This blockbuster keynote by Steve Jobs (San Francisco, 2007) started a new era of iPhones! Probably, the first smartphones which paved the way for better mobile phones or smart
Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host
Are you sick of Forbes appearing in search results? For topics that Forbes doesn’t have any expertise in? Here’s the organic rankings for “best pet insurance”: Forbes ranks #2. Not sure a business website knows how pet insurance actually works. But okay. They also have the #1 ranking for best cbd gummies: Because it’s a marijuana category, PPC ads don’t […]
How I scraped and visualized over 1,500 NPR Tiny Desk concerts - Storybench
The kinds of music played behind NPR's Tiny Desk have changed significantly since the concert series started in 2008. I decided to use data to show exactly how it’s evolved. To accomplish this, I used a web-scraping package called Playwright, Last.fm’s artists API, Datawrapper, Adobe Illustrator, some CSS and JavaScript for animation, and, of course,
On and off for the last several years I’ve been manually curating my roughly 40,000 lifetime tweets. I recently finished, and in the process embarked on a
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 400,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
On Friday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that 'more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use.' Even better, the images can be used at no charge (and without getting permission from the museum). In making this announcement, the Met joined other world-class museums in putting put large troves of digital art online.
Putin is trying to take down the entire world order, the veteran Russia watcher said in an interview. But there are ways even ordinary Americans can fight back.
Representation Matters, But It Doesn’t Upend Systems
While widening the scope of experiences and viewpoints on the bench to include that of a Black woman may lead to some positive outcomes for some people experiencing oppression (to the apparent chagrin of conservatives), it doesn’t erase the conditions that allow oppression to occur.
When you visit BuzzFeed, they record lots of information about you. Most websites record some information. BuzzFeed record a whole ton. I’ll start with the fairly mundane stuff, and then move on to one example of some slightly more scary stuff. First: The Mundane Bits Here’s a snapshot of what BuzzFeed records when you land on a …
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
Target has perfected the technique of analyzing consumers' shopping habits to figure out who's pregnant. How can they send customers congratulatory coupons without freaking them out?
In 2019, Almost All of Facebook's Top Christian Pages Were Run By Foreign Troll Farms - RELEVANT
19 of Facebook's top 20 pages for American Christians are run by Eastern European troll farms overseas, internal documents leaked to MIT Technology Review
Harvard and Homeland: Pedro Albizu Campos | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson
At the time, Campos’s “insurrectionary activity” piqued the interest of Crimson reporters because he had just been arrested for his alleged involvement in an assassination attempt on President Truman.
Puerto Rico Fight For Reproductive Rights Dark History
Law 116: In Puerto Rico, women were used as subjects for birth control trials and impelled to undergo sterilization. Today, Puerto Rican women still struggle for reproductive freedom.
For the first time in 17 years, we’ve completely remade our list of the best songs ever. More than 250 artists, writers, and industry figures helped us choose a brand-new list full of histori…