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Commentary: We need journalists to hold politicians accountable for extremist actions, not to enable them

The surest route to befuddlement in the tech industry is comparing a vertical player, like Apple, with a horizontal one, like Google. Vertical players typically monetize through hardware, only serv…

Regulators have allowed banks to buy companies that trade in commodities, resulting in huge profits for the banks and higher prices for consumers.

Studies of napping have shown improvement in cognitive function, creative thinking, and memory performance. Ready, set . . . snooze.

Why Apple is re-aligning itself with its contemporaries and the subcultures it helped create.

I regularly get emails from young people, usually those with an interest in programming, who are trying to make decisions about school and/or their professional futures. This post is for those young people. If you’re in your late teens or early twenties, you’ve grown up in a world that has come t

We yearn for frictionless technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way that norms and standards change.

The blank page sucks. I’m certainly familiar with how intimidating it can be, and I’d bet a cup of coffee you are too. To help get over that intimidation, [Anne Lamott advises]( we give…

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." — Freewill, Rush If you happen to be a sports fan (I am), one of the coolest features to emerge in our lifetime is the ability to program your DVR remotely. The game is about to start, and you forgot to record it. No problem — you can simply talk to your DVR remotely. It’s like magic. When you get home your game is there. DirecTV has supported this feature for some time, initially on the Internet via the browser and more recently via their smartphone application. Ironically, the smartphone…

It knows how to talk about tools but is barely capable of talking about social, political, and economic systems that these tools enable and disable, amplify and pacify. Why the “digital debate” leads us astray.

After several hundred hours of research and testing for full guides and this collective specifically, we found the most essential gear to throw the best party.

The edge of the abyss: exposing the NSA's all-seeing machine By T.C. Sottek "I know the capability that is there to make tyranny total in America, and...

Since 2008, I’ve subscribed to unlimited 3G data plans. When the first data plan came out in France, I just couldn’t believe it, I was astonished. With direct access to maps, wikipedia, messengers…

Inside the Box serves as a forum for individuals involved in the production of Gearbox Software content to share personal motives, methods, process and results. Gearbox Software projects are created by a diverse range of individuals spanning a spectrum of different backgrounds, interests, objectives and world views. The views and opinions expressed in this article […]

Pop culture, politics, personality, and life with a feminist spin.

A guide to finding the truth behind Google, Apple and Windows Phone quarterly reports by looking at the installed base. By Charles Arthur

So he spoke, and the minstrel, moved by the god, began and let his song be heard, taking up the tale where the Argives had embarked on their benched ships and were sailing away after casting fire...

Declaring a war on warrior culture in the wake of the Miami Dolphins bullying scandal.

Declaring a war on warrior culture in the wake of the Miami Dolphins bullying scandal.

Twitter's initial public offering is a sign that it has graduated from being a startup into a full-fledged media entity -- but the pressures of doing that have already changed the service in some important ways

We think economic growth is our friend. Here’s why it’s not.