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Today's newsletters look more and more like the early days of blogging - but with one missing ingredient.

After 15 years at Google, Sridhar Ramaswamy wanted out of the ad business. And he thinks getting out of ads is exactly what search engines need.

Nostalgia is a powerful balm for difficult times – and replaying skate videos is the one thing lifting my spirits amidst our current reality.

When it comes to watching sports on TV, it’s live … or it’s totally dead.

Email newsletters may be ready for a comeback. The fact is that despite the communications mechanism being old-school, publishers can put in less effort to get more views in an inbox than on a blog. AOL exec Bob Pittman has bet big on email newsletters, funding a number of media startups built aro…

Welcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my tech and media newsletter. You can subscribe by clicking on this handy little button: The last year has been a good one for newsletter publishing platform Substack. After securing a $15.3 million funding round in July 2019, it went on to lure hundreds of high profile writers onto its service. In late 2019, a group of prominent never Trumpers from the National Review and Weekly Standard

I'm still haunted by the mystery of my hometown's banana peel pile. What strange things can you just not shake?

Out on PC next month.

Tom Critchlow. Move. Think. Create.

A new email service by the folks at Basecamp. Tagged with email, privacy, productivity.

This is the question that tormented Søren Kierkegaard, perhaps the first great philosopher to process our modern world—and it comes to life in Clare Carlisle's unconventional new biography.

Twitter is asking users what features they might be willing to pay for.

The Times' resident white savior has his heart in the right place. But his work falls short over and over again.

Details from the charging documents appear to show that finding the alleged hackers wasn’t a heavy lift for investigators.

I’ve been fixated on his very punchable face since I first saw it on Weekend Update. So of course I had to read his memoir.

Three decades ago, the punk rockers, hardcore kids and metalheads of New York City relied on the operators of one answering machine to find out where bands were playing. This is the story of 212-OPEC-SID

The actor and comedian has taken a leftist turn — and he’s not apologizing

The untold story of your favorite rappers' favorite trippy brand—and the elusive designer behind it.

Despite criminal comparisons and bruised fingers, a community of hobbyist lockpickers is thriving online.

The political economy of bullshit.

Legendary London DJ duo Coldcut have been making music together for an incredible 33 years now, which means Matt Black and Jonathan More must be fast approaching national treasure status. But don’t expect any valedictory laps of honour just yet from two men still working on, and presiding over, plenty of sonic vitality as label... Read more »

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The new box set of their work took 19 years to put together, and the story it tells is that of a truly singular, curious, oppositional group.

Tim Berners-Lee is fascinated with information. It has been his life’s work. For over four decades, he has sought to understand how it is mapped and

The controversy over the Covington students shows why American journalism should disengage from Twitter.

Analyzing the politics of the antitrust hearing featuring the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

We crunched the numbers on just how inefficient wireless charging is — and the results are pretty shocking

The tiny photo processing kiosks could be found everywhere in the 1970s and 1980s. And that was the problem.