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broadcast.listennotes.com September 19, 2019
The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company

Listen Notes is a podcast search engine and database. The technology behind Listen Notes is actually very very boring. No AI, no deep learning, no blockchain. “Any man who must say I am using AI is not using True AI” :)
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theatlantic.com September 17, 2019
‘Close Friends,’ for a Monthly Fee

Gabi Abrao, better known as @sighswoon on Instagram, is “developing a language with the invisible.
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observer.com September 17, 2019
A Lunar Space Elevator Is Actually Feasible & Inexpensive, Scientists Find

From NASA and ESA (the European Space Agency) to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, it’s every space institute’s and tech billionaire’s dream to take return to the moon during this century.
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gizmodo.com September 15, 2019
Why Does The International Space Station Have Such A Weird Shape?

Where a fictional spacecraft has the luxury of having its design dictated by style, real spacecraft are constrained by budget, tradeoffs, and practicality. Every feature of the ISS can be explained by those words.
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theatlantic.com September 18, 2019
Algorithms Are People

In aviation, the black box is a source of knowledge: a receptacle of crucial data that might help investigators understand catastrophe.
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npr.org September 15, 2019
A Fire Lookout On What's Lost In A Transition To Technology

Can you see it? The fire in the photo above? There's a flash of lightning, sizzling across the sky. Then a pause as bark smolders and flames creep, building heat until poof: a signal in the sky.
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technologyreview.com September 18, 2019
We’re going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid to try to deflect it

An Earth-bound asteroid wouldn’t have to be huge to be a problem. Even something just a couple of hundred feet across could cause widespread devastation if it hit a town or city.
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theatlantic.com September 15, 2019
The Military Origins of Layering

I used to think of layering as a timeless concept. The idea of wearing many light articles of clothing rather than a few heavy ones was everywhere: my brother’s Boys’ Life magazines, advertisements from my local outdoors store, my summer camp’s suggested packing list.
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bamboo.wacom.com December 19, 2015
Notes to Our Future Selves: Bamboo Spark and Calm Technology

Amber Case has been deeply integrated in technology since her first coding job at 14 years old. Today, she is known for many things: cyborg anthropologist, writer, speaker, product developer and author.
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theatlantic.com March 21, 2019
Your AirPods Will Die Soon

Updated on March 22 at 9:06 p.m. ET. Two years ago, Desmond Hughes heard so many of his favorite podcasters extolling AirPods, Apple’s tiny, futuristic $170 wireless headphones, that he decided they were worth the splurge. He quickly became a convert.
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mashable.com August 2, 2015
Inside the failure of Google+, a very expensive attempt to unseat Facebook

Create a social network or risk everything. That was the original pitch for Google's Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network's chief architect, Vic Gundotra, in meetings with the company's top brass.
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technologyreview.com February 8, 2019
The real reason America is scared of Huawei: internet-connected everything

There was a time when the world’s two great superpowers were obsessed with nuclear weapons technology. Today the flashpoint is between the US and China, and it involves the wireless technology that promises to connect your toaster to the web.
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rework.withgoogle.com November 17, 2015
The five keys to a successful Google team

A group of us in Google’s People Operations (what we call HR) set out to answer this question using data and rigorous analysis: What makes a Google team effective? We shared our research earlier today with the Associated Press, and we’re sharing the findings here, as well.
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slate.com January 4, 2016
Who Controls Your Facebook Feed

Every time you open Facebook, one of the world’s most influential, controversial, and misunderstood algorithms springs into action.
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technologyreview.com January 13, 2017
Mathematical Model Reveals the Patterns of How Innovations Arise

Innovation is one of the driving forces in our world. The constant creation of new ideas and their transformation into technologies and products forms a powerful cornerstone for 21st century society.
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theatlantic.com March 14, 2019
The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs

When the kids in Skyler’s school want to tell a friend something in class, they don’t scrawl a note down on a tiny piece of paper and toss it across the room. They use Google Docs.
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medium.com February 3, 2015
One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake

On a Friday in July 2012, two employees of the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk at Wikimania, their organization’s annual conference.
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medium.com January 20, 2017
A Teenager’s View on Social Media

I read technology articles quite often and see plenty of authors attempt to dissect or describe the teenage audience, especially in regards to social media. However, I have yet to see a teenager contribute their voice to this discussion. This is where I would like to provide my own humble opinion.
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rollingstone.com November 15, 2017
Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow

It’s mid-afternoon on a Friday at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and three of Elon Musk’s children are gathered around him – one of his triplets, both of his twins.
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technologyreview.com October 10, 2017
First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society

Not so long ago, nobody met a partner online. Then, in the 1990s, came the first dating websites. Match.com went live in 1995. A new wave of dating websites, such as OKCupid, emerged in the early 2000s. And the 2012 arrival of Tinder changed dating even further.
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bloomberg.com October 12, 2016
Elon Musk’s Wild Ride

Biographer Ashlee Vance examines the troubles at Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity. Elon Musk recently took the stage in Guadalajara, Mexico, for the performance he’s waited a lifetime to give.
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arstechnica.com March 7, 2019
Russia’s passive-aggressive reaction to SpaceX may mask a deeper truth

One of the big questions surrounding the first launch of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft was how the Russians would react.
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businessinsider.com April 15, 2017
There's a dark secret at the heart of artificial intelligence: no one really understands how it works

Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.
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waitbutwhy.com August 16, 2015
How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars

This is Part 3 of a four-part series on Elon Musk’s companies. For an explanation of why this series is happening and how Musk is involved, start with Part 1. Pre-Post Note: I started working on this post ten weeks ago. When I started, I never intended for it to become such an ordeal.
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theatlantic.com March 6, 2019
The Servant Economy

In March 2009, Uber was born. Over the next few years, the company became not just a disruptive, controversial transportation company, but a model for dozens of venture-funded companies.
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buzzfeed.com April 1, 2015
I Followed My Stolen iPhone Across The World, Became A Celebrity In China, And Found A Friend For Life

I've broken this story up into three chapters. It should never have gone this far, but the internet works in mysterious ways. None of this should have ever happened. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It's truly crazy.
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waitbutwhy.com May 7, 2015
Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man

This is Part 1 of a four-part series on Elon Musk’s companies. Last month, I got a surprising phone call.
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hbr.org March 30, 2017
How to Win with Automation (Hint: It’s Not Chasing Efficiency)

In 1900, 30 million people in the United States were farmers. By 1990 that number had fallen to under 3 million even as the population more than tripled. So, in a matter of speaking, 90% of American agriculture workers lost their jobs, mostly due to automation.
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theatlantic.com November 27, 2018
How Restaurants Got So Loud

Let me describe what I hear as I sit in a coffee shop writing this article. It’s late morning on a Saturday, between the breakfast and lunch rushes. People talk in hushed voices at tables. The staff make pithy jokes amongst themselves, enjoying the downtime.
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technologyreview.com November 2, 2018
Using Wi-Fi to “see” behind closed doors is easier than anyone thought

Wi-Fi fills our world with radio waves. In your home, in the office, and increasingly on city streets, humans are bathed in a constant background field of 2.4- and 5-gigahertz radio signals. And when people move, they distort this field, reflecting and refracting the waves as they go.
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technologyreview.com February 28, 2019
The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same

You’ve probably seen this effect—perhaps you are a victim of it. You feel alienated from mainstream culture and want to make a statement that you are not part of it.
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nautil.us September 10, 2015
This Used To Be the Future

To see additional images from NASA Ames, click the icon on the image at the top of this page. NASA Ames is filled with the exotic technologies of a future that didn’t quite come to pass. Ancient computers still operate equipment in the machine shop.
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theatlantic.com June 5, 2019
When Grown-Ups Get Caught in Teens’ AirDrop Crossfire

Veronica Belmont, a product manager at Adobe Spark, was riding the train down to Silicon Valley, doing some work on her phone, when dozens of teenagers plopped down into the seats around her. Within moments, her phone began blowing up.
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theatlantic.com March 4, 2019
How AI Will Rewire Us

Fears about how robots might transform our lives have been a staple of science fiction for decades.
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haaretz.com January 16, 2019
If True, This Could Be One of the Greatest Discoveries in Human History

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theatlantic.com March 26, 2019
Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera Problem

When Max Vest shook hands with the host of his Miami Airbnb back in January, the man introduced himself as Ralph—even though “Ray” was the name he’d used in all their prior communication. This was the first and only indication that something was wrong.
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medium.com April 20, 2014
Don’t Fuck Up the Culture

On Monday, October 21, 2013, I sent this letter to our entire team at Airbnb. I have decided to publish this in the event it is helpful to entrepreneurs building their cultures. Our next team meeting is dedicated to Core Values, which are essential to building our culture.
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theatlantic.com April 23, 2019
The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over

As Instagram has grown to more than 1 billion monthly users, it has ushered in a very particular look: bright walls, artfully arranged lattes and avocado toast, and Millennial-pink everything, all with that carefully staged, color-corrected, glossy-looking aesthetic.
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medium.com November 23, 2015
On Gawker’s Problem With Women

July 16, Gawker.com published a tabloid story about a male escort’s thwarted dalliance with a media executive. It did not go over well with readers, many of whom found it to be an irredeemably cruel intrusion on the private affairs of a not very public man.
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theatlantic.com November 22, 2016
Watching the World Rot at Europe's Largest Tech Conference

Web Summit is Europe’s largest tech conference, and a terrifying place in which to get lost. In this vast grazing-ground for investors and entrepreneurs, thousands stampede in what looks like panic through the three vast halls of Lisbon’s FIL exhibition center.
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cjr.org October 4, 2016
Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism

“This is a work of criticism. If it were literary criticism, everyone would immediately understand the underlying purpose is positive.
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theatlantic.com January 21, 2019
Stop Trusting Viral Videos

In a short, viral video shared widely since Friday, Catholic high-school students visiting Washington, D.C., from Kentucky for the March for Life appeared to confront, and mock, American Indians who had participated in the Indigenous Peoples March, taking place the same day.
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reactionwheel.net May 27, 2016
Disruption is not a strategy

I was at a research lab to talk about commercialization. The presenter put up a slide of some exciting new technologies. The slide’s tagline said these technologies would “disrupt the biomedical industry.
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aeon.co June 6, 2019
Fast-world values

More than 40 years ago, as a young woman in Melbourne, Australia, I had a pen friend in Papua New Guinea. She lived in a coastal village, an hour’s slow boat trip from the city of Lae. I went to visit her.
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vanityfair.com May 6, 2013
The Money Shot

There would be more clashes with Twitter, including a regulatory hearing held by the California Corporations Department over the level of seriousness of the Twitter offer—hinging on the Arizona campfire moment.
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mashable.com May 19, 2012
6 Ways to Get a Tech Job Without a Tech Degree

Aaron Shapiro is CEO of Huge, a global digital agency based in Brooklyn, and author of Users Not Customers. He has spent more than a decade as a technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist and management consultant. Jobs in tech are stronger than ever.
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medium.com March 25, 2016
34 Remarkable and Surprising Things About The Future

I’ve been reading and thinking about the future a lot recently, and decided to spend a week “nerding out” at Singularity University, to satisfy my curiosity. It was a great event, featuring experts from across the entire spectrum of technology and innovation.
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theatlantic.com August 2, 2019
The Endless, Invisible Persuasion Tactics of the Internet

Even the cheesiest, most cloyingly overearnest romance movies lack the pathos of the pop-up notifications you get when you cancel an online subscription.
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theatlantic.com April 19, 2019
Who’s Really Buying Property in San Francisco?

Updated on April 19 at 1:28 p.m. ET. There has never been a town like the one San Francisco is becoming, a place where a single industry composed almost entirely of rich people thoroughly dominates the local economy.
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time.com January 28, 2016
Challenger: The Science of a Space Shuttle Disaster

There’s a terrible power to the iconic pictures of the space shuttle Challenger exploding — the orange-white fireball in the Florida sky, with the twin contrails of the solid rocket boosters briefly continuing on their journey to nowhere. It’s been 30 years since that awful morning on Jan.
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fastcompany.com June 28, 2019
How the space program created a culture of learning from failure

This is the 28th in an exclusive series of 50 articles, one published each day until July 20, exploring the 50th anniversary of the first-ever Moon landing. You can check out 50 Days to the Moon here every day. The Apollo lunar module was a special spaceship in many ways.
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forbes.com July 29, 2015
That 'Useless' Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech's Hottest Ticket

This story appears in the August 17, 2015 issue of Forbes. Subscribe In less than two years Slack Technologies has become one of the most glistening of tech's ten-digit "unicorn" startups, boasting 1.1 million users and a private market valuation of $2.8 billion.
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newyorker.com February 21, 2014
The Problem with Easy Technology

In the history of marketing, there’s a classic tale that centers on the humble cake mix. During the nineteen-fifties, there were differences of opinion over how “instant” powdered cake mixes should be, and, in particular, over whether adding an egg ought to be part of the process.
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aeon.co June 6, 2019
I am not a story

‘Each of us constructs and lives a “narrative”,’ wrote the British neurologist Oliver Sacks, ‘this narrative is us’. Likewise the American cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner: ‘Self is a perpetually rewritten story.
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theguardian.com April 18, 2016
They called it 'the worst job in the world' – my life as a Guardian moderator

A couple of years ago somebody sent me a link to a tweet. It said: “Moderating comments at the Guardian must be the worst job in the world.
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waitbutwhy.com September 28, 2016
SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket – The Full Story

Yesterday, Elon Musk got on stage at the 2016 International Astronautical Congress and unveiled the first real details about the big fucking rocket they’re making.
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theatlantic.com May 21, 2018
Email Is Dangerous

One week ago, a group of European security researchers warned that two obscure encryption schemes for email were deeply broken. Those schemes, called OpenPGP and S/MIME, are not the kinds of technologies you’re using but don’t know it.
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theguardian.com April 17, 2018
I was one of Facebook's first users. I shouldn't have trusted Mark Zuckerberg

Fourteen years, two months, and eight days ago, I made a mistake. Like a lot of mistakes made at the age of 20 inside a college dorm room, it involved trusting a man I shouldn’t have, and it still affects me to this day. No, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t give me herpes.
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theatlantic.com January 17, 2019
Amazon Ruined Online Shopping

America’s largest internet store is so big, and so bewildering, that buyers often have no idea what they’re going to get.
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arstechnica.com September 21, 2018
Inside the eight desperate weeks that saved SpaceX from ruin

They bunked in a double-wide trailer, cramming inside on cots and sleeping bags, as many as a dozen at a time. In the mornings, they feasted on steaming plates of scrambled eggs.
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theatlantic.com January 8, 2019
Don’t Reply to Your Emails

Updated at 2:50 p.m. ET on January 30, 2019. The day after Christmas, I spent seven hours sifting through more than 2,700 unread emails I had accumulated over the previous month. Like many other people, I intended to begin 2019 with a fresh inbox and zero unread messages.
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getpocket.com February 23, 2017
Why Nothing Works Anymore

Technology has its own purposes.
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fastcompany.com July 8, 2019
A hospital introduced a robot to help nurses. They didn’t expect it to be so popular

Nurses are in high demand: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the number of jobs for nurses will grow 15% from 2016 to 2026, which is much faster than other jobs.
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theatlantic.com May 30, 2019
The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones

It’s practically an American pastime to blame cellphones for all sorts of societal problems, from distracted parents to faltering democracies. But the devices might have also delivered a social silver lining: a de-escalation of the gang turf wars that tore up cities in the 1980s.
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tomtunguz.com January 27, 2017
The Software Startup Sectors Raising the Most Capital in 2017

Over the last seven years, software startup investing has changed quite a bit. In 2010, classic SaaS was booming, the benefits of a subscription model were finally becoming clear to the public markets and the mass-market.
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theverge.com November 8, 2016
Delivery drones will mean the end of ownership

What does a day look like five to 10 years from now? The real answer is I don’t know, and much more importantly, I don’t think anyone knows. Trying to prognosticate is a very dangerous business.
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nytimes.com May 25, 2015
The Big Meh

Remember Douglas Adams’s 1979 novel “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”? It began with some technology snark, dismissing Earth as a planet whose life-forms “are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
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wired.com April 19, 2016
The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World’s Most Secretive Startup

There is something special happening in a generic office park in an uninspiring suburb near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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theverge.com November 17, 2016
Perfecting your digital assistant

Your company exists, in part, because mobile devices enable us to demand consumer-quality experiences in our work software. Five years from now-ish, how close will we be to parity between work and consumer software? Will we even recognize a distinction ultimately between these two things?
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theatlantic.com November 27, 2018
Everything on Social Media Is for Sale

NO1 Noah understands the career-altering power of social media: The 22-year-old singer, songwriter, lyricist, and producer was initially discovered when people began sharing and re-sharing his work on Twitter and Instagram. But as he hurtles toward mainstream success, he still has to pay the bills.
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inc.com April 25, 2017
10 Breakthrough Technologies That Are About to Change the World

Any fool on the street can tell you that technology is changing at a whiplash-inducing pace. What's much more difficult to predict is which technologies specifically are about to hit big.
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fastcompany.com July 7, 2017
Nest Founder: “I Wake Up In Cold Sweats Thinking, What Did We Bring To The World?”

Tony Fadell’s wife likes to remind him when their three children’s eyes are glued to their screens that it’s at least partly his fault. Hard to argue.
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medium.com March 5, 2015
Coding Like a Girl

In an advertisement campaign by Always, when adult women and men are asked to run/hit/throw like a girl they do those things wispily and terribly. On the other hand, when young girls are asked to run/hit/throw like a girl, they do those things with lots of enthusiasm and effort.
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technologyreview.com August 7, 2017
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News

Diffusion network for the article titled “Spirit cooking: Clinton campaign chairman practices bizarre occult ritual," published by the conspiracy site Infowars.com four days before the 2016 U.S. election.
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technologyreview.com January 22, 2018
The tricks propagandists use to beat science

Back in the 1950s, health professionals became concerned that smoking was causing cancer. Then, in 1952, the popular magazine Reader’s Digest published “Cancer by the Carton,” an article about the increasing body of evidence that proved it.
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theatlantic.com June 4, 2019
The Coalition Out to Kill Tech as We Know It

Updated on June 5 at 12:39 p.m. In October 2016, then-President Barack Obama hosted a miniature version of the blowout tech conference South by Southwest, which the White House called South by South Lawn. Obama, as The New York Times put it at the time, had “brought Silicon Valley to Washington.
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theatlantic.com December 3, 2018
Instagram Is the New Evite

When Mandy gets invited to a party, it’s not via Facebook invite, or email, or even text message. She’s 13, so, naturally, it’s through Instagram.
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theatlantic.com January 3, 2019
How a Feel-Good AI Story Went Wrong in Flint

More than a thousand days after the water problems in Flint, Michigan, became national news, thousands of homes in the city still have lead pipes, from which the toxic metal can leach into the water supply. To remedy the problem, the lead pipes need to be replaced with safer, copper ones.
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backlinko.com December 28, 2018
Google’s 200 Ranking Factors: The Complete List (2019)

But what the heck are they? Well, you’re in for a treat because I’ve put together a complete list.
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markmanson.net January 8, 2015
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

In my life, I have given a fuck about many people and many things. I have also not given a fuck about many people and many things. And those fucks I have not given have made all the difference. People often say the key to confidence and success in life is to simply “not give a fuck.
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technologyreview.com July 6, 2016
Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling

Back in 1995, Kurt Vonnegut gave a lecture in which he described his theory about the shapes of stories. In the process, he plotted several examples on a blackboard. “There is no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers,” he said. “They are beautiful shapes.
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blog.dbsmasher.com January 28, 2019
On Being A Principal Engineer

I bought and read The Manager’s Path by the awesome Camille Fournier when it first came out. At the time, I was a senior Database Engineer aspiring to become a principal engineer in my organization.
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newyorker.com May 5, 2014
The End of Food

In December of 2012, three young men were living in a claustrophobic apartment in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, working on a technology startup.
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theatlantic.com November 17, 2018
How to Almost Learn Italian

Late one chilly evening last September, I excused myself from a small group huddled around a campfire to peck at and mumble into my phone. No way was a camping trip going to make me miss my Italian lesson.
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newyorker.com April 26, 2010
Anatomy of a murder trial.

Scaring’s courtroom manner is low-key and courtly and touched with a certain hauteur. He wears the customary lawyer’s pin-striped suit, but when he gets up to examine a witness he does not rebutton the jacket the way lawyers on television do (and the way Siff does).
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medium.com July 24, 2014
What Is Public?

Someone could make off with all your garbage that’s put out on the street, and carefully record how many used condoms or pregnancy tests or discarded pill bottles are in the trash, and then post that information up on the web along with your name and your address.
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technologyreview.com October 19, 2017
The Secret Betting Strategy That Beats Online Bookmakers

If you’ve ever been tempted by a flutter, you’ll know how bookmakers and casinos stack the odds against you. The clearest example is roulette, where there are 36 red and black numbers plus the green numbers 0 and (in the U.S.) 00. So that’s 38 possibilities in total.
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theatlantic.com December 18, 2018
Rising Instagram Stars Are Posting Fake Sponsored Content

Tapping through Palak Joshi’s Instagram Stories recently, you might have come across a photo that looked like standard sponsored content: a shiny white box emblazoned with the red logo for the Chinese phone manufacturer OnePlus and the number six, shot from above on a concrete background.
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newyorker.com October 14, 2013
Two-Hit Wonder

Jack Dorsey, the tech entrepreneur, takes the No. 1 bus to work, and he likes to catch the 7:06. It carries him nearly from one side of San Francisco to the other—down California Street almost to Market.
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technologyreview.com September 18, 2014
Peter Thiel Says Computers Haven’t Made Our Lives Significantly Better

Peter Thiel has been behind some prominent technologies: he cofounded PayPal and was an early investor in such companies as Facebook and LinkedIn. But he’s convinced that technological progress has been stagnant for decades.
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popularmechanics.com June 2, 2017
First Private Moon Landing Gears Up for Launch by Year's End

Down by the hard-packed beaches at the edge of the country, the rumble of rocket launches has defined Florida's Space Coast for more than half a century. But the end of 2017 could mark the beginning of a new era in solar system exploration.
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forbes.com January 17, 2013
If You Want To Be Awesome At Emails, Add Yesware To Your Gmail Today

One of the biggest problems in business development, partnerships, and sales is managing your pipeline. A close second is managing, tracking, and keep up to date with your email inbox. I’ve tried many tools to help both issues but each has had its shortcomings.
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forbes.com February 4, 2015
The Uberpreneur: How An Uber Driver Makes $252,000 A Year

The man sitting beside me is sharing the most insightful business advice I’ve heard lately. His ideas are as unconventional as the location of our conversation. We’re not in a coffee shop or a corner office. We’re in an Uber and he’s my driver.
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medium.com August 5, 2016
Why Instagram Worked

Earlier this month we marked four years since Instagram launched. Throughout the day, I glanced at what time it was, and thought back to what we were doing four years ago:
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technologyreview.com March 1, 2018
If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance.

The distribution of wealth follows a well-known pattern sometimes called an 80:20 rule: 80 percent of the wealth is owned by 20 percent of the people. Indeed, a report last year concluded that just eight men had a total wealth equivalent to that of the world’s poorest 3.8 billion people.
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backlinko.com January 9, 2019
On-Page SEO: Anatomy of a Perfectly Optimized Page (2019 Update)

When it comes to on-page SEO, I’m sure you’ve heard enough about meta tags and keyword density for one lifetime. If you’re looking for some practical strategies that you can use on your site today, then you’ll love this infographic.
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aeon.co June 6, 2019
Exodus

‘Fuck Earth!’ Elon Musk said to me, laughing. ‘Who cares about Earth?’ We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large open-plan office at SpaceX headquarters in Los Angeles. It was a sunny afternoon, a Thursday, one of three designated weekdays Musk spends at SpaceX.
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getpocket.com January 23, 2019
Where Amazon Returns Go to Be Resold by Hustlers

Welcome to the abyss of the “reverse supply chain,” where hope springs eternal.
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theatlantic.com May 31, 2018
Unfortunately, the Electric Scooters Are Fantastic

They would understand my plight in Old Europe. In ancient, barbaric days when local vassals managed petite armies, brute knights often swept into villages, declaring the inhabitants subject to new laws and new lords before riding off again with the changing of the season.
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bbc.com May 29, 2015
How to learn 30 languages

Out on a sunny Berlin balcony, Tim Keeley and Daniel Krasa are firing words like bullets at each other. First German, then Hindi, Nepali, Polish, Croatian, Mandarin and Thai – they’ve barely spoken one language before the conversation seamlessly melds into another.
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theatlantic.com January 24, 2019
Your TV Is Now a Computer, but Not in a Good Way

The problem began mysteriously. I switched on my Samsung Smart TV to watch the Warriors game, and after about 20 seconds, the CBS News app switched itself on for a few seconds in a small rectangle in the upper left corner.
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technologyreview.com August 4, 2015
The Great-Man Myth

Since Steve Jobs’s death, in 2011, Elon Musk has emerged as the leading celebrity of Silicon Valley. Musk is the CEO of Tesla Motors, which produces electric cars; the CEO of SpaceX, which makes rockets; and the chairman of SolarCity, which provides solar power systems.
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theatlantic.com February 4, 2019
The End of the American Chinatown

LOS ANGELES—As a new immigrant to the United States, Li Zhong Huang knew there was only one place he wanted to live: the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles, where he could be surrounded by language, food, and people from his home province of Guangdong.
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