Um sie ranken sich in Tagen dieser eigentümlichen Corona-Zeit allerlei Diskussionen und Spekulationen. Sie war zunächst eine Idee, über die man nach Feierabend mutmasste, und wurde praktisch über Nacht zur Realität. Die Rede ist von der – gerne einfach als Corona-App betitelten – SwissCovid App.…

David Kriesel Main Ethics, Society & Politics Playlists: '36c3' videos starting here / audio 61 min 2019-12-28 2019-12-29 100.8k Fahrplan Seit Anfang 2019 hat David jeden einzelnen Halt jeder einzelnen Zugfahrt auf jedem einzelnen Fernbahnhof in ganz Deutschland systematisch gespeichert. Inklusive…

In den sozialen Medien kursiert sehr viel Verwirrung darüber, wie gefährlich dieses neue Coronavirus tatsächlich ist und ob die derzeitigen Maßnahmen sinnvoll sind bzw. waren. Eine Ärztin aus den Nied

Photo: Bobby Doherty for New York Magazine This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. As soon as my wife and I started sheltering in place, I got concerned emails and queries on social media: “Jerry, how are you eating…

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At around 7 am on a quiet Wednesday in August 2017, Marcus Hutchins walked out the front door of the Airbnb mansion in Las Vegas where he had been partying for the past week and a half. A gangly, 6'4", 23-year-old hacker with an explosion of blond-brown curls, Hutchins had emerged to retrieve his…

A lot has changed about air travel since it went mainstream in the 1930s. On-board smoking, free-flowing booze, and five-star meals have given way to baggage fees, cramped seats, and mystery meat. It ain’t all bad, though — flying is also more safe, affordable and accessible than ever before.…

By Tom Lamont One day in December 2016 a 37-year-old British artist named Sam Winston equipped himself with a step-ladder, a pair of scissors, several rolls of black-out cloth and a huge supply of duct tape, and set about a project he had been considering for some time. Slight and bearded, with…

Kommentar Barnaby Skinner Open-Data: eine Strategie für den Papierkorb Eigentlich müssten sich gleich zwei Organe beim Bund darum bemühen, dass das Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG) geografisch detailliertere Corona-Daten herausgibt. Passiert ist bis jetzt nichts. 07.05.2020, 17.00 Uhr Leseminuten Das…

Nowadays especially it's nice to have things to read. New things, things from various sources and various voices, various minds talking about their thoughts and experiences, telling their stories, posting pictures and things that are relevant to them. A couple of years ago, maybe 8 or 10 so maybe…

By and large, we’ve become comfortable with the idea that people often seek out experiences to create shareable images. It has affected everything from travel to dining to participation in politics. The same can be said of the built world — architecture, museums, retail — which, pre-pandemic, was…

A few days ago, I asked you for your favorite news aggregator apps. We got tons of responses, but it was pretty clear which apps were going to be our top recommendations within the first batch of comments. Without further ado, here are the best RSS readers/news aggregators, plus a few alternatives…

A lot of people who were on the internet in the early 2000’s remember something called RSS. It stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it allowed content creators to publish updates to the world in a well-understood format. The idea—which seems strange to type—is that millions of people in the…

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"I DON'T WANT to scare you, but if you don’t have a little anxiety about being out there, don’t go out,” says Greg O’Connor to the 93 swimmers who have committed to launching themselves—at various times over the next two days—into a lap pool that has been carved into the thick ice of Lake…

“Recent technological advances have led to speculation that smart contracts might largely, or entirely, displace the apparatus of contract law.” —“Contracts Ex Machina,” Duke Law Journal (2017) “It’s 6:30 already, Katie,” the mousy man tells me. “How much longer to fix the contract?” “It’ll be done…

The process of making tengujo is fairly simple, but the nearly transparent product that results is almost magical. Above, Hiroyoshi Chinzei, the owner and operator of Hidaka Washi, with the world’s thinnest paper. By May 5, 2020 In 2017, Soyeon Choi, the head paper conservator at the Yale Center for…

It has long been said that air (which others call argon) is the source of life. This is not in fact the case, and I engrave these words to describe how I came to understand the true source of life and, as a corollary, the means by which life will one day end. For most of history, the proposition…

“It seems like journalists are used to being in charge of editorial processes.” —“Algorithms for Journalism: The Future of News Work,” The Journal of Media Innovations (2017) News breaks like a rain cloud, or a daydream. Roy arrives at his desk just in time to claim the story: Rival militias started…

“A library of the future might also be, at its best, a sanctuary where we are encouraged to spend entire hours looking at just one thing.” —Michael Agresta, “What Will Become of the Library?” Slate (2014) The library of the future is more or less the same. That is, the branch is an actual and…

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A few weeks ago, Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal and co-founder of Acquia, published a blog post entitled Is open source recession-proof? He wrote: “...during an economic downturn, organizations will look to lower costs, take control of their own destiny, and strive to do more with less. Adopting…

It’s difficult to comprehend that there would be anything else more important right now than public health and the COVID-19 pandemic, but in the midst of it all, there is a very dangerous precedent being set in the world of tech that will have a lasting impact on our lives. The open web is changing…

“In the early 21st century, perhaps the most important artistic genre is science fiction … [It shapes] how people understand the most important technological, social, and economic developments of our time.” —Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Half of being human, give or take, is the…

Two beach chairs sit side by side in front of the glittering blue ocean. The sun is shining. And in between those chairs, nestled in the warm sand, is a perky yellow bag of Funyuns. That’s a mural I saw in the Frito-Lay headquarters in Plano, Texas. I was there! My pilgrimage to the pinnacle of…

On Friday, September 13, 2019, Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn, cofounders of the San Francisco internet security firm Cloudflare, stood on a slim marble balcony overlooking the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A cluster of the company's executives stood near Prince, ready to shout out a…

Running is the simplest of sports: right foot, left foot, right foot. But the simplicity opens up complexity. There's no ball to focus on, no mat to land on, no one charging toward you with their shoulder down. And so your attention shifts inward. As you run, you're just you—right foot and left…

Aliens, astronauts, time travel—you name it, there’s a dazzling sci-fi film about it. That makes compiling a list of the best sci-fi nearly impossible. It’s almost impossible to know where to start—or where to stop. To understand where sci-fi films came from, you need to head back to the dawn of the…

Before we had technologically advanced, high-performance gear (that we all geek out over) early humans began with the basic need to carry tools and wares that helped determine our success as a species. Enter the backpack. There are few things that exemplify the evolution of human-centered design…

A tale of code, dinner, and a favour with unexpected consequences. Jamie Talbot 16 min read· Jul 15, 2015 -- Genesis “So how do you know whether someone’s read a post already?” asks Sarah, Medium’s legal counsel. We’re at dinner for my birthday, yet somehow have gotten onto the topic of work yet…

Es dauert noch eine ganze Weile, bis die Ausgabe #53 von Reportagen erscheint. Aus aktuellen Gründen publizieren wir diese Reportage vorab online. Ich habe eine App, die mir minütlich die Neuinfizierungen in aller Welt anzeigt. Ich verfolge jede Talkshow, in der ein Virologe sitzt, lese alles über…

Am 19. März publi­zierte Aero­su­isse, der Dach­ver­band der schwei­ze­ri­schen Luft- und Raum­fahrt, eine Pres­se­mit­tei­lung. Aero­su­isse forderte den Bund dazu auf, die Branche in der Corona-Krise zu unter­stützen. Eines der Haupt­ar­gu­mente: die Jobs. 190’000 direkte Arbeits­plätze in der…

Dear Google. Here is a humble suggestion from us as cyclists, especially urgent in Corona times. We see how people around the world turn to the bicycle to get to where they are going and at the same time avoid overcrowded busses and trams. Here is where you both can be a part, and improve! One of…

Updated October 11, 2022 12:00AM Eric Bealer arrived in Sitka for the last time in a boat weighed down with his art. It was late March 2018. Bealer, an Alaskan artist who specialized in intricately detailed wood engravings, had just traveled for two days from his homestead on Lisianski Inlet,…

A Tokyo train driver pointing at meters on the dashboard. Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images It is hard to miss when taking the train in Tokyo. White-gloved employees in crisp uniforms pointing smartly down the platform and calling out—seemingly to no one—as trains glide in and out of the station.…

Why is video-conferencing so exhausting? The question is worth asking because it is helpful to understand what’s involved in an activity many of us cannot now avoid. It’s also worth asking because it helps us understand how human communication works under ordinary circumstances. Here’s how I came…