An Apple social network alternative to Facebook?

You’d like to leave Facebook, but there’s nowhere to go. A new social network from a company with a proven reputation for privacy isn’t such a crazy idea. | Continue reading


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Dean Baquet has a depressing outlook for the local media landscape. Billionaire owners may be the only hope. | Continue reading


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After WhatsApp hack, NSO faces scrutiny from Facebook and UK public pension fund

Facebook is examining its legal options and a U.K. pension fund is asking questions amid ongoing lawsuits against the Israeli firm linked to a string of abusive attacks. | Continue reading


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Can dudes be Gooped? Gwyneth goes after the guys

Goop expands into new territory with Goopfellas, a podcast hosted by and for men. Can Gwyneth Paltrow’s empire attract male audiences with its specific brand of wellness? | Continue reading


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A time capsule full of tech and design history was just cracked open at MIT

Buried in 1999, the capsule contained the 1992 proposal for the World Wide Web developed by Tim Berners-Lee–and Microsoft’s first product. | Continue reading


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60% of male managers are “uncomfortable” working around women

There’s an increase in male managers saying they are uncomfortable spending time with junior-level women. | Continue reading


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Our coming DNA nightmare, as outlined by a dystopian graphic novel

Science fiction often provides a valuable roadmap for thinking about the future. In the case of “Legend of Sumeria” the future has arrived. | Continue reading


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RadioShack Sold It's Breakthrough Laptop Circa 1983

The Model 100 was a prescient computer. More important, it was a remarkably useful one. | Continue reading


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One year in, GDPR seems to have helped Google and Facebook

A year ago, Europe enacted new digital privacy standards. How did they impact the big tech companies? | Continue reading


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Grumpy cat has passed away

The meme sensation died at home in Phoenix due to complications from a urinary tract infection. | Continue reading


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We can't make things like we used to: On Maker Faire, hackerspaces, and cities

As garages and similar spaces grow less accessible in dense urban areas, where do makers make? | Continue reading


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Instagram wants you to shop and watch IGTV

The popular image-based social network revamps its Explore Page to promote IGTV and shopping. | Continue reading


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The future in the trash: China’s William Gibson on the power of sci-fi

“Historically, science fiction was a tool to criticize society, to bring up serious issues,” says writer Chen Quifan. “But its function is bigger now.” | Continue reading


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How to Critique a Presentation

When you discuss these 3 things, you help someone else take their presentation to the next level. | Continue reading


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We built a $17M business in less than 5 years: Here's how we spent our money

Two entrepreneurs showed us dollar by dollar how they turned $39,200 in personal savings into a $17 million business. | Continue reading


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You’re probably being tricked by “health washing” at the grocery store

Here’s how to avoid this sleight-of-hand move by packaging designers. | Continue reading


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How Amazon feeds its bottomless appetite

Everyone has heard of Amazon’s website and its express delivery service, but we pay less attention to its appetite for competitors and former associates. | Continue reading


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Resy Acquired by American Express

The brands will remain separate, though expect some new partnerships and AmEx card member perks. | Continue reading


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It can even generate its own water. | Continue reading


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Things you need to know about the WhatsApp zero-click spyware attack

The spyware allowed the attacker to take over iPhones and Android phones by simply placing a WhatsApp voice call to them. | Continue reading


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The company is rolling out the Alexa Guard app to all Echo devices in the U.S. | Continue reading


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How to conquer the Sunday scaries (and feel good on Monday)

The end of the weekend shouldn’t fill you with dread. | Continue reading


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A Netflix data designer just fixed receipts

This proof of concept, which is a side project from a Netflix data engineer, needs to find its way into real stores. | Continue reading


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Jeff Bezos wants to save Earth by moving industry to space

The billionaire owner of Blue Origin outlines plans for mining, manufacturing, and colonies in space. | Continue reading


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Big Tech CEOs, 3 ways of spinning privacy

The speeches at tech company developer conferences are selling something new—and they aren’t exactly for developers anymore. | Continue reading


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Tech workers organize protest against Palantir on the GitHub coding platform

The protest action is designed to target employees where they live. | Continue reading


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Why you should be designing for your 73-year-old self (2017)

An exhibition urges designers to think about how they want to live as they age. | Continue reading


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How Apple is giving design a bad name – Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini (2015)

For years, Apple followed user-centered design principles. Then something went wrong. | Continue reading


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Uber and the Doublespeak at the Heart of Silicon Valley

Technology isn’t just disrupting how we work or how we get around; it’s distorting reality and reshaping narratives. | Continue reading


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A $90K computer fix? How the elderly pay millions for “tech support”

The U.S. attorney general has vowed an “all-out attack” on fast-growing internet fraud, but experts say the crackdown is more like a game of whack-a-mole. | Continue reading


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Google releases 53 gender fluid emoji

The new emoji are neither men nor women, but all of us. | Continue reading


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A distracted, divided U.S. is no match for China’s long-term plan for domination

The government and tech companies have trouble seeing beyond the next presidential term or fiscal period. | Continue reading


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Delta tells workers they should buy video games instead of joining a union

A union-busting poster made by the airline has a bizarre message for employees. | Continue reading


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Nicholas Negroponte on why a ban on Huawei is bad for America

Telecommunications policy should be based on objective standards, not geopolitical issues, writes MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. | Continue reading


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I wrote the book on user-friendly design. What I see today horrifies me

The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman, 83-year-old author of the industry bible Design of Everyday Things and a former Apple VP. | Continue reading


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Microsoft AI will help make your writing more politically correct

We’ve come a long way from spell check, folks. | Continue reading


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Uber and Lyft drivers built a global protest in just a few weeks

Today’s international strikes and demonstrations against Uber and Lyft show how drivers have come together in spirit while differing in tactics and goals. | Continue reading


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The calls to reign in Mark Zuckerberg have never been louder

Facebook activists and shareholders are doubling down on efforts to partly or fully reduce the influence of the company’s founder, CEO, and board chairman. | Continue reading


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The creeping threat of facial recognition

Do those championing new surveillance technology not realize that they too will be affected by it? | Continue reading


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When it comes to power in the workplace, 30 is the new 50

The U.S. labor force is aging, yet nearly 40% of Americans now report to a younger boss. Here’s how to navigate the generational power dynamics of the contemporary workplace, writes Modern Elder’s Chip Conley. | Continue reading


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MobileIron, Google, and others are working to kill passwords

Passwords are a hassle, and not very secure. New technologies will eliminate the need for them–and it’s about time. | Continue reading


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Google may be about to kill affiliate marketing links

Google is building up its commerce business. Media companies should be scared. | Continue reading


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The Threat of Facial Recognition

Do those championing new surveillance technology not realize that they too will be affected by it? | Continue reading


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The future of housing looks nothing like today’s

After a century, Americans are choosing to live together–transforming not just the buildings we live in, but the way we live in them. | Continue reading


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How to be assertive without being called a bitch

The founder and CEO of Rock Candy Media taps into her “outsider” perspective to tackle the conundrum so many strong women face. | Continue reading


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Miles of cable changed the stock market forever

In 2012, a few years after the financial crisis, Brad Katsuyama quit his seven-figure job to start a new stock exchange with the sole objective of making the market more fair. Some called it a Wall Street revolt; others called the move long overdue. | Continue reading


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A fake tech ad that is depressingly accurate

The fake ad for “The Lookout” is pretty funny–until you consider how quickly you would probably end up buying it. | Continue reading


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Giant Robots Are Death Machines for Weeds

Bonus: no pesticides. | Continue reading


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