Apple: the second-best tech company in the world

Apple doesn’t lead the way anymore. But does the company even care? | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

‘Red Dead Redemption 2’and the problems with creative work

If you want to understand the hellish demands of modern labor, look no further than video games. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

“Worse than death:” the far-future dystopia of genome hacking

This scientist’s thought experiment will give you nightmares. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

The new and improved MacBook keyboards have the same old problems

Many users continue to report stuck keys; maybe it’s time for other companies to stop looking to Apple for design cues. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Appalachia deserves more than J.D. Vance

A conversation with Elizabeth Catte, author of ‘What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia.’ | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

The rise and fall of the the Learning Company

Inside the collapse of a once-robust industry, and the ‘Shark Tank’ star who abetted the process. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE COMPANY BEHIND ‘READER RABBIT’

Inside the collapse of a once-robust industry, and the ‘Shark Tank’ star who abetted the process. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Read 147 pages of complaints about Elon Musk from Tesla investors

‘The Outline’ has obtained dozens of consumer complaints sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission related to Elon Musk tweets that got him charged with securities fraud. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

The Rise AND Fall of the Company Behind ‘READER RABBIT’ AND Other Games

Inside the collapse of a once-robust industry, and the ‘Shark Tank’ star who abetted the process. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Inside the remedial customer service class for deactivated Uber drivers

One of the only ways for drivers whose rating falls below about 4.5 stars to get reinstated is to take a class, where they get a side of labor organizing. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Apple can delete purchased movies from your library without telling you

Turns out cloud storage is not all it’s cracked up to be. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

The most popular personality test in the world is a joke

‘The Personality Brokers’ goes into the flawed, fraught history behind the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which is about as psychologically credible as a BuzzFeed quiz. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Put your phone in Do Not Disturb mode forever

Join me in a buzz-free, ping-free, vibration-free, light-up-free world. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

MOVE OVER CHESS, AI HAS a NEW GAME TO BEAT

A video game AI is locked in a battle with the world’s best players. If we solved chess and Go, can we solve Dota? | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

When did parenting become so fearful?

‘Small Animals: Parenthood in The Age of Fear’ is a new book that attempts to find an answer. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

The self-driving car that will never arrive

Self-driving cars are delusional tech optimism rooted in greed, sorry | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

The million-dollar brownstone that no one owned

On a quiet street in Brooklyn, a real-estate imbroglio proved nearly impossible to solve. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

America can lie about its drug problem, but its sewage can’t

Sewage analysis is a common method of assessing human behavior in Europe, but has yet to take off in the U.S. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Let’s all go back to Tumblr – The Outline

A reconsideration of the last great blogging platform. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

The Million Dollar Brownstone That No One Owned

On a quiet street in Brooklyn, a real-estate imbroglio proved nearly impossible to solve. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

A reconsideration of the last great blogging platform. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

The booming business of luxury chicken diapers

It’s Instagram’s fault. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

The booming business of luxury chicken diapers

It’s Instagram’s fault. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

The Booming Business of Luxury Chicken Diapers

It’s Instagram’s fault. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

The web looks like shit

Using the internet shouldn’t be this hard. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Welcome to Hotel Millennial

You can check out any time you like, but you may never get clean sheets. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Ticketing App Axs Scrapes Everything It Can Get from Your Phone

Seeing your favorite band live will probably cost you more in data than in dollars. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

App AXS Scrapes Everything It Can Get from Your Phone

Seeing your favorite band live will probably cost you more in data than in dollars. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Everyone does not, in fact, have a book in them

A literary agent on why your good story isn’t likely to be a bestseller. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

No, you probably don’t have a book in you

A literary agent on why your good story isn’t likely to be a bestseller. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

How to beat LinkedIn: The Game

A strategy guide for using a semi-pointless social network in all the wrong ways. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Digital Ads Are Starting to Feel Psychic

Targeted advertising has become so uncanny, it feels like we’re being surveilled. Two artists want to hear these stories. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Digital ads are starting to feel psychic

Targeted advertising has become so uncanny, it feels like we’re being surveilled. Two artists want to hear these stories. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Beating Facial Recognition Software with Face Makeup

Welcome to a world where Juggalo makeup is your best shot at avoiding involuntary surveillance. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition

Welcome to a world where Juggalo makeup is your best shot at avoiding involuntary surveillance. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Juggalos figured out how to beat facial recognition

Welcome to a world where Juggalo makeup is your best shot at avoiding involuntary surveillance. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Are we stuck with cement?

The cement industry has little reason to improve its material’s enormous environmental impact. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Apple admits its computers are broken

Eight months after a surge of complaints, Apple announced a repair program for its flawed MacBooks and MacBook Pros. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

When a cold case is solved, why can't internet sleuths move on?

Redditors and forum users invest time trying to solve incidents involving total strangers, only to be left hanging when their research pays off. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Casey Johnston on Apple’s MacBook Keyboard Repair Program

Eight months after a surge of complaints, Apple announced a repair program for its flawed MacBooks and MacBook Pros. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

24 hours at my local Dunkin’ Donuts – The Outline

I decided to spend an entire day there, just to see what it was like. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

How is Twitter supposed to know what we want?

It’s a mystery, I guess. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Antarctica is screwed and so are we

A series of new research papers published about the frozen continent reveal that what protected it in the past won’t protect it in the future. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

The Stories We Tell at the End of the World

New works by Paul Schrader, William Vollman, and Richard Powers grapple with meaningful living at the end of the world. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Japan may be first country to have self-driving cars

Japan announced plans to develop a system of self-driving cars in time for the 2020 Olympics. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

The Tech Bro Alignment Chart

For your viewing pleasure. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

In Twitter’s early days, only one celebrity could tweet at a time

Early Twitter workers are dishing on the site’s blunder years | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago

Old-School Texas Instruments books are a treasure trove of great graphic design

Prepare to pine for the 80’s. | Continue reading


@theoutline.com | 5 years ago