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Prosecutors have stepped into the void left by Congress’s failure to say how far the police can go in using investigative technology.

“The whole premise of Facebook is to render not private” your activity, said company lawyer, fighting off lawsuits over Cambridge Analytica data collection.

Monitor your world with Enviro and Enviro + Air Quality for Raspberry Pi! There's a whole bunch of fancy environmental sensors on these boards, and a gorgeous little full-colour LCD to display your data. They're the perfect way to get started with citizen science and environmental monitoring!

Practical thoughts from a back-end team leader

Profit, money, shareholders: these are the priorities of most companies today. But at what cost? In an appeal to corporate leaders worldwide, Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya calls for an end to the business playbook of the past -- and shares his vision for a new, "anti-CEO playbook" that prioritizes people over profits. "This is the difference between profit and true wealth," he says.

Inside Spotify’s emotional surveillance-driven quest for total ad domination.

Since it began operations in 2010, Uber has grown to the point where it now collects over $45 billion in gross passenger revenue, and it has seized a major share of the urban car service market. But the widespread belief that it is a highly innovative and successful company has no basis in economic reality. An examination of Uber’s economics suggests that it has no hope of ever earning sustainable urban car service profits in competitive markets...

[Previously in sequence: Epistemic Learned Helplessness] I. “Culture is the secret of humanity’s success” sounds like the most vapid possible thesis. The Secret Of Our Success by …

Knots in Alphabetical Order. There are 196 knots listed (animated) and 374 total knots as some knots are known by several names. Select by Activity, Type or Search for Knots.

Ethan's powerful closing talk from New Adventures 2019.

It’s time we bridge the gap between feel-good Design & Ethics panels and the work we do everyday as digital product designers.

Illustrations by the brilliant Veronica Wood. Thanks

When I wrote about App-pocalypse Now in 2014, I implied the future still belonged to the web. And it does. But it's also true that the web has changed a lot in the last 10 years, much less the last 20 or 30. Websites have gotten a lot … fatter. While

How one disorganized and overwhelmed editor found her way out of years' of accumulated to-do list debt, and how you can too.

“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.

As we march onwards towards wearables and alerts on our wrists, we're no longer shocked by technological progress, but rather exhausted by it.

The array reduce method is really powerful. But people often run into trouble as soon as they step beyond the basic examples. Simple things like addition and multiplication are fine. But as soon as you try it with something more complicated, it breaks. Using it with anything other than numbers starts to get really confusing. I think this is because the examples in most tutorials mask some of what's going on. This article looks at some of the more interesting things you can do with .reduce() that better show how it works.

What Is Fake Agile, How To Identify It And How To Deal With It.

The first thing you notice at the American Psychiatric Association meeting is its size. By conservative estimates, a quarter of the psychiatrists in the United States are packed into a single giant…

A few years ago, my mother-in-law bought some reading and math workbooks for my six-year-old daughter. When I asked my daughter if she wanted to take a look at them, she just looked at the big, intimidating stack and said, “No thanks.” That was fine—she’s in kindergarten and I wasn’t about to push it.

Did you know that caffeine exacerbates anxiety and makes it harder to sleep, which makes you feel more tired and anxious, which makes you want more caffeine, which leads to an infinite sweaty loop of…

DanielX and I originally pitched Glitch in 2015 after a CreekWeek aimed at figuring out what FogCreek should make after Fogbugz, Trello, and Stack Overflow.

Joss and Jillian Sackler both married into the family that founded Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical company that is accused of helping create and profiting from the opioid crisis. Should they be judged on their own merits?

Ditch Netflix for a novel. And not just because a novelist is telling you to.