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Agent-based note-taking systems that can prompt and facilitate custom workflows

Much of the News staff has been written off as dead weight on the payroll. What, after all, is a Pulitzer worth on a balance sheet?

Vitalik Buterin dreamed up the blockchain technology for uses beyond currency. Now he's fighting to fix the industry

Researchers proved decades ago that venting won’t make you feel better.

Consumer Reports examines how buy now, pay later plans have expanded to become available for everyday items, even takeout meals.

Une réflexion sur le rôle des bibliothèques à l’heure actuelle. Je me questionne notamment sur ce qu’est l’archivage du savoir (la question du patrimoine matériel et immatériel) e…

I grew up believing that following the news makes you a better citizen. Eight years after having quit, that idea now seems ridiculous—that consuming a particularly unimaginative information product on a daily basis somehow makes you thoughtful and informed in a way that benefits society. But I still encounter people who balk at the possibility of a smart, engaged adult

In the early days of the company, MindGeek (the parent of Pornhub) struggled to effectively moderate its content. Nathan Munn, a former employee in charge of take-down requests, reveals the origins of the issues that would eventually plague the fast-rising porn site.

A weird thing is going on with Google search in Norway right now. Spammers are taking over.

On Instagram my impersonator posted a message encouraging his (our?) fans to buy my new book. This seemed like a great...

Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. So instead we resort to using Google, and appending the word “reddit” to the end of our queries.

The results were mixed.

A comparison CowParade's creative placemaking demonstrates how PFP NFTs imagine a shared space where only owners of digital property matter.

A new crop of tools is helping developers build web UI components on the backend—no JavaScript required!

Summary: In this essay, I question some of the consensus beliefs about sleep, such as the need for at least 7 hours of sleep for adults, harmfulness of acute sleep deprivation, and harmfulness of long-term sleep deprivation and our inability to adapt to it. It appears that the evidence for all of these beliefs is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts want us to believe. In particular, I conclude that it’s plausible that at least acute sleep deprivation is not only not …

A plucky amateur dared to question a celebrated psychological finding. He wound up blowing the whole theory wide open.

While dusting the countertops of the wealthy, I saw everything from pills and booze to lube and human ashes.

A free 100 day fiction writing course by podcast. Learn to write more, better and happier. Award-winning author Tim Clare presents.

Linger in any medium of art for long enough, and the internal saboteur will find you. Whatever form it assumes—paralyzing perfectionism,...

Claire Evans searches for Susy Thunder.

Interactive article explaining how GPS works.

One financial lesson they should teach in school is that most of the things we buy have to be paid for twice. There’s the first price, usually paid in dollars, just to gain possession of the desired thing, whatever it […]

Personal blog of Christian Haschek

How can we gain back our ability to focus? Is there anything that can be done to reverse the damage our brains has accrued since they had been stuck to the internet?

So you've acquired a new thing. And now you want accessories. Ask yourself: Will the potential experience be worth the cost to the supply chain?

Bill Gates had a burger, Lord Hanson had to put out his cigar. On its 18th birthday, we revisit the big names and big bills that tell the story of Lunch with the FT