I worked at Apple for 22 years. Here’s what Jobs taught me about how sex sells. | Continue reading
Apple and other big tech companies are increasingly going head-to-head with national governments as they attempt to control the internet within their borders. | Continue reading
This is why the male drivers of Mercedes, Audis, and BMWs are always cutting you off in traffic: They’re scientifically proven jerks. | Continue reading
By using advanced tech to reconstruct space, the Hayden Planetarium’s latest show could change how you see our cosmic neighborhood—and planetariums. | Continue reading
Most will make you optimistic about the future. One will prep you for a dystopian, alternate universe. Just in case. | Continue reading
For two decades, we’ve been told that stars are just like us. Now celebrities are taking back their power. Will the internet ever be the same? | Continue reading
From Thomas Edison to Silicon Valley startups, those that rise to the top have learned how to treat past failures. | Continue reading
“Is this you?” Platforms like Google Photos, Apple Photos, and Facebook are forcing trans people to interact with—and classify—photos of our past selves. | Continue reading
Mathematicians are unimpressed by engineers’ solutions. | Continue reading
Some of the best features of Google’s mapping app are among the hardest to find—until you know where to look. | Continue reading
In 2009, personal-finance behemoth Intuit bought Mint, an impressive startup. And then it let its $170 million acquisition wither on the vine. | Continue reading
The Trump administration wants Apple to create a backdoor into the iPhone. District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. has spent millions trying to find other ways in. | Continue reading
For some, surveillance is designed to be a luxury good that makes life more seamless. But for others, it is involuntary, overt, and dangerous. | Continue reading
The reasoning is that facial recognition tech is so new, yet rolling out so quickly, we simply can’t know all the risks and drawbacks associated with it. | Continue reading
Steph Korey has announced that she is staying on as co-CEO and that the company is working with law firm Clare Locke regarding alleged “lies and distortions” in a critical article. | Continue reading
Using a display the size of a grain of sand to project images onto the retina, this startup could help everyone from firefighters to people with poor vision. | Continue reading
Simple and smart ideas to create more connections in city life. | Continue reading
He influenced Jobs and dreamed up a digital future designed for learning and thinking. Fifty years on, Alan Kay is still waiting for his dream to come true. | Continue reading
The automobile industry will look a lot like the airline industry if manufacturers don’t rethink their offerings. Enter the un-car. | Continue reading
Prepared by the law firm Goodwin Procter, it appears to absolve many of MIT’s top leaders, while revealing new information about Professor Seth Lloyd’s deep involvement with the convicted sex offender. | Continue reading
Facebook, Google, and Amazon have a lot to learn from Margaret Hamilton, who coined the term “software engineering” while she was working on the code for the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. | Continue reading
Maynard Webb’s weekly advice column offers practical wisdom on how to hire the best people. The short answer? Always be recruiting. | Continue reading
The golden age of podcasting may end behind a paywall. | Continue reading
An exclusive look at the technology that will let dozens of travelers see their own flight info—and nothing else—on one screen, all at the same time. | Continue reading
The service now lets you follow subjects you love—from anime to archaeology—and is upgrading its long-dormant lists feature. It’s the dawn of a new era. | Continue reading
To show how hard phone privacy can be, one artist examined the CIA, consulted hackers, and went far off the map (with a stop at Rite Aid). | Continue reading
Thousands of layoffs and a cash crunch have not deterred WeWork from generous exit packages. | Continue reading
Here are four solutions cities everywhere could adopt. | Continue reading
At the dawn of the 2010s, even I didn’t understand how useful the iPad could be. Now it’s my main machine—and that’s just not that big a deal. | Continue reading
Privacy. Comfort. And yes, it will fit in economy—eventually. | Continue reading
Go ahead and drop the F-bomb—it will just serve to show that you’re more authentic and trustworthy plus a few more positive things. | Continue reading
The Yang campaign taps superstar Donald Glover as a creative consultant. Their first collaboration: Yang Gang merch. Who wants a $1K sweatshirt? | Continue reading
TD Ameritrade’s CIO argues that for every successful “like”-button-type concept that’s developed from a hackathon, a lot of work is put into ideas that never make it past the day of the event. | Continue reading
Valued at more than $2 billion, Babylon Health has a symptom checker chatbot that has been used 1.7 million times. But experts are concerned it doesn’t work as advertised. | Continue reading
GDP is horrible for the environment and well-being. | Continue reading
Atari’s 400 and 800 packed some of the most advanced tech of their era and ran the best games. Forty years after their debut, they’re worth cherishing. | Continue reading
By creating its own data delivery system, Apple could give its customers a more uniform experience across its devices, as well as create another recurring, subscription-based revenue source. | Continue reading
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, AOL’s Instant Messenger introduced millions of people to the internet—and the idea that you were always online, even when you were “away.” | Continue reading
Mercedes gets around the moral issues of self-driving cars by deciding that–of course–drivers are more important than anyone else. | Continue reading
The Google and Yahoo vet shares a few cryptic details about her new foray into the productivity space with Lumi Labs. | Continue reading
How often—and when—should you listen to your intuition? | Continue reading
Twenty years ago, people thought that bugs might lead to bank failures and plane crashes come January 1, 2000. They didn’t. But these books remain amazing. | Continue reading
A giant 3D printer is currently squeezing out new homes in rural Mexico. Each one takes 24 hours and lets local families upgrade from a shack to a two-bedroom house. Could this be part of the global housing solution? | Continue reading
Yahoo Groups is a cautionary tale about our corporate-owned internet. At any moment, the corporation can pull the plug. | Continue reading
Members of the original Razr design team recount making one of the most influential pieces of hardware ever. | Continue reading
A new startup called MindMed could have the key to providing the upsides of psychedelic drugs for both focus and addiction treatment—while cutting out the downsides of tripping. | Continue reading
Before you download any of these supposedly revolutionary timesaving apps, you might want to read this. | Continue reading