“A ‘President Show’ Documentary: The Fall of Donald Trump” is not here to make you feel good before the midterms. | Continue reading
The winner of the Water Abundance XPrize creates enough water for 100 people every day by making an artificial cloud inside a shipping container. | Continue reading
Little about the PC industry of the early 1990s survives. But 25 years after it was first introduced–and after many technological shifts–a ThinkPad remains a ThinkPad. | Continue reading
New research suggests it’s impossible, but the Simulation Hypothesis is the modern existential debate that just won’t die. | Continue reading
Office party coming up? Skip the trip to the HR department this year. | Continue reading
The “move fast and break things” approach that works in tech doesn’t translate well to healthcare. Instead, digital health startups should try need-driven innovation. | Continue reading
This week’s FTC hearings on the growing power of companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google only included economists who have taken money, directly and indirectly, from giant corporations that have a stake in the debate. | Continue reading
See Las Vegas quickly swallow up the desert and suck up its water source–and other images of the balance between nature and our cities | Continue reading
From marketing hype to fuzzy ethics. | Continue reading
This new service looks a little like a word processor and a little like a spreadsheet. But it’s trying to move beyond 40 years of software history. | Continue reading
Rather than competing with Slack, the multibillion-dollar software company focuses on modernizing its popular–but aging–task manager for programmers. | Continue reading
A lawsuit claims Facebook knowingly miscalculated video watch metrics. How many jobs were lost as a result? | Continue reading
In this hard-fought battle, the line between winners and losers can be thin. | Continue reading
Each cow apparently passes enough gas to power a car or a fridge. Imagine the possibilities. | Continue reading
Buying enough clean energy to make up for all the dirty energy you’re using is one thing; using all clean energy 24/7 is another. | Continue reading
Education startup Amplify cost prior owner Rupert Murdoch dearly. Now another billionaire has given the Brooklyn-based company a second chance. | Continue reading
Education startup Amplify cost prior owner Rupert Murdoch dearly. Now another billionaire has given the Brooklyn-based company a second chance. | Continue reading
By 2050, if even just 7% more trips were made by bike and foot, we could avoid around 5 gigatons of carbon emissions. It’s simple, but effective. | Continue reading
Bjorn Westergard was working as a programmer at Lanetix, a CRM software maker, when concern about poor working conditions led him to start organizing his fellow employees. | Continue reading
Axon’s new camera can be activated by an officer’s gunshot and is capable of streaming live video, a feature that raises new surveillance concerns. | Continue reading
A new study suggests that asking software engineers to read codes of ethics doesn’t change the way they think about problems–but awareness of real-world technology scandals just might. | Continue reading
When you subtract the time spent working, commuting, eating, sleeping, and doing housework, chances are you are left with only an hour or two of free time each night. Here’s how to make the most of it. | Continue reading
In a new book, journalist Nathan Schneider positions cooperative businesses as both radical and traditional–and says all businesses should move toward more democracy. | Continue reading
The report comes less than two weeks after Amazon announced it was raising its minimum wage. | Continue reading
When you subtract the time spent working, commuting, eating, sleeping, and doing housework, chances are you are left with only an hour or two of free time each night. Here’s how to make the most of it. | Continue reading
As prison tech vendors Securus and GTL roll out tablets and video conferencing, controversy is erupting over plans to use the devices to replace postal mail, physical books, and even in-person visits. | Continue reading
“Almost half of Americans (45%) go to their car to have a private moment to themselves,” the company reports in a new survey of 22,000 people in 22 countries. | Continue reading
Marcus Engman is leaving Ikea to run a consultancy that convinces companies to spend their marketing budget on what matters: design. | Continue reading
In the age of AI and big data, the real danger isn’t that computers are smarter than us. It’s that we think they are. | Continue reading
Al Worden on what Armstrong was really like, how space flight is like playing the piano, and why the flag controversy is lunacy. | Continue reading
Thirty-two states and several countries have allowed citizens to cast votes over the internet–without ever coming up with a safe way to do it. | Continue reading
The nonprofit’s founder and chairwoman explains her latest initiative: a $3.5M competition in partnership with the Omidyar Network to explore new ways to teach ethics to computer science students. | Continue reading
Low-Tech Magazine’s new website is solar-powered, which means it goes offline in cloudy weather. | Continue reading
The reality distortion field is real, and it’s getting better every day. | Continue reading
Axon’s new camera can be activated by an officer’s gunshot and is capable of streaming live video, a feature that raises new surveillance concerns. | Continue reading
In Gary Hustwit’s highly anticipated new documentary “Rams,” the legendary industrial designer indicts the world he helped create. | Continue reading
When parents tell kids to respect AI assistants, what kind of future are we preparing them for? | Continue reading
An effort to generate more positive visions of the future is another solution in search of a problem. | Continue reading
The giant retailer’s low prices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart’s relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are we shopping our way straight to the unemployment line? | Continue reading
A package of add-ons, tutorials, and advice will help Firefox users smack down snoops and frauds. | Continue reading
By the end of this century, the government admits global temperatures could rise by 7 degrees. The government’s solution: Let cars make the problem worse. | Continue reading
IBM, Rigetti, and now D-Wave are letting the public run simple apps on cloud-based quantum computers, offering a peek at how useful they could someday be. | Continue reading
A leader in helicopter engines will help Zunum Aero’s hybrid electric planes–backed by Boeing and JetBlue–move closer to a projected 2022 takeoff. | Continue reading
Office culture doesn’t turn toxic because of a few bad seeds. It turns toxic because leadership didn’t see or outright ignored the signs that something was amiss. | Continue reading
A postcard service, soon to offer email-style automation features, will be Mailchimp’s first foray into the world of tangible mail. | Continue reading
For the new Google Assistant app, back-and-forth chat bubbles are out, and interactive graphics are in. | Continue reading
Technology doesn’t transform markets, business models do. | Continue reading
Society, a marketplace for non-toxic home goods, eschews typical packaging and embraces design inspired by artists like Ellsworth Kelly and Josef Albers. | Continue reading