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
Dean Baquet has a depressing outlook for the local media landscape. Billionaire owners may be the only hope. | Continue reading
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
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
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
There’s an increase in male managers saying they are uncomfortable spending time with junior-level women. | Continue reading
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
The Model 100 was a prescient computer. More important, it was a remarkably useful one. | Continue reading
A year ago, Europe enacted new digital privacy standards. How did they impact the big tech companies? | Continue reading
The meme sensation died at home in Phoenix due to complications from a urinary tract infection. | Continue reading
As garages and similar spaces grow less accessible in dense urban areas, where do makers make? | Continue reading
The popular image-based social network revamps its Explore Page to promote IGTV and shopping. | Continue reading
“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
When you discuss these 3 things, you help someone else take their presentation to the next level. | Continue reading
Two entrepreneurs showed us dollar by dollar how they turned $39,200 in personal savings into a $17 million business. | Continue reading
Here’s how to avoid this sleight-of-hand move by packaging designers. | Continue reading
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
The brands will remain separate, though expect some new partnerships and AmEx card member perks. | Continue reading
The spyware allowed the attacker to take over iPhones and Android phones by simply placing a WhatsApp voice call to them. | Continue reading
The company is rolling out the Alexa Guard app to all Echo devices in the U.S. | Continue reading
The end of the weekend shouldn’t fill you with dread. | Continue reading
This proof of concept, which is a side project from a Netflix data engineer, needs to find its way into real stores. | Continue reading
The billionaire owner of Blue Origin outlines plans for mining, manufacturing, and colonies in space. | Continue reading
The speeches at tech company developer conferences are selling something new—and they aren’t exactly for developers anymore. | Continue reading
The protest action is designed to target employees where they live. | Continue reading
An exhibition urges designers to think about how they want to live as they age. | Continue reading
For years, Apple followed user-centered design principles. Then something went wrong. | Continue reading
Technology isn’t just disrupting how we work or how we get around; it’s distorting reality and reshaping narratives. | Continue reading
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
The new emoji are neither men nor women, but all of us. | Continue reading
The government and tech companies have trouble seeing beyond the next presidential term or fiscal period. | Continue reading
A union-busting poster made by the airline has a bizarre message for employees. | Continue reading
Telecommunications policy should be based on objective standards, not geopolitical issues, writes MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte. | Continue reading
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
We’ve come a long way from spell check, folks. | Continue reading
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
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
Do those championing new surveillance technology not realize that they too will be affected by it? | Continue reading
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
Passwords are a hassle, and not very secure. New technologies will eliminate the need for them–and it’s about time. | Continue reading
Google is building up its commerce business. Media companies should be scared. | Continue reading
Do those championing new surveillance technology not realize that they too will be affected by it? | Continue reading
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
The founder and CEO of Rock Candy Media taps into her “outsider” perspective to tackle the conundrum so many strong women face. | Continue reading
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
The fake ad for “The Lookout” is pretty funny–until you consider how quickly you would probably end up buying it. | Continue reading
Bonus: no pesticides. | Continue reading