Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse In training sessions on domestic violence and technology, people have started asking about how to handle the use of connected home device
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For a time, it looked as if Turkey’s battered democracy might pull off an improbable revival in Sunday’s national elections. With the Turkish economy reeling, the aura of inevitable victory that surro
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Share 10K Share Vote 5 Reddit 41 WhatsApp 10K Shares Location and navigation using global positioning systems (GPS) is deeply embedded in our daily lives, and is particularly crucial to Uber’s service
Dave Cousens, a lobsterman, begins his day before sunrise in South Thomaston, Me. Credit... Greta Rybus for The New York Times Climate Change Brought a Lobster Boom. Now It Could Cause a Bust. Dave Co
I’m an introvert. Most people don’t believe me when I tell them this (I do a lot of public speaking for an introvert 😳), but I am an introvert through-and-through. When I need to recharge, I seek alon
Credit... Justin Wood Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and the Feud Over Killer Robots As the tech moguls disagree over the risks presented by something that doesn’t exist yet, all of Silicon Valley is lear
Two years ago, a lawyer in Indiana sent me a check for seventy-eight thousand dollars. The money was from my uncle Walt, who had died six months earlier. I hadn’t been expecting any money from Walt, s
Yesterday saw three developer-related announcements, two from Apple, and one from Microsoft. The former came as part of Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote : The iOS App Store, whic
4 min read · Apr 8, 2018 -- Photo by Zachary Spears on Unsplash Creating and sharing a manager readme /operating manual is a great way to reflect on who you are as a leader, what your leadership philo
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When I was in college I was proud of how hard I worked. I started at 6 AM just as the coffeeshop opened, spending most of the day studying, then attending class before working a part-time job until la
PAU BARRENA/AFP/Getty Images And how it might change what cops can do with our smartphones. By CYRUS FARIVAR Cyrus is senior tech policy reeporter at Ars Technica, and is also an author and radio prod
When you are a refugee, you learn all about the hierarchy of compassion. There are the people from war-torn countries—refugees from humanitarian catastrophes so enormous that they upend the world’s im
How to Survive Your 40s Credit... Rosalie Stroesser If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It’s like a public referendum on your face. When I moved to Paris in my early 30
David Loftesness is now the head of engineering at eero and the co-author of Scaling Teams . There’s an all-too-common cycle in tech these days. Startup avoids management. Founder makes all the decisi
One afternoon last summer, off a tiny island in Virginia called Tangier, James Eskridge set out to rescue two fledgling ospreys. Their parents had nested on a duck-hunting platform that barely topped
Why You Should Stop Being So Hard on Yourself Self-criticism can take a toll on our minds and bodies. It’s time to ease up. By May 22, 2018 “We’re all our own worst critics.” Ever heard that one befor
The shift from brands and advertising to pipes and subscriptions is inevitable — and well underway. Want proof? Look to Disney. Terms like ‘Disneyflix’ and ‘Apple Prime’ essentially describe how the m
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Fourteen months ago, the election of Sadiq Khan, who is forty-six, to be the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital was seen as just another stride in London’s giant, unstopping swagger. The rise of
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On the last Sunday afternoon in March, Mike Hughes, a sixty-two-year-old limousine driver from Apple Valley, California, successfully launched himself above the Mojave Desert in a homemade steam-power
From Port Douglas, in Queensland, Australia, it’s about two hours by motorboat to the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef. On a trip last month, the sea was choppy and no one talked much, just dozed
It took Arnold six and a half seconds to fall five hundred feet. During that time, an image of his son, Paris, flashed before his eyes: Paris, dressed in his red school-uniform shirt and khakis the da
Credit... Jason Henry for The New York Times As Google Feeds Cats, Owl Lovers Cry Foul In a Silicon Valley park, burrowing owls are dying and disappearing. Public records and a bit of snooping uncover
10 min read · May 14, 2018 -- The hype around blockchain is massive. To hear the blockchain hype train tell it, blockchain will now: Solve income inequality Make all data secure forever Make everythin
Email Is Dangerous The Atlantic Electronic mail as we know it is drowning in spam, forged phishing mails, and other scams and hacks. It’s going to get worse before it gets better. emails security
Google CEO Sundar Pichai milked the woos from a clappy, home-turf developer crowd at its I/O conference in Mountain View this week with a demo of an in-the-works voice assistant feature that will enab
Opinion The Germs That Love Diet Soda Credit... Julian Glander There are lots of reasons to avoid processed foods. They’re often packed with sugar, fat and salt, and they tend to lack certain nutrient
Emissions of a banned, ozone-depleting chemical are on the rise, a group of scientists reported Wednesday, suggesting someone may be secretly manufacturing the pollutant in violation of an internation
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Productivity A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home The jury was out on the productivity effect of working from home. It has returned with a surprising v
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Jakub Domerecki/EyeEm/Getty Images A young friend recently remarked that the worst boss he ever had would provide him with feedback that always consisted of “You’re doing a great job.” But they both k
When people get married, they are often quite sure that they will have a small, quiet wedding. None of these massive, extravagant parties with hundreds of people for us! We’ll just invite close family
In 83 Million Eviction Records, a Sweeping and Intimate New Look at Housing in America A Princeton sociologist chronicled the human toll of eviction in one city in a 2016 book. A new project may revea