Adam Yauch died on May 4th. Read Sasha Frere-Jones , and listen to Ben Greenman ’s playlist. Photograph by Marcus Brandt/AP Photo. I first met Adam Yauch in 1982, in Brooklyn, when I was fifteen. I wa

Forbes.com Tech News: Here's Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years http://t.co/CO2YlF6V

“@KuraFire: Browser Wars II - http://t.co/mwGV9SBK” The first fair and analytically intelligent treatment of the situation I've read. #Kudos

There's been a flurry of recent coverage praising Sheryl Sandberg , the chief operating officer of Facebook, for leaving the office every day at 5:30 p.m. to be with her kids. Apparently she's been do

Opinion The Flight From Conversation Credit... Photographs by Peter DaSilva and Byron Smith, for The New York Times WE live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we

A bewildering number of services let computer and smart-phone users store and share files in the Internet’s cloud. But one file-hosting service in particular has evoked the kind of devotion ordinarily accorded social-networking services or beloved hardware manufacturers: Dropbox, the product of a…

I’ve talked before about why Apple makes their phones 3.5″ diagonally and why they will never be larger than 4″ . Now a clever explanation of just how that 4″ phone might come about has been posted on The Verge forums by member Modilwar, inspired by a call in to the site’s podcast by Timothy Collins…

Good iCloud post from @macstoriesnet. Been thinking a lot about this, too. What iCloud is good for, and where it fails. http://t.co/dtLKjWXf

Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman , would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she d

Editorial director @jsnell pays tribute to the venerable @bbedit, which turns 20-years-young today. http://t.co/iozI6ObR

College football in Florida was about swagger. About bravado. About Danny and Tim. About the U and Prime Time, about Bobby and Steve and Howard and Jimmy. About ridiculous speed. About NFL talent. Abo

When Apple introduced iTunes in 2001, it served one purpose: As a music jukebox app. Later that year, it added its most important feature: The ability to sync tracks with the just-introduced iPod. Ori

Photo: Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images Facebook, a company with a potential market cap worth five or six moon landings, is spending one of its many billions of dollars to buy Instagram , a tiny compan

Jul 22, 2011 Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design Strategies About The Author Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing, he’s mos

Here is why did Facebook bought Instagram http://t.co/ToCwlRaH

Before there were presentations, there were conversations, which were a little like presentations but used fewer bullet points, and no one had to dim the lights. A woman we can call Sarah Wyndham, a d

Obama vs. Boehner: Who Killed the Debt Deal? Matt Bai offers a primer in less than 60 seconds. Almost immediately after the so-called grand bargain between President Obama and the Republican speaker o

Salon.com: Cruisin' for a bruisin' - As Americans drive less, investing more in highways (instead of mass transit) is bad policy http://t.co/FKU6FPko

Photos by Jake Burghart I’m not one of those guys who corners folks at parties to rant at them about biodiesel or calls people “fucking idiots” for being skeptical about global warming. But I should a

Did you ever wonder why it can take so long to buy a car? Have you questioned whether the salesperson really has to check with his manager to get a deal approved? Do you want to know why a car salesman can't just give you his best price upfront? We know there are things about car shopping that seem…

On building Flipboard for iPhone http://t.co/I5qir2Qf

Normally just for insiders, this months SR's Fab Five insider column is free to all! http://t.co/Js1Uf0He

State lotteries that participate in games such as Mega Millions were sold to the public as enterprises that would benefit schools with millions of dollars in proceeds a year. So has public education r

Donate I n mid-January, pollsters for the Washington Post and ABC News asked a representative sampling of Americans the following question: “ Obama has been president for about three years. Would you say he has accomplished a great deal during that time, a good amount, not very much, or little or…

The New Yorker: RT @CultureDesk: Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) zoo bisou bisous with the @MadMen_AMC premiere: http://t.co/UsjujzzD

Grantland: Is the last show from television's Golden Age also its best? @AndyGreenwald sizes of Mad Men before its sunday premiere http://t.co/15vqMxn0

[First published: September, 2005] No one makes bad software on purpose. No programmer has ever sat down, planning out weeks of work, with the intention of frustrating people enough to make them cry.

Ezra Klein: Great, great #longread from @SarahKliff: How health reform has already changed American health care: http://t.co/siC8DXv0

Tomahawk Nation continues its FSU spring football preview today with defensive line. If you haven't already, be sure to check out our previous coverage of Quarterbacks , Running Backs , Offensive Line

Emile Wamsteker, Bloomberg / Getty Images More than a decade has passed since Fast Food Nation was published, and I’d love to report that the book is out of date, that the many problems it describes h

"Google has forgotten why we loved it." http://gizmo.do/GHO1OM (via @Awl)

D on Johnson finds it hard to remember the exact cards. Who could? At the height of his 12-hour blitz of the Tropicana casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, last April, he was playing a hand of blackja

Hurray for Health Reform It’s said that you can judge a man by the quality of his enemies. If the same principle applies to legislation, the Affordable Care Act — which was signed into law two years a