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2026

January

‘No Reasons to Own’: Software Stocks Sink on Fear of New AI Tool (Bloomberg)
The cost of America’s nuclear revival (FT)
Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years (The Verge)
Someone made a ton of money betting on Maduro’s capture (The Verge)

2025

December

2025 letter (Zhengdong Wang)
The Hottest Toy of the Year Is Made by a Tech Startup You’ve Never Heard Of (WSJ)
A $309 Billion Bet Fuels 24/7 Dollar Banking Without Borders (Bloomberg)
Paramount guarantees Larry Ellison backing in amended WBD bid (CNBC)
Feeding the Machine (The Verge)
Trump media group agrees $6bn merger with Google-backed fusion energy company (FT)
Warner Rejects Paramount’s Hostile Bid, Saying Netflix Deal Still Superior (WSJ)
Betting on prediction markets has exploded over past two years (FT)
Inside the Invitation-Only Stock Market for the Wealthy (WSJ)
Want This Hearing Aid? Well, Who Do You Know? (Wired)
Tech bros head to etiquette camp as Silicon Valley levels up its style (Washington Post)
Paramount Skydance launches hostile bid for WBD ‘to finish what we started,’ CEO Ellison tells CNBC (CNBC)
A Growing U.S. Tech Hub Needs Workers. Colleges Try to Keep Up. (NYTimes)
Apple Design Executive Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup (Bloomberg)
OpenAI Takes Stake in Thrive Holdings, a Buyer of Services Firms (NYTimes)
Top consultancies freeze starting salaries as AI threatens ‘pyramid’ model (FT)

November

October

Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound (The New Yorker)
Grammarly is changing its name to Superhuman (The Verge)
Elon Musk launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’ (The Washington Post)
$10,000 Card Shufflers Hit the Spotlight After NBA Poker Scandal (Bloomberg)
Uber Launches Data Tasks as Option for Some US Drivers to Earn Money (Bloomberg)
Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American dream
How Sam Altman Played Hollywood
Windows 10 support “ends” today, but it’s just the first of many deaths (Ars Technica)
Kalshi, a Prediction Market, Raises Funds and Expands Overseas (NYTimes)
Cursor-Maker Anysphere Considers Investment Offers at $30 Billion Valuation (The Information)
At $1.2 Trillion, More High-Grade Debt Now Tied to AI Than Banks (Bloomberg)
Insurers balk at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI and Anthropic (FT)
OpenAI Sneezes, and Software Firms Catch a Cold (Wired)
US and investors gambling on unproven nuclear technology, warn experts (FT)
OpenAI wraps $6.6 billion share sale at $500 billion valuation (CNBC)
Egon Durban’s $55bn buyout bet raises stakes for Silver Lake (FT)
Silver Lake Cements Power Broker Status With $55 Billion EA Deal (Bloomberg)
OpenAI Valuation Reaches $500 Billion, Topping Musk’s SpaceX (Bloomberg)
Brave Now Has Over 100 Million Users (Thurott)
Exclusive: Yahoo nears deal to sell AOL to Italy’s Bending Spoons for $1.4 billion, sources say (Reuters)

September

August

July

Google is testing a vibe-coding app called Opal (TechCrunch)
If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good For Everything, Should We All Be on Them?
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment (The New Yorker)
The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves (Quanta Magazine)
This Breakthrough Sponge Could Change How the World Gets Clean Water
Apple COO Jeff Williams to Retire in Major Changing of Guard (Bloomberg)
Polymarket Rules ‘No’ on $237M Controversial Bet Over Zelenskyy’s Suit (Decrypt)
At least 36 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far (TechCrunch)

June

CareerBuilder + Monster to Sell Businesses in Bankruptcy (WSJ)
Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex (Quanta Magazine)
‘Beautiful’ and ‘Hard to Read’: Designers React to Apple’s Liquid Glass Update (Wired)
The Man Whose Weather Forecast Saved the World (NYTimes)

May

April

Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year (TechCrunch)
042925 (PunchBowl News AM)
Windsurf slashes prices as competition with Cursor heats up (TechCrunch)
Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to ‘cheat on everything’ (TechCrunch)
As ‘Bot’ Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond
Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (NYTimes)
OpenAI countersues Elon Musk, claims harassment (Reuters)

March

Apple and Musk Clash Over Satellite Expansion Plans (WSJ)
Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science (Wired)
JPMorgan Says Quantum Experiment Generated Truly Random Numbers (Bloomberg)
DNA Tester 23andMe Files Bankruptcy to Sell Firm, CEO Quits (Bloomberg)
Big Startup Deals Soar to $55 Billion, Passing Quarterly Record (Bloomberg)
Apple innovation and execution (Benedict Evans)
They Named Their Companies Lumon. Then ‘Severance’ Aired. (WSJ)
The End Of Children (The New Yorker)
Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino (Daring Fireball)

February

The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects (Wired)
Apple’s quiet pivot to India (FT)
The Unicorn Boom Is Over, and Startups Are Getting Desperate (Bloomberg)
Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction (Ars Technica)
Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ (The Verge)
IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs (WSJ)
Christie’s announces AI art auction, and not everyone is pleased (TechCrunch)
How Sam Altman Sidestepped Elon Musk to Win Over Donald Trump (NYTimes)
Google Kills Diversity Hiring Targets (WSJ)
Google Unwinds Employee Diversity Goals, Citing Trump’s D.E.I. Orders (NYTimes)
Apple Launches New ‘Invites’ App (MacRumors)
Opera’s new browser might save you from doomscrolling (The Verge)

January

Meta’s Reality Labs posts $5 billion loss in fourth quarter (CNBC)
Civilian jet breaks sound barrier during historic test flight over Mojave Desert (CBSNews)
IMDb Founder Col Needham Steps Aside as CEO, COO Nikki Santoro Promoted to Chief Exec (Variety)
Sonos CEO Leaving After Botched App Revamp Led to Customer Revolt (Bloomberg)
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch (The Verge)
The New $30,000 Side Hustle: Making Job Referrals for Strangers (Bloomberg)
With L.A. on alert, wildfire app Watch Duty adds 600,000 users overnight (LA Times)
LA residents find a lifeline in this free wildfire-tracking app (The Verge)
‘It’s not just alerts, it’s a state of mind’: How a wildfire monitoring app became essential in the US west (The Guardian)
New Nike Therapeutic Shoes at CES 2025 Look Like Nothing You’ve Ever Seen Before (CNET)
EcoFlow’s Solar hat is better for the planet than your style (Engadget)
Anker made a solar beach umbrella, because of course (Engadget)
Getty Images and Shutterstock agree to merge (Axios)
Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge in $3.7 Billion Deal (The Wrap)
Reflections (Sam Altman’s Blog)
Apple Fitness Plus and Strava are collaborating with a new integration (The Verge)
Number of US venture capital firms falls as cash flows to tech’s top investors (FT)

2024

December

Hawk Tuah Wasn’t What It Seemed (The Atlantic)
The Paper Passport Is Dying (Wired)
Apple hits out at Meta’s numerous interoperability requests (Reuters)
Apple Halts Effort to Build iPhone Hardware Subscription Service (Bloomberg)
Inside India’s ‘Silicon Valley’ (BusinessInsider)
His Startup Is Now Worth $62 Billion. It Gave Away Its First Product Free. (WSJ)
Europe signs €10.6bn Iris² satellite deal in bid to rival Elon Musk’s Starlink (FT)
The Cult of Claude (NYTimes)
How WhatsApp ate the world (Rest of World)
OpenAI-Backed Language Tutor Startup Doubles Value to $1 Billion (Bloomberg)
Friend or Faux (The Verge)
Musk’s Rivals Fear He Will Target Them With His New Power (WSJ)

November

Bad influence (The Verge)
Are the robots finally coming?
Klarna’s Seb Siemiatkowski — from burger flipping to billionaire club (FT)
Block reports revenue miss but a slight beat on earnings (CNBC)
What I Learned From Destroying Myself at the NYC Marathon (New York Magazine)
Elon Musk Helped Elect Trump. What Does He Expect in Return? (NYTimes)
Polymarket, Prediction Betting Markets Vindicated by Trump’s Strong Showing (Coindesk)
How Lina Khan Became an Election Hot Topic (NYTimes)
Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division (TechCrunch)
Battles of Precise Mass (Foreign Affairs)
Uber’s Real Threat Isn’t From Robots (WSJ)
Apple is acquiring the popular image editing app Pixelmator (The Verge)
China Ruins Apple’s Quarter (24)
Amazon Surges Past Earnings Forecasts (The Motley Fool)

October

Uber shares slide on slowing bookings growth (FT)
Chinese sanctions hit US drone maker supplying Ukraine (FT)
Reddit shares soar 22% on earnings beat and better-than-expected forecast (CNBC)
Robinhood jumps into election trading, giving users chance to buy Harris or Trump contracts (CNBC)
Billions in election bets raise the stakes of the presidential race (Washington Post)
Even With Venture Slowdown, Megadeals Grow (CrunchBase)
Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors (CNBC)
DHH’s Original Post
Matt Mullenweg’s Original Response
Matt’s 2nd Response
In latest move against WP Engine, WordPress takes control of ACF plugin (TechCrunch)
Venture capital deal activity is slowing down (Axios)
Google’s Nobel Haul Puts Spotlight on Changing Focus of Scientific Research (Bloomberg)
The Miraculous Resurrection of Notre-Dame (GQ)
OpenAI Projections Imply Losses Tripling to $14 Billion in 2026 (The Information)
Apple’s Dan Riccio, Key Executive in Both the Jobs and Cook Eras, to Retire (Bloomberg)
Substack wants to do more than just newsletters (Semafor)
159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates (TechCrunch)
Venture Dealmaking Reflects Selective Tastes of Investors (Bloomberg)

September

Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff there’s no plan for him to receive a ‘giant equity stake’ in company (CNBC)
McDonald’s touchscreen kiosks were feared as job killers. Instead, something surprising happened
The 27-Year-Old Economic Adviser for Gen Z (WSJ)
A Few Brief Thoughts on Meta Connect 2024 (Daring Fireball)
Meta’s big tease (The Verge)
Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app (The Verge)
American Vulcan - Palmer Luckey
Musk’s satellites ‘blocking’ view of the universe (BBC)
Online Dating Caused a Rise in US Income Inequality, Research Paper Shows (Bloomberg)
Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator to Double Number of Cohorts Per Year (Bloomberg)
SpaceX’s Tiny Rival Soars 1,300%. Now Comes the Satellite Launch (Bloomberg)
Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023 (Reuters)
Among the Idlers
The Remarkable Paper Pro is as outrageous as it is luxurious (The Verge)
HP to Pursue $4 Billion Damages After Mike Lynch Yacht Death (Bloomberg)

August

July

June

Amazon Hits $2 Trillion in Value as AI Frenzy Fuels Rally (Bloomberg)
Webtoon Entertainment to debut on Nasdaq as latest Korean cultural export success (FT)
Delivery Drivers Got Higher Wages. Now They’re Getting Fewer Orders. (WSJ)
‘Little Tech’ brings a big flex to Sacramento (Politico)
Can You Replace Google Search With Reddit? I Tried It for a Week (WSJ)
Spreadsheet Superstars (The Verge)
Raleigh smart walkie-talkie startup Relay raises $35M from investors (Axios)
Thoughts on #WWDC24 (Chris Messina)
The Smart, Cheap Fix for Slow, Dumb Traffic Lights (WSJ)
Miro.com
Shopify.com/ride
The Opaque Investment Empire Making OpenAI’s Sam Altman Rich (WSJ)

May

They Built a $100 Million Watch Empire. Then the Market Tanked. (WSJ)
The Creator Of ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Knows Exactly Where It All Went Wrong
An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them (SparkToro.com)
Save $200+ on your upgrade to The Information Pro (The Information)
As clicks dry up for news sites, could Apple’s news app be a lifeline? (Semafor)
Countries wooing corporate digital nomads hope to make them stay (FT)
How cuddly robots could change dementia care (MIT Technology Review)
Where Did All The Stocks Go?
Instagram’s co-founder is Anthropic’s new chief product officer (The Verge)
Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers’ Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season (404Media)
Apple, Netflix Amazon Want to Change How They Pay Hollywood Stars (Bloomberg)
Apple doesn’t understand why you use technology (The Verge)
Tim Cook Can’t Run Apple Forever. Who’s Next? (Bloomberg)
World’s Biggest Construction Project Gets a Reality Check (WSJ)
That Weird Apple Ad “Crush!” (YouTube)
FDA Qualifies Apple’s AFib History feature as an MDDT (MyHealthyApple)
Hubble Network makes Bluetooth connection with a satellite for the first time (TechCrunch)
The Revenge of the Home Page (The New Yorker)
Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico (CNBC)

April

Google parent announces first-ever dividend; beats on sales, profit; shares soar (Reuters)
The Onion Is Sold by G/O Media (NYTimes)
Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation (The New Yorker)
Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (The Verge)
How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated? (The New Yorker)
Oh the Humanity (Sandofsky.com)
Google rolling out Find My Device network for Android (9to5Google)
Apple Cut at Least 600 Workers When Car, Screen Projects Stopped (Bloomberg)
YC’s latest Demo Day shows fascinating wagers on healthcare, chip design, AI and more (TechCrunch)
Venture capital reckons with the end of ‘megafund’ era (FT)

March

How Jesse Plemons Came to Star in, Well, Pretty Much Everything
Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event for June 10 to 14 (MacRumors)
Microsoft has a new Windows and Surface chief (The Verge)
Sources: iOS 18 Lets Apps Be Placed Anywhere on Home Screen Grid (MacRumors)
Thiel, Bezos and Zuckerberg join parade of insiders selling tech stocks (FT)
Indie, rocked (The Verge)
Stripe in ‘no rush’ to go public as cash flow turns positive (FT)
Sam Altman returns to OpenAI’s board (Axios)
Sam Altman rejoins OpenAI’s board after investigation into sudden firing (The Verge)
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Returns to Board After Probe Clears Him (Bloomberg)
Key OpenAI Executive Played a Pivotal Role in Sam Altman’s Ouster (NYTimes)
Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power (Washington Post)
OpenAI Fires Back at Musk Allegations With Trove of Emails (Bloomberg)
Sam Altman tells staff OpenAI investigation will ‘soon’ close, as employees brace for more surprises (Business Insider)
Former Twitter Executives Sue Musk Over Unpaid Severance (WSJ)
Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide (Linuxiac)
Telcos are barely done rolling out 5G networks — and they’re already talking about ‘5.5G’ (CNBC)
Elon Musk sues OpenAI over AI threat (Courthouse News Service)
Meta to Wind Down Its News Feature in the US and Australia (Bloomberg)
Wait. Why is Reddit losing so much money?
What a Major Solar Storm Could Do to Our Planet (The New Yorker)

February

EA to lay off 5% of workforce, or about 670 employees (CNBC)
Hopin’s UK business enters liquidation as it transfers HQ to the US (Sifted)
Lapse, the app turning your phone into an old-school camera, snaps up $30M (TechCrunch)
Au Large (Mistral.ai)
Reddit is going public and inviting power users to invest (The Verge)
AT&T outage caused by software update, company says (ABCNews)
OnlyFans is the most lucrative side hustle, tax service shows (Mashable)
Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control (Wired)
The ‘Magic’ Breakthrough That Got Friedman and Gross to Bet $100 Million on a Coding Startup (The Information)
Tech Leaders Fled San Francisco During the Pandemic. Now, They’re Coming Back. (WSJ)
How Silicon Valley learned to love America, drones and glory (Washington Post)
Pursuing ‘American Dynamism,’ Andreessen Horowitz Ups Its Game in DC (Bloomberg)
Sam Altman owns OpenAI’s venture capital fund (Axios)
The fediverse, explained (The Verge)
Y Combinator Seeks Startups in Robotics, Space and Defense (Bloomberg)
Apple’s Longest-Serving Designer to Depart Company, Adding to Exodus (Bloomberg)
Uber, Lyft drivers to strike on Valentine’s Day over pay (Washington Post)
The unsettling scourge of obituary spam (The Verge)
TECHCRUNCH+ TERMINATION (“Securities”)
The 150 Greatest Science Fiction Movies of All Time (Rolling Stone)
LATE BLOOMER

January

23andMe’s Fall From $6 Billion to Nearly $0 (WSJ)
Apple will prompt users to set default browsers and allow third-party web engines on iPhone in the EU (9to5Mac)
Bilt Nabs $3.1 Billion Valuation, Ken Chenault Joins as Chairman (Bloomberg)
Astronomers spotted something perplexing near the beginning of time (Vox)
Startup Investors Have Fled The Metaverse (CrunchBaseNews)
I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy (The Verge)
This One-Year-Old Startup Is Hoping to be the Next Google—Can It Succeed? (The Information)
New Spin on a Revolving Door: Pentagon Officials Turned Venture Capitalists (NYTimes)
Silicon Valley Startups Had Their Worst Funding Year Since 2019 (Bloomberg)
The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again (Rolling Stone)

2023

December

November

Unity Software with a ‘company reset’ walks away from film VFX and the Wētā Deal. (FXGuide)
The Biggest Delivery Business in the U.S. Is No Longer UPS or FedEx (WSJ)
Inside Marques Brownlee’s tech review studio: The YouTube star on gadgets, growth, and staying chill (Fast Company)
A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft (The New Yorker)
Apple Gets 36% of Google Revenue in Search Deal, Expert Says (Bloomberg)
Uber to Test TaskRabbit-Like Service in Florida and Alberta (Bloomberg)
Uber takes steps to combat unfair driver deactivations (TechCrunch)
In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air (NYTimes)
Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Startup Is Ready to Start Surgery (Bloomberg)
Inside an OnlyFans empire: Sex, influence and the new American Dream (Washington Post)
WeWork, once valued at $47 billion, files for bankruptcy (CNBC)
Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty of fraud (The Verge)
Sam Bankman-Fried Was a Grown Up Criminal, Not an Impulsive Man-Child (NYTimes)
Starlink achieves cash-flow breakeven, says SpaceX CEO Musk (Reuters)
Joe Rogan’s big decision (The Verge)
WeWork Plans to File for Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week (WSJ)

October

FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried previews legal defence at fraud trial (FT)
The poster’s guide to the internet of the future (The Verge)
Can Sam Bankman-Fried argue his way out of trouble? (FT)
Matter 1.2 is a big move for the smart home standard (The Verge)
Web Summit CEO Cosgrave Quits After Israel Controversy (Bloomberg)
‘Oof’: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Trial Reveals Inside Details of How FTX Died (NYTimes)
Nokia to cut up to 14,000 jobs after 69% profit plunge (CNBC)
Web Summit derailed by founder’s public fight with those supporting Israel in Hamas war (TechCrunch)
Apple Renews Top Ranks With Wave of Executive Promotions (Bloomberg)
Goldman Sachs Wants Out of Consumer Lending. Employees Say It Can’t Happen Fast Enough. (WSJ)
U.S. VC funding hit lowest level in 6 years in Q3 | A story told in charts (VentureBeat)
Has Bob Iger Lost the Magic? (Bloomberg)
Why Dizziness Is Still a Mystery (The New Yorker)
John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing battle (GamesBeat)
Big Tech Struggles to Turn AI Hype Into Profits (WSJ)
Long gone, DEC is still powering the world of computing (Ars Technica)
The Genius Behind Hollywood’s Most Indelible Sets (NYTimes)

September

Epic Games cuts around 830 jobs (The Verge)
The new phone call etiquette: Text first and never leave a voice mail (Washington Post)
OpenAI Seeks New Valuation of Up to $90 Billion in Sale of Existing Shares (WSJ)
The Early Days of American English
All the biggest announcements from Amazon’s September 2023 product launch event (The Verge)
The new FineWoven iPhone cases are very bad (The Verge)
From $1 Billion to Almost Worthless: FaZe Clan Runs Out of Hype (Bloomberg)
The Pumpkin Spice Latte just turned 20. This is how we got here. (Washington Post)
The Technology Facebook and Google Didn’t Dare Release (NYTimes)
Chrome is about to look a bit different (The Verge)

August

Bonfire of the groceries (FT)
A Startup in the New Jersey Suburbs Is Battling the Giants of Silicon Valley (WSJ)
Where do fonts come from? This one business, mostly
UK air traffic control hit by network-wide failure (The Guardian)
WordPress Announces 100-Year Domain Name Registrations (Search Engine Journal)
The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City From Scratch (NYTimes)
What Happened to Wirecutter? (The Atlantic)
Michael Mann Fulfills a 30-Year Journey Directing the Operatic, Thrilling ‘Ferrari’ — And Teases ‘Heat 2’: ‘I Don’t Think About Mortality. I’m Busy’ (Variety)
Tiger Global Nears Deal to Sell Slice of Cohere Stake at $3 Billion Valuation (The Information)
Europe’s Stripe rival Adyen saw $20 billion wiped off its value in a single day. Here’s what’s going on (CNBC)
A cargo ship that harnesses wind power has set sail on its maiden journey (Quartz)
Microsoft to hold ‘special event’ in New York City on September 21st (The Verge)
A Rare Look Into the Finances of Elon Musk’s Secretive SpaceX (WSJ)
A Living History of The Humble Paper Airplane
Tech Firms Are Slowing Layoffs But Still Not Yet Resuming Hiring (Bloomberg)
The Looming Catalog Crisis (Vulture)
Paul F. Tompkins Is Getting Back Into It (Vulture)
WeWork Tumbles After Raising ‘Substantial Doubt’ About Future (Bloomberg)
Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds (The Independent)
Apple reports third quarter results (BusinessWire)
Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Results (BusinessWire)
How Modelo became America’s new favorite beer (Vox)
Johnny Boufarhat steps down as CEO of Hopin (Sifted)
‘A Nice Bike, When It Works’: Riders Fret After E-Bike Maker Goes Bust (NYTimes)
IRS expects faster refunds in 2024 for people who stop using paper (Washington Post)
How the Partnership Between Apple and Goldman Sachs Soured (The Information)
Uber Delivers First-Ever Operating Profit in Drive to Curb Losses (WSJ)

July

An Internet Veteran’s Guide to Not Being Scared of Technology (NYTimes)
The making of ‘Acquired,’ the No. 1 tech podcast sensation (Fast Company)
Internet cafes introduced Uganda to the internet (Rest of World)
Meta’s Improved Ad Sales Buy Time for Zuckerberg’s Metaverse (Bloomberg)
The excellent Arc browser is now available for anyone to download (The Verge)
Sam Altman explains why he’s helping to take nuclear microreactor company Oklo public via SPAC (CNBC)
The Federal Reserve’s 24/7 payment system could deposit your paycheck instantly (The Verge)
Sergey Brin Is Back in the Trenches at Google (WSJ)
A $25,000 Prize Still Sits in the Maine Woods. Meteorite Hunters Aren’t Giving Up. (WSJ)
The Airstocracy: Six things to know about flying with the superrich. (New York Magazine)
THE REAL LESSON FROM THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB (The Atlantic)
Apple, Lionel Messi and the $2.5bn question: What’s next?
A New VC-Beloved Startup Rips a Page From Meta’s Playbook (The Information)
Bay Area tech company Evernote lays off most staff, relocating to Europe (SFGate)
What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (The Atlantic)
The Man Who Broke Bowling (GQ)

June

May

April

Silicon Valley Startups Brace for a Summer of Pain (Bloomberg)
The Internet of the 2010s Ended Today (The Atlantic)
Dril Is Everyone. More Specifically, He’s a Guy Named Paul. (The Ringer)
Is ‘The Economist’ Making the Best News Podcasts Right Now? (Vulture)
IBM Explores Sale of Weather Business (WSJ)
IBM Mulling Sale of Weather Technology Assets (The Information)
Six things we learned from Elon Musk interview (BBC)
Rebuttal to the NYT article (Daniel Batten, Twitter)
Global VC Funding Falls Dramatically Across All Stages In Rocky Q1, Despite Massive OpenAI And Stripe Deals (CrunchBase News)
Bob Lee, creator of Cash App and former CTO of Square, stabbed to death (TechCrunch)

March

February

Inside Meta’s Push to Solve the Noisy Office (WSJ)
Are bioinspired drones the next big thing in unmanned flight?
Microsoft aggressively trying to keep Chrome downloaders using Edge (9to5Google)
Google Chrome rolls out long awaited battery saving features (AndroidPolice)
How Apple captured Gen Z in the US — and changed their social circles (FT)
How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language (MIT Technology Review)
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
Roko’s basilisk
Whatever happened to the metaverse? (FT)
Meta delays setting team budgets as it plans fresh round of job cuts (FT)
Microsoft Kills Its Industrial Metaverse Team After 4 Months (The Information)
Apple Avoids Job Cuts Because It Didn’t Overhire Like Google and Amazon (Bloomberg)
Google Shares Slip after Sales Miss as Advertising Demand Slows (Bloomberg)
Apple Sales Shrink as Pandemic Rally Ends for iPhone Maker, Other Tech Giants (WSJ)
Amazon stock falls as least profitable holiday quarter since 2014 leads to its worst annual loss on record (MarketWatch)
The Difference Between Speaking and Thinking (The Atlantic)
A de-extinction company is trying to resurrect the dodo (MIT Technology Review)
A Calculated Move: Calculators Now Emulated at Internet Archive
Meta stock perks up as the company promises a ‘year of efficiency’ (TechCrunch)
2 reasons Meta stock is exploding 20% after a whopper earnings miss (Yahoo Finance)

January

2022

December

November

China’s Zhengzhou, home to world’s largest iPhone factory, ends Covid lockdown. Other cities do the same (CNN Business)
Why some tech CEOs are rooting for Musk (Platformer)
WhatsApp rolls out a feature that makes it easier to message yourself (WhatsApp)
Violent Protests Erupt at Apple’s Main iPhone Plant in China (Bloomberg)
The Tiny and Nightmarishly Efficient Future of Drone Warfare (The Atlantic)
America has an earthquake early-warning system now — on your phone (Washington Post)
The Weird-Looking, Fuel-Efficient Planes You Could Be Flying in One Day (WSJ)
SwiftKey is unexpectedly back on iOS (The Verge)
Kite is saying farewell (Kite.com)
Masayoshi Son owes $4.7bn to SoftBank following tech rout (FT)
Why Big Tech Is Throwing $1 Billion at Sucking CO2 From the Air
Bending Spoons acquires Evernote, marking the end of an era (TechCrunch)
Google rolls out new features across Maps, Search and Shopping (TechCrunch)
Induction cooking heats up with a $20M cash injection for Impulse (TechCrunch)
Protocol, the tech-news focused website, will shutter and lay off its entire staff (CNN Business)
Amazon Is Said to Plan to Lay Off Thousands of Employees (NYTimes)
SpaceX just bought a big ad campaign on Twitter for Starlink (CNBC)
Exclusive: Jeff Bezos says he will give most of his money to charity (CNN Business)
Nearly half of Meta job cuts were in tech, reorg underway - execs say (Reuters)
Amazon Becomes World’s First Public Company to Lose $1 Trillion in Market Value (Bloomberg)
Meta confirms 11,000 layoffs, amounting to 13% of its workforce (TechCrunch)
Mysterious company with government ties plays key internet role (Washington Post)
Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week (WSJ)
Amazon pauses hiring for corporate workforce (CNBC)
Stripe Cuts Headcount by 14%, Prepares for ‘Leaner Times’ (Bloomberg)

October

The 20 Richest Tech Billionaires Have Lost Nearly Half a Trillion Dollars This Year (WSJ)
Amazon stock sinks 13% on weak fourth-quarter guidance (CNBC)
The First Minute of Every Phone Call Is Torture Now (The Atlantic)
Meta Tumbles as Sales Forecast Shows Depth of Ad-Market Weakness (Bloomberg)
Meta Plummets 25% as Zuckerberg’s Plea for ‘Patience’ Falls Flat (Bloomberg)
It’s Official: Meta Is a Disaster (Intelligencer)
Mark Zuckerberg Is Going To Kill His Company (Ed Zitron’s Where’s Your Ed At)
The billion-dollar tech unicorn is becoming rare again (The Washington Post)
China Stocks Crater in US as Alibaba Leads $130 Billion Wipeout (Bloomberg)
Bono on the birth of U2, that iTunes album and Live Aid: ‘There’s only one thing I can see when I watch it: the mullet’ (The Guardian)
Microsoft becomes latest tech firm to cut staff (Axios)
Exclusive: Amazon’s attrition costs $8 billion annually according to leaked documents. And it gets worse. (Engadget)
The GIF Is on Its Deathbed (The Atlantic)
Can Kickstarter’s new CEO help the company get its mojo back? (Fast Company)
The computer errors from outer space (BBC)
How the Glengarry Glen Ross “Coffee Is for Closers” Scene Got Made
I made $200,000 last year ghostwriting tweets for superstar VCs. It takes me 5 hours a week. Here’s how I found my clients and built a booming side hustle from scratch. (Insider)
Swiss Dropout Worth $14 Billion Moves Startup Away From Porn (Bloomberg)
How To Download All of Wikipedia onto a USB Flash Drive in 2022
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Chess Investigation Finds That U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times (WSJ)
Walgreens Turns to Prescription-Filling Robots to Free Up Pharmacists (WSJ)

September

Someone is pretending to be me.
If you still miss Google Reader, Substack has a new web-based RSS client (The Verge)
Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 drops white paper on building the open metaverse (GamesBeat)
Darth Vader’s Voice Emanated From War-Torn Ukraine (Variety)
Apple to Sponsor the Super Bowl Halftime Show (NYTimes)
College Dropout Turns Thiel Fellowship Into a $2 Billion Figma Fortune (Bloomberg)
Why Do All These 20-Somethings Have Closed Captions Turned On? (WSJ)
This Chatroom Only Opens When Your Phone’s About to Die (Motherboard)
The Enduring Allure of Choose Your Own Adventure Books (The New Yorker)
Google’s Loon Project Gets Resurrected. Without Google. Or Balloons (Bloomberg)
The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse (The Guardian)
The ‘deaditors’ of Wikipedia
Legendary China Bets Unwind as Buffett, SoftBank Sell (Bloomberg)
CVS Makes $8 Billion Bet on the Return of the House Call (NYTimes)
The Rise of Tech Blogs in the Mid-2000s
Kids Yell “Poop” At Alexa, And These Musicians Profit

August

Comcast and Charter face a grim new reality: actual competition (Fast Company)
After the Zodiac Killer’s ‘340’ Cipher Stumped the FBI, Three Amateurs Made a Breakthrough
How the Find My App Became an Accidental Friendship Fixture (NYTimes)
Browser Startups Take Aim at Google Chrome, Apple Safari (WSJ)
How Nokia Ringtones Became The First Viral Earworms (The Verge)
Adam Neumann Gets a New Backer (NYTimes DealBook)
The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs (Wired)
THE UNSUNG INVENTOR WHO CHASED THE LED RAINBOW (IEEE Spectrum)
Podcast Guests Are Paying Up to $50,000 to Appear on Popular Shows (Bloomberg)

July

Google delays when Chrome will phase out third-party cookies to 2024 (9to5Google)
Techmeme headlines from this morning running down earnings (Techmeme, 8:25am eastern today)
The Re-Reinvention of the Travel Agent
71 Cities and Towns Are Paying Tech Workers to Abandon Silicon Valley. It’s Working. (WSJ)
The Standards Innovation Paradox
How the Webb sends its hundred-megapixel images a million miles back to Earth (TechCrunch)
The Webb Space Telescope’s Profound Data Challenges (IEEE Spectrum)
Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Go Bargain Hunting for Beaten-Down Tech Stocks (The Information)
Elon’s Out (Bloomberg)
Tweet Storm #1 (Twitter)
Tweet Storm #2 (Twitter)
Keeping Phones Running in Wartime Pushes Kyivstar to the Limit (Bloomberg)
Not Just a Tennis Podcast, but Rather ‘The’ Tennis Podcast (NYTimes)
Inside a Superfan’s Secret Friendship With Eddie Van Halen (Rolling Stone)
Number Three (Entrepreneurs Handbook)
President Biden to award Steve Jobs with posthumous Medal of Freedom (9to5Mac)

June

Airbnb’s party ban is now permanent (The Verge)
AT&T, Verizon Raise Prices and Test Consumer Budgets (WSJ)
Venture Funding Set to Hit Lowest Level Since 2020 (Bloomberg)
Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire (Vox)
SpaceX Said to Fire Employees Involved in Letter Rebuking Elon Musk (NYTimes)
What Should You Do With Your Options During a Downturn? (Every)
What Is Quantum Entanglement? Skip the heady and abstract physics lectures. Let’s talk about socks (IEEE Spectrum)
The Best Sci Fi Books for Beginners
A Warming Arctic Emerges as a Route for Subsea Cables (WSJ)
Nonsense on Stilts (Gary Marcus)
Facebook Made This 29-Year-Old Rich; War Made Him A Billionaire (Forbes)
GitHub sunsets Atom, the software dev environment it launched in 2011 (TechCrunch)
Tech Layoffs In 2022: The U.S. Companies That Have Cut Jobs (CrunchBase News)
Columbus, Ohio is quickly becoming the Midwest’s tech hub (TechCrunch)
The Internet Encyclopedia of Memes (Every)
Looking Glass might have just invented the GIF’s 3D successor (The Verge)
Does a Comedian Really Need an Audience? (NYTimes)
Fidelity Slashes Reddit, Stripe Valuations After Tech Rout (Bloomberg)

May

China Is Leading the Global Decline in Venture Capital Deals (Bloomberg)
Substack Drops Fund-Raising Efforts as Market Sours (NYTimes)
Made to measure: why we can’t stop quantifying our lives (The Guardian)
Apple Boosting Pay Budget for Workers Amid Tight Labor Market (WSJ)
Leaked Audio: Apple VP Gives Apple Store Workers Anti-Union Speech (Motherboard)
NYC’s ‘last’ payphone will be displayed at the Museum of the City of New York (TimeOut New York)
Big Tech Is Getting Clobbered on Wall Street. It’s a Good Time for Them. (NYTimes)
The ‘E-Pimps’ of OnlyFans (NYTimes)
Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From? (Quanta Magazine)
Apple Delays Plan to Have Staff in Office Three Days a Week (Bloomberg)
Tech workers in Latin America want to make Spanish the primary language of programming (Rest of World)
The Thing That Makes It Work Means It Doesn’t
SoftBank Reports Its Biggest-Ever Full-Year Loss (WSJ)
Tiger Global hit by $17bn losses in tech rout (FT)
What to expect from Google I/O 2022 (The Verge)
Elon Musk’s Fixer Is Quietly Tending the World’s Biggest Fortune (Bloomberg)
A VISIT TO THE HUMAN FACTORY (The Verge)
The Endgame
Rocket Lab captures booster in mid-air with a helicopter for the first time (Engadget)
How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple (NYTimes)

April

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results (BusinessWire)
The Twitter Thread With The Charts On Amazon (@juokaz)
Elon’s Giant Package
Weather Prediction Startups Grow as More Volatile Storms Loom (Bloomberg)
As Polaroid’s SX-70 turns 50, instant photography is booming (Fast Company)
How the pandemic is changing home design (Axios)
Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results (Alphabet)
Earnings Release FY22 Q3 (Microsoft)
DJI Becomes Most Prominent Chinese Firm to Halt Russia Business (Bloomberg)
Autocorrect Explained: Why Your iPhone Adds Annoying Typos While Fixing Others (WSJ)
SoftBank Cuts Back Spending, Leaving Startups Desperate for Cash (Bloomberg)
Tech Wage Inflation Puts Pressure on Companies (WSJ)
The Tech Bubble That Never Burst (NYTimes)
Insteon is down and may not be coming back (Stacey On IOT)
Andreessen Horowitz unveils piloted program for early-stage entrepreneurs (TechCrunch)
Composer.trade/ride
The Talent Vortex: Mafias and Magnets
Blind Ambition (Every)
AMONG EUROPE’S EX-ROYALS (The Atlantic)
Big cuts coming for CNN+ after slow start (Axios)
Want to See the Weirdest of Wikipedia? Look No Further. (NYTimes)
A History of Hup, the Jump Sound of Shooting Games (Wired)
In the Shadow of the Star Wars Kid

March

My own phone number is now spam texting me (The Verge)
https://bank.gov.ua/en/about/support-the-armed-forces
https://www.1kproject.org/
https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ (including crypto donations)
https://koloua.com/
https://novaukraine.org/donate/
Nicolas Cage Can Explain It All (GQ)
Linkedin.com/ride
Toronto, the Quietly Booming Tech Town (NYTimes)
Substack’s Ideology (Every)
The neon shortage is a bad sign (Vox)
The Great Tech Hub Exodus Didn’t Quite Happen (Wired)
AngelList: A Venture Constellation
Amazon announces 20-for-1 stock split, $10 billion buyback (CNBC)
Dreaming of Suitcases in Space (NYTimes)
Lumen, a second major American Internet carrier, pulling out of Russia (Washington Post)
LimeWire Is Making a Comeback, But Not As You Know It (Bloomberg)
How are the Big Sanctions hurting Russia so far? (NoahPinion Substack)
Fraud Is Flourishing on Zelle. The Banks Say It’s Not Their Problem. (NYTimes)
Twitter to reopen offices March 15, though remote work remains an option (CNBC)
SpaceX sent Starlink internet terminals to Ukraine. They could paint a ‘giant target’ on users’ backs, experts say (CNN Business)
How shunning Russia could offer the U.S. tech giants an easy win (Politico)
Tech Companies Are Reopening Their Offices, but Tech Work Has Changed Forever (WSJ)
The Role Of Turkish Drones In Ukraine’s War
The ‘Incredible Treasure Chest’ of Homestar Runner (Vulture)
The Ukrainian leader who is pushing Silicon Valley to stand up to Russia (Washington Post)
Apple Event Announced for March 8: ‘Peek Performance’ (MacRumors)
Google tells employees in Bay Area and other U.S. locations to return to offices in April (CNBC)
Prominent tech companies that originated from Ukraine (Analytics India)

February

January

OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman ridicules start-up fundraising process (CNBC)
We regret to inform you that Apple now verifies anyone asking for educational discounts (The Verge)
The SPAC Ship Is Sinking. Investors Want Their Money Back. (WSJ)
THE INSIDE STORY OF IBEER, THE UNDERDOG BEER APP THAT MADE MILLIONS
Tonga’s volcano blast cut it off from the world. Here’s what it will take to get it reconnected. (MIT Technology Review)
Remembering VRML: The Metaverse of 1995
After the Beanie Baby bubble burst (Vox)
Y Combinator’s New Deal Sparks Fear in Seed Investors (The Information)
Apple Highlights Services in 2021, Recaps Upcoming Features Like IDs on iPhone (MacRumors)
The Pixel Art Revolution Will Be Televised (Wired)
Wordle Is a Love Story (NYTimes)
Google is working to improve Windows and Android integration (Engadget)
Google will spend 2022 trying to match Apple’s ecosystem integrations (The Verge)
Electric Capital Developer Report (2021) (Electric Capital)
US start-ups raise record $330bn as venture investors vie for stakes (FT)
Visual collaboration company Miro valued at $17.5B following $400M in new funding (TechCrunch)
Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach $3 trillion market cap (CNBC)
Metaverse Needs More Than VR Christmas Bump (WSJ)

2021

December

Apple Aims to Prevent Defections to Meta With Rare $180,000 Bonuses for Top Talent (Bloomberg)
We Are at the Dawn of the Age of Physics-Supplied Energy (Wired)
How Tiger Global, SoftBank Vision Fund And Insight Partners Changed The Venture Landscape In 2021 (Crunchbase News)
Truly Terrible Performers Multiply Among Startups Taking SPAC Route To Market (Crunchbase News)
Record Number Of VC-Backed Cyber Companies Acquired in 2021, Even As Venture Funding Hits New Highs (Crunchbase News)
Dataiku.com
FindYourFidelity.com
Amazon, Meta Scrap CES Plans in Las Vegas After Covid Surge (Bloomberg)
Americans widely distrust Facebook, TikTok and Instagram with their data, poll finds (Washington Post)
OnlyFans Names Marketing Chief Ami Gan as CEO; Founder Steps Down (Bloomberg)
Zhang Yiming Still Oversees ByteDance, Despite Stepping Back (The Information)
Apple Scraps Office-Return Deadline Without Setting New Date (Bloomberg)
Facebook Owner Is Involved in $60M Deal Over Meta Trademark Assets (Coinspeaker)
PROFESSIONAL MAINTAINERS: A WAKE-UP CALL (Filippo.io)
RadPowerBikes.com
AltoIra.com/techmeme
Three Steps To The Future (Ben Evans’ 2022 Slide Deck)
African Startup Inflows Seen Hitting Record $5 Billion This Yea (Bloomberg)
European start-up funding triples to a new record above $100 billion this year (CNBC)
BuzzFeed Tumbles in Turbulent Debut for Digital Media (Bloomberg)
AltoIra.com/techmeme
RadPowerBikes.com
Can a Digital Reality Be Jacked Directly Into Your Brain? (Wired)
Planetary scientists are starting to get stirred up by Starship’s potential (Ars Technica)
37 Percent of the World’s Population Has Never Been Online, U.N. Report Finds (Gizmodo)

November

FindYourFidelity.com
ARM Viewpoints Podcast (Apple Podcasts)
VPLS.com/goit
“You’ve Won The Game”: Employee Hacks His Job, Gets Paid To Do Nothing For 5 Years (BoredPanda)
The most influential man on the internet (ReadMax)
The Video Game History Book I Mentioned
Who Knows Anthony Bourdain? (Eater)
AllTrails raises $150M after COVID accelerates people’s interest in exploring the outdoors (TechCrunch)
Newsletter start-up Substack hits 1m subscribers (FT)
FirstRepublic.com
Streak.com/techmeme
The Craziest Sports Story of 2021 Is FC Sheriff (Futbol With Grant Wahl)
Niantic launches platform to build ‘real-world metaverse’ apps (The Verge)
McAfee to Be Taken Private in $14 Billion Deal Including Debt (Bloomberg)
Elon Musk’s Twitter Poll Results Favor Tesla Stock Sale (WSJ)
SoftBank Vision Fund Posts a Record Loss on Coupang’s Plunge (Bloomberg)
To Build the Metaverse, Meta First Wants to Build Stores (NYTimes)
Farewell Offshoring, Outsourcing. Pandemic Rewrites CEO Playbook. (WSJ)
Silicon Valley wants to power the U.S. war machine (Fast Company)
The Metaverse Takes Manhattan (NYTimes)
Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns (NYTimes)
STACK OVERFLOW’S COPY / PASTE KEYBOARD IS NO JOKE (The Verge)

October

Meta (Stratechery)
The Metaverse Is Mark Zuckerberg’s Escape Hatch (NYTimes)
MARK ZUCKERBERG ON WHY FACEBOOK IS REBRANDING TO META (The Verge)
What the metaverse will (and won’t) be, according to 28 experts (Fast Company)
A Very Big Little Country (Afar)
Facebook says it doesn’t want to own the metaverse, just jumpstart it (Engadget)
The ‘Dune’ Screenplay Was Written in MS-DOS (Vice)
Amazon is building a Clubhouse competitor that turns hosts into DJs (The Verge)
Blue Origin reveals plans for future commercial space station called Orbital Reef (The Verge)
How the Launch Works (Worldcoin)
VPLS.com/goit
The Metaverse Is Bad (The Atlantic)
Meet the New Owners of the Wu-Tang Clan’s One-of-a-Kind Album (NYTimes)
Pixel Pass bundles a phone with Google services for $45 per month (Engadget)
Betterhelp.com/ridehome
Google modernizes US mobile search results with continuous scrolling (TechCrunch)
SLACKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! (The Atlantic)
Starbucks Is 50 and Emboldening Its Rivals More Than Ever (Bloomberg Opinion)
Canadian Instacart workers to walk off job in bid to secure better working conditions (Toronto Star)
Seven years after raising $542M at a $2B valuation, Magic Leap raises $500M at a $2B valuation (TechCrunch)
Canva is getting into video (TechCrunch)
Apple Is Building a Massive New Campus Straddling L.A. and Culver City (Variety)
Brazil’s Central Bank Built a Mobile Payment System With 110 Million Users (Bloomberg Businessweek)
WeBack (Ramp Recap)
HEY SIRI, WHAT HAPPENED? (The Verge)
Planet Squid Game (Vulture)
YouTube․com adds ‘Continue watching’ to resume unfinished videos on your phone (9to5Google)

September

TinyCaptial.com
Modern Finance Podcast (Apple Podcasts)
Leaked Documents Show How Amazon’s Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do (Motherboard)
Astro Intro YouTube Video (YouTube)
FILE NOT FOUND (The Verge)
Nirvana in Bloom (The Ringer)
Nirvana’s “Nevermind” (New Yorker)
My Time with Kurt Cobain (New Yorker)
Softorino YouTube Converter
THE PENTAGON’S ARMY OF NERDS (The Atlantic)
Greg LeMond and the Amazing Candy-Colored Dream Bike (Wired)
Otter.ai
When the Techies Took Over Tahoe (Outside)
Wall Street Is Looking to Reddit for Investment Advice (WSJ)
Here are all the companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day, Part 1 (TechCrunch)
Here are all the companies from Day 2 of Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day (TechCrunch)
Apple just banned a pay equity Slack channel but lets fun dogs channel lie (The Verge)
New York Times’ Wirecutter Product-Review Site Moves Behind Paywall (WSJ)

August

White House launches US Digital Corps (FedScoop)
Tim Cook’s Run as Apple CEO Could End as Early as 2025. Who Will Replace Him? (Bloomberg)
A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps (Ars Technica)
The Real C.E.O. of “Succession” (The New Yorker)
Silicon Valley Exchange Lists First Two Companies in ESG Push (Bloomberg)
Airbnb says it will host 20,000 Afghan refugees (CNN Business)
These People Who Work From Home Have a Secret: They Have Two Jobs (WSJ)
Amazon Killed the Name Alexa (The Atlantic)
Afghanistan - Part 1 (The Rest Is History Podcast)
This Solar Hydropanel Can Pull 10 Liters of Drinking Water Per Day Out of the Air (Brighter)
Status Monkeys (Not Boring)
How Figma Became Design’s Hottest Startup, Valued At $10 Billion (Forbes)
Massachusetts Start-Up Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion (NYTimes)
Pirated-Entertainment Sites Are Making Billions From Ads (Bloomberg)
Even Your Allergist Is Now Investing in Start-Ups (NYTimes)
Yelp will let businesses list their vaccination policies (The Verge)
The End of Venture Capital as We Know It (The Information)
Deal Of The Century: How Michael Dell Turned His Declining PC Business Into A $40 Billion Windfall (Forbes)
Two-year-old events start-up Hopin boomed in the pandemic. Now it’s a $7.75 billion business (CNBC)
Tech Startup Financing Hits Records as Giant Funds Dwarf Venture Capitalists (WSJ)
Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real (QuantaMagazine)

July

Most Apple Stores to Require Masks Again for Shoppers, Staff (Bloomberg)
On the list: Ten prime ministers, three presidents and a king (Washington Post)
Verizon is also switching to Android Messages as default for RCS (The Verge)
Apple Delays Office Return by At Least a Month as Covid Spikes (Bloomberg)
Hyper is a new fund that offers $300k checks and promise of a media slingshot for founders (TechCrunch)
‘Best day ever’: Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin rocket touch down after historic spaceflight (USAToday)
Tiger Global vs. SoftBank: Inside the investing playbooks that upended Silicon Valley (Protocol)
Moderna’s Next Act Is Using mRNA vs. Flu, Zika, HIV, and Cancer (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Apple’s weather app won’t say it’s 69 degrees (The Verge)
Amazon.com Wants to Monitor You in Your Sleep, for Your Benefit (Bloomberg)
Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time High In First Half Of 2021, With $288B Invested (Crunchbase News)
Robinhood’s Debut Is Clouded by SEC Scrutiny of Payment for Order Flow (WSJ)
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump (NYTimes)
Y Combinator launches a new way for co-founders to find each other (Protocol)
@chrismessina (Twitter)
@brianmcc (Twitter)
How Robinhood’s explosive growth rate came to be (TechCrunch)
Three Weeks with iOS and iPadOS 15: Foundational Updates (Mac Stories)
Amazon Primed Andy Jassy to Be CEO. Can He Keep What Jeff Bezos Built? (WSJ)
‘Time and space don’t exist in the spirit world’: How psychics are embracing remote work (LA Times)
Quintopoly? Five tech companies now earn 46% of global ad revenues as news media left behind (Press Gazette)

June

Google and Microsoft End Their Five-Year Cease-Fire (Bloomberg)
Zipline raises $250M at $2.75B valuation to build out its instant logistics service (TechCrunch)
Inside Neeva, the ad-free, privacy-first search engine from ex-Googlers (Fast Company)
Microsoft keeps hinting at an October release for Windows 11 (The Verge)
Satya Nadella’s closing Windows 11 remarks were a direct shot across Apple’s bow (The Verge)
Windows 11 is free, but your CPU might not be officially supported (The Verge)
Can a $110 Million Helmet Unlock the Secrets of the Mind? (Bloomberg)
Microsoft announces Windows 11, with a new design, Start menu, and more (The Verge)
BuzzFeed announces plans to go public via SPAC, targets $1.5 billion valuation (CNBC)
John McAfee, Software Pioneer Turned Fugitive, Dies in Spanish Prison (NYTimes)
Microsoft Rises to Join Apple in Exclusive $2 Trillion Club (Bloomberg)
Entire London Underground to receive mobile coverage by end of 2024 (The Verge)
‘Woke up sweating’: Some Texans shocked to find their smart thermostats were raised remotely (KHOU)
THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN TECH GIANT (The Atlantic)
Anatomy of a Seed Round During COVID-19 (Fresh Paint)
Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away (Bloomberg)
Windows 11 leak reveals new UI, Start menu, and more (The Verge)
Apple Struggles in Push to Make Healthcare Its Greatest Legacy (WSJ)
WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires journaling app Day One (TechCrunch)
Investors Clamor for a Bigger Piece of Payments Company Stripe (WSJ)
Austin Is Biggest Winner From Tech Migration, LinkedIn Data Show (Bloomberg)
APPLE ISN’T JUST A WALLED GARDEN, IT’S A CARRIER (The Verge)
THE APP THAT MONETIZED DOING NOTHING (The Atlantic)
The creator economy is running into the Apple Tax — this startup is fighting back (The Verge)
Vivaldi 4.0 launches with built-in email and calendar clients, RSS reader (TechCrunch)
Apple adds digital legacy service so users can prepare for the inevitable (Cnet)
Armed Low-Cost Drones, Made by Turkey, Reshape Battlefields and Geopolitics (WSJ)
Developer relations (Marco Arment)
Apple asks staff to return to office three days a week starting in early September (The Verge)

May

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‘FIND THIS FUCK:’ Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism (Vice)
Own the Internet (Not Boring)
A New Crop in Pennsylvania: Warehouses (NYTimes)
The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick (NYTimes)
Andy Jassy will become Amazon’s CEO on July 5th (The Verge)
Google’s San Jose mega-campus wins city approval. Will it change Bay Area development? (San Francisco Chronicle)
Weight-Loss App Noom Gets $540 Million in Silver Lake-Led Round (Bloomberg)
Leaked Emails Show Crime App Citizen Is Testing On-Demand Security Force (Vice)
Cybereason.com
NordVPN.com/ride
Can Sony reclaim its former glory? (Engadget)
How to Make Carbon-Neutral Gasoline Out of Thin Air (Intelligencer)
Twitter Thread About Shift+2 (@figmadesign)
‘I’m not very social’: ByteDance founder to hand CEO reins to college roommate (Reuters)
Google is opening its first physical retail store this summer in NYC (The Verge)
Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022 (The Verge)
Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button & feed that keeps the Google Reader dream alive (9to5 Google)
Microsoft officially acknowledges Windows 10X isn’t happening (ZDNet)
ANDROID 12 PREVIEW: FIRST LOOK AT GOOGLE’S RADICAL NEW DESIGN (The Verge)
Bill Gates Left Microsoft Board Amid Probe Into Prior Relationship With Staffer (WSJ)
Google’s Android 12 redesign leaks with theme support, new animations, more (Phone Arena)
Porkbun.com/tld/design
To Understand Amazon, We Must Understand Jeff Bezos (NYTimes)
Apple is Holding Back the Creator Economy (Every)
Robinhood’s Big Gamble (The New Yorker)
What Is an Entertainment Company in 2021 and Why Does the Answer Matter? (Matthew Ball)
How the Personal Computer Broke the Human Body (Vice)
Apple parts ways with employee amid backlash (Axios)
EBay officially opens its platform to NFT sales (The Block)
E-scooter company Bird will go public via SPAC (Axios)
SoftBank joins corporate heavyweights with $37 bln Vision Fund profit (Reuters)
Apple robbed the mob’s bank (Mobile Dev Demo)
Cybereason.com
You can now build a “mini media empire” on Substack (FT)
Everyone yells at the Oversight Board (Platformer)
John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons” (The New Yorker)
Google relaxes work from home rules to let more staff be remote (Bloomberg)
Berkshire Hathaway’s Stock Price Is Too Much for Computers (WSJ)
About 1.5 million people still pay for AOL — but now they get tech support and identity theft services instead of dial-up internet (CNBC)

April

‘A Perfect Positive Storm’: Bonkers Dollars for Big Tech (NYTimes)
mRNA vaccine technology (Peter Attia MD)
How mRNA Technology Could Change the World (The Atlantic)
Verizon Explores Sale of Media Assets, Including Parts of Yahoo and AOL (WSJ)
CES will return to Las Vegas as an in-person event in 2022 (The Verge)
Huawei reports 16.5% drop in revenues in first quarter, warns of ‘another challenging year’ ahead (CNBC)
OnlyFans feels the lockdown love as transactions hit £1.7bn (FT)
Apple will spend $1 billion to open 3,000-employee campus in North Carolina (CNBC)
The pandemic nearly crushed pet-care startup Rover (Business Insider)
Hip-Hop Loves Cash App, and That Might Be Why Jack Dorsey Bought Tidal (GQ)
Why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a catastrophe for China and the world (Doxa)
Strong Bad … thank you: The Flash icon endures as the internet rapidly changes (Polygon)
NYPD Deploys “Creepy” New Robot Dog In Manhattan Public Housing Complex (Gothamist)
Today In Digital Marketing podcast
GivingMultiplier.org/techmeme
Silicon Valley Is Flooding Into a Reluctant Austin (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Don’t pick up! The rise and fall of a massive industry based on missed calls (Rest of World)
Bill Hwang Had $20 Billion, Then Lost It All in Two Days (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time Record High $125B In Q1 2021 (Crunchbase News)
Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th (The Verge)

March

Google is making some big upgrades to directions in Google Maps (The Verge)
Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy (The Verge)
Amazon started a Twitter war because Jeff Bezos was pissed (Recode)
WeWork Agrees to SPAC Deal That Would Take Startup Public (WSJ)
The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present (NeimanLab)
Medium Tells Journalists to Feel Free to Quit After Busting Union Drive (Motherboard)
Prince Harry Is Taking on a New Job Title: Chief Impact Officer at BetterUp (WSJ)
The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It? (O’Reilly)
Here’s why Substack’s scam worked so well (The Hypothesis)
Substack is for independent writers (Substack Blog)
Pinduoduo Founder Colin Huang Steps Down From Company (WSJ)
Interview: Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe (Noahpinion.substack.com)
Sometimes It’s OK to Give Up (Wired)
T-Mobile to Step Up Ad Targeting of Cellphone Customers (WSJ)
Survey finds that the reported exodus of tech companies from San Francisco’s Bay Area is ‘greatly exaggerated’ (Insider)
All 270 US Apple Stores are open for the first time since March 2020 (9to5Mac)

February

American Idle (Eugene Wei)
We’re Just Rediscovering a 19th-Century Pandemic Strategy (The Atlantic)
VCs are chasing Hopin upwards of $5-6B valuation (TechCrunch)
Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? (Noam Bardin)
Why the three biggest vaccine makers failed on Covid-19 (FT)
Citibank just got a $500 million lesson in the importance of UI design (Ars Technica)
All Your Base Are Belong To Us has turned 20 (The Verge)
SpaceX Funding Round at $74 Billion Valuation Was Led by Sequoia (Bloomberg)
If Work Is Going Remote, Why Is Big Tech Still Building? (Wired)
Big Tech’s Next Big Problem Could Come From People Like ‘Mr. Sweepy’ (NYTimes)
AirMedCareNetwork.com/tech
20 years of orange cones: The history of VLC (Protocol)
N.Y.’s Vaccine Websites Weren’t Working. He Built a New One for $50. (NYTimes)
Andreessen Horowitz Wins Deal for Creator Economy Startup Stir at $100 Million Valuation (The Information)
Superstar Cities Are in Trouble (The Atlantic)
Google now gives you more information about the sites in your search results (TechCrunch)

January

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YSL’s lipstick pod gadget will create whatever shade you want (The Verge)
Inside the Reddit army that’s crushing Wall Street (CNN Business)
Think Americans Wouldn’t Wager on Russian Table Tennis? Care to Bet? (NYTimes)
Can Growth Go Out of Style? (Irrelevant Investor)
Who’s Making All Those Scam Calls? (NYTimes Magazine)
Apple just had its best quarter in India (TechCrunch)
Google open sources Tilt Brush VR software as it shuts down internal development (TechCrunch)
Google Maps and Search to show COVID-19 vaccination locations (LaptopMag)
Netgear.com/bestwifi
Metalab.co
The Inside Story of How the Lowly PDF Played the Longest Game in Tech (Marker)
Pebble founder promises iMessage on Android and Windows with universal chat app (The Verge)
WhiteHouse.gov now has dark mode (The Verge)
Andreessen Horowitz Looks to Launch Opinion Publication as Its Media Ambition Grows (The Information)
The Unauthorized Story of Andreessen Horowitz (Newcomer)
Brave becomes first browser to add native support for the IPFS protocol (ZDNet)
DuckDuckGo surpasses 100 million daily search queries for the first time (ZDNet)
Why the Canadian Tech Scene Doesn’t Work (AlexDanco.com)
An Oral History of Wikipedia, the Web’s Encyclopedia (OneZero)
CRISPR and the Splice to Survive (The New Yorker)
WHY CHAMBERLAIN BUILT A $3,000 AUTOMATIC GARAGE DOOR FOR YOUR DOG (The Verge)
Archaeology is going digital to harness the power of Big Data (Ars Technica)
Here are the 6 most exciting space missions of 2021 (TNW)
Haven, the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture to disrupt health care, is disbanding after 3 years (CNBC)
Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Has Been Missing For 2 Months (ZeroHedge)

2020

December

Ambani Sold a Tech Dream for $27 Billion. Now He Has to Deliver (Bloomberg)
Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us (The Atlantic)
The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life (NYTimes)
Covid-19 Propelled Businesses Into the Future. Ready or Not. (WSJ)
Czech Startup Founders Turn Billionaires Without VC Help (Bloomberg)
Inside the Whale: An Interview with an Anonymous Amazonian (Logic Magazine)
Dailyhunt is India’s latest unicorn after backing from Microsoft, Google, others
SoftBank launches blank-check company to join SPAC craze (CNBC)
The bizarre case of the sexy butt-flap onesie that has taken over the internet (Business Insider)
Source Code newsletter
Where Tech Workers Are Moving: New LinkedIn Data vs. the Narrative (Big Technology Newsletter)
Why I Decided to Leave Substack (A Media Operator Newsletter)
How AltaVista, our first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss (Tedium)
My $200,000 Sushi Dinner (NYTimes)
Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform (Vice)
Google Delays Return to Office and Eyes ‘Flexible Work Week’ (NYTimes)
Ferrari’s Camilleri will be a hard act to follow (Reuters)
VistaPrint.com/techmeme
TinyCapital.com
“A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C (Ars Technica)
7 Rejections (Brian Chesky)
How eBird Changed Birding Forever (Outside)
Adobe to block Flash content from running on January 12, 2021 (ZDNet)
The state of European tech 2020: 20 things you should know (Sifted)
Spam calls grew 18% this year despite the global pandemic (TechCrunch)
San Francisco’s 35% Plunge in Rents Shows Effects of Tech Fleeing City (Bloomberg)
Sequoia Capital Warned of a ‘Black Swan.’ Instead, 2020 Is One of Its Best Years Ever (Bloomberg)
ProtonMail.com/techmeme
VistaPrint.com/techmeme
DoubleUp.agency
Triton’s latest submarine puts six people in a bubble, 3,300 feet under (New Atlas)
Why Most Newsletters Fail (What Went Wrong)
These Tech Startups Want to Sell You Their Life Insurance (WSJ)
A.A. to Zoom, Substance Abuse Treatment Goes Online (NYTimes)
An oral history of the hamburger icon (by the people who were there) (invision)
Google Maps now lets you create Street View photos with just a phone (The Verge)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the latest tech company to leave Silicon Valley, and is moving to Houston (CNBC)
Techmeme Snapshot of re:Invent headlines (Techmeme)

November

Apple Suppliers’ Exodus From China Won’t Slow Down Under Biden (Bloomberg)
Tony Hsieh, RIP (Om.co)
Tony. (Paul Bradley Carr)
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s Legacy, From Tech Leaders Who Knew Him Well (Forbes)
How Venture Capitalists Are Deforming Capitalism (The New Yorker)
Substack got lucky, and so did Margins (Margins)
Why a Paid Newsletter Won’t Be Enough Money for Most Writers (And That’s Fine): The Multi-SKU Creator (Hunter Walk)
If your website’s full of assholes, it’s your fault (Anil Dash)
Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to become world’s second richest person behind Jeff Bezos (The Verge)
Why the Success of The New York Times May Be Bad News for Journalism (NYTimes)
VistaPrint.com/techmeme
‘An overnight success 10 years in the making’: Atlanta is the future for Black leaders in tech (Protocol)
The Substackerati (CJR)
Marissa Mayer wants to clean up your contacts, and that’s just for starters (Fast Company)
Not Dead Yet: News Site Mistakenly Runs Dozens of V.I.P. Obituaries (NYTimes)
‘Godspeed’: 4 astronauts make history as SpaceX’s ‘Resilience’ launches for International Space Station (USAToday)
Masayoshi Son Again Pulled SoftBank From the Brink. This Time He Had Help. (WSJ)
The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This (NYTimes)
Zoom and other ‘stay-at-home’ stocks are getting crushed on the positive vaccine news (CNBC)
SoftBank Recovery Gains Ground With Vision Fund’s Record Profit (Bloomberg)
Canva.me/ride
Metalab.co
Ben Thompson’s Stratechery, Part 2 (Tim Wu)
How a not-yet-mature web covered the Florida recount in 2000 (Fast Company)
An Oral History of ‘Marge vs The Monorail’, the Episode That Changed ‘The Simpsons’ (Motherboard)
Big Tech Snags Hollywood Talent to Pursue Enhanced Reality (WSJ)
NASA objects to new mega-constellation, citing risk of “catastrophic collision” (Ars Technica)

October

Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results (Apple Newsroom)
The 100X Club: Software Startup Valuations Skyrocket Despite Small Revenue (The Information)
The Elysium effect: The coming backlash to the billionaire ‘NewSpace’ revolution (Space.com)
Apple develops alternative to Google search (FT)
SpaceX prices Starlink satellite internet service at $99 per month, according to e-mail (CNBC)
Whoop Valued at $1.2 Billion With IVP, SoftBank, Eli Manning Backing (Bloomberg)
The No-Code Generation is arriving (TechCrunch)
Americans Working From Home Face Internet Usage Limits (WSJ)
BitTrustIRA.com/techmeme
Monday.com/ride
NewYorker.com/techmeme (The New Yorker)
‘Virtual’ studios could offer a real alternative to green screen special effects (Engadget)
Audio’s Opportunity and Who Will Capture It (Mathew Ball)
Airbnb announces multi-year partnership with Jony Ive, a year after leaving Apple (9to5Mac)
Tech’s Influence Over Markets Eclipses Dot-Com Bubble Peak (WSJ)
Google’s new ‘hum to search’ feature can figure out the song that’s stuck in your head (The Verge)
Cory Doctorow’s Writing Radicalized Young Hackers. Now He Wants to Redeem Them (Wired)
Room-temperature superconductivity has been achieved for the first time (MIT Technology Review)
WeWork’s Adam Neumann Returns to Real Estate With Startup Investment (Bloomberg)
Landscape site launches with the aim of becoming the ‘Glassdoor for VC’ (TechCrunch)
WordPress can now turn blog posts into tweetstorms automatically (TechCrunch)
The Digital Divide Starts With a Laptop Shortage (NYTimes)
Google Assistant finally works with some third-party apps (Engadget)
A Major Online Learning Platform Was Created by a Subterranean Religious ‘Cult’ Whose Leader Has Been Accused of Violence and Abuse (OneZero)
Definitely not Windows 95: What operating systems keep things running in space? (Ars Technica)
Fancy Cars, Fine Dining, Creator Mansions, Cash: Triller Is Shelling Out for Talent (NYTimes)
Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s New Venture Fund Invests in Disposable Camera App (WSJ)
This extremely slippery VR treadmill could be your next home gym (The Verge)
Cooler Screens raises $80M to bring interactive screens into cooler aisles (TechCrunch)
Startup IonQ drastically ups the quantum computing ante (Fortune)
What Opening Day for Asana and Palantir Says About Private Tech Stock Values (The Information)
Techie Software Soldier Spy (Intelligencer)
HYPE MANOF THE CENTURY (The Verge)
Improved Google Photos editor is rolling out now on Android (The Verge)
Palantir closes below first trade after NYSE debut (CNBC)
Six Figures in 6 days (tr.af)

September

Why iPhone users are suddenly going wild creating custom looks for their home screens (CNBC)
CIA’s new tech recruiting pitch: More patents, more profits (MIT Technology Review)
Exclusive: The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke . . . Is Now Officially Broke (Forbes)
Remote Work Is Killing the Hidden Trillion-Dollar Office Economy (Marker)
Your Teenage Email Account Is a Lost Time Capsule (One Zero)
[This unheard Steve Jobs tape is part of an amazing trove of tech history](https://www.fastcompany.com/90541084/this-unheard-steve-jobs-tape-is-part-of-an-amazing-trove-of-tech-history?partner=feedburner&utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds&utm_campaign=Feed:+fastcompany/headlines+(Fast+Company) (Fast Company)
Pro Rata Newsletter (Axios)
‘Helping people discover information’: How Red Ventures grew into a giant (Digiday)
Sit Like an Apple Engineer in This 70s-Era British Office Chair (Gear Patrol)
Exclusive: AT&T considers cellphone plans subsidized by ads (Reuters)
Verizon to Buy TracFone in Deal Valued at Up to $7 Billion (WSJ)
A $200 Million Seed Valuation for Roam Shows Investor Frenzy for Note-Taking Apps (The Information)
Apple’s Rising Class of Leaders Will Shape a Post-Tim Cook Era (Bloomberg)
[I was skeptical about attending Burning Man in VR, but it’s great](https://www.fastcompany.com/90547369/i-was-skeptical-about-attending-burning-man-in-vr-but-its-great?partner=feedburner&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+fastcompany/headlines+(Fast+Company) (Fast Company)
Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s board of directors (The Verge)
Google’s new ‘Verified Calls’ feature will tell you why a business is calling you (TechCrunch)
Taboola and Outbrain end talks to merge after nearly a year (CNBC)
Fastest Mobile Networks 2020 (PCMag)
SoftBank’s Bet on Tech Giants Fueled Powerful Market Rally (WSJ)
SoftBank, Robinhood and a Margins Singularity (Margins Newsletter)
Cash App’s Surge During Covid-19 Pandemic Fuels Square Stock (WSJ)
Tech Startup, Trying to Be Amazon for Farms, Runs Into Ag Giants (WSJ)
iOS app economy creates 300,000 new US jobs as developers adapt during pandemic (Apple Newsroom)
Patreon Tops $1 Billion Valuation as Pandemic Brings a Surge in Creators to Platform (WSJ)
Amazon Is Openly Hiring Union-Busters (Gizmodo)
Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work (Bloomberg)

August

Drug Cartel Now Assassinates Its Enemies With Bomb-Toting Drones (The Drive)
Palantir: On Business, Cults, and Politics (The Diff)
The Event Industry Is Being Confronted By Its Napster Moment (Skift)
The Conscience of Silicon Valley (GQ)
Kevin Mayer calls it quits (Source Code Newsletter)
Palantir files to go public, lost about $580 million last year (CNBC)
Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC (Above The Crowd)
[Apple PE Ratio 2006-2020 AAPL](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/pe-ratio) (Macrotrends)
MONUMENTAL FAILURE - How Tulsa, Oklahoma, almost won Elon Musk using the language he knows best: memes (The Verge)
The Inside Story Of Robinhood’s Billionaire Founders, Option Kid Cowboys And The Wall Street Sharks That Feed On Them (Forbes)
Data-analysis giant Palantir moves headquarters to Denver (Denver Business Journal)
Big Tech’s Domination of Business Reaches New Heights (NYTimes)
Results day is a diversity disaster. Here’s all the proof you need (Wired)
How We Got the Favicon (The History of the Web)
The Black Internet Gold Rush That Wiped Away $75 Million in 18 Months (Level)
Kamala Harris is the choice Joe Biden needed to win over Silicon Valley (Recode)
Mozilla Corporation to Lay Off 250 Staff (Motherboard)
On Your Next Psychedelic Journey, Let an App Be Your Guide (Wired)
The New Network (The Bulwark)
The Next ‘Mafia’? Mapping The Alumni Of Square (Protocol)
Dan Rose Kindle Tweet Thread (Twitter)

July

Comment: Analysts half-right about AAPL’s Q3 … but so wrong! (9to5Mac)
Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams (Kislay Verma)
Tech Sector Feeling COVID-19’s Economic Pain (Indeed Hiring Lab)
The Gig Economy Is Failing. Say Hello to the Hustle Economy. (OneZero)
After Quitting Deadspin in Protest, They’re Starting a New Site (NYTimes)
VCs and startups consider HaaS model for consumer devices (TechCrunch)
How Harvard’s Star Computer-Science Professor Built a Distance-Learning Empire (The New Yorker)
The App of the Summer Is Just a Random-Number Generator (The Atlantic)
Video Example 1 (Twitter)
Video Example 2 (Twitter)
The Interface (Casey Newton)
How Prosperity Transformed the Falklands (The New Yorker)
Our Ghost-Kitchen Future (The New Yorker)
How Wirecard Went From Tech Star to Bankrupt (WSJ)
Algorithms are now commodities (The Shape of Code)
Hacker News thread about the above (Hacker News)
Android 11’s official launch appears set for September 8th (Android Police)
73. “Father” of the MP3, Karlheinz Brandenburg (Internet History Podcast)
Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View (Learn By Shipping)

June

Amazon eliminates single-use plastic in packaging in India (TechCrunch)
Microsoft’s new Windows File Recovery tool lets you retrieve deleted documents (The Verge)
Microsoft is permanently closing its retail stores (CNBC)
How India’s Jio Won Facebook’s Heart (The Information)
‘The money’s gone’: Wirecard collapses owing $4 billion (Reuters)
Google will start paying publishers to license content (Axios)
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son and Alibaba’s Jack Ma Part Ways (Bloomberg)
Hey opens its email service to everyone as Apple approves its app for good (The Verge)
Michael Hawley, Programmer, Professor and Pianist, Dies at 58 (NYTimes)
Wirecard’s Former CEO Markus Braun Is Arrested (WSJ)
China launches its final satellite to complete its rival to the US-owned GPS system (CNBC)
Apple update to allow iPhone users to choose default apps (The Guardian)
Thoughts on WWDC 2020 Day One (Six Colors)
Apple approves Hey email app, but the fight’s not over (The Verge)
Interview: Apple’s Schiller says position on Hey App is unchanged and no rules changes are imminent (TechCrunch)
Wirecard chief quits as crisis deepens (FT)
Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we really need (MIT Technology Review)
healthOS (Divinations newsletter)
We spent a fortune on police body cams. Why haven’t they fixed policing? (Fast Company)
Wirecard says €1.9bn of cash is missing (FT)
6 eBay Executives And Employees Charged With Sending Threats, Bloody Pig Mask To Natick Couple (WBZ Boston)
Why People Are More Honest When Writing on Their Smartphones (WSJ)
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman Struggle With Their Startup—and Each Other (WSJ)
‘Master’ and ‘slave’: Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts (CNET)
Interactive Storytelling App Whatifi Launches With $10 Million in Funding (The Hollywood Reporter)
Worst. Deal. Ever. (Forbes)
Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (Nautilus)
Speaking up on racism (Tim Cook)
CES will be held in-person in Las Vegas next year (The Verge)
Brave passes 15 million monthly active users and 5 million daily active users, showing 2.25x MAU growth in the past year (Brave Browser)
Cisco, Sony postpone events amid continued protests (Axios)
Facebook, Snapchat join chorus of companies condemning George Floyd death, racism (Reuters)
Twilio, Box, Spotify, and Other Tech CEOs Speak Out Against Racism and Police Brutality; Others Stay Silent (The Plug)

May

Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz is stepping down (VentureBeat)
Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming (NYTimes)
The rise of React (Increment)
Poolside.fm is the chillest place you should be hanging out right now (The Verge)
What developers want, what they don’t, and what you can do to attract top talent (TechRepublic)
This lending app publicly shames you when you’re late on loan payment (Rest of World)
ByteDance Hit $3 Billion in Net Profit Last Year (Bloomberg)
Run The World raises $10.8 million to bring live events online (VentureBeat)
Magic Leap Raises $350 Million, Withdraws Layoff Notices (The Information)
Copyright bots and classical musicians are fighting online. The bots are winning. (Washington Post)
MEET THE FIRST NASA ASTRONAUTS SPACEX WILL LAUNCH TO ORBIT (The Verge)
Trying to Support a Local Pizza Joint? Just Make Sure It Isn’t Actually Chuck E. Cheese (Food & Wine)
Introducing the World’s Largest Medical Repair Database, Free for Everyone (iFixIt)
Chrome will start blocking resource-heavy ads in August (VentureBeat)
Tech Workers Consider Escaping Silicon Valley’s Sky-High Rents (Bloomberg Businessweek)
How Sporcle followed trivia fans from bars to Zoom and built a $2.5M business (Protocol)
Yes, websites really are starting to look more similar (The Conversation)
Chrome will soon group tabs together to save pack rats from themselves (Engadget)
Adding three more companies to the $100M ARR club (TechCrunch)
Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever (Buzzfeed News)
Apple Plans to Return More Staff to Offices in Break From Rivals (Bloomberg)
Eric Schmidt, who led Google’s transformation into a tech giant, has left the company (CNET)
Apple plans gradual reopening of US retail stores beginning next week (9to5Mac)
Apple to reopen stores in US starting next week (CNBC)
The System That Actually Worked (The Atlantic)
It’s the 50th Anniversary of Humanity’s Favorite Activity: Staring at an LCD (WSJ)
Steven Sinofsky lived Microsoft history. Now he’s writing it (Fast Company)
One-Man Hedge Fund Gains 56% With Virus-Resistant Tech Bets (Bloomberg)
Google releases unscheduled Android 11 DP4 as first beta pushed back to next month (9to5Google)
The layoffs at Airbnb cast a dark shadow over Silicon Valley (Recode)
People Are Panic-Buying Meat, Toilet Paper … and Pelotons? (NYTimes)
Sensor Tower raises $45M as demand for app data grows (TechCrunch)
Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers (Vice)
Bye, Amazon (Tim Bray)

April

Press Release & Webcast (Microsoft Investor Relations)
SpaceX’s future deep-space rocket passes key test, paving the way for short flight (The Verge)
Silicon Valley balanced grueling schedules with workplace perks. Coronavirus is forcing change (CNET)
Preppers Are Quite Prepared to Enjoy Some Vindication (NYTimes)
Venture Capitalist Bill Gurley Isn’t Joining Benchmark’s Next Fund (WSJ)
Kickstarter plans layoffs after new projects on the site drop off by 35 percent (The Verge)
The Q1 2020 Global VC Report: Funding Slowly Impacted By Coronavirus (Crunchbase News)
Private Equity Sees $20 Billion of Tech Deals Shelved by Virus (Bloomberg)
Apple CEO Talks Covid-19 Crisis, Return to Work Plan at Company-Wide Meeting (Bloomberg)
‘Needle in a haystack’: Reborn tech offices may need distance and mass testing (Protocol)
The coronavirus pandemic turned Folding@Home into an exaFLOP supercomputer (Ars Technica)
Can Comic Books Survive the Coronavirus Era? (NYTimes)
The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder (Wired)
Airbnb raises another $1bn (FT)
How Medium became the best and worst place for coronavirus news (The Verge)
VC Firms Raised $21 Billion Last Quarter Despite Pandemic Chaos (Bloomberg)
@moxie Tweet Thread (Twitter)
SoftBank Group forecasts $7-bn full-year net loss (Yahoo Finance)
Son’s $2 Billion Guarantee at Risk as Virus Hits SoftBank Star (Bloomberg)
Fall of the roaming empire: telecom groups face revenue loss as travel collapses (FT)
Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies (Stratechery)
The Humble Phone Call Has Made a Comeback (NYTimes)
No one’s getting new emoji in 2021 because of the pandemic (The Verge)
Now It’s Falling Apart (OneZero)
Why the coronavirus lockdown is making the internet stronger than ever (MIT Technology Review)
@jack’s tweet storm (Twitter)
The Virus Changed the Way We Internet (NYTimes)
Restaurant management platform Toast cuts 50% of staff (TechCrunch)
Tyto Care raises $50 million to grow its telehealth examination and diagnostic platform (VentureBeat)
Foursquare Merges With Factual, Another Location-Data Provider (WSJ)
Masayoshi Son Talks WeWork, Vision Fund and Softbank Under Siege (Forbes)
A third prototype of SpaceX’s Starship rocket bursts on the test stand (The Verge)
Google Data Centers’ Secret Cost: Billions of Gallons of Water (Bloomberg Green)
Telemedicine, Once a Hard Sell, Can’t Keep Up With Demand (WSJ)
The Medical News Site That Saw the Coronavirus Coming Months Ago (NYTimes)
A Message to Our Users (Zoom Blog)
‘It Felt Like a Black Mirror Episode’ The Inside Account of How Bird Laid off 406 People in Two Minutes via a Zoom Webinar (dot.LA)
Amazon’s Covid Hiring Boom Has Applicants Packed Into Job Fairs With No Special Precautions (Bloomberg)
Amazon Struggles to Find Its Coronavirus Footing. ‘It’s a Time of Great Stress.’ (WSJ)
Amazon’s past catches up with it (The Interface)

March

Candor: 267 companies have frozen hiring, 44 had layoffs, 36 rescinded offers, 111 are hiring (VentureBeat)
OneWeb files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy (Space News)
Apple releases new COVID-19 app and website based on CDC guidance (Apple Newsroom)
Instacart’s Gig Workers Are Planning a Massive, Nationwide Strike (Motherboard)
TripActions, Zeus Living Laying Off Employees Due To COVID-19 Slowdown (Crunchbase News)
What it feels like to be laid off on Zoom during this crisis (Protocol)
Hidden data is revealing the true scale of the coronavirus outbreak (Wired)
Google’s coronavirus website finally launches alongside enhanced search results (The Verge)
Google cancels I/O 2020 entirely in light of coronavirus (9to5Google)
Can Smart Thermometers Track the Spread of the Coronavirus? (NYTimes)
Correlation and Market Meltdowns (Fred Wilson)
The tech industry’s quest to help us sleep better is just beginning (Fast Company)
Trump’s Google testing announcement mixed up several real projects (The Verge)
Silicon Valley Was First to Send Workers Home. It’s Been Messy. (WSJ)
The Secret History of a Cold War Mastermind (Wired)
The History of the URL (Cloudflare)
Apple Closes All 17 Stores in Italy Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (Bloomberg)
Apple Developing Fitness App for iOS 14 That Lets You Download Guided Workout Videos (MacRumors)
How to clean your Apple products (Apple)
All but four of Apple’s stores in mainland China have reopened after coronavirus shutdown (CNBC)
Silicon Valley is effectively on lockdown over coronavirus (Cnet)
Engineer Who Attended Cyber Event Contracts Coronavirus (Bloomberg News)
SXSW canceled due to coronavirus after Austin declares ‘local disaster’ (CNBC)
How to Make Money in Your Sleep (NYTimes)
YC W20 Online Demo Day (YCombinator)
So you wanna buy a used IP address block? (Web Informant)
The Untold Story of the Man That Made Mainstream Encryption Possible (One Zero)
Sportswriting’s future may depend on the Athletic, which is either reassuring or terrifying (Washington Post)
Amazon employee in Seattle tests positive for coronavirus (GeekWire)
$75M legal startup Atrium shuts down, lays off 100 (TechCrunch)
New AngelList data set sheds light on the signaling risks of seed-stage investments (TechCrunch)
Rajeev Suri to step down as Nokia CEO; Pekka Lundmark to take over (TechCrunch)
The Week in Tech: Coronavirus Disrupts the Industry (NYTimes)
Airbnb’s Path to 2020 Stock Listing Imperiled by Coronavirus (Bloomberg)

February

YC’s New Guide to Raising a Series A (Y Combinator)
Printing’s Not Dead: The $35 Billion Fight Over Ink Cartridges (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Microsoft warns it will miss guidance for segment that includes Windows because of coronavirus (CNBC)
Nokia to Weigh Strategic Options as Profit Pressure Mounts (Bloomberg)
It took Google three years to add Firefox, Edge and Opera support to Google Earth (Ghacks.net)
Disney has a new CEO, but its old CEO isn’t going away quite yet (Recode)
Smithsonian Institute just released 2.8 million high-quality images for free (TNW)
Apple won’t let bad guys use iPhones in movies, says Knives Out director (The Verge)
Jif settles the great debate with a GIF peanut butter jar (CNN Business)
SourceCode Newsletter
Did the Early Internet Activists Blow It? (Slate)
Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet (Wired)
Could micro-credentials compete with traditional degrees? (BBC)
Debt is Coming (AlexDanco.com)
Google launches Android 11 Developer Preview ahead of schedule for Pixel phones (9to5Google)
Larry Tesler, the Apple employee who invented cut, copy and paste, dies at 74 (Cult of Mac)
Investor update on quarterly guidance (Apple Newsroom)
Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change (The Verge)
THE HIGH COST OF A FREE CODING BOOTCAMP (The Verge)
SoftBank’s $375 Million Bet on Pizza Went Really Bad Really Fast (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Andy Rubin’s Start-Up, Essential Products, Shuts Down (NYTimes)
Dieter Bohn’s Processor newsletter (The Verge)
State of Software Engineers (Hired.com)
The world’s biggest phone show has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns (The Verge)
As top exhibitors pull out of MWC, organizers implement stringent safeguards (TechCrunch)
Coronavirus: Sony and Amazon pull out of major tech show (BBC News)
Uber stock is on pace for its best day ever (CNBC)
NYSE Owner Abandons Potential eBay Deal (WSJ)
Steven Levy’s Plaintext
‘ClassPass Is Squeezing Studios to the Point of Death’ (Vice)
Elon Musk Can’t Lose (BuzzFeed News)
A SMALL ROCKET MAKER IS RUNNING A DIFFERENT KIND OF SPACE RACE (Bloomberg)
Google Maps gets a new icon and more tabs to celebrate 15th anniversary (The Verge)
The mysterious disappearance of Google’s click metric (ZDNet)
Ancestry to lay off 6% of workforce because of a slowdown in the consumer DNA-testing market (CNBC)
LG Electronics is withdrawing from Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus (The Verge)
NYSE Owner Intercontinental Exchange Makes Takeover Offer for eBay (WSJ)
Programming languages: Go and Python are what developers most want to learn (ZDNet)
Why the N.Y.P.D. Dropped One of Its Oldest Crime-Fighting Tools (NYTimes)
Steve Jobs’ personality changed after Apple’s success, Wozniak says (CNET)
This Is The Buzzy Democratic Firm That Botched The Iowa Caucuses (HuffPost)
Asana Says It’s Filed to Go Public Through a Direct Listing (Bloomberg)
Uber Suspends 240 Mexican Accounts to Prevent Coronavirus Spread (Bloomberg)
Behind Amazon’s HQ2 Fiasco: Jeff Bezos Was Jealous of Elon Musk (Bloomberg)
A guy carted 99 phones around to create traffic jams on Google Maps (Updated) (Android Authority)

January

SoftBank Is Funding Every Side of a Bruising Startup Battle (WSJ)
Don’t Brush Off Mouth Tech As a Passing Fad (Wired)
Researchers Are Racing to Make a Coronavirus Vaccine. Will It Help? (NYTimes)
How Do Bats Live With So Many Viruses? (NYTimes)
Say hello to the new Fantastical: one robust calendar for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac (9to5Mac)
Lime knows when you’re riding on a sidewalk, and will warn you if you do (CNET)
Here’s how to stop seeing ads on the internet without screwing over publishers (recode)
Alex Danco Tweet Thread (Twitter)
Clayton Christensen, guru of disruptive innovation and Latter-day Saint leader, dies at 67 (DesertNews)
Jobs, Cook, Ive—Blevins? The Rise of Apple’s Cost Cutter (WSJ)
The Internet of Beefs (Ribbonfarm.com)
The Hacker News Thread on The Internet of Beefs
Alex Stamos Tweet Storm (Twitter)
Google’s ads just look like search results now (The Verge)
Saudi’s MBS implicated in hacking of Jeff Bezos’s phone (FT)
Exclusive: Seattle-Area Voters To Vote By Smartphone In 1st For U.S. Elections (NPR)
A true digital media publishing breakthrough (Axios)
Berlin proptech Home raises €11 million to be tech-enabled middleman between owners and tenants (Tech.eu)
How Mormons Built the Next Silicon Valley While No One Was Looking (Marker)
The Big Question Now Facing Apple (Above Avalon)
Mozilla lays off 70 as it waits for new products to generate revenue (TechCrunch)
Venture capital slowly seeps outside of Silicon Valley (Axios)
Four years after being acquired, Hipmunk is shutting down (TechCrunch)
European Venture Report: VC Dollars Rise In 2019 (Crunchbase News)
Casper files to go public, shows you can lose money selling mattresses (TechCrunch)
SoftBank-Backed Oyo Firing Thousands Across China and India (Bloomberg)
The Q4/EOY 2019 Global VC Report: A Strong End To A Good, But Not Fantastic, Year (Crunchbase News)
AN ORAL HISTORY OF RICKROLLING (Mel)
Sex-Tech Companies Are Having More Fun Than the Rest of Us at CES (Wired)
ClassPass, finally a unicorn, raises $285M in new funding (TechCrunch)
Mind-blowing Delta board shows 100 passengers personalized flight details at the same time (Mashable)
Atmos Faceware makes clean air an expensive accessory (The Verge)
Scoop: SoftBank shafts startups (Axios)
News coverage gets geo-fragmented (NiemanLab)
The 10 Neatest Things We’ve Seen at CES So Far (Wired)
Processor With Dieter Bohn Newsletter Signup (The Verge)
This time, for sure! Ars Technica’s 2020 Deathwatch (Ars Technica)
I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left. (Ross LaJeunesse)
Google veterans: The company has become ‘unrecognizable’ (CNBC)

2019

December

China decouples from US in space with 2020 ‘GPS’ completion (Nikkei Asian Review)
The New Unicorns Of 2019 (Crunchbase News)
Israel doubles number of unicorns in 2019 (Globes)
Tech Startups Face New Investor Mandate: Profits Over Discounts (WSJ)
State Support Helped Fuel Huawei’s Global Rise (WSJ)
Where Are the Tech Zillionaires? San Francisco Faces the I.P.O. Fizzle (NYTimes)
THE 84 BIGGEST FLOPS, FAILS, AND DEAD DREAMS OF THE DECADE IN TECH (The Verge)
Travis Kalanick severs all ties with Uber, departing board and selling all his shares (CNBC)
Catalyst and Cohesion (WormsandViruses.com)
Catalyst, Two Months In (Daring Fireball)
DraftKings going public via reverse merger (Axios)
Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Cuts Stake in Company by More Than 90% (WSJ)
Boeing Starliner Lands in New Mexico After Clock Error Prompts Early Return (NYTimes)
Starliner makes a safe landing—now NASA faces some big decisions (Ars Technica)
Care.com shares surge after Barry Diller’s IAC agrees to buy online caregiver marketplace (CNBC)
SoftBank Vision Fund Employees Depict a Culture of Recklessness (Bloomberg Businessweek)
IKEA 2.0 (The Verge)
Apple Held Preliminary Talks With Pac-12 Conference, MGM (WSJ)
A milestone: Earthquake early warning system sends first public alert to smartphones in California (LA Times)
The Internet Is Losing Its Mind Over This Gift-Wrapping Trick. Here’s the Secret. (Popular Mechanics)
The Gift Wrapping Video (Twitter)
Google accused of firing another worker in union-busting drive (Engadget)
Chess champion Magnus Carlsen moves to top of world fantasy football rankings (The Guardian)
The newest members of the $100M ARR club (TechCrunch)
Zero-to-100 Million in 3 Years (Lemonade Blog)
Silicon Valley’s psychedelic wonder drug is almost here (Fast Company)
Startup Growth and Venture Returns: What We Found When We Analyzed Thousands of VC Deals (AngelList Blog)
Bluesky early thoughts (Sriramk.com)
Canva Uncovered: How A Young Australian Kitesurfer Built A $3.2 Billion (Profitable!) Startup Phenom (Forbes)
Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top 10 ‘Best Places to Work’ List (Bloomberg)
SoftBank Is Selling Wag Stake Back to Company (WSJ)
Uber Says 3,045 Sexual Assaults Were Reported in U.S. Rides Last Year (NYTimes)
Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Bonkers For European Startups (Forbes)
The difference between Windows Notepad and WordPad, and when to use each (Windows Central)
300M-user Imgur launches Melee, a gaming meme app (TechCrunch)
Craigslist Finally Gets an Official App (Gizmodo)
A letter from Larry and Sergey (The Keyword)
GOOGLE’S THIRD ERA (The Verge)
Driving Innovation in Data Portability with a New Photo Transfer Tool (Facebook Newsroom)

November

Rev Transcribers Hate the Low Pay, But the Disturbing Recordings Are Even Worse (The Verge)
Ryan Reynolds now owns a stake in budget carrier Mint Mobile (Engadget)
How our home delivery habit reshaped the world (The Guardian)
Robert De Niro and Al Pacino: A Big, Beautiful 50-Year Friendship (GQ)
Google Hires Firm Known for Anti-Union Efforts (NYTimes)
Secretive energy startup backed by Bill Gates achieves solar breakthrough (CNN)
A new solar heat technology could help solve one of the trickiest climate problems (Vox)
Tackle Box for the Modern Fisherman: Rod, Reel, Drone (WSJ)
John Legere to step down as T-Mobile CEO next year (CNBC)
HP board unanimously rejects Xerox’s bid to acquire the company (CNBC)
WeFail: How the doomed Masa Son-Adam Neumann relationship set WeWork on the road to disaster (Fast Company)
How VCs Make Money (VCStarterKit)
Superhero or Supervillain? Technology’s Role Changes Comic Books (NYTimes)
AN ORAL HISTORY OF LIMEWIRE: THE LITTLE APP THAT CHANGED THE MUSIC INDUSTRY FOREVER (MelMagazine)
Managing Your Friendships, With Software (The Atlantic)
Apple launches Research app, US users can enroll in three health studies (9to5Mac)
@dhh Thread (Twitter)
About the Apple Card (dhh.dk)
Uber CEO backtracks after calling Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake” (Axios)
Disney stock rises after beating on top and bottom lines (CNBC)
T-Mobile dangles $15 plan, 5G gains, big freebies to get Sprint deal done (CNET)
Pessimists Archive Podcast (Apple Podcasts)
The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising (The Correspondent)
We are living in Hideo Kojima’s dystopian nightmare. Can he save us? (Washington Post)
A critical analysis of scroll bars throughout history (The Verge)
The Making of the World’s Greatest Investor (WSJ)
How Cheap Robots Are Transforming Ocean Exploration (Outside)
Xerox Considers Takeover Offer for HP (WSJ)
How Arweave’s Permaweb cheaply hosts sites & apps forever (TechCrunch)
WeWork Isn’t the Only Stumble for SoftBank’s Vision Fund (WSJ)
Introducing Our New Company Brand (Facebook Newsroom)
The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable (Wired)
50 years ago today, the internet was born in Room 3420 (Fast Company)
Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours (AlexDanco.com)
The Gross Margin Problem: Lessons for Tech-Enabled Startups (Craft)

October

AOL Founder Steve Case Launches Second $150 Million ‘Rise Of The Rest’ Fund To Back Entrepreneurs Across U.S. (Forbes)
The 2010s Broke Our Sense Of Time (Buzzfeed)
He revolutionized how millions of people spend money in India. His next target: America (CNN Business)
How Do You Like We Now (Bloomberg Opinion)
Neumann to Get Up to $1.7 Billion to Exit WeWork as SoftBank Takes Control (WSJ)
Vatican launches $110 ‘click to pray’ wearable rosary (CNN)
Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free (ProPublica)
This brilliant app waits on hold for you (The Verge)
NASA aims for first manned SpaceX mission in first-quarter 2020 (Reuters)
When GoFundMe Gets Ugly (The Atlantic)
Who Needs Moonshots? How Former Hollywood Mogul Barry Diller Built A $4.2 Billion Tech Fortune Out Of Underdog Assets (Forbes)
Splinter Shutting Down (Daily Beast)
Why the PG&E Blackouts Spared California’s Big Tech HQs (Wired)
Smart fitness device Mirror launches one-on-one personal training (CNET)
Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for work on lithium-ion batteries (The Guardian)
Researchers “Translate” Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot (Smithsonian.com)
Quantum gold rush: the private funding pouring into quantum start-ups (Nature)
Bird raises $275 million Series D round at a $2.5 billion valuation (TechCrunch)
A brain-controlled exoskeleton has let a paralyzed man walk in the lab (MIT Technology Review)
The Off-the-Radar Baseball League That’s Trying to Reboot the Game (GEN)
Where Toxic Masculinity Goes to Die (The Atlantic)
The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman (The New Yorker)
What the Taboola-Outbrain combination means for publishers (Digiday)
All Hands on Deck (The Verge)

September

The Great Public Market Reckoning (AVC)
Elon Musk aims to put SpaceX’s Starship in orbit in six months (The Verge)
Every Company is Becoming a Software Company (Confluent Blog)
Artificial Intelligence Confronts a ‘Reproducibility’ Crisis (Wired)
INSIDE UBER’S PLAN TO TAKE OVER CITY LIFE WITH CEO DARA KHOSROWSHAHI (The Verge)
The Octopus: An Alien Among Us (Literary Hub)
Uber overhauls its app in ambitious bid to become ‘the operating system for your everyday life’ (The Verge)
How Adam Neumann’s Over-the-Top Style Built WeWork. ‘This Is Not the Way Everybody Behaves. (WSJ)
Facebook may copy your app, but Amazon will copy your shoe (The Verge)
What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max? (NYTimes)
How Wi-Fi Almost Didn’t Happen (Wired)
“WE COULD SAY ANYTHING TO EACH OTHER”: BOB IGER REMEMBERS STEVE JOBS, THE PIXAR DRAMA, AND THE APPLE MERGER THAT WASN’T (Vanity Fair)
Amazon signs Climate Pledge to advance Paris Climate Accords goals by 10 years (VentureBeat)
FarmWise and its weed-pulling agribot harvest $14.5M in funding (TechCrunch)
Cloudflare stock pops 20% in first day of trading (CNBC)
What Happened to Urban Dictionary? (Wired)
From Communism To Coding: How Daniel Dines Of $7 Billion UiPath Became The First Bot Billionaire (Forbes)
Healthy.io raises $60 million to help patients complete urine tests on their phone (Venture Beat)
An Exoplanet Like No Other Yet Found (The Atlantic)
Uber lays off 435 people across engineering and product teams (TechCrunch)
Uber Undone (The Baffler)
Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill (The Atlantic)
I Broke The Official Jeremy Renner App By Posting The Word “Porno” On It (Deadspin)
Founders of Successful Tech Companies Are Mostly Middle-Aged (NYTimes)

August

The Long-Term Stock Exchange raises $50 million in new funding (Axios)
Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms (Bloomberg)
Former MLB Pitcher’s DC Startup Lands $23M for Sports Betting Platform (DCInno)
Inkitt raises $16M led by Kleiner Perkins to publish crowdsourced novels in ‘mini-episodes’ (TechCrunch)
Peloton (Finally) Drops Its S-1, Revealing Sharply Rising Revenue And Net Losses (Crunchbase News)
Former Star Google and Uber Engineer Charged With Theft of Trade Secrets (NYTimes)
All 84 startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1 (TechCrunch)
Here are the 82 startups from day 2 of Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Days (TechCrunch)
The Exclusive Inside Story Of The Fall Of Overstock’s Mad King, Patrick Byrne (Forbes)
The Sports News Site Haters Love to Dunk on Keeps Signing Up Subscribers (Bloomberg Businessweek)
YOU ARE ALREADY HAVING SEX WITH ROBOTS (Wired)
Sad cartoons and melancholic hip-hop inspired YouTube’s new vaporwave scene (Polygon)
Google deserts desserts: Android 10 is the official name for Android Q (The Verge)
The Google Play store’s visual refresh (Android Developers Blog)
SpotHero raises $50 million to bring underutilized parking spaces online (VentureBeat)
Exclusive: Alibaba postpones up to $15 billion Hong Kong listing amid protests: sources (Reuters)
Information operations directed at Hong Kong (Twitter)
A new unicorn is born: Toor Insurance raises $100 million for a $1 billion valuation (TechCrunch)
Root raises $350 million to drive auto insurance change (Axios)
THREE YEARS OF MISERY INSIDE GOOGLE, THE HAPPIEST COMPANY IN TECH (Wired)
Stay organized and productive with new Assignable reminders (Google)
What3words: The app that can save your life (BBC News)
Singularity 6 raises $16.5M from Andreessen Horowitz to create a ‘virtual society’ (TechCrunch)
Design Memes: The Origin of those Helvetica List T-Shirts (HowDesign.com)
The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (The New Yorker)
How Globalization Broke Gateway, the Cow Computer Company (Motherboard)
Scientists Are Stuck on the Mystery of Tape (Engadget)
End of an era? Microsoft’s MSDN Magazine is ending its run after more than three decades (Onmsft.com)
News discovery app SmartNews valued at $1.1b (TechCrunch)
Silicon Valley’s Latest Unicorn Is Run by a 22-Year-Old (Bloomberg Businessweek)
America’s DIY Phone Farmers (Motherboard)
What Happens When the World’s Population Stops Growing? (The Atlantic)
And Now, a Bicycle Built for None (NYTimes)

July

Techstars raises $42 million from SVB and Foundry Group to accelerate its growth in Europe and beyond (Tech.eu)
Israel’s New Top Unicorn: Monday.com Hits $1.9 Billion Valuation With $150 Million Raise (Forbes)
SoftBank CEO Takes More Control in New $108 Billion Vision Fund (Bloomberg)
50 Days to the Moon (Fast Company)
Is It Okay to Laugh at Florida Man? (Washington Post)
The man who’s going to save your neighborhood grocery store (The New Food Economy)
New Coke Didn’t Fail. It Was Murdered. (Mother Jones)
ROAD-TRIPPING WITH THE AMAZON NOMADS (The Verge)
Hayflick limit (QZ)

June

New Emails, Old Tech (Tedium)
How the Seattle Seahawks use data to win — on and off the field (GeekWire)
How One VC Firm Amassed a 24% Stake in Slack Worth $4.6 Billion (Bloomberg)
How Art Arrived at Jackson Pollock (Kottke.org)
Apple, Google, and Facebook Are Raiding Animal Research Labs (Bloomberg Businessweek)
How Much of Google’s Search Traffic is Left for Anyone But Themselves? (SparkToro)
Using CRISPR to resurrect the dead (CNet)
The fake French minister in a silicone mask who stole millions (BBC News)
The restaurant owner who asked for 1-star Yelp reviews (The Hustle)
The Stanford connections behind Latin America’s multibillion-dollar startup renaissance (TechCrunch)
Buildings Can Be Designed to Withstand Earthquakes. Why Doesn’t the U.S. Build More of Them? (NYTimes)

May

Product Breakfast Club (Apple Podcasts)
Bing turns 10: Why it’s been more disruptive than you think (Search Engine Land)
The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have Been Driven by Cellphones (The Atlantic)
WeWork Wants to Become Its Own Landlord With Latest Spending Spree (Bloomberg Businessweek)
AFTER 15 YEARS, THE PIRATE BAY STILL CAN’T BE KILLED (Mel)
One Inventor’s Race to Manage His Parkinson’s Disease With an App (OneZero)
Business Bets on a Quantum Leap (Fortune)
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (OneZero)
WHY I (STILL) LOVE TECH: IN DEFENSE OF A DIFFICULT INDUSTRY (Wired)
The Pivot (Asymco)
The VC Who Engineered the 2017 Uber CEO Coup Just Got Very Rich (Bloomberg)
The search for the kryptonite that can stop CRISPR (MIT Technology Review)
Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World (Florent Crivello)

April

How the Kleiner Perkins Empire Fell (Fortune)
I Sell Onions on the Internet (Deep South Ventures)
The Coming Obsolescence of Animal Meat (The Atlantic)
Inside the Biotech Startup That Wants to Extend Your Life (OneZero)
That image of a black hole you saw everywhere? Thank this grad student for making it possible (CNN)
25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds (Linux Journal)
‘They Thought It Was Black Magic’: An Oral History of TiVo (OneZero)
Old, Online, And Fed On Lies: How An Aging Population Will Reshape The Internet (Buzzfeed News)
Astronomers set to make ‘groundbreaking’ black hole announcement (CNET)
Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand (Ars Technica)
Morning Lineup – “It’s Just a Fad” (Bespoke)
Andreessen Horowitz Is Blowing Up The Venture Capital Model (Again) (Forbes)
Burger King begins selling the meatless Impossible Whopper (The Verge)

March

In This Tech I.P.O. Wave, Big Investors Grab More of the Gains (NYTimes)
Forget Brexit and trade wars, Europe’s start-ups are thriving (FT)
The Elaborate, Dying Art of Hustling for Money at Dave & Buster’s (Vice)
India says it has just shot down a satellite in space (MIT Technology Review)
Microsoft leads the way in banning April Fools’ Day pranks (The Verge)
Meet Silicon Valley’s ‘China whisperer (CNNBusiness)
BETTER LIVING THROUGH CRISPR: GROWING HUMAN ORGANS IN PIGS (Wired)
A MORE HUMANE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY, BROUGHT TO YOU BY CRISPR (Wired)
Can Duruk’s Tweet Storm (Twitter)
All 88 companies from Y Combinator’s W19 Demo Day 2 (TechCrunch)
Here are the 85+ startups that launched at YC’s W19 Demo Day One (TechCrunch)
Myspace player won’t play songs, and I want to download them if possible (Reddit thread on the Myspace news)
The Internet Archive is working to preserve public Google+ posts before it shuts down (The Verge)
Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future? (Both Sides)
Decade in review: Trends in seed and early-stage funding (TechCrunch)
Google Spent Years on a Secret New Plan to Attack a $140 Billion Industry. It All Starts Tomorrow (Inc.)
‘We Know Them. We Trust Them.’ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave. (NYTimes)
Foursquare’s first decade, from viral hit to real business and beyond (Fast Company)
In Silicon Valley, Plans for a Monument to Silicon Valley (NYTimes)
Silicon Valley Wants a Monument to Itself. Will It Scale? (NYMag)
A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality (MIT Technology Review)
Peak California (Byrne Hobart)
Goodbye, Silicon Valley, hello, Atlanta: Black entrepreneurs part of new migration to South (USA Today)
30 years on, what’s next #ForTheWeb? (Tim Berners)
The original Web proposal
Turnitin to Be Acquired by Advance Publications for $1.75B (EdSurge)
Combatting Vaccine Misinformation (Facebook Newsroom)
THE HYPOCRISY OF THE TECHNO-MORALISTS IN THE COMING AGE OF AUTONOMY (WarOnTheRocks)
Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files (Gizmodo)
How Munchery’s high hopes led to its decline and fall (FastCompany)
Amazon’s joint health-care venture finally has a name: Haven (CNBC)
THE TRAUMA FLOOR (The Verge)
Outgrowing Advertising: Multimodal Business Models as a Product Strategy (A16Z)

February

THE TRAUMA FLOOR (The Verge)
Airbnb, Automattic, And Pinterest Top Rank Of Most Acquisitive Unicorns (Crunchbase News)
Late Night Linux Podcast
“SHE NEVER LOOKS BACK”: INSIDE ELIZABETH HOLMES’S CHILLING FINAL MONTHS AT THERANOS (Vanity Fair)
It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town (NYTimes)
Key Investors Are Unhappy With SoftBank Tech-Investment Fund (WSJ)
The Strong Web (podcast suggestion)
The Strange Experience of Being Australia’s First Tech Billionaires (NYTimes)
The Secret History of Women in Coding (NYTimes Magazine)
Lee Clow, mastermind behind Apple’s ‘Think Different’ & ‘Get a Mac’ campaigns retires (9to5Mac)
Apple Plans News Event For March 25 (BuzzFeed News)
Fun fact: GPS uses 10 bits to store the week. That means it runs out… oh heck – April 6, 2019 (The Register)
More than 26 million people have taken an at-home ancestry test (MIT Technology Review)
It’s the Real World—With Google Maps Layered on Top (WSJ)
No thank you, Mr. Pecker (Jeff Bezos on Medium)
Amid bad news in the industry, Business Insider parent says it crossed $100m revenue mark and is profitable (Digiday)
How To Be Awesome At Your Job (Podcast)
The CRISPR machines that can wipe out entire species (Cnet)
FINDING LENA, THE PATRON SAINT OF JPEGS (Wired)
Original WWII German message decrypts to go on display at National Museum of Computing (The Register)
Relaxation app Calm raises $88 million, valuing it $1 billion (CNBC)
230 New Emojis in Final List for 2019 (EmojiPedia)
Being Google is getting very expensive (QZ)
Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff (Exclusive) (The Hollywood Reporter)
Why Technology Hasn’t Fixed the Housing Crisis (NYTimes)
The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives (The New Yorker)

January

Apple Reports First Quarter Results (Apple Newsroom)
Report: Americans got 26.3 billion robocalls last year, up 46 percent from 2017 (Washington Post)
After backlash, BuzzFeed says it will pay out earned paid time off to laid off employees (CNN Business)
Aiming to change the way people take medicine, Lyndra Therapeutics raises $55 million (TechCrunch)
China created a unicorn every 3.8 days in 2018 (South China Morning Post)
From Founder to CEO (podcast)
Verizon Media Group is laying off 7% of its staff (CNBC)
BuzzFeed is laying off more than 200 people, its second round of cuts in 14 months (Recode)
Millions and Billions | Celebrating Patrons, Creators, and Major Milestones (Patreon Blog)
The Hot New Channel for Reaching Real People: Email (WSJ)
Drone Radio Show
Why Do Shareholders Agree to Give Up Voting Rights? (New York Magazine)
The Attention Economy Is a Malthusian Trap (The Atlantic)
The Story Behind Meta, the AR Startup That Just Had Its Assets Sold to a Mystery Buyer (Variety)
WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork (WSJ)
App economy expected to be $120 billion in 2019 as small screen leads digital transformation efforts (ZDNet)
Madagascar has become a business outsourcing hotspot thanks to its super-fast internet (QZ Africa)
CES 2019: A Show Report (Learn By Shipping)
Demon Underneath: John DeLorean and the Invention of the Future (The Outline)
The Rise and Demise of RSS (Motherboard)
Pitchfork’s Ryan Schreiber shaped Internet music journalism and now leaves it behind (LA Times)
Inside look at modern web browser (part 1) (Developers.Google)
The Race to Diagnose Cancer With a Simple Blood Test (2069)
PREPARING FOR Y2038 (ALREADY?!) (blogs.akamai)
How Estimates of the Gig Economy Went Wrong (WSJ)
VC funding in U.S. startups nears $100 billion in 2018, highest since dot-com era (GeekWire)
Venture Capital Funding Report 2018 (CBInsights)
This pretax benefits startup is giving hourly workers a raise (Fast Company)
Exclusive: WeWork rebrands to The We Company; CEO Neumann talks about revised SoftBank round (Fast Company)
AT&T tries to trademark ‘Verge TV’ as if we’re going to let them get away with it (The Verge)
Courier Prime
He Hawks Young Blood As A New Miracle Treatment. All That’s Missing Is Proof. (HuffPo)
How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code (Quanta)
Letter from Tim Cook to Apple investors
Activision Plans to Fire CFO Neumann, Puts Him on Paid Leave (Bloomberg)

2018

December

The Devchat.tv podcasts
The biggest technology failures of 2018 (MIT Technology Review)
Why Your Next Home Might Not Need Any Energy at All (WSJ)
THE ‘FUTURE BOOK’ IS HERE, BUT IT’S NOT WHAT WE EXPECTED (Wired)
With Tech Expansion, Austin Is Still Weird. It’s Just More Wired Now, Too. (NYTimes)
Pushed Even Further: US Newsrooms View Mobile Alerts as a Standalone Platform (CJR)
Software Defined Talk (Podcast)
Inside Shenzhen’s race to outdo Silicon Valley (Bloomberg)
Venture Capital Blind Spots: The Top 7 Reasons Why VCs Miss Billion-Dollar Outcomes (645 Ventures)
Prime and Punishment (The Verge)
7 Modern BBSes Worth Calling Today (PCMag)
Drones cause holiday chaos at one of London’s busiest airports (Engadget)
Gatwick Airport: Drones ground flights (BBC News)
Colin Kroll, 34, HQ Trivia and Vine Co-Founder, Is Found Dead (NYTimes)
My Talk at Google (Me)
Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor (NYTimes)
The State of Technology at the End of 2018 (Stratechery)
The rise of the recommendation site (Vox)
How the CIA Trains Spies to Hide in Plain Sight (Wired)
Uber customers and drivers are furious after a major outage causes all kinds of issues (BusinessInsider)
Keurigs for Beer Make No Sense (Gizmodo)
Apple acquired Platoon, a platform for musicians to create and distribute work (TechCrunch)
The Comics Canon (Podcast)
Land of the “Super Founders“— A Data-Driven Approach to Uncover the Secrets of Billion Dollar Startups (Ali Tamaseb)
How Robotics Maker Rethink Crashed and Burned (The Information)
The new word processor wars: A fresh crop of productivity apps are trying to reinvent our workday (GeekWire)
Cuba to roll out mobile internet for the first time (CNBC)
Robot Accidentally Hospitalises 24 Amazon Workers After It Sprays Them With Bear Repellent (Huffington Post)
Note by Damian Collins MP (UK Parliament)
How to Reset All of Your Browsers Back to Square One (Gizmodo)

November

Techmeme now publishing paid and free “Leaderboards” showing the most influential reporters around a specific news topic (Techmeme.com)
Python Bytes (Python Bytes)
Microsoft Is Worth as Much as Apple. How Did That Happen? (NYTimes)
How China’s Bytedance became the world’s most valuable startup (The Verge)
China’s Video Craze Drives Growth for ByteDance (The Information)
This Is the Way the Paper Crumples (NYTimes)
Big Tech Expands Footprint in Health (WSJ)
Laurene Powell Jobs’s Emerson Collective bought Pop-Up Magazine Productions (Recode)
My Amicus Brief (AVC)
The Story of Lenny, the Internet’s Favorite Telemarketing Troll (Motherboard)
It’s Official: Once Mighty FAANG Stocks Have All Entered a Bear Market (Fortune)
Silicon Valley wages have dropped for all except highest-paying jobs: report (The Mercury News)
Scientists say goodbye to physical definition of the kilogram (The Verge)
The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don’t Want to Deal With It (Motherboard)
How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit (First Round Review)
Space Camp grows up (Mashable)
Amazon’s HQ2 stunt could come back to haunt it (The Verge)
This time, Amazon has gone too far: Jeff Bezos’s company is profiting and taxpayers are paying the price (NYDailyNews)
Amazon selects New York City and Northern Virginia for new headquarters (Amazon DayOne Blog)
Amazon HQ2 decision: Amazon splits prize between Crystal City and New York (The Washington Post)
Eric Chien 2018 Fism Grand Prix Magic Act (YouTube)
How One Family Built $8 Billion Startup Far From Silicon Valley (Bloomberg)
The Fading Battlefields of World War I (The Atlantic)
A note to our employees (Google)
Why Technology Favors Tyranny (The Atlantic)
Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer (NYTimes)
Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (The New Yorker)
ASTRONOMERS SEE MATERIAL ORBITING A BLACK HOLE RIGHT AT THE EDGE OF FOREVER (SyFy Wire)
Google Plans Large New York City Expansion (WSJ)
The Anchor Tenant (Fred Wilson)
Google’s Gift to NYC (Albert Wenger)
Amazon gained a huge perk from its HQ2 contest that’s worth far more than any tax break (Business Insider)
RapidSOS, an emergency response data provider, raises $30M as it grows from 10K users to 250M (TechCrunch)
Newsonomics: “Digital defeats print” is the headline as Gannett steps away from printed election results (NiemanLab)
Amazon Plans to Split HQ2 Evenly Between Two Cities (WSJ)
PredictHQ exits stealth with $10 million to help Uber and others forecast demand surges (VentureBeat)
Amazon in Late-Stage Talks With Cities Including Crystal City, Va., Dallas, New York City for HQ2 (WSJ)
Apple results: A record September quarter with $62.9B revenue (Six Colors)
Apple’s price hike strategy is paying off (The Verge)
Several thoughts from your old pal Jason (Twitter)
‘How the Internet Happened’ Review: Building a World Online (WSJ)
The Encyclopedia of the Missing (Longreads)
Recode Tech and Media Website to Be Folded Into Vox.com (WSJ)
Opinion: The 2018 MacBook Air is the iPhone X’s ASP strategy all over again (9to5Mac)
Liftoff: Mobile users are embracing subscription app economy (Venture Beat)

October

Google, Accel and Jay Z invest in life insurance start-up Ethos, valuing it at more than $100 million (CNBC)
Snap CEO Picked a New Business Chief, Then Changed His Mind (Bloomberg)
IBM’s Old Playbook (Stratechery)
Twitter Stock Soars after Strong Earnings Beat (CNBC)
Tesla Shares Soar on Surprise Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Wall Street Expectations (CNBC)
Amazon Squeezes Out More Profit as Sales Growth Slows (NYTimes)
Snap Hits All-Time Low After Lackluster Earnings Report (CNBC)
How Dara Khosrowshahi’s Iranian heritage shapes how he leads Uber (Fast Company)
AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF SILICON VALLEY DISRUPTION (Wired)
How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ (NYTimes)
A New Approach to Our Work on Drip (Kickstarter Blog)
Older People Are Worse Than Young People at Telling Fact from Opinion (The Atlantic)
Younger Americans Are Better than Older Americans at Telling Factual News Statements from Opinions (Pew Research Center)
Android: A Visual History of Google’s OS On Its 10th Anniversary (The Verge)
Who Are My Investors? (AVC)
Powerful Executives Have Stepped Away From the Saudis. Not SoftBank’s. (NYTimes)
Craig Newmark, Newspaper Villain, Is Working to Save Journalism (NYTimes)
Drone Journalism’s Battle for Airspace (Columbia Journalism Review)
Mother Earth Mother Board (Wired)
Paul G. Allen, Microsoft’s Co-Founder, Is Dead at 65 (NYTimes)
Tweetstorm about Google+ from (Twitter)
FAANG stocks have seen $600 billion of market value wiped out — here’s how much each one is on sale (Business Insider)
Fear and loathing in venture capital (Max Niederhofer)
Dieter Rams wants Silicon Valley to stop (Fast Company)
Saudi Arabia Doubles Down on SoftBank Bet With Extra $45 Billion (Bloomberg)
The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders—I like to say we’re archivists” (Ars Technica)
Sex Workers Pioneered the Early Internet—and It Screwed Them Over (Motherboard)
Verizon’s Severance Offer Goes to About 44,000 Employees (WSJ)
First presidential wireless test alert will come to your phone today (Axios)
Recommendations startup Likewise emerges from Bill Gates’ private office, letting friends track and share their favorite things (GeekWire)
The Story of Henry Ford’s $5 a Day Wages: It’s Not What You Think (Forbes)
One Small Step for the Web… (Inrupt Blog)
Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web (Fast Company)

September

Masayoshi Son, SoftBank, and the $100 Billion Blitz on Sand Hill Road (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Product updates based on your feedback (The Google Chrome Blog)
The Temptation of Apple News (Slate)
Why I’m done with Chrome (Matthew Green)
A brief history of the numeric keypad (UX Collective)
Strap on the Fitbit: John Hancock to sell only interactive life insurance (Reuters)
Life Insurance Offering More Incentive to Live Longer (NYTimes)
Spock’s planet ‘Vulcan’ found years after Star Trek prediction (SlashGear)
Are there any other billionaires out there to buy Fortune or Sports Illustrated? (Recode)
Linus Torvalds apologizes for years of being a jerk, takes time off to learn empathy (Ars Technica)
AN ORAL HISTORY OF APPLE’S INFINITE LOOP (Wired)
Google’s internal political battles keep spilling out into the public (The Verge)
HOW THE WEATHER CHANNEL MADE THAT INSANE STORM SURGE ANIMATION (Wired)
Memo to the Silicon Valley boys’ club: Arlan Hamilton has no time for your BS (Fast Company)
Inbox, Google’s playground for email innovation, is going bye-bye (Fact Company)
Where in the World Is Larry Page? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Gawker Set to Relaunch Under New Owner Bryan Goldberg (EXCLUSIVE) (Variety)
Verizon’s Internet Boss Tim Armstrong in Talks to Leave (WSJ)
Tim Armstrong is headed out of Verizon. What happens to the $9 billion content company he is leaving behind? (Recode)
Weed, whiskey, Tesla and a flamethrower: Elon Musk meets Joe Rogan (CNN Tech)
Inside the World of Eddy Cue, Apple’s Services Chief (The Information)
Bezos Unbound: Exclusive Interview With The Amazon Founder On What He Plans To Conquer Next (Forbes)
The Super Rich of Silicon Valley Have a Doomsday Escape Plan (Bloomberg)
What went wrong at Social Capital (Axios)
The man who won the lottery 14 times (The Hustle)
Video of the Hearings (The US Senate)
Blood-Testing Firm Theranos to Dissolve (WSJ)
GOOGLE WANTS TO KILL THE URL (Wired)
Amazon falls off $1 trillion market cap, leaving Apple the only public US company above the benchmark (Bloomberg)
China’s Silicon Valley Threatens to Swallow Up Hong Kong (Bloomberg)

August

How Big Tech Swallowed Seattle (Bloomberg Businessweek)
The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages (The New Yorker)
FIRST EVER LIFE-SIZE AND DRIVABLE LEGO® TECHNIC BUGATTI CHIRON IS A PIONEERING PIECE OF ENGINEERING AND DESIGN (Lego)
The rise of giant consumer startups that said no to investor money (Recode)
BuzzFeed News quietly tests a membership program (Digiday)
Buzzfeed, With Nearly $500M In Funding, Asks For Contributions (Crunchbase News)
The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man (The New Republic)
A monstrous primer on the works of H.P. Lovecraft (Polygon)
How Teens and Parents Navigate Screen Time and Device Distractions (Pew Research Center)
All 59 startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2 (TechCrunch)
Amazon Isn’t Paying Its Electric Bills. You Might Be (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Here are the 63 startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 1 (TechCrunch)
How TripAdvisor changed travel (The Guardian)
Silicon Valley is dismantling a priceless piece of its history (Fast Company)
VIRGIN GALACTIC’S ROCKET MAN (The New Yorker)
Inside Evernote’s brain (Fast Company)
Why Can’t Europe Do Tech? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Saudi Arabia Goes High-Tech in Approach to Investing (WSJ)
Public Radio Networks to Merge in Big Bet on Podcasts (WSJ)
Cash Wildfire Spreads Among Young Tech Companies (Bloomberg)
How an invite-only meeting at Apple’s luxury loft in New York set the stage for one of the biggest subscription businesses in the world (Business Insider)
Kevin Durant, Will Smith Top the Lineup for a New Venture-Capital Fund for Black Investors (WSJ)
VCs Are On Track To Make 2018 A Record Year For Unicorns (Crunchbase News)
HOW THE SHARED FAMILY COMPUTER PROTECTED US FROM OUR WORST SELVES (The Verge)
“The Lean Startup” is an unproductive legend (Quartz)
THE STRANGE DAVID AND GOLIATH SAGA OF RADIO FREQUENCIES (Wired)
Where’s the Money Coming From, Elon? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Patreon buys Memberful but keeps it indie as patronage consolidates (TechCrunch)
Why the Next Silicon Valley Will Probably Be Outside the U.S. (Citylab)
Masayoshi Son’s secret to running his $100 billion fund: Telling start-ups to treat each other like family (CNBC)
What Happened to General Magic? (NYMag)
Growing Up Jobs (Vanity Fair)
Microfilm Lasts Half a Millennium (The Atlantic)

July

Where Did you Go to School? (Richard Kerby)
Where Did You Go To School? (AVC)
How Silicon Valley Has Disrupted Philanthropy (The Atlantic)
THE ‘GUERRILLA’ WIKIPEDIA EDITORS WHO COMBAT CONSPIRACY THEORIES (Wired)
MySpace and the Coding Legacy it Left Behind (Code Academy)
Consumer startups are dead. Long live consumer startups. (Eric Feng)
Andreessen Horowitz Names Connie Chan A General Partner, Ending VC Firm’s No-Promotion Policy (Forbes)
VC Firm Social Capital Set Out to Fix Capitalism. Now It’s In Turmoil (Bloomberg)
Top of the Morning (Axios)
Unlimited data plans are a mess: here’s how to pick the best one (The Verge)
The Race to a Trillion (Above Avalon)
INSIDE X, THE MOONSHOT FACTORY RACING TO BUILD THE NEXT GOOGLE (Wired)
Dell to Return to Public Markets With Tracking Stock (NYTimes) (NYTimes)
In Q2 2018, Global VC Scales Tipped In Favor Of Chinese Startups Over North America (CrunchBase)
These are the top iPhone apps of all time (TechCrunch)

June

Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up (TechCrunch)
HOW THE STARTUP MENTALITY FAILED KIDS IN SAN FRANCISCO (Wired)
AT&T more than doubles ‘admin fee’ for every wireless customer (The Verge)
Steven Sinofsky Tweet Thread on the Above (Twitter)
Is there a next act for one of Silicon Valley’s top investors after Uber? Benchmark and Bill Gurley are about to find out. (ReCode)
Here’s How That Tablet On The Table At Your Favorite Restaurant Is Hurting Your Waiter (BuzzFeed)
Elon Musk Has Always Been At War With The Media (BuzzFeed)
In China, a picture of how warehouse jobs can vanish (Axios)
HOW THE TRENDIEST GRILLED-CHEESE VENTURE GOT BURNT (Wired)
Making a Killing in Virtual Real Estate (Bloomberg)
SAVE METAFILTER!
The Guy Tapping His Head Meme Explained (NYMag)
TED Residency (TED)
How to understand the financial levers in your business (TechCrunch)
Chat Wars (N+1)
Marcus, Casper, Oscar: Why Startups Are Obsessed With Human Names (Bloomberg)
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (Wikipedia)
Roko’s basilisk (LessWrong)
The Growing Emptiness of the “Star Wars” Universe (The New Yorker)

May

Mary Meeker’s 2018 internet trends report: All the slides, plus analysis (Recode)
Digital Ambulance Chasers? Law Firms Send Ads To Patients’ Phones Inside ERs (NPR)
Glenn’s Kickstarter
How The Internet Is Changing The Way Dogs Find Homes (Buzzfeed)
The Techie Town Of San Francisco Gets A New Tower As Houses Remain Scarce (BuzzFeed)
Death in the alpine (High Country News)
This start-up made connected toothbrushes – now it aims to overthrow the ‘primitive’ dental insurance industry (CNBC)
This nonprofit plans to send millions of Wikipedia pages to the Moon — printed on tiny metal sheets (The Verge)
The impact of Masayoshi Son’s $100bn tech fund will be profound (The Economist)
How to Make Your Open Office Less Annoying (The Atlantic)
The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia’s Editors From Killing Each Other (WSJ)
Supercomputers are driving a revolution in hurricane forecasting (Ars Technica)
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1 (The Flaming Lips)
Link to the video of the full I/O keynote
Best video I could find (in a rush) of the Duplex Demo (Twitter)
Eight things to expect at Google I/O 2018 (The Verge)
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought a stunning 75 million Apple shares in first quarter (CNBC)
The ‘Race to 5G’ Is Just Mindless Marketing BS (Motherboard)
Over 30? You’re Too Old For Tech Jobs In China (Bloomberg)

April

Jeff Bezos reveals what it’s like to build an empire and become the richest man in the world — and why he’s willing to spend $1 billion a year to fund the most important mission of his life (Business Insider)
GEDmatch, a tiny DNA analysis firm, was key for Golden State Killer case (Ars Technica)
A few thoughts on Ray Ozzie’s “Clear” Proposal (Matthew Green)
Inside Jeff Bezos’s DC Life (Washingtonian)
Can Silicon Valley Get You Pregnant? (Fast Company)
Google’s Writing Checks and Trusts Investors Won’t Bounce (Bloomberg)
The Woman Who Gave The Macintosh a Smile (The New Yorker)
Welcome to the Wikipedia for Terms of Service Agreements (Wired)
ToSDR.org
How We Need to Remake the Internet (TED)