Andrew Prokop is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations. He’s worked at Vox since the site’s launch in 2014, and before
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia has been on the air since 2005, and somehow, a show about five terrible idiots who hatch insane schemes and treat each other with unabashed disdain is probably going
Quick bio - I've been programming since I was 9. Started my own software company at 16. Degree in Computer Science from U of Washington. Been a professional developer for 21 years (turning 42 in Feb).
Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a fewparticular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only. This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known andconsidered
(Getty Images/Ringer illustration) During the Falcons’ 2015 season opener against the Eagles, following one of the first scoring drives they’d ever orchestrate together, Matt Ryan and Kyle Shanahan re
In July of 1996, just two months before Weezer ‘s Pinkerton dropped, frontman Rivers Cuomo issued a precarious warning to the band’s fan club about his mental state during the writing process. “There
Kotlin has a bunch of amazing features, and certain ones tend to grab the headlines — things like extension functions , higher order functions , and null safety among them. And rightfully so — those a
What do you do to top Google's highly regarded first-generation Pixel phone camera ? The same, only more. More HDR+ image processing. More chip power. More artificial intelligence . And more image sta
Welcome to year two of Google Hardware. In 2016, Google jumped into the Android hardware space with its first self-branded device, the Google Pixel . Google's software prowess shined on the Pixel 1, o
Tell me if this sounds familiar: You want to check the time, so you pull out your phone. But as soon as you turn on that screen, time suddenly becomes the least of your concerns. You remember to check
12 min read · Oct 15, 2017 -- At some point in 2006, or possibly late 2005, Noah Glass walked into our office all excited about something. That in itself isn’t news because Noah was always excited abo
As a Front-End developer nothing bothers me more than seeing an unexpected horizontal scrollbar on a website. While building out a checkout layout with CSS Grid I was surprised to find something myste
Credit: LucasFilm One of the cool things about sci-fi is that it acts like a demo for technology that hasn’t been invented yet. In that way, it’s a bit like a UI design — an idea about how a product w
There’s a past version of me who probably wouldn’t have believed that the devices Google announced at its fall event were actually designed by Google. The old me might have thought: The company that h
For several years now, Disney has been the only Hollywood studio with a digital movie locker worth using , but a host of other industry heavyweights have now jumped on board to launch an expanded vers
When Sundar Pichai was growing up in Chennai, south-east India, he had to make regular trips to the hospital to pick up his mother’s blood-test results. It took an hour and 20 minutes by bus, and when
Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Yesterday, Google announced the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, two phones I’ve been excited about for a while now. They have big screens, a delightfully playful design sens
Unbeknownst to me, at the very moment on Monday morning when I was asking Google CEO Sundar Pichai about the biggest ethical concern for AI today, Google's algorithms were promoting misinformation abo
An unintended effect of Google’s heavy-handed attempt to silence Barry Lynn and his Open Markets program at New America has been to shine a really bright light both on Google’s monopoly power and the
Enlarge / High Sierra wallpaper. The low-hanging clouds in the background may or may not be related to the name. Apple If you've felt like the last few macOS releases have been a little light, High Si
When I was a child, I could spend all day at Shining Time Station, thefictive train depot with its own eponymous TV show, where Thomas theTank Engine and all his plate-faced locomotive friends worked
7,717 reads Are you who you think you are? August 18th 2017 by 7,717 reads Too Long; Didn't Read People Mentioned Companies Mentioned startups #entrepreneurship #startup @mohitmamoria Mohit Mamoria Re
T here were six hours during the night of April 10, 2014, when the entire population of Washington State had no 911 service. People who called for help got a busy signal. One Seattle woman dialed 911
Writing in one of Mussolini’s prisons in the 1930s, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci jotted down the fragments that would become his theory of intellectuals . New classes, like the European bourgeo
Nov 8, 2019 — Updated May 11, 2022 Available in: 中文 , 日本語 , and 한국어 Appears in: Fast load times | Metrics Philip Walton Twitter GitHub Homepage On this page We've all heard how important performance i
In the chronicles of Father John Misty, the thirty-six-year-old singer-songwriter whose real name is Josh Tillman, the cardinal psychedelic encounter has him naked in a tree, in Big Sur, in 2010, zonk
Android 8.0 Oreo is the 26th version of the world's most popular operating system. This year, Google's mobile-and-everything-else OS hit two billion monthly active users—and that's just counting phone
On Saturday night, Florida State freshman quarterback James Blackman went from relative obscurity to a name on the tip of every Seminole fan’s tongue. A three-star recruit, Blackman was far from the b
Red Century The Cold War and America’s Delusion of Victory President George H. W. Bush, left, and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow in 1991. Credit... Rick Wilking/Reuters The Cold War as a
John McCain, a Republican, represents Arizona in the U.S. Senate. Americans recoiled from the repugnant spectacle of white supremacists marching in Charlottesville to promote their un-American "blood
Earlier this summer Google engineer James Damore posted a treatise about gender differences on an internal company message board and was subsequently fired . The memo ignited a firestorm of debate abo
The work patterns of engineers reveal interesting things about their character, but it’s not what you might imagine. Our Hypothesis: Speedy vs. Bulky To explore this, we started with a hypothesis that some engineers on a team are better at turning work around fast, while others are better at burning…
AMPersand. Posted on 31 August 2017 If you’ve spent any time looking into Google’s “ Accelerated Mobile Pages ” ( AMP ) project , I’m sure you’ll agree: it’s wonderful to hear the AMP team talk about
Sometime late last year, as I was playing a video game named Dishonored 2 , I did a routine YouTube search about how to beat a tricky section of the game. As usual, I found a video to answer my questi
Published in Google Design · 5 min read · Jul 31, 2017 -- Material Design provides a set of tools and guidance to help you make informed decisions about the different UX design directions you could ta
T wo Major League Soccer expansion clubs first took the field in March 2017, both bearing the moniker United. One in Minneapolis, the other in Atlanta – a city in that lower-third of the American map
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I know Twitter these days can feel like an endless litany of commentary on the actions (and omissions) of the US president and the whirlwind of social discord t