzung der Miet
Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Wohnen Kontakt Datenschutz Impressum en. Wohnen Mieten-Service Berliner Mietspiegel 2019 Berliner Betriebskostenübersicht Mietfibel Mietzuschuss in Sozialwohn
6-min read — Seminal Of a work, event, moment, or figure strongly influencing later developments I love this word. It sounds elegant and speaks to actions that echo louder and louder. Several events t
Sorry, Republicans Rule the Internet Right now, being the best internet arsonist is what counts. Feb. 4, 2020 Calculations being made at the caucus site at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Credit
6-min read If a brand is a function of promise (imagery) and performance (interaction), then the brand Iowa is largely a function of the promise. The Hawkeye state is one of the least visited states i
Kobe Bryant is gone. I’m screaming right now, cursing into the sky, crying into my keyboard, and I don’t care who knows it. Kobe Bryant is gone, and those are the hardest words I’ve ever had to write
You could write an entire book on the tall tales that surrounded Kobe Bryant throughout his career. He’s like Paul Bunyan. Jay Williams once said that he showed up to a game 4 hours early thinking he
Before the network, there is the job. In the case of Visa, or, to be more exact, the Bank Americard that would eventually be spun out and renamed Visa, the job for consumers was obvious: instant credi
4-min read Sometimes it’s darkest before it’s … pitch black. Things are going from bad to worse at SoftBank. Since January 2019, Vision Fund firms have laid off over 10,700 employees — more than 2x th