At 12:28 on Sunday afternoon, the bottom fell out. The Florida State Seminoles met every metric designed by the CFP committee but were denied the right to compete for a national championship. The firs
We at Duke University Libraries have decided to stop using the project management platform, Basecamp, to which we have subscribed for almost a decade. We came to this decision after weighing the level
2023-11-22 04:29 UTC Reflecting on 18 years at Google I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google. I feel very lucky to have expe
A.J. Mock, left, with his father, Brian. The Great Read The Capitol attacks ruptured their mutual trust. In the weeks before Brian Mock’s sentencing, could he mend the divide with his son A.J.? A.J. M
You live in a deranged age — more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. Walker Percy Our spe
According to Walter Isaacson’s 1 authorized biography, this is what Steve Jobs had to say about Apple’s lawsuit against HTC in 2011: Our lawsuit is saying, “Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone,
When Jeremy Strong was a teen-ager, in suburban Massachusetts, he had three posters thumbtacked to his bedroom wall: Daniel Day-Lewis in “My Left Foot,” Al Pacino in “Dog Day Afternoon,” and Dustin Ho
Getty Images/Ringer illustration The last album the Beatles recorded ended with “The End.” (Unless you count “ Her Majesty .”) But the actual end of the band’s official output—at least according to th
When Sergey Brin and Larry Page came up with the concept of PageRank in their seminal paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, Stanford Univers
A year ago, after producing hundreds of shoe styles and billions of dollars together, Adidas broke with Kanye West as he made antisemitic and other offensive public comments. But Adidas had been tolerating his misconduct behind the scenes for nearly a decade. “I am no longer ‘asking’ for things that…
In my watchOS 9 Review last year, I spent the introduction reminiscing on the more exciting days of watchOS yore. Those early years were full of whimsy and foolishness, with many wild and ambitious ne
Twitter always used to look a lot like Craigslist. It stumbled into something that a lot of people found very useful, with very strong network effects, and then it squatted on those network effects fo
Smart thermostat manufacturer Ecobee’s newest product is a video doorbell that streams to its thermostat. Image: Ecobee The Nest Learning Thermostat may have grabbed all the headlines when it launched
Due to an extremely weird series of troubleshooting maneuvers, I recently found myself having to set my Mac up from scratch without migrating any of my preferences for the first time in longer than I’
After my last long post , I got into some frustrating conversations, among them one in which an open-source guy repeatedly scoffed at the idea of being able to learn anything useful from people on oth
Apple TV may have received its most surprising update release this year, and I’d argue that tvOS 17 is also Apple’s most impactful. With the launch of Apple TV+ and the expansion of Apple’s TV app to
There was a moment this summer that felt painfully familiar to Atlanta United fans. In July, Atlanta labored through a four-game losing streak that included the club’s elimination in the opening round
Every iPhone is pretty great. Truly, anyone who works in building products, especially hardware products, can appreciate how amazing it is that Apple is able to make something at such a high volume an
First principles thinking can be helpful for solving complex problems because it allows you to break down a problem into its core elements and then systematically build up a solution from there. This
It is a humbling experience to try to learn any new skill as an adult. But there is a particular humiliation in learning to ride a bike. Not only because biking is something everyone already assumes y
Today's links Tiktok's enshittification : The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too. Hey look at this : Delights to delectate. This day in history : 2003
“Historically, our identities were heavily linked with where we lived, our families and friends. But as the quality of mirrors improved and candlelight gave way to gas and electricity, visual self-awareness was intensified and focus turned inwards – a shift which has had a significant impact. ‘The…
By John Voorhees In one sense, the story of this year’s macOS update is that there is no story, but that’s not exactly right. Instead, it’s a bunch of stories. It’s the tail end of the realignment of
80 metres. The following are a series of speculative maps depicting the world under 80 metres (262ft) of sea level rise due to anthropogenic global warming. The figure is drawn from current USGS estim
In recent years, Apple has taken to making more of its new features available across all of its major operating systems. As a result, it’s made less sense for us to cover the same feature in multiple
What’s new in iOS 17? This is a big year for iPhone and iPad. You should definitely check out the biggest new features — Contact Posters and Standby — first. But there are dozens of other great featur
Well, last year was weird . For the first time since I started writing annual reviews of Apple’s two mobile operating systems – iOS and iPadOS – I published a review without the iPad part. Or rather:
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“All I do is work, my work-life balance is a mess.” “Silicon Valley brogrammer companies do not understand or value diversity.” “Most startups fail.” “Recruiting is difficult, it’s such a competitive
At Slack, every one of our processes and features has been designed with the primary goal of making Slack a workplace tool that feels human. We see ourselves as our users’ hosts, and we want them to f
One of my favorite things to notice as a weirdo is when the good intentions of design slam into the hard reality of humans and the real world. It’s always interesting. Let’s start with an Asgardian ex
The twentysomething daughter of a friend of mine recently ordered half a dozen new dresses. She wasn’t planning to keep the lot; she’d been invited to the wedding of a college classmate and knew in ad
Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo via Polygon There’s a bridge to cross the lava pit in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom ’s Marakuguc Shrine , but it’s broken. More than half of the bridge is pile
It was August 1984, and Ronald Reagan was seeking reelection. The Democrats had held their convention in July, in San Francisco (a choice that would haunt them for years), where they nominated Walter
A well-conducted code review is an opportunity for both the author and the reviewer to learn, share knowledge, and contribute to the overall quality of the software . They are our shared journey towar
AUSTIN, Texas In March, Alexandre Ponsin set out on a family road trip from Colorado to California in his newly purchased Tesla, a used 2021 Model 3. He expected to get something close to the electric
My electric bike sings, emits a nearly imperceptible hum from its tiny motor. I love its song. A song of peace and magic. Has money ever bought as much delight as the delight of an electric bike? The
One thing to be said about Apple's virtual events is that they go at a breakneck pace. Rewatch some of Apple's in-person events from 2019 and earlier, and they'll go at a snail's pace compared to thei
Illustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge There was a sign in the Google Reader team’s workspace at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. “Days Since Cancellation,” it read, with a
This article is a collaboration between New York Magazine and The Verge. A few months after graduating from college in Nairobi, a 30-year-old I’ll call Joe got a job as an annotator — the tedious work