“It becomes a snake eating its own tail. It really does homogenize media.”

Eating organic and switching to low-energy light bulbs feels like the green thing to do, but are people missing the bigger opportunities right in front of them?

While some of Google's failed products genuinely deserved to die, others were undernourished, misunderstood, or just ahead of their time

A while back I saw a video posted by the educational tech YouTube channel ColdFusion, called "The Anti-Smartphone Revolution". The video ...

After an announcement months ago, Apple Savings is available for Apple Card users to transfer Daily Cash rewards into a high-yield savings account. Here's how to get started.

Welcome to this edition of Weekly Musings, where each Wednesday I share some thoughts about what's caught my interest in the last seven d...

When WhatsApp was sold to Facebook in 2014, it had almost half a billion monthly users, but a team of just 50 people running everything. Compare this to Twitter, which today has a staff of 7,500 to manage half the number of users. Yet Musk is the crazy one here for suggesting that maybe Twitter could operate with a mere TWO THOUSAND em...

Even the best of the best will let you down sometimes.

A conversation with architecture and design critic Alexandra Lange on malls in America.

Can gravity, pressure, and other elemental forces save us from becoming a battery-powered civilization?

The lightweight rig can be set up quickly with your iPhone and offers a variety of mounts for lights and mics.

Will any of us survive it?

The names may be familiar, but the amount of plastic these companies are producing is shocking.

Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s stunningly profitable cloud division, powers the online presences of millions of users—and by users, I mean Fortune Global 2000 heavyweights ranging from Netflix to iRobot to the Nasdaq stock exchange. Quite simply, AWS is too big and has too many customers for the ...

In yesterday’s Tedium, there was this weird anecdote I uncovered about how a marketing research company managed to create untold amounts of environmental damage in an Iowa community because it couldn’t figure out how to get rid of all the waste that its business—processing coupons—created. Which is quite a weird problem to have, don’t you think?When we try to ditch things we used to rely on, there’s a tendency to think, “out of sight, out of mind.”That is not a theory I subscribe to. Despite ha…

Billions are flowing into the music industry—and barely a cent is going toward the creation of new music.

The writer Jeanette Winterson explores the wild world unfolding alongside the rise of artificial intelligence.

It could have a big impact on Apple.

On top of not actually being as easy on the eyes as advertised, it also isn't a major battery saver.

The smart home was supposed to be the next big computing platform. Now it seems lost in a fog of frustration.