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Friday, December 27 2019

Where Are the Tech Zillionaires? San Francisco Faces the I.P.O. Fizzle (NYTimes)
Netflix was the best-performing stock of the decade, delivering a more than 4,000% return (CNBC)
11 Lessons from the Success of Disney+ (MatthewBall.vc)
Tuvalu is a tiny island nation of 11,000 people. It’s cashing in thanks to Twitch. (WSJ)
How Atari took on Apple in the 1980s home PC wars (Fast Company)
THE 84 BIGGEST FLOPS, FAILS, AND DEAD DREAMS OF THE DECADE IN TECH (The Verge)

Friday, December 20 2019

SoftBank Vision Fund Employees Depict a Culture of Recklessness (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy (Non)
IKEA 2.0 (The Verge)
State of the Stream 2019: Platform Wars, the New King of Streaming, Most Watched Game and More! (Stream Elements)
Meet the Mad Scientist Who Wrote the Book on How to Hunt Hackers (Wired)
I created my own deepfake—it took two weeks and cost $552 (Ars Technica)
The 100 Memes That Defined The 2010s (Buzzfeed News)

Friday, December 13 2019

THE AGE OF INSTAGRAM FACE (New Yorker)
The Influencer and the Hit Man (OneZero)
Silicon Valley’s psychedelic wonder drug is almost here (Fast Company)
How Zoom Became the Best Web-Conferencing Product in the World in Less Than 10 Years (FYI)
“Link In Bio” is a slow knife (Anil Dash)
THE VERGE’S GADGETS OF THE DECADE (The Verge)

Friday, December 06 2019

How Ring Went From ‘Shark Tank’ Reject to America’s Scariest Surveillance Company (Motherboard)
Inside VSCO, a Gen Z-approved photo-sharing app, with CEO Joel Flory (TechCrunch)
Commentary: Andy Jassy aims to reinvent Amazon Web Services for the cloud’s next generation (Silicon Angle)
Why Silicon Valley Investors Are Bonkers For European Startups (Forbes)
A decade of hacking: The most notable cyber-security events of the 2010s (ZDNet)
HOW SONY BOUGHT, AND SQUANDERED, THE FUTURE OF GAMING (The Verge)
The difference between Windows Notepad and WordPad, and when to use each (Windows Central)
Why ‘The Mandalorian’ cites Fortnite dev Epic Games in its credits (VentureBeat)
Unintended Perk of the Online Mattress Boom: Never-Ending Free (WSJ)

Friday, November 22 2019

How our home delivery habit reshaped the world (The Guardian)
The Architect of Modern Algorithms (Quanta Magazine)
Spotify’s Daniel Ek Has a Plan to Harness Hollywood for Podcasts and Create “the World’s No. 1 Audio Platform” (The Hollywood Reporter)
Inside the Most Watched YouTube Channel in the World (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Global Protests Reveal Bitcoin’s Limitations (CoinDesk)
Robert De Niro and Al Pacino: A Big, Beautiful 50-Year Friendship (GQ)

Friday, November 15 2019

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)
As L.A. ports automate, some workers are cheering on the robots (LA Times)
Managing Your Friendships, With Software (The Atlantic)
From Instagram to Candy Crush: These are the most important apps of the decade (CNET)

Friday, November 08 2019

Pessimists Archive Podcast (Apple Podcasts)
The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising (The Correspondent)
THE BIG BITCOIN HEIST (Vanity Fair)
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)

Friday, November 01 2019

50 years ago today, the internet was born in Room 3420 (Fast Company)
Talking with former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos (CJR)
Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours (AlexDanco.com)
The Gross Margin Problem: Lessons for Tech-Enabled Startups (Craft)
The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois (ProPublica)

Friday, October 25 2019

The 2010s Broke Our Sense Of Time (Buzzfeed)
Inside R/Relationships, the Unbearably Human Corner of Reddit (The Atlantic)
He revolutionized how millions of people spend money in India. His next target: America (CNN Business)
Now the Machines Are Learning How to Smell (Wired)
Pentagon, With an Eye on China, Pushes for Help From American Tech (NYTimes)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on achieving quantum supremacy (MIT Technology Review)
How Do You Like We Now (Bloomberg Opinion)

Friday, October 18 2019

The Apple, iPhone 11, 11 Pro & 11 Pro Max Review (AnAndTech)
The Creators Of Pokémon Go Mapped The World. Now They’re Mapping You (Kotaku)
The Young Firms Rethinking Social Media (The Information)
Inside Apple’s Long, Bumpy Road to Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter)
How Pinterest Built One of Silicon Valley’s Most Successful Algorithms (OneZero)
Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free (ProPublica)

Friday, October 11 2019

Is Amazon Unstoppable? (The New Yorker)
Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan (The Atlantic)
When GoFundMe Gets Ugly (The Atlantic)
Can a Machine Learn To Write For The New Yorker? (The New Yorker)
The Style-Quantifying Astrophysicists of Silicon Valley (Wired)
The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019 (The Gradient)
Who Needs Moonshots? How Former Hollywood Mogul Barry Diller Built A $4.2 Billion Tech Fortune Out Of Underdog Assets (Forbes)

Friday, October 04 2019

The Off-the-Radar Baseball League That’s Trying to Reboot the Game (GEN)
Inside Disney’s New York Stream Factory (Variety)
My Time at Snap (@marko_tupper)
Dog-walking startup Wag raised $300 million to unleash growth. Then things got messy (CNN Business)
Where Toxic Masculinity Goes to Die (The Atlantic)
The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman (The New Yorker)

Friday, September 27 2019

Slack Is a Hell of Our Own Making (NY Magazine)
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)

Friday, September 13 2019

How to Build Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust (NYTimes)
As sex toys continue to get hacked, the definition of sexual assault is under question (Screen Shot)
What Happened to Urban Dictionary? (Wired)
TONY HAWK ON HOW HIS GAMES CHANGED SKATEBOARDING (The Verge)
From Communism To Coding: How Daniel Dines Of $7 Billion UiPath Became The First Bot Billionaire (Forbes)
Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second (Science)

Friday, September 06 2019

Uber Undone (The Baffler)
Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill (The Atlantic)
Amazon’s Next-Day Delivery Has Brought Chaos And Carnage To America’s Streets — But The World’s Biggest Retailer Has A System To Escape The Blame (BuzzFeed News)
Coming Soon to a Small Screen Near You: Short Cuts (WSJ)
‘Hey, Google! Let me talk to my departed father.’ (Washington Post)
‘NCAA Football’ Is Still Alive, Because One Online Community Won’t Let the Game Die (The Ringer)

Friday, August 30 2019

Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure (Ars Technica)
Wi-Fi 6 Will Be Here Soon. What Is It? (Wired)
Mobile payments have barely caught on in the US, despite the rise of smartphones (CNBC)
Drone Bubble Bursts, Wiping Out Startups and Hammering VC Firms (Bloomberg)
Older people are embracing video games. For some, that means stardom. (NBC News)

Friday, August 23 2019

Top 10 Crypto Memes (BRD)
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)
The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront (Washington Post)
YOU ARE ALREADY HAVING SEX WITH ROBOTS (Wired)
Sad cartoons and melancholic hip-hop inspired YouTube’s new vaporwave scene (Polygon)

Friday, August 16 2019

Weird gadgets that are actually really useful (ZDNet)
Trump Tumult Has Gadget Giants Splitting Along U.S.-China Lines (Bloomberg)
THREE YEARS OF MISERY INSIDE GOOGLE, THE HAPPIEST COMPANY IN TECH (Wired)
WEWORK ISN’T A TECH COMPANY; IT’S A SOAP OPERA (The Verge)
WeWTF (ProfGalloway.com)
Elon Musk’s Neuralink: Both an evolution and a plan for radical change (Ars Technica)
SpaceX’s First Astronauts Train Up for Space, but Crew Dragon Faces Delays (Inverse.com)
HOW A ‘NULL’ LICENSE PLATE LANDED ONE HACKER IN TICKET HELL (Wired)

Friday, August 09 2019

The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News (The New Yorker)
I Tried Hiding From Silicon Valley in a Pile of Privacy Gadgets (Bloomberg Businessweek)
How Globalization Broke Gateway, the Cow Computer Company (Motherboard)
Python is eating the world: How one developer’s side project became the hottest programming language on the planet (ZDNet)
With warshipping, hackers ship their exploits directly to their target’s mail room (TechCrunch)
Scientists Are Stuck on the Mystery of Tape (Engadget)

Friday, August 02 2019

WHEN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMES WITH A FEW CATCHE (Wired)
Your Next iPhone Might Be Made in Vietnam. Thank the Trade War. (NYTimes)
Late Night Dispatch: Tuca & Bertie versus The Algorithm (Julia Alexander)
Where Everyone’s an Influencer (The Atlantic)
America’s DIY Phone Farmers (Motherboard)
What Happens When the World’s Population Stops Growing? (The Atlantic)

Friday, July 26 2019

How Google Photos joined the billion-user club (Fast Company)
The Man Who Built The Retweet: “We Handed A Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds” (BuzzFeed News)
What is Microsoft doing with Cortana? (The Verge)
The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking (The New Yorker)
The Onion’s Guide To TikTok (The Onion)

Friday, July 19 2019

50 Days to the Moon (Fast Company)
Is It Okay to Laugh at Florida Man? (Washington Post)
TikTok Stars Are Preparing to Take Over the Internet (The Atlantic)
Grindr Wanted To Make The World Better For Queer People. Then A Chinese Gaming Company Bought It. (Buzzfeed)
Andy Ngo Has The Newest New Media Career. It’s Made Him A Victim And A Star (Buzzfeed)

Friday, July 12 2019

The man who’s going to save your neighborhood grocery store (The New Food Economy)
Disney Won. Now What? (BuzzFeed News)
You’re Hired. Now Wear This Headset to Learn the Job. (NYTimes)
New Coke Didn’t Fail. It Was Murdered. (Mother Jones)
ROAD-TRIPPING WITH THE AMAZON NOMADS (The Verge)

Friday, July 05 2019

The Real Cloud Wars: The $6 Billion Battle Over The Future Of Weather Forecasting (Forbes)
Catalyst deep dive: The future of Mac software according to Apple and devs (Ars Technica)
Android Q(&A): Android Engineers take us on a deep dive of Android Q (Ars Technica)
How To Game Google To Make Negative Results Disappear (BuzzFeed News)
Hayflick limit (QZ)

Friday, June 28 2019

Meet the A.I. Landlord That’s Building a Single-Family-Home Empire (Fortune)
Memes Are the New Pop Stars: How TikTok Became the Future of the Music Industry (The Ringer)
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)

Friday, June 21 2019

THEY WELCOMED A ROBOT INTO THEIR FAMILY, NOW THEY’RE MOURNING ITS DEATH (The Verge)
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)
Don’t Know Which Toaster to Buy? There’s a Website for That. (The Ringer)
Using CRISPR to resurrect the dead (CNet)
The fake French minister in a silicone mask who stole millions (BBC News)

Friday, June 14 2019

The restaurant owner who asked for 1-star Yelp reviews (The Hustle)
EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight (Ars Technica)
The story of the first E3 (Polygon)
THE NEWEST HAVEN FOR CRYPTOCURRENCY COMPANIES? WYOMING (Wired)
Comcast CEO’s Son Wants to Turn Philly Into an E-Sports Town (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Beyond the PC: Lenovo’s ambitious plan for the future of computing (ZDNet)

Friday, June 07 2019

New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Solotshi, The Creator Of Encryption Software E4M And TrueCrypt (InvestInBlockchain.com)
The Stanford connections behind Latin America’s multibillion-dollar startup renaissance (TechCrunch)
When Grown-Ups Get Caught in Teens’ AirDrop Crossfire (The Atlantic)
Buildings Can Be Designed to Withstand Earthquakes. Why Doesn’t the U.S. Build More of Them? (NYTimes)
The Big Challenge for Policy Makers: Policing American Tech Giants (WSJ)
Not Your Daddy’s Regulation: Tech Giants Face A Complicated Reckoning In Washington (BuzzFeed.news)
The Day When Computers Can Break All Encryption Is Coming (WSJ)

Friday, May 31 2019

Product Breakfast Club (Apple Podcasts)
The unlikely origins of USB, the port that changed everything (Fast Company)
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)
This ID Scanner Company is Collecting Sensitive Data on Millions of Bargoers (OneZero)
AT&T Has Become a New Kind of Media Giant (Fortune)
The case for caseless iPhones (Vox)
Disney’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge theme park lands, explained (Polygon)

Friday, May 24 2019

Special report - Hobbling Huawei: Inside the U.S. war on China’s tech giant (Reuters)
WeWork Wants to Become Its Own Landlord With Latest Spending Spree (Bloomberg Businessweek)
How Silicon Valley gamed Europe’s privacy rules (Politico)
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)
Can AI escape our control and destroy us? (Popular Science)
The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (OneZero)
A Revolution In Your Pocket (RBS.io)

Friday, May 17 2019

How the Promise of a $120 Billion Uber I.P.O. Evaporated (NYTimes)
WHY I (STILL) LOVE TECH: IN DEFENSE OF A DIFFICULT INDUSTRY (Wired)
Editorial: Why Apple created Apple TV+ rather than buying Netflix (AppleInsider)
The Pivot (Asymco)
AS COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT TAKES OFF, THE AVIATION INDUSTRY GETS PROTECTIVE OF AIRSPACE (The Verge)

Friday, May 10 2019

How Much Is an Idea Worth? In Uber’s Case, $3.7 Billion (Bloomberg)
The VC Who Engineered the 2017 Uber CEO Coup Just Got Very Rich (Bloomberg)
The dangers of in-game data collection (Polygon)
How Unions Are Pushing Back Against the Rise of Workplace Technology (Fortune)
Three years in, Google’s hardware honcho is just getting started (FastCompany)

Friday, May 03 2019

The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program (ReCode)
The search for the kryptonite that can stop CRISPR (MIT Technology Review)
The Most Valuable Company (for Now) Is Having a Nadellaissance (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World (Florent Crivello)
The productivity pit: how Slack is ruining work (ReCode)
Exclusive: The Saga Of ‘Star Citizen,’ A Video Game That Raised $300 Million—But May Never Be Ready To Play (Forbes)

Friday, April 26 2019

How Fortnite’s success led to months of intense crunch at Epic Games (Polygon)
Red Dead Redemption 2: six months later (Polygon)
WE’VE BEEN WARNED ABOUT AI AND MUSIC FOR OVER 50 YEARS, BUT NO ONE’S PREPARED (The Verge)
How the Kleiner Perkins Empire Fell (Fortune)
These home security startups aren’t afraid of Amazon and Google (Fast Company)
Amazon Has Gone From Neutral Platform to Cutthroat Competitor, Say Open Source Developers (OneZero)
I Sell Onions on the Internet (Deep South Ventures)

Friday, April 19 2019

Google Maps Is Ready to Transform the World of Superapps: A Skift Deep Dive (Skift)
These Women Are Only On Facebook For The Groups (BuzzFeed News)
Beyond Prime: Inside the Race to Deliver Shipments to the Moon (OneZero)
Robo-Rigs: The Scientist, The Unicorn And The $700 Billion Race To Create Self-Driving Semi-Trucks (Forbes)
The Coming Obsolescence of Animal Meat (The Atlantic)
Russian Gamer Brothers Are the Newest Hidden Billionaires (Bloomberg)

Friday, April 12 2019

The basics of modern AI—how does it work and will it destroy society this year? (Ars Technica)
FOXCONN IS CONFUSING THE HELL OUT OF WISCONSIN (The Verge)
The man behind Huawei (LA Times)
The Improbable Rise of Huawei (Foreign Policy)
Inside the Biotech Startup That Wants to Extend Your Life (OneZero)
VIDEO OF APPLE’S W.A.L.T. IN ACTION – THE 1993-EDITION IPHONE (Sonny Dickson)

Friday, April 05 2019

Talking Reckless (A Gaming Podcast)
Smart home, machine learning and discovery (Benedict Evans)
25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds (Linux Journal)
‘They Thought It Was Black Magic’: An Oral History of TiVo (OneZero)
The World’s Greatest Delivery Empire (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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)

Friday, March 29 2019

The danger of ‘I already pay for Apple News+’ (TechCrunch)
Europe is splitting the internet into three (The Verge)
‘A battle for the top of the funnel’: Pinterest’s long road to becoming a commerce platform (Digiday)
Forget Brexit and trade wars, Europe’s start-ups are thriving (FT)
The Enormous Numbers Behind Amazon’s Market Reach (Bloomberg)
The Elaborate, Dying Art of Hustling for Money at Dave & Buster’s (Vice)

Friday, March 22 2019

Meet Silicon Valley’s ‘China whisperer (CNNBusiness)
Inside Garageband, the Little App Ruling the Sound of Modern Music (Rolling Stone)
Grab vs. Go-Jek: Inside Asia’s Battle of the ‘Super Apps’ (Fortune)
BETTER LIVING THROUGH CRISPR: GROWING HUMAN ORGANS IN PIGS (Wired)
A MORE HUMANE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY, BROUGHT TO YOU BY CRISPR (Wired)

Friday, March 15 2019

Friday, March 08 2019

THE HYPOCRISY OF THE TECHNO-MORALISTS IN THE COMING AGE OF AUTONOMY (WarOnTheRocks)
HOW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY VIDEO GAMES ARE DEVELOPED AND PLAYED (The Verge)
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)
Triton is the world’s most murderous malware, and it’s spreading (MIT Technology Review)

Friday, March 01 2019

Do You Trust Your VPN? Are You Sure? (Slate)
Is Cloudflare a privacy champion or hate speech enabler? Depends who you ask (Fast Company)
The Car That Killed Glamour (The Atlantic)
How Disney Built Star Wars, in real life (TechCrunch)
THE TRAUMA FLOOR (The Verge)
Outgrowing Advertising: Multimodal Business Models as a Product Strategy (A16Z)

Friday, February 22 2019

Late Night Linux Podcast
HOW APPLE’S ENTERPRISE APP PROGRAM BECAME THE NEW WILD WEST OF MOBILE APPS (The Verge)
“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)
Guidemaster: The least-awful Android phones (Ars Technica)
The curse of the Twitter reply guy (Mashable)

Friday, February 15 2019

The Strong Web (podcast suggestion)
Why data, not privacy, is the real danger (NBCNews)
Uber’s Secret Gold Mine: How Uber Eats Is Turning Into A Billion-Dollar Business To Rival Grubhub (Forbes)
Zillow Wants to Flip Your House (Bloomberg Businessweek)
The Strange Experience of Being Australia’s First Tech Billionaires (NYTimes)
The Secret History of Women in Coding (NYTimes Magazine)

Friday, February 08 2019

How To Be Awesome At Your Job (Podcast)
“Do We Want to Be in Business?” The Strange, Never-Ending Saga of MoviePass (The Ringer)
The CRISPR machines that can wipe out entire species (Cnet)
Inside Wisconsin’s Disastrous $4.5 Billion Deal With Foxconn (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Fortnite Is the Future, but Probably Not for the Reasons You Think (Redef)
FINDING LENA, THE PATRON SAINT OF JPEGS (Wired)

Friday, February 01 2019

Is Alexa working? (Benedict Evans)
As I.P.O. Approaches, Lyft’s Chief Is Nudged Into the Spotlight (NYTimes)
Why Technology Hasn’t Fixed the Housing Crisis (NYTimes)
The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives (The New Yorker)

Friday, January 25 2019

From Founder to CEO (podcast)
EVERYBODY DOES IT: THE MESSY TRUTH ABOUT INFILTRATING COMPUTER SUPPLY CHAINS (The Intercept)
Katzenberg and Whitman: Hollywood’s New Odd Couple (Fortune)
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: The Rolling Stone Interview (Rolling Stone)
“The Linux of social media”—How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging (Ars Technica)
Reddit’s r/changemyview is a template for how all online discussion should be (TNW)

Friday, January 18 2019

Drone Radio Show
Delivery Drones Use Bird-Inspired Legs to Jump Into the Air (IEEE Spectrum)
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)
Rekindled yet again, Nokia’s next-gen phones offer more than just nostalgia (Digital Trends)
INSIDE THE STRANGE YET PROFITABLE WORLD OF RETAIL ARBITRAGE (Mel Magazine)
EA’s Troubled Decade Of Star Wars Games (Kotaku)

Friday, January 11 2019

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)
Lasers vs. Microwaves: The Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage (ieee Spectrum)
PREPARING FOR Y2038 (ALREADY?!) (blogs.akamai)

Friday, January 04 2019