Writing boxes, popular from the 17th century, provided the same pleasure as today’s laptops and custom word processors: to make the experience of writing pleasurable, whether any actual writing gets done. An Object Lesson.
Are private summer camps exacerbating tech's diversity problem?
The Tesla CEO’s tearful New York Times interview reveals a lot about the double standards men and women face.
The government should consider giving out monthly Social Security checks—no strings attached.
Meme accounts are big business now—and plenty of people are eager to get in on the action.
When it costs as much to retail 200,000 things as one thing, the world gets a little odd.
Two disasters in Europe are the latest examples of the decline of infrastructure—as an idea as much as a physical thing.
Shared, electric motor scooters are racing to catch up with Bird, Lime, and other kick-scooter brands, as tech companies attempt to reinvent urban mobility. But can these vehicles ever find a place in America?
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey is protecting Alex Jones’s publishing power in the name of “what serves the public conversation best.” His reasoning is absurd.
Facing a project with no room for mistakes, companies are striving to ensure the technology is up to the task.
For the past 13 years, I’ve given the platform my photos, my videos, my likes, and untold hours of my time. Sifting through it all was amusing and surprising—and weirdly sad.
Tesla’s billionaire CEO is revealing exactly what the social platform is truly optimized for—the amplification of powerful voices.
The inconsistent embargo on Infowars demonstrates the breadth of tools tech companies have to police speech.
The culture wars are coming for the best utopian project of the early internet. Can it survive the informational anarchy that’s disrupted the rest of media?
Employee emails contain valuable insights into company morale—and might even serve as an early-warning system for uncovering malfeasance.
Since the 1960s, the reference book has cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing. An Object Lesson.
Filming bystander footage can help protect human rights.
This is what it really looks like to “change the world.”
The cash-strapped city of Stockton is hoping so, courting millions of dollars from private investors to solve a whole host of social problems.
The agency’s culture of optimism is essential for launching people and robots into space. But it can lead to problems with budgets and deadlines.