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Is this wave of internet idealists any different from the last?

We’re just about to reach 40 million annotations! Here’s to all the annotators out there: We share this milestone with each of you. Read all about it — and find out what else we've been up to lately.

Evan Spiegel isn’t going down without a fight.

The new GitHub Issues - September 1st update

The academic search engine’s policy on name changes is out of step with other search tools and publishers.

How to automatically connect via cellular when there's no Wi-Fi.

As promised, I’ve updated Read2Text as a standalone binary using the Swift versions of Readability and HTML2Text. In the process I made it a whole new tool called Gather . You may recall that name

Gather is constantly improving at this point, and a lot of its rough edges have already been polished. I’m loving all the feedback I’m getting, both for fixing bugs and for adding new features. It’s

The turmoil associated with Elon Musk’s bid to purchase the company was a breaking point.

If electric cars are better - why ban gas powered cars?

Unless you have skipped a lot of school, or work, or both – or you live in the USA – you have probably used an A4 sheet of paper before now. Have you ever wondered …

The video platform is finally dedicating real resources to growing its podcast offerings.

New Jersey residents want to protect their community's rural character from a million-square-foot warehouse. But the local democratic process turns out to be complicated and – for some – suspiciously lacking in transparency.

Auto companies are designing ways to build a car’s fuel cells into its frame, making electric rides cheaper, roomier, and able to hit ranges of 620 miles.

Some people have ditched dating apps—and opted to bare their souls via a public, view-only link instead.

The partnership has not issued a new fact check since 2020. It only fact checked Schmitt once and found the claim it was looking into to be “mostly true.”

The purpose of the Edit Tweet feature is to "give people a short period of time to fix things like typos, add missed tags, and more" on Twitter

Twitter announced today that it has begun testing “Notes,” a way to write and publish long-form content on the social media platform. The official announcement comes a day after TechCrunch reported that the feature would be launching soon. A small group of writers in the United States, …

"For me, fundamentally, the mistake was thinking that journalism was where Medium was going to shine."

Early coverage sidestepped conversations about the unique kinds of gendered racism that a Black girl from a working-class California neighborhood might face on the professional tour.

I remember the heady days of the mid 1990s to mid 2000s where fiddling around with your desktop and posting awesome screenshots of Window...

Multitasking while browsing the web.

Apple’s iPhone 14 event is taking place on September 7th.

Honda has finally revealed details about its latest hot hatch, including increased power figures and a revised chassis.

"Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale."

Last week, I published a story for iMore covering the Menu Bar applet for Shortcuts on the Mac and gave a few examples of how to build your shortcuts to work well when triggered there — check out the example shortcuts for sure:

Land of the Giants ends its season looking ahead to Meta’s future, with exclusive audio from inside the company.

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