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Too many people feel like they're always late, always behind, and never have time to do real work. A bunch of startups are betting that better calendars are a key part of the future of work.

A weirdly tame, let’s-all-get-wasted riff on “The Purge” from the team behind such solid youth-focused comedies as “Banana Split” and “Big Time Adolescence,” Hulu original “The Binge” imagines an a…

On July 22, 2020, Kyle K. Courtney, Copyright Advisor at Harvard University, spoke at a press conference about the copyright lawsuit against the Internet Archive brought by the publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley, and Penguin Random House. He holds a J.D. with distinction in Intellectual Property Law and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science (MSLIS) […]

What Hollywood’s big-budget mythmaking spectacles did for America, and why it’s all changing.

In New Digital Realities; New Oversight Solutions, Tom Wheeler, Phil Verveer and Gene Kimmelman suggest that “the problems in dealing with digital platform companies” strip the gears of…

Scholars have spent years analyzing the corporation’s vast digital archive. What have they discovered?

Being creative is easier than ever, yet some are motivated to go down the more complicated road to reach creative nirvana. Why is that?

In August 2019, after the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, conspiracy theories about what had happened ran rampant on social networks. The theories did not necessarily originate there, but the networks did their part to amplify them, and the confusion that followed was dubbed “the disinformation World Cup.” At the center of the maelstrom was Twitter, where various baseless theories about Epstein’s death dominated the discussion. One reason why is that enough pe

This week, a slightly shorter essay. An essay sparked by something I overheard while out a few days ago. Once again, a random remark dovetailed with some...

What started as a means of protecting an open-source operating system has become a juggernaut of influence in enterprise tech. Not everyone is happy.

Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses the dangers of authors being forced to hire their own fact-checker out of pocket. If they do so at all.

In the crowded and cutthroat landscape of digital media, Vox Media has been one of the survivors, keeping costs under control and growing through acquisition of such properties as New York magazine and its websites, as well as Recode, adding these to properties purchased earlier, The Verge and ...

Browsers. In this day and age, everybody has at least one, and everybody has their personal favorite. Today, I'm going to talk a litt...