In most of the country, the unseen, nocturnal business of ripening and distributing bananas is performed by grocery chains. In New York, much of the work still falls to local banana purveyors. Credit.
The small cove in San Mateo County known as Martins Beach, just south of Half Moon Bay, was used regularly by the public for at least a century – until 2010, when the Silicon Valley billionaire and co
When it came time to design their first restaurant, Media Noche, San Francisco entrepreneurs Madelyn Markoe and Jessie Barker found themselves lacking inspiration. Their designer had asked them for ideas and they felt like “deer in headlights.” Ultimately, Markoe says, they came up with a single…
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Adventures in Capitalism If GoDaddy Can Turn the Corner on Sexism, Who Can’t? “There’s a lot of little things people don’t usually notice,” Katee Van Horn, GoDaddy’s vice president for engagement and
Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover The lobby of the Ace Hotel in Pittsburgh’s East Liberty neighborhood. The hotel opened in 2015, taking over a former Y.M.C.A. building, and is within walking distance o
Last week, the corporate commuter buses of San Francisco started making news again. You've probably heard of these luxury---more commonly referred to as "Google Buses"---that ferry tech sector employe
The new headquarters Apple is building in Cupertino has the absolute best door handles. The greatest! They are, as my colleague Steven Levy writes , precision-milled aluminum rails that attach to glas
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Maritime Mystery: Why a U.S. Destroyer Failed to Dodge a Cargo Ship The Fitzgerald after its collision with the container ship ACX Crystal off the coast of Yokosuka, Japan. Credit... Eugene Hoshiko/As
Toward the tail end of 2015, Kevin Systrom, the CEO of Instagram, came to a realization: The photo-sharing app he had founded five years earlier was straying too far from its roots. Instagram was growing, yes, and finally generating some serious ad dollars — which Facebook had been waiting for since…
My name is Maria. I happily identify as female. I work as an Agile Coach for a tech company in Cambridge, UK. I am not a woman in tech. I grew up in Pjedsted, a village in Denmark, with my mum and dad
About Projects w Opinion Talks March 24, 2017 Next So, what is it you do all day? I sort of disappeared a few years ago. I had a simple but difficult decision: stay and help GitHub to help grow the co
There’s a paradox in technology. For something new to become widespread, familiar, and mass-market, it must create enough novelty and curiosity to draw people’s attention. But novelty alone is not eno
Corner Office John Lilly: Simplify Your Message, and Repeat Often John Lilly, a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners. Credit... Earl Wilson/The New York Times This interview with John
Back in 2006, when the iPhone was a mere rumor, Palm CEO Ed Colligan was asked if he was worried: “We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “
Editors’ note: On June 16, 2017, Whole Foods agreed to sell itself to Amazon for $13.7 billion. This is the exclusive story that led up to that momentous decision for the Austin-based grocery giant. Monday, April 10, was going to be a big day for John Mackey, but he had no idea how big it would turn…
The board made its move. Travis is out. The job openings at Uber now include CEO, among the many other c-suite openings. Power, in all walks of life, shifts constantly based on a host of tangible and intangible factors, so a change in leadership at Uber after eight years of operation and after eight…
Op-Ed Contributor How Did Health Care Get to Be Such a Mess? Credit... Tim Lahan The problem with American health care is not the care. It’s the insurance. Both parties have stumbled to enact comprehe
The Stone Is Your God Dead? Credit... Damon Winter/The New York Times Is your God dead? I don’t mean the God of the philosophers or the scholars, but, as Blaise Pascal said, the “God of Abraham, God o
The Open de France quarter final matchups have been already set, after the qualifying stage came to an end on Saturday September 9. The teams that have qualified to the next leg of the competitions ar
When I walk into the Chappaqua dining room in which Hillary Clinton is spending her days working on her new book, I am greeted by a vision from the past. Wearing no makeup and giant Coke-bottle glasse
This is my last weekly column for The Verge and Recode — the last weekly column I plan to write anywhere . I’ve been doing these almost every week since 1991, starting at The Wall Street Journal, and
How Cold Brew Changed the Coffee Business At All Day, a coffee shop in Miami that’s on the must-visit list of coffee fanatics, cold brew is the foundation of the menu. Credit... John Van Beekum for Th
On Thursday, Amazon opened its first brick-and-mortar bookstore in New York City, in Columbus Circle. It is situated on the third floor of the Time Warner Center, a baffling place that, on any given w
This month marks 10 years since Apple launched the first iPhone, a device that would fundamentally transform how we interact with technology, culture, and each other. Ahead of that anniversary, Mother
Back in March, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said "I need leadership help," issuing a call for assistance amid a crisis that included a viral video of him berating a driver and explosive accusations of a s
UNTIL recently “Uber envy” afflicted many top executives at Airbnb, a platform for booking overnight stays in other people’s homes. So admits a big investor in the firm. The two companies often raised
That our teeth are in our heads seems natural, though the location is something of a liability. The trouble starts with tooth decay, which permits the usually harmless bacteria in our mouths to enter
How do we know we’re human? What is CAPTCHA? It’s demonic. It’s goofy. It’s at the center of a booming overseas cottage industry. It’s the most basic existential crisis. It looks cool in Russian . It’
Credit... Illustration by Paul Sahre Feature Those Indecipherable Medical Bills? They’re One Reason Health Care Costs So Much Hospitals have learned to manipulate medical codes — often resulting in mi
Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a favorite analogy for the post-PC era: Computers were trucks, and tablets were cars. He liked to compare the segue from PCs to tablets with the segue from trucks to cars that
During residency, I worked hospital shifts that could last 36 hours, without sleep, often without breaks of more than a few minutes. Even writing this now, it sounds to me like I’m bragging or laying
A report said that sand and gravel mining “greatly exceeds natural renewal rates.” Illustration by Javier Jaén The final event of last year’s beach-volleyball world tour was held in Toronto, in Septem
Opinion We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment Credit... Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch We are misnamed. We call ourselves Homo sapiens , the “wise man,” but that’s more of a boast than a description. What mak
Last week (approx. May 7-14), I stopped using social media for an entire week. I logged out of all the sites and deleted the apps from my phone. I didn't so much as peek at Instagram, which is, with T
Zack Kanter Contributor Zack Kanter is the co-founder of Stedi . More posts by this contributor Why Amazon is eating the world I co-founded a software startup in December. Each month, I send out an update to our investors to keep them updated on our progress. But the past month was a bit different —…
The ability to focus is an important driver of excellence. Focused techniques such as to-do lists , timetables, and calendar reminders all help people to stay on task. Few would argue with that, and e
iOS 11 for iPad concept. ( Full-res ) Once heralded as a promising sign of Apple’s renewed commitment to the iPad, iOS 9 has begun to feel like a one-hit wonder. iOS 9 represented a profound change fo
One More Thing Inside Apple’s Insanely Great (or Just Insane) New Mothership 05.16.17 On June 7, 2011, a local businessman addressed a meeting of the Cupertino City Council. He had not been on the age
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