There's an academic term for one-sided, media-enabled relationships: parasocial relationships. Video essayist Shannon Strucci is helping spread it to an online audience that desperately needs the language. | Continue reading
Last week, a HackerNews user posed the following question to the forum: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer? As it turns out, some pretty messed up stuff! | Continue reading
Bean pie has a surprisingly rich history and is arguably the only authentically Muslim-American food. | Continue reading
From ranking users by popularity to including blood types in profiles, Japanese dating apps are different from American dating apps in many fascinating ways. | Continue reading
Magic Leap, the secretive augmented reality company that has raised $2.3 billion, finally demoed its long-rumored, much-vaunted headset on Wednesday (and announced that the headset will ship this summer). It was disappointing. | Continue reading
They'll be doing backflips while they take your job, which just feels like salt in the wound. | Continue reading
When it comes to accessing news of a sensitive nature, Chinese users have a distinctive way of using the internet that is different from other web users around the world. | Continue reading
What's it like to log into the smash online hit of 2006 in the year 2018? It feels a lot like a dead mall. | Continue reading
It's been awhile since the last pure Cool Internet Thing. But this week, Andy Baio managed to surface the brilliant work of UI engineer Diana Smith, who has created three incredible works of art with nothing but lines of code. | Continue reading