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Heather Meyerend is a hospice nurse who works in several neighborhoods in South Brooklyn—Sheepshead Bay, Mill Basin, Marine Park, Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge. She usually has between sixteen and twenty pat
The Big Hack The day cars drove themselves into walls and the hospitals froze A scenario that could happen based on what already has. Illustrations by R. Kikuo Johnson On December 4, 2017, at a little
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman For the Refuah Shleimah of Boruch Zev Ben Bracha “Alexa, what is the temperature in Jerusalem today?” “Alexa, can you wake me at 7:40 tomorrow morning for Minyan?” “Alexa, can you shut off the air conditioner in the living room?” “Alexa, please play me some of Abie Rottenberg’s…
In Quebec, Uber spends a lot of its energy making the case of its very existence amidst strong opposition from the taxi industry and back-and-forth negotiations with the provincial government. Elsewhere, the ride-hailing service has been positioning itself as a key part of the public transportation…
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How Yahoo derailed Tumblr After Marissa Mayer promised‘not to screw it up’ Seth Fiegerman Marissa Mayer was running late. This time, it wasn’t for a dinner with skeptical advertisers nor a conference
To a certain kind of nerd, Ev Williams is the Forrest Gump of internet media. Williams helped write the software that made us call blogs blogs . He founded a podcast company years before most people l
The car-hailing app has disrupted taxi and transport companies around the world. But in China – home to hundreds of millions of urban commuters – it is losing $1bn a year in an aggressive fight for market share. By Leslie HookPhotographs by Zeng Han June 2016 In Uber’s new offices in Guangzhou,…
Barbie’s first lift was a small , plastic stingray she stole from the dollar store. The toy was the last of its kind on the shelf, and she thought it looked lonely sitting there by itself. She picked
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Surge in Ridership Pushes New York Subway to Limit Riders waiting for the L train on a packed subway platform at Union Square in Manhattan last month. Subway use, now at nearly 1.8 billion rides a yea
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I t's eight in the morning and you can barely keep your eyes open, much less engage in the activities that constitute productive participation in the glorious neoliberal machinery of our economy. Maybe it’s because of the sleep you gave up to spend hours gazing through a rectangular portal into a…
When Dick Costolo attended the University of Michigan, in the nineteen-eighties, his major was computer science, but he was surprised to find that he also had a knack for improv comedy. After graduati
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The founder and CEO of the ride-sharing juggernaut on why carpooling isn’t just for school children By Travis Kalanick IN THE CLASSIC SCI-FI NOVEL “the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” an alien visiting Earth names himself Ford Prefect based on the assumption that cars are the dominant form of…
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Beware the Fine Print | Part I Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice Alan Carlson, a restaurant owner and chef, was involved in a 2003 class-action suit against American Express. A deca
This post has been updated and clarified. Your doctor might tell you to eat fewer burgers and steak sandwiches, but thanks to the exceptional lobbying skills of the American meat industry, the US gove
Last week there was no escaping news of the latest data breach. The LinkedIn hack of 2012 which we thought had "only" exposed 6.5M password hashes (not even the associated email addresses so in practi
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Operation Trump Inside the most unorthodox campaign in political history. Photo-Illustration by Bobby Doherty On the afternoon of March 15, as voters across five states streamed to the polls, Donald T
artpustovit/Thinkstock In 2009, Cook’s Illustrated founder Christopher Kimball wrote a eulogy for Gourmet , the glossy Condé Nast magazine that was being shuttered after nearly seven decades. The publ
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I n May last year, a man in a cage appeared at Liverpool Street Station in London. It was, of course, a publicity stunt – but not, as you might have expected, for Amnesty International. The “prisoner”
Last fall, student protesters at Yale University demanded that Professor Nicholas Christakis, an academic star who has successfully mentored Ivy League undergraduates for years, step down from his pos
Not long ago I was waiting for a domestic flight in a departure lounge at one of the crumbling midcentury sheds that pass for an American airport these days. There were delays, as we’ve all come to ex
Earlier this week, Jim VandeHei, a former executive editor of Politico, wrote an op-ed article for The Wall Street Journal accusing the Washington political establishment of being out of touch with “n
David Sacks walked into Dolores Park Café in San Francisco to talk to Lars Dalgaard, a venture capitalist, about what he should do with his life. Or rather, his money. Sacks, who is 43 and has thick g
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The median household income in America is $53,657. Politicians draw $250,000 as the line between the middle and upper classes. And the true starting point of real wealth remains a cool $1,000,000. We
E very week in London , 30,000 people download Uber to their phones and order a car for the first time. The technology company, which is worth $60bn, calls this moment “conversion”. Uber has deployed
This article is by Cory Ondrejka, former director of mobile engineering in Facebook. He also was the Chief Technology Officer of Linden Lab, maker of Second Life. He blogs here and tweets here. January 2002. At Linden Lab, we were still referring to Second Life as Linden World, our furnace-less…
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