Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click
It has been very frustrating watching the rise of cryptocurrency (which, forgive me cryptographers, I will be calling "crypto" from here on) because a whole bunch of smart people in tech seem to be ve
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Cryptocurrency is a scam. All of it, full stop — not just the latest pump-and-dump “shitcoin” schemes, in which fraudsters hype a little-known cryptocurrency before dumping it in unison, or “ rug pull
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As we start a new decade, it’s a good time to reflect on expectations for the next 10 years. Tyler thinks the Great Stagnation could be ending . Caleb sees cracks . Noah expresses techno-optimism . In
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If you go out seeking to learn from their proponents why blockchains and the systems built atop them are apparently the future of our web, you’ll begin to see some common themes. Two of the ones I see
May 1, 2019 A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to
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John Maynard Keynes begins his magnum opus, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by explaining why he has titled the book the “General” theory. His intuition was that the prevailing “o
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R achel Bovard is one of the thousands of smart young Americans who flock to Washington each year to make a difference. She’s worked in the House and Senate for Republicans Rand Paul, Pat Toomey, and
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I’ve stayed in a couple of hotels recently, and as part of their Covid safety protocols, both had their TV remote controls in plastic bags, seemingly to signify that the remotes themselves had been cl
*by “we’re” i mean front-end developers This is a written version of a talk from Jamstack Conf London in 2019 that I put together for attendees. Because, the day before I was to board a flight for tha
Illustration: Martin Gee This story is the first in a two-part series about the inner workings of Netflix’s homepage. Read the second story here . Ten years ago, Netflix got the idea that its app shou
OSes are never truly finished. macOS has been continuously evolving for decades, and it would be foolhardy to declare it ‘finished’ in any sense of the word. It’s not. However, when you step back and
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T here is no advanced industrial democracy in the world more politically divided, or politically dysfunctional, than the United States today. How did the world’s most powerful country get to this poin
Flo Crivello @Altimor Why did the web take over native on desktop and not on mobile? 3:36 PM ∙ Sep 6, 2021 167 Likes 4 Retweets This is the kind of question you can spend a decade learning from while
“On how one orients himself to the moment,” 48-year-old Henry Miller (December 26, 1891–June 7, 1980) wrote in reflecting on the art of living in 1939, “depends the failure or fruitfulness of it.” Ove
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“Hey Siri, turn my home on.” Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge I use a fairly simple metric to determine which artificially intelligent voice assistant is the best for controlling my smart home: Which
Prominent Apple blogger John Gruber kicked off a firestorm on Twitter when he suggested recently that web developers “should not be trying to create a ‘native like app’ in a web browser.” Gruber said
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Our long national iOS 15 Safari nightmare ended last month , praise be, but the lesser of the two bad Safari designs unveiled at WWDC persists and actually shipped : the new tabs in Safari 15 for Mac.
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DuckDuckGo is now carbon negative dating back to our founding in 2008 through 2020, and is committed to being carbon negative in perpetuity. We've pioneered new estimation techniques, given our distri
In my career as an iOS reviewer , I don’t think I’ve ever seen a response as universally positive and enthusiastic as the general public’s reception of iOS 14 last year . From the “Home Screen aesthet
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The vast majority of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers decision in Epic v. Apple is both straight-forward and predictable; I wrote that the iPhone company would likely win when the lawsuit was filed , and
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It is May 2015, and Liverpool have become a laughingstock. They are losing 6-1 at Stoke City on the final day of the season, the home supporters are tormenting manager Brendan Rodgers with chants of "
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As we await the beginning of Apple’s latest WWDC keynote and all of the new software products it will unveil, let’s talk about metaphors. Specifically, the meta
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