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Now that mobile is maturing and its growth is slowing, everyone in tech turns to thinking about what the Next Big Thing will be. It's easy to say that 'machine learning is the new mobile' (and everyon
For a long time I told the same basic joke about Silicon Valley, just updating as some new walled garden network replicated long-existing technology in a format better able to attract VC cash and, presumably, get them ad dollars. 2002, Friendster: At last, a way to connect with friends on the…
Cormac McCarthy is best known to the world as a writer of novels. These include Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, and The Road. At the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) he is a res
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On Tuesday, Reddit announced it was introducing profile pages . The Reddit profile contains a list of the user’s posts in reverse-chronological order, and a follow button for subscribing to them. Co-f
Publishing in the Platform Era April 11, 2017 • 4 min read • By Digiday Facebook’s Instant Article push is in danger of fizzling. Many publishers are deeply unhappy with the monetization on these page
As the calamities amass at Uber, many people — including me — have called for new leadership. Usually, the job of hiring and firing a CEO falls to a company’s board of directors. Yet in a March 21 pho
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Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down, Saying It Is Too Dangerous to Continue The last edition of Norte, a newspaper in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Responding to killings of journalists, the paper announced on Sund
ON TUESDAY February 28th, in an address to a joint session of Congress, Donald Trump vowed to end America’s “terrible drug epidemic”. When discussing America’s social ills, Mr Trump has a tendency to
A look at the Manhattan of Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140. (Courtesy Hachette.) In New York 2140 , Kim Stanley Robinson , one of the towering giants of the science-fiction genre, envisions our c
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I t was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters. The Times called him unprepared and uns
This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Amazon Echo Dot YouTube/f0t0b0y We're barely halfway through January of 2017, and it's already look
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Enlarge / The final, community-built image stamped onto reddit.com/r/place before the 72-hour experiment was shut down on Monday morning. Reddit Data stored and shared on the Internet is almost univer
Twitter has rolled out its new @-replies to me about three or four times now, ambushing me with its unspeakable badness on the iPhone app or web Twitter. Today it rolled out for everyone and it makes
Product By Friday, 31 March 2017 For the past seven years, everyone who has created an account on Twitter starts out with their default profile photo as an egg. This was a playful way to reference how
The ad network of creative, web and design culture THE DECK During its lifetime, The Deck served up somewhere north of 7.5 billion ad impressions. Privacy Advertisers Long Strange Trip We started The Deck in 2006 and for the first couple years itstruggled. By 2008, it was an OK business and by 2009,…
Facebook is developing an app for set-top boxes including Apple TV , as a way to bring longer-form video content — and video ads — to big-screen TVs in consumers’ living rooms, the Wall Street Journal
Auto-play videos lurking in unopened tabs. Pop-ups that won’t go away. Photos that won’t load. Text that’s invaded by ads. It’s hard to complain about the internet without feeling like a mom strugglin
Some of Uber’s self-driving cars aren’t driving as smoothly as the company hoped they would. Documents circulated throughout the company’s self-driving group, which Recode obtained, gives us a first l
There’s a moment in most video games where the player bumps, with sinking heart, against the limits of what a game can do. Open a door where the designers haven’t programmed an interior, scale a mount
At some point in every technology's evolution, the world settles on its Right Way To Do Stuff. Having one broadly adopted system just makes life easier, since people don't have to learn a new language
Dear YC Community: In response to a comment on Hacker News, I’m going to try writing an annual letter to the YC community with an update on our progress. Our mission is to enable the most innovation o
“I didn’t become a software engineer to be trying to make ends meet,” said a Twitter employee in his early 40s who earns a base salary of $160,000. It is, he added, a “pretty bad” income for raising a
A 43-year-old Minnesota man has been charged with murdering his wife after a failed attempt to get someone from the dark web to do it. According to investigators, Stephen Carl Allwine tried to use a s
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Adam Howell sums up some of the major issues affecting the iMessage App Store and iMessage apps: I love the idea of the iMessage App Store. I love Apple’s focus on privacy . I love building on top of
Reading The Complacent Class , by Tyler Cowen, reminded me of a few questions I’ve puzzled over for the last few years: American colleges like to proclaim that they teach critical thinking skills: Not
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