Economic Trends To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now Marta Ramos, left, is a janitor at Apple headquarters. That’s the same job Gail Evans, right,
(You can click play above to listen to me narrate this article) Published in Basic Income · 14 min read · Mar 16, 2016 -- (An alternate version of this article was originally published in the Boston G
WHEN the first printed books with illustrations started to appear in the 1470s in the German city of Augsburg, wood engravers rose up in protest. Worried about their jobs, they literally stopped the p
Like Steven Tyler, of Aerosmith, Ken Burns has a summer house on Lake Sunapee, in New Hampshire. The property is furnished with Shaker quilts and a motorboat; every July 4th, a fifteen-foot-long Ameri
I n a corner of Alphabet’s campus, there is a team working on a piece of software that may be the key to self-driving cars. No journalist has ever seen it in action until now. They call it Carcraft, a
Economics Economics Indicators Central Banks Jobs Trade Tax & Spend Inflation & Prices Economics Hunt Faces Extra £2 Billion Bill For Increasing UK State Pension Economics European Stocks Steady Ahead
As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery. Our chips keep getting faster and our data rates keep climbing, but at the end of the
Inspiration This comic was inspired by this three-part series on the backfire effect from the You Are Not So Smart Podcast . If you want to learn more about the backfire effect and other related behav
This is fine. Why did Donald Trump fire FBI Director James Comey so abruptly, in such humiliating fashion , with no plan to communicate the reasoning behind the move and no list of replacements ready?
Andrew Ng, one of the world’s best-known artificial-intelligence experts, is launching an online effort to create millions more AI experts across a range of industries. Ng, an early pioneer in online
Ever since it was first published in 1982, readers—including this one—have thrilled to “Total Eclipse,” Annie Dillard’s masterpiece of literary nonfiction, which describes her personal experience of a
Modern Newsroom August 18, 2017 • 2 min read • By Forbes has been known for a cumbersome user experience. Earlier this month, the business news publisher appeared on a Google list of sites with “faili
Retail Revolution August 18, 2017 • 4 min read • By With around 140 million people shopping at its 5,000 stores in the U.S. every week, Walmart is not just a retail giant. It is also a growing adverti
Instagram’s Kevin Systrom wants to clean up the %$@! internet. by Nicholas Thompson | photographs by Art Streiber | illustration by Zohar Lazar | lettering by Braulio Amado 08.14.17 Kevin Systrom, t
New profile picture of James Damore Former Google engineer James Damore, who was fired for distributing a memo suggesting women are not biologically suited for certain types of work, is now branding h
Robin Olimb / Getty Images This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. A Google engineer who was fired for posting an
In 1950, Tollund Man’s discoverers “found a face so fresh they could only suppose they had stumbled on a recent murder.” Christian Als If you’re looking for the middle of nowhere, the Bjaeldskovdal bo
Posted in Editor's Pick Hard Lessons in Living Off the Grid Amelia Urry | Grist | August 8, 2017 | 3,139 words by mikedang August 8, 2017 October 19, 2022 A family tried to build its own sustainable p
L ike many women in the 1930s, Jean Jennings Bartik had studied mathematics. During and after World War II, Bartik and other women actually worked as “computers.” They calculated by hand the trajector
This story is part of a group of stories called Outside contributors' opinions and analysis of the most important issues in politics, science, and culture. James Damore, the man fired by Google last y
Sarah Rose Cavanagh Ph.D. Once More, With Feeling The kids are going to be all right. Posted Aug 06, 2017 A recent article by psychologist Jean Twenge in the Atlantic warns that "the twin rise of the smartphone and social media has caused an earthquake of a magnitude we’ve not seen in a very long…
C hris Hughes was a mythical savior—boyishly innocent, fantastically rich, intellectually curious, unexpectedly humble, and proudly idealistic. My entire career at the New Republic had been spent drea
‘We celebrate life, not death, here in Tecomán’ Mexico’s Deadliest Town. Mexico’s Deadliest Year. Tecomán is part of what was once one of the safest states in Mexico. Now bodies are a commonplace sigh
Modern Newsroom ‘Trying to let our hair down’: How The New York Times is getting creative with push notifications August 8, 2017 • 3 min read • By In June, The New York Times dropped seven emojis — tw
Nuttapol Noprujikul/Dreamstime In Brief The Problem Too many CEOs fail at their jobs. From 2000 to 2013, 25% of the Fortune 500 chief executives who left their firms were forced out. The Cause One maj
Publishing in the Platform Era Google reveals sites with ‘failing’ ads, including Forbes, LA Times August 8, 2017 • 5 min read • By Digiday Publishers that have fretted about Google’s plans to unleash
Published in UX Planet · 4 min read · Jul 22, 2017 -- Note: the technique mentioned in this article aren’t always black or white. Meaning, they all have great potential if implemented correctly. 1. Po
In March 2011, a construction worker named Shawn Funk visited an impressive dinosaur collection at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta. As he walked through halls full of ancient bones, he had no idea
Economics Economics Indicators Central Banks Jobs Trade Tax & Spend Inflation & Prices Economics Germany’s Stop-Start Economic Motor Is Probably in Reverse Again Economics China Economy Shows Tentativ
On October 5, 1999, Steve Jobs introduced the iMac DV and a new application called iMovie, declaring: We think this is going to be the next big thing. Desktop video…which we think is going to be as bi
8 min read · Aug 6, 2017 -- You have probably heard about the manifesto a Googler (not someone senior) published internally about, essentially, how women and men are intrinsically different and we sho
"Is that real?" "No. Fucking. Way." The man and woman stumble out into the muggy Missouri air, tearing up, then falling to their knees in the gravel. It's late afternoon, and the setting sun casts och
Sponsored By Typographic ligatures are when multiple characters appear to combine into a single character. Simplistically, when you type two or more characters and they magically attach to each other,
This is Part Five of a BuzzFeed News investigation. Part One: Poison In The System Part Two: From Russia With Blood Part Three: The Man Who Knew Too Much Part Four: The Secrets Of The Spy In The Bag P
What is disruption? Ask the clickbait mills and the sheep who retweet them, and thy name is Tesla. Everyone knows the Tesla narrative. Autonomy ! Electrification ! Superchargers ! Musk ! If it weren’t
State of the Art How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food Tiffany Lo, who helped launch BuzzFeed’s food videos, during a shoot of a shredded chicken dish. Credit... Melissa Lyttle for The New York T
With the recent explosion in AI, there has been the understandable concern about its potential impact on human work. Plenty of people have tried to predict which industries and jobs will be most affec
One of the most profound consequences of the information age is the ability to do so many things while ignoring location. I no longer need to visit most shops, libraries, or travel agents. (I'm lookin
Gray Matter Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck. Here’s How to Move It Forward. Credit... Jun Cen Artificial Intelligence is colossally hyped these days, but the dirty little secret is that it still has