Helping behavior between humans has been one of the most influential forces sculpting modern civilizations, but what factors influence this propensity to help? This study demonstrates that a lack of sleep dictates whether humans choose to help each other at three different scales: within individuals, across individuals, and across societies.

The first half of this chapter provides details on the assumptions and results of each of the four main scenarios. These are not predictions for the

On a couple of policies related to transgender people, there is some agreement among Americans, but views of other policies are more divided.

App Shortcuts are actually Apple's biggest Siri update in years

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert in Git. This post is me trying to understand how it works, by trying to explain it to someone else. If I've...

Both advocacy groups and political leaders tend to assume that misinformation persists on social media because the platforms are unwilling to get rid of it—a gross and unhelpful oversimplification. Some of the largest technology companies in the world spend tens of billions of dollars each year ...

The music of DJ Screw preserves the personalities and style of people foundational to Houston rap—some long-forgotten and too many deceased.

The format that got us all to listen is becoming visual, and podcasts will never be the same

I recently switched RSS providers and I could only extract my saved posts as a list of URLs. So I thought I’d add these to a bookmark folder in Chrome. However, Chrome bookmark import only accepts a…

Benchmark results for an iPad Pro (12.9-inch 5th generation) with an Apple M1 processor.

Breakfast, it turns out. The answer is breakfast.

Legendary tech journalist Kara Swisher reveals that even she is not immune to having her old work removed from the internet by short-sighted content management.

Benchmark results for an iPhone 12 Pro Max with an Apple A14 Bionic processor.

A complete redesign of The Verge that marries the best of old-school blogging with a modern news feed experience.

I swear some people out there be building their note-taking system like NASA engineers building the next rocket to send us to the next habitable Earth. Note-...

"I believe we’re far from reaching our full potential."

Few apps have made a more valiant effort to rescue us from indolence than Things, the to-do list app for Mac and iOS from German software developer Cultured Code. When it debuted as one of the...

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A list of executable file formats that we don’t really use anymore. That said, if you want to load up an Adobe AIR application, we can’t stop you.

Our podcast goes through all the products announced.

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An education in “juice,” how to protect your shins, and keeping 12,000 daily tons of garbage at bay.

Developers can now use 1Password to set up and use SSH keys to sign Git commits, building on 1Password’s already robust support for SSH keys.

Chromebooks are mainstream but many people don’t grok Chromeboxes. Some wonder what’s the point of Chromeboxes and what to use them for,...

programming, language design, and human factors

Luckily, I don’t have to use this kind of title often. But when I do, there’s a good reason: this year’s beta release cycle for all of Apple’s operating systems has been a mess. The months since WWDC in June have been a terrible experience for both customers and developers alike and the literal center […]

Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability

The gripping inside story of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy—by a leading tech journalist Across the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video...

It’s all about the iPhone.