Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into smaller tasks and offer them to people across the globe. But, do they democratize work or exploit the disempowered? E ach morning when she wakes up, Kristy Milland powers up her home computer in Toronto, logs into Amazon…

GitHub is one of the most amazing and powerful companies of our time, especially if you are a software developer. But even if not, it’s nearly impossible that you aren’t using software that is build with at least some code that is stored on their servers. More than 18M users are on github.com,…

Though the name GitHub is practically unknown outside technology circles, coders around the world have embraced the software. The startup operates a sort of Google Docs for programmers, giving them a place to store, share and collaborate on their work. But GitHub Inc. is losing money through…

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There's not much going on in Coober Pedy. That's because more than half of the population lives just beneath your feet. The post Visit an Underground Mining Town in the Australian Outback appeared first on WIRED.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Australian turn of phrase is a gorgeous linguistic riddle.  Even those who live there can be confused by popular phrases. Flip flops are called "thongs," and woe betide the Australian who says otherwise, for they will be dragged. The Australian…

The white supremacist group has officially sided with Vader, and plans to boycott the next Star Wars movie. The post The Alt-Right Hates Rogue One, Because of Course It Does appeared first on WIRED.

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2014–09 Vulture — Dick Knight (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) From now on, I won’t be building any more native apps. All my apps going forward will be progressive web apps. Progressive web apps are web applications which are designed to work even more seamlessly on mobile devices than native mobile apps. What do…

Technology The legacy of Ada Lovelace, the ultra-numerate countess The legacy of Ada Lovelace, the ultra-numerate countess | November/December 2015 There is to me something ineffably grand, romantic and ambitious about the idea of a seven-metre diameter, 150-metre-long machine eating its way slowly…

The morning after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Barack Obama summoned staff members to the Oval Office. Some were fairly junior and had never been in the room before. They were sombre, hollowed out, some fighting tears, humiliated by the defeat, fearful of autocracy’s…

A million hot takes have been posted about how the late-2016 MacBook Pro with USB-C is the undeniable proof that Apple doesn’t care about developers anymore. They took away all the ports! No Esc key! It’s just a more expensive MacBook Air! But in some ways, the new MacBook Pro is the most techy and…

The legal issues Our concerns with Facebook's news feed aren't just a matter of truthy semantics, either. If you want to understand what's at stake, think about two rules that the US legal system uses to regulate the news media. One is the First Amendment, which has been interpreted to mean that a…

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What do the Amish lobby , gay wedding vans and the ban of the national anthem have in common? For starters, they’re all make-believe — and invented by the same man. Paul Horner, the 38-year-old impresario of a Facebook fake-news empire, has made his living off viral news hoaxes for several years .…

Don't panic. Or rather, don't keep panicking for too long. We tend to have a fairly left-leaning readership here at Cracked, just for demographic reasons (lots of college kids and such). So a lot of you reading this are outraged, sad, disgusted, terrified, and/or physically ill right now. Lots of…

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T he sensational, spidery plot of the most gripping game of thrones in modern history is best captured by two images. The first is from Donald J. Trump’s extravagant third wedding at his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2005: The junior senator from New York, glowing in gold silk and pearls, smiles up at the…

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Before we launched our Buffer podcast , so much of our time and energy (99.9% of it, I’d wager!) was spent getting the sounds and feel just right. We did all the podcast things we were supposed to do in order to make a really great podcast — the interviews, the mixing, the uploading — and now that…

Image credit: Material Design Clear, accurate, and concise text makes interfaces more usable and builds trust. Below is a list of 16 things you should avoid in your writing: 1. Jargon Words and Specific Terms Unknown terms or phrases will increase cognitive load for the user. Do your best to avoid…

Sissy Spacek as Carrie.Photograph: The Ronald Grant Archive P ractically the first scene of Carrie, released 40 years ago today, shows a girl’s high school locker room, complete with not very blurred full frontal nudity. The scene, famously, concludes with Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) experiencing…

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I’m not one prone to knee-jerk reactions, but I’m also not one to sit about idly without considering alternatives. So the first thing I did after the Apple keynote was to download a copy of Elementary and burn it to an SD card. An hour or so later, after checking that my Chromebook would work OK…

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Santander’s website for German vs American users In 2000, at the height of the ‘Dot-com Bubble’ , only 6.8% of the world’s population was online ; by 2015, that number had grown to 44%. This influx in international users created an unprecedented opportunity for many companies. Enterprise that had…

A better way to brainstorm words If you work with words, you’re probably familiar with thesaurus.com . It’s an amazing resource for writers—a gold mine of information. But how often do you actually find the words you’re looking for? For me, I’d say thesaurus.com only helps me 10% of the time I go…

Mike Barson, Suggs, Mark Bedford, Dan Woodgate, Lee Thompson (AKA Kix) and an absent Chrissy Boy (played here by a doll).Photograph: Rob Greig for the Guardian W e’re sitting outside a pub in Camden Town, north London, watching the world go by. This is Madness ’s old stamping ground. Forty years on,…

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The hacker used commercialPhotograph: A. T. Willett / Alamy/Alamy It’s an old cliché of security researchers: fingerprints might appear more secure than passwords. But if your password gets stolen, you can change it to a new one; what happens when your fingerprint gets copied? That’s no longer an…

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A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium , a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. Word processors are generally kind of boring—they do their job, and that's about it. Most people don't put a ton of second thought into their word processors. I'm not that kind…

In the world of mobile, the holy grail for manufacturers is a completely airtight top-down business model. In theory this is simple to achieve: create your own app store and operating system, get these onto a handful of top-notch devices and you're laughing. Actually pulling this off is…