I first encountered the phrase “hillbilly gothic” on a library website, of all places, one of those “if you liked X you might like Y” guides.

Another reason not to play 1989's Rhythm Nation – it messes with some hard disk drives

Not an artistic judgement. Just a technical one.

The maverick driver talks bluntly about the shocker that cost him a championship, and his plans for fashion, movies, and more.

Transsion, a China-based smartphone manufacturer, is outpacing Apple and Samsung in Africa. It sells devices that take better selfies of dark skin and have features like a keyboard in Swahili.

On this special episode of the AppleInsider podcast, YouTube creator Christopher Lawley shares his journey from editing video on a 2007 Mac Pro, to going all-in on iPad as his main computer.

I guess I’ll stop doing this, too.

Much has changed over the past decade.

Buying a burrito but with more taxes

Welcome back to Living hell, the series profiling the worst kips on Daft in Dublin. This edition we’ve examined our first hellhole of 2021. What is it? If Twitter is the smoking area of the internet then Daft is the bathroom, but not the kind you find women hyping each other up in. Or even […]

Once, it sparked dreams of community and counterculture. What’s gained—and lost—when flower power is electrified?

Everyday 332 million people open Snapchat on their phones, and with our camera, can start conversations with their real friends. Today, we’re introducing Snapchat for Web, a new way for our community to stay connected through our camera when they’re at their computers.

Silicon Valley is the latest player in a history of Western appropriation of Buddhism

Real Life is a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis is more on living. We publish one piece a day—essays, features, uncategorizable—four or five days a week. We launched with funding from Snapchat, but we operate with editorial independence and without ads.

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Self-improvement? In this economy?

Despite evidence that says otherwise

The reality of AI is something harder to comprehend.

Yes, there's an app for that. As one of my former students said to me when I first got the iPhone, "oh good! Now you can use emojis! That's the best part of owning a smartphone!" A couple of years later, I have to admit that she was partially correct: those little smiley faces and...

In Kaitlyn Tiffany's sharp and funny 'Everything I Need I Get From You,' online fandom is serious business.

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Gawker. It's a website on the internet.

Deb Kiner, pennlive.com On June 6, 1944, Howard Whitman, New York Daily News Correspondent representing the combined American press, described the soldiers boarding ships headed to the beaches of Normandy. Whitman said American soldiers were eager “to get on with the Big Show.” The Big Show was D-Day during World War II...

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