In the age of streaming, public libraries offer small-scale alternatives for local archiving.

Hunter S. Thompson predicts a 'guerilla warfare on a global scale' between the United States and the merciless fanatics responsible for the four plane crashes Tuesday.

I hadn't seen this from Matt when it first came out last month, but it hit me timely today: When tech oversteps its mandate as a too...

Apple unveiled the feature in August

Twitch streamers are building tools to combat hate raids.

The comfort offered by conspiracy is more visceral than that offered by political affiliation. Conspiracy is politics heightened.

If you prefer your longer reading in ebook form, this 60 page essay is available as a PDF, EPUB, or MOBI. (MOBI format is entirely untested!) An essay on our industry's core expertise: failed software projects. The First Software Crisis Back in the early days of computing, we were, as always, extremely bad at making software. Except it was fine as most computers were practically custom-made to their purpose and only had the power to be able to tackle relatively simple problems.

Rural adults are less likely than suburban adults to have home broadband and less likely than urban adults to own a smartphone, tablet or computer.

Startups in Germany, China, Israel, and elsewhere are following the path blazed by GPT-3—with local twists.

This article explores the new voice-based app, Clubhouse, and whether the app is truly creating an experience that promotes equity.

Conservatives claim to defend tradition. The truth is, they actually defend domination and illegitimate power over others.

Hindsight is the enemy of nostalgia. At 27, I'm probably at the absolutely lower limit of people who actually remember 9/11. To even say I "remember" it using the term loosely. I don't remember any…

Platforms offering to connect people for paid friendship have been on the rise during the pandemic – but some worry the service is being used for the wrong reasons.

"Defund the police"? Not a concern at the national sheriffs' conference, where (sometimes questionable) commerce reigned.

For decades, VR has failed to live up to expectations. Yet somehow, it keeps receiving more chances and more resources.

Bridging the wide gap between civilians and the armed forces is the best way to prevent future unwinnable wars.

Joy and pain, harmony and discord, organization and chaos—there’s no single way to define Black Twitter’s complex, ongoing legacy.

The community is at the vanguard of VR — from world design to teledildonic orgies.

The auto giant bet on hydrogen power, but as the world moves toward electric the company is fighting climate regulations in an apparent effort to buy time.

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The "indispensable nation" is still spreading authoritarianism around the world.

In the late 2000s I was sleeping with all of my friends. This didn’t make me special; we were young in one of the several ways people move to cities like New York in order to be young. We were in general not doing much with our lives and so we did what generation after generation of young people have done in order to combat that particular circumstance: We tried to generate enough sex drama amongst ourselves that we didn’t have to notice that we weren’t doing much of anything, that things were harder than they were promised to be, that we had very little money and that everyone else seemed ...

The cynical side of my brain is convinced that Ireland is a country based on waves – be they of COVID, careerist coalition partners, or emigration. It sometimes feels as if we’re stuck having the same few conversations every five months or years, running into depressingly similar problems without any real conclusion. I guess this […]

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Kara Swisher with a lesson for young people on the value of risk-taking and digital responsibility.

Countless websites, including major news outlets, were offline after an outage at Fastly, a cloud computing provider.

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In rural Oregon, one small town’s crackdown on its homeless population gets a helping hand from good, clean Christian “charity.”

After having used Android for over a decade, starting with the original Galaxy S, I have decided to switch over to the operating system I despised the — An independent news source for everything Apple. We cover rumors, events, leaks, commentary and more. We are a non-profit website, and we are not affiliated with Apple Inc.