Guest Essay Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT March 8, 2023 Credit... By Ruru Kuo By Noam Chomsky, Ian Roberts and Dr. Chomsky and Dr. Roberts are professors of linguistics. Dr. Watumull is a
I realize how it sounds, but I'm going to say it anyway because it's the truth. When I first clapped eyes on the World Wide Web, I fell in love. Here's how I described the experience in a 2016 post ab
Microsoft is making a desperate play. Having spent billions on a search engine that no one uses , the company has sunk billions more into equipping it with the chatbot technology ChatGPT, on the theor
Product vs. Feature Teams This article is certain to upset many people. I’m sorry for that, but the degree of ongoing noise and confusion surrounding the role of product at tech companies is only gett
8 min read · Jan 24 -- How did the company that aspired to be so much more come to this? Photo by Kai Wenzel on Unsplash Recently, Google announced it was laying off approximately 6% of its workforce
Enlarge / What might have been. Lee Hutchinson / NASA / NOAA February 1, 2023: One of the most tragic events in the history of space exploration is the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and all seven
Koos Looijesteijn I design at ForTomorrow . I’m an immigrant in Berlin, geriatric millennial, edge case, papa. “It could have been so great, but why is it so ugly and difficult to use?” people trying
My post before this was a kind of therapy / Buddhism / personal growth kind of deal, but I also spend a lot of time thinking about how to run effective teams and to be a responsible, thoughtful manage
It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time th
Big Tech layoffs are in the news, you say? On January 20th, 1998, Netscape laid off a lot of people. One of them would have been me, as my "department", such as it was, had been eliminated, but I ende
How to Measure Design System Adoption Automated tracking of token and component adoption Published in UX Collective · 8 min read · Sep 25, 2022 -- Early on in Onfido ’s design system journey all our d
Addy Osmani @addyosmani Choose Format Download the book (~50 pages) Free on Apple Books Free on Google Play ePub/PDF on LeanPub Physical Book (Lulu) Get the free Audio Book In "Software Engineering -
I’ve been following with great interest this series of articles by John Gruber (and Matt Birchler’s related story ) about the chasm between iOS and Android apps. I have some thoughts since expanding m
Things 3.17 is out for iPhone , iPad , and Mac with greatly expanded support for Shortcuts. That opens up a much wider variety of possible automations than ever before. It’s a lot to take in at once,
Web browsers are more powerful than ever, but using them can be soul-sucking. The Browser Company wants to change that. "We open our browsers today and we feel nothing," says Josh Miller , co-founder
Credit... Photo illustration by Justin Metz A wave of lawsuits argue that Tesla’s self-driving software is dangerously overhyped. What can its blind spots teach us about the company’s erratic C.E.O.?
Martinez during the 2019 Campones Cup Photograph by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images I’ll always picture Josef Martinez sitting on his couch, gnawing on some chicken wings. In 2019, as Atlanta United was on
Negativity is by now so deeply ingrained in American media culture that it’s become the default frame imposed on reality. In large part, this is because since the dawn of the internet age, the surest
Adjust Share day one The course of true nationalism never did run smooth. âErnest Gellner T he city was not beautiful; no one made that claim for it. At the height of summer, people in suits, shella
So I’ve been seeing arguments for why, no, you should really stay on Twitter, because of the problems with anything vying to replace it. Most circle around what tech people might dub failure modes in
For years, Apple has carefully curated a reputation as a privacy stalwart among data-hungry and growth-seeking tech companies. In multi-platform ad campaigns, the company told consumers that “what hap
A few weeks ago, I made a tweet about how I thought Mastodon wouldn’t scale due to moderation issues. The tweet is since deleted (not because I deleted it individually, but because I later made the de
Content Moderation from the speed-running-for-fun-and-for-profit dept Wed, Nov 2nd 2022 09:32am - It’s kind of a rite of passage for any new social media network. They show up, insist that they’re the
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer. Photo: Patrick Pleul - Pool/AFP via Getty Images A pet theory: At the core of every successful social network is a glowing nugget of shame, a little radioactive powe
Stage Manager in iPadOS 16.1. This article wasn’t supposed to go like this. iPadOS 16 is launching to the public today, and it carries a lot of expectations on its shoulders: for the first time since
M itch McConnell froze when a Capitol Police officer rushed into the Senate chamber carrying a semiautomatic weapon. The majority leader had been so engrossed in the Electoral College debate happening
M eg Lethem was working at her bakery job one morning in Boston when she had an epiphany. Tasked with choosing the day’s soundtrack, she opened Spotify , then flicked and flicked, endlessly searching
Bob Odenkirk. Credit... Photo illustration by Zachary Scott for The New York Times Bob Odenkirk’s Long Road to Serious Success He was a comedian’s comedian — until “Better Call Saul” revealed him as a
HBR Staff/phaustov/Getty Images Every employee, every workday, makes a decision: Are they only willing to do the minimum work necessary to keep their job? Or are they willing to put more of their ener
Daaaaaaang long time no talk! What makes me think I can come crawling back to your inbox like this? Well, technically the fact that you haven’t unsubscribed to Music App Stuff. Let’s assume that’s bec
I have a much different take on Dynamic Island than what I've seen on Twitter, so I wrote about it this week.
Enter Dynamic Island, a major hint at Apple's Extended Reality (XR) strategy
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Ever since the U.S. Senate failed to convict Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection and disqualify him from running for president again, a lot of people, myself included, have been wa
People change. Sometimes a lot. Sometimes slowly. But people change. Want evidence? I grew up deep within Evangelical indoctrination . Around age six, I chanted in “pro-life” marches. Many inherited b
Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Sonos has long accused other tech giants of stealing its patents and technology, but in 2020, it actually sued Google for patent infringement . Sonos
How does Manchester City's Pep Guardiola improve his players? To get 10% off your first Squarespace website or domain, use https://www.squarespace.com/tifofootball. The Rondo, a humble training drill,
It’s good that MLS has competitive balance — just not this much.
A deep dive on the high degree of competitive balance in MLS compared to other leagues, what's behind that balance and why the league should allow for the easier formation of an elite. https://t.co/MjsTYLGGe1 https://t.co/XOFtanYojt
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