Apple is the world's foremost manufacturer of goods. At one time, this statement had to be caged and qualified with modifiers such as "consumer goods" or "electronic goods," but last quarter, Apple shipped a Boeing 787's weight worth of iPhones every 24 hours. When we add the rest of the product…

At 11 a.m. on January 21st, Christopher Poole posted a note online saying he was retiring as the administrator of 4chan, the notorious website he had founded as a high school student in upstate New York 11 years earlier. The news was as shocking as some of the site’s content: The Zuckerberg of the…

Clockwise from top right: Dolours Price; Gerry Adams; Jean McConville and three of her children; I.R.A. men at the funeral of Bobby Sands; Divis Flats, the Belfast housing project from which McConville was abducted. Credit Clockwise from Top Right: Press Association via AP (Price); Peter Marlow /…

Editor’s note:   Dr. Nathan Wilson is co-founder and CTO of Nara Logics, a big data intelligence company creating a brain-based AI platform. There’s a pragmatic approach to the  great artificial intelligence debate , one that responsibly answers both the trepidations and aspirations of top…

The internet is unbreakable. At least, we think it is. That’s why when something goes extremely viral, such as pictures of Kim Kardashian’s bottom or #thedress, we joke about it “breaking the internet”. This is because, well, that obviously isn’t going to happen – but we’re searching for some way of…

If you’ve ever wanted to throw your computer away rather than express or read another take on the same subject, congratulations: you have opinion fatigue. This phenomenon is not new, but it’s increasingly universal. In the mid-2000s, when, like everyone, I had a blog, I would sometimes feel…

stronger encryption on consumer devices would not hinder law enforcement

An axe attack in the early 1990s damaged the same network of satellites that helps you map directions today.

I’m a 12-year-old girl. Why don’t the characters in my apps look like me?

On Secretly Terrible Engineers They lurk, unnoticed in the great halls of engineering that are the office strips along Highway 101. “Programmers” not programmers, people who have cheated, stolen, and lied their way through engineering careers without anyone realizing they can’t code. They are among…

The vast majority of working journalists, even those covering politics, have not sat down with a president of the United States for an interview. But in January 2015, three YouTube stars got that opportunity. They asked about drones, net neutrality and what super power the president would like to…

Hair loss is one of the most obvious side effects of cancer treatment. Now, a growing number of breast cancer patients are freezing their scalps as a way to preserve their hair during chemotherapy.

We’re now mere hours away from the proper unveiling of Apple Watch. Not the tease, the full monty. Having read all the various takes over the past week, I think we’re covered. It’s either going to be a massive success or a huge flop. Unless, of course, it’s a middling success. The price will range…

All the fuss and speculation about Apple’s top-end Watch may be off by thousands of dollars. Because of physics. Paradoxically science may also make the Watch more luxurious than many rivals. Gold is a funny thing: We treasure it, value our economies on how much of it we own, yearn for it and make…

Have you ever heard of phrenology ? It was, once upon a time, the “science” of measuring someone’s skull to understand their intellectual capabilities. This sounds totally idiotic but was a huge fucking deal in the mid-1800’s, and really didn’t stop getting some credit until much later. I know that…

NSA und CIA spionieren auch mithilfe deutscher Technik. Der IT-Konzern SAP hat die US-Geheimdienste sogar gezielt durch Firmenzukäufe und Verträge als Kunden gewonnen. SAP-Zentrale in Walldorf | © Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg/Getty Images Nur ein paar Straßenzüge entfernt vom Pentagon hat die INSA ihr…

Image: ​lolloj/Shutterstock​ Early last year, a group of cybersleuths accus​ed the Ethiopian government of using malware sold by an Italian surveillance company to spy on Ethiopian journalists based in the US. But rather than cease their activities, the Ethiopian government is believed to have…

I’ve got a lot of almost-rehearsed level responses to most questions about sexism in tech. I spent some time researching them. Each of them has to be well-researched whether I’m interested in the topic or not, but they are all worded mildly and inoffensively because I fear being labeled as a…

During a brief recess in an honors course at Eastern Michigan University last fall, a teaching assistant approached the class’s three female professors. “I think you need to see this,” she said, tapping the icon of a furry yak on her iPhone. The app opened, and the assistant began scrolling through…

In November 2013, Tanzina Vega, a young reporter for The New York Times, pitched Jill Abramson, the paper’s then-executive editor, the idea of devoting a reporting beat on the national desk to coverage of race and ethnicity. Abramson liked the idea, and Vega became the beat’s sole reporter,…

Don’t try out any hard-to-navigate trails—your memory isn’t top-notch on THC. Photo: vardyparty64/Flickr Runner’s high is taking on a new meaning as elite endurance athletes start fessing up to using cannabis while training to help them endure boredom, reduce pain, and ease nausea. Ultrarunner Jenn…

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In 1992, Archie Karas, then a waiter, headed out to Las Vegas. By 1995, he had turned $50 into $40 million, in what has become known as the biggest winning streak in gambling history. Most of us would call it an instance of great luck, or we might say of Archie himself: ‘What a lucky guy!’ The…

In 2015, Sean Percival is a partner at Silicon Valley seed accelerator 500 Startups, but from 2009 to 2011, he was working at MySpace as its vice president of online marketing – just as the social network lost its crown to Facebook. In a speech at the By:Larm conference in Oslo this week, Percival…

The man behind the Apple Watch The Cupertino headquarters of Apple can only be described as an anticlimax. Perhaps it was a bit much to expect an American version of James Bond’s Q Branch, but the Apple “campus” is disappointingly… well… normal. Once upon a time, when Steve Jobs was a lad, much of…

Data and Goliath is a book about surveillance, both government and corporate. It’s an exploration in three parts: what’s happening, why it matters, and what to do about it. This is a big and important issue, and one that I’ve been working on for decades now. We’ve been on a headlong path of more and…

You’ve likely seen this style of writing all over the place — on Tumblr, Twitter, Snapchat, Yik Yak, or anywhere that people communicate in writing. It goes like this: Another common variation are sentences that begin with “that”, as in these tweets: This style has been huge for some time now. Do…

The Bank of St George, founded in 1407 in the Italian Republic of Genova, is one of the world’s oldest banks. It was so powerful that it governed many of Genova’s possessions on the republic’s behalf. This power was based on accumulated capital. The power of accumulated capital can still dominate…

Wednesday’s news from the Justice Department that the Ferguson police are racially biased would not surprise any of the protesters who have kept the faith in this struggling suburb. It is their daily lives that were coldly recounted in a Justice Department report, six months in the making, that…

It is sunset in Sunnyvale, but Marissa Mayer’s day is far from over. She has a keynote presentation at a mobile ad product launch coming up in a day, and the conference room near her corner office on the Yahoo campus shows evidence of careful preparation. Printouts from her slide deck are pasted on…

Artificial intelligence is back. Whether in the dystopian portrayals of recent movies or the utopian singularities dreamed of in the tech world, the general agreement is that we are on the path to thinking machines. But as fun, twisted and thought-provoking as the dystopian show Black Mirror is, I…

or The Rise of Crypto Bullshit Bingo We at Telegram love being notified about security-related issues. We believe being open source and having crypto contests helps us provide a better service. That’s why we reward people when they share ideas that allow us to make Telegram more secure. Last month…

The Apple Watch Is Time, Saved Over the course of investigating the Apple Watch, I’ve spoken to several sources who have spent extended time with it.  There are a lot of interesting details, some of which we’ll get into. But, by far, the biggest recurring theme is how little you use your iPhone once…

It’s a program that acknowledges how we write — in a word processor, staring into the maw of a blank screen — and then turns the computer into a camera. What can we learn if we rewind and press play? Somers started all this because he thinks the way we teach writing is broken. “We know how to make…

In 1997, a writer and web developer named Paul Ford walked into a sushi restaurant in midtown Manhattan to meet a group of strangers. These were bloggers—a term not yet widely in use—who, along with Ford, formed a tight-knit vanguard of individuals publishing personal writing online. Ford had been…

Ben Rubin of Meerkat At three in the morning on Tuesday, Eden Shochat, founding partner at Israeli venture firm Aleph, was awakened by a phone call, while in Washington, Ben Rubin, co-founder and chief executive of Aleph portfolio company Life On Air Inc. , was on the other line, calling from Tel…

View this image › Isabella Sorley in Newcastle, February 2015. Ceri Oakes / SWNS for BuzzFeed At 2.29pm on 29 July 2013, Isabella Sorley, a then-23-year-old advertising graduate from Newcastle, said on Twitter: “Me doing something when tired only leads to one thing, me loosing [sic] my temper, but…

While not limited to games, with GDC on this week, VR has moved back into the news with a range of sweeping technology, gear and project reports. From games engines to new headgear, and coming off the strong content discussions at the VR special event at Sundance last month, VR remains the hot topic…

Dorschi Batomunkujew ist erst 20 Jahre jung, ein Burjate und Buddhist aus Mogoitui – einem Kaff mit 11 000-Seelen an der chinesischen Grenze, über 6000 Kilometer und 6 Zeitzonen östlich von Moskau. Trotzdem kämpfte der talentierte Panzerfahrer im Februar in der Ostukraine. In einem Konflikt, den die…