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Longread Links from The Ride Home Podcast

This collection is no longe being updated regularly. I still update it from time to time because this is the entire Long Read archive and I don’t think everything transitioned to the site. The Ride Home now has a proper web site and RSS feed.

Friday, January 07

• CES 2022 was the best auto show in years (CNET)
• Can You Really Tell the Difference Between 4K and 8K? (Gizmodo)
• The Pixel Art Revolution Will Be Televised (Wired)
• Banks Tiptoe Toward Their Cloud-Based Future (NYTimes)
• The Danger of Leaving Weather Prediction to AI (Wired)
• Wordle Is a Love Story (NYTimes)

Wednesday, December 29

• How Discord, Born From an Obscure Game, Became a Social Hub for Young People (NYTimes)
• Here’s why streaming services are always duking it out over channels (The Verge)
• How Shopify Outfoxed Amazon to Become the Everywhere Store (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• We Are at the Dawn of the Age of Physics-Supplied Energy (Wired)

Friday, December 17

• THE METAVERSE IS ALREADY HERE — AND IT’S FULL OF POKEMON, SAYS NIANTIC CEO JOHN HANKE (The Verge)
• The ‘To the Moon’ Crash Is Coming (Motherboard)
• Strange, horny game ads are flooding social media. I accidentally became obsessed (The Guardian)
• MATTER’S PLAN TO SAVE THE SMART HOME (The Verge)
• Computers Revolutionized Chess. Magnus Carlsen Wins by Being Human (WSJ)

Friday, December 10

• Pokémon and the First Wave of Digital Nostalgia (The New Yorker)
• Half a Billion in Bitcoin, Lost in the Dump (The New Yorker)
• Amazon is making its own containers and bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered ships and long-haul planes (CNBC)
• HOW AN EXCEL TIKTOKER MANIFESTED HER WAY TO MAKING SIX FIGURES A DAY (The Verge)
• Three Steps To The Future (Ben Evans’ 2022 Slide Deck)
• On “Succession,” Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke (The New Yorker)

Friday, December 03

• Can a Digital Reality Be Jacked Directly Into Your Brain?  (Wired)
• Metaverse Real Estate Piles Up Record Sales in Sandbox and Other Virtual Realms  (WSJ)
• World’s first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say  (CNN)
• Planetary scientists are starting to get stirred up by Starship’s potential  (ArsTechnica)
• ‘Oregon Trail’ at 50: How Three Teachers Created the Computer Game That Inspired — and Diverted — Generations of Students  (the74million.org)
• Why the Beatles’ ‘Get Back’ May Stand as the Best Rock Doc Ever  (Column) (Variety)

Friday, December 03

• Can a Digital Reality Be Jacked Directly Into Your Brain? (Wired)
• Metaverse Real Estate Piles Up Record Sales in Sandbox and Other Virtual Realms (WSJ)
• World’s first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say (CNN)
• Planetary scientists are starting to get stirred up by Starship’s potential (ArsTechnica)
• ‘Oregon Trail’ at 50: How Three Teachers Created the Computer Game That Inspired — and Diverted — Generations of Students (the74million.org)
• Why the Beatles’ ‘Get Back’ May Stand as the Best Rock Doc Ever (Column) (Variety)

Friday, November 19

• The most influential man on the internet (ReadMax)
• Visions of a U.S. Computer Chip Boom Have Cities Hustling (NYTimes)
• The Video Game History Book I Mentioned
• GAMECUBE AT 20: NINTENDO INSIDERS ON THE FAILED CONSOLE THAT CHANGED THE INDUSTRY (Video Games Chronicle)
• How Xbox outgrew the console: inside Phil Spencer’s multi-billion dollar gamble (GQ)
• Who Knows Anthony Bourdain? (Eater)

Friday, November 12

• The 10,000 Faces That Launched an NFT Revolution (Wired)
• The Metaverse and (near-)infinite economic growth (Noahpinion)
• Chip Shortage Creates New Power Players (NYTimes)
• The Craziest Sports Story of 2021 Is FC Sheriff (Futbol With Grant Wahl)

Friday, November 05

• Hackers are stealing data today so quantum computers can crack it in a decade (TechnologyReview.com)
• The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes (Motherboard)
• 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)

Friday, October 29

• 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)
• Why Apple’s Privacy Changes Hurt Snap and Facebook but Benefited Google (WSJ)
• Why Your Group Chat Could Be Worth Millions (Intelligencer/NYMag)
• Life in the FAST Lane: Free Streaming, Big Money (Vulture/NYMag)
• A Very Big Little Country (Afar)

Friday, October 22

• The Metaverse Is Bad (The Atlantic)
• DeFi Is Like Nothing Regulators Have Seen Before. How Should They Tackle It? (CoinDesk)
• Inside Wheel of Time, Amazon’s Huge Gamble on the Next Game of Thrones (GQ)

Friday, October 15

• How Axie Infinity is turning gaming on its head (Platformer)
• Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• SLACKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! (The Atlantic)
• Starbucks Is 50 and Emboldening Its Rivals More Than Ever (Bloomberg Opinion)

Friday, October 08

• How WhatsApp Swallowed Half The World (Gizmodo)
• Brazil’s Central Bank Built a Mobile Payment System With 110 Million Users (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• WeBack (Ramp Recap)
• Google’s recruiting system is famously brutal. Many workers think it’s also failing. (Protocol)
• HEY SIRI, WHAT HAPPENED? (The Verge)
• Planet Squid Game (Vulture)

Friday, October 01

• How EA got into mobile — and figured out the future of gaming (Protocol)
• Toast built a $30 billion business by defying Silicon Valley and surviving a ‘suicide mission’ (CNBC)
• How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum (The Pragmatic Engineer)
• APPLE’S FORTRESS OF SECRECY IS CRUMBLING FROM THE INSIDE (The Verge)
• Facebook’s Latest Scandals: The Banality Of Hubris; The Messiness Of Humanity (TechDirt)

Friday, September 24

• Would-Be NFT Millionaires Throw Darts And Hit Duds (Bloomberg)
• FILE NOT FOUND (The Verge)
• How Apple built the iPhone 13’s Cinematic Mode (TechCrunch)
• How to move Google Authenticator to your new iPhone (Apple Insider)
• Nirvana in Bloom (The Ringer)
• Nirvana’s “Nevermind” (New Yorker)
• My Time with Kurt Cobain (New Yorker)

Friday, September 17

• A Very, Very Crypto Insider-Trading Scandal (Intelligencer)
• What is Bored Ape Yacht Club? The Celebrity NFT of Choice (Decrypt)
• Jay-Z’s NFT Feud Spotlights Legal Peril in Hot Investment Trend (Bloomberg)
• THE PENTAGON’S ARMY OF NERDS (The Atlantic)
• Greg LeMond and the Amazing Candy-Colored Dream Bike (Wired)

Friday, September 10

• The Screen in Your Car Is Beckoning (Slate)
• Russia Influences Hackers but Stops Short of Directing Them, Report Says (NYTimes)
• How Amazon’s cloud business generates billions in profit (CNBC)
• When the Techies Took Over Tahoe (Outside)
• Adult Swim: How an Animation Experiment Conquered Late-Night TV (NYTimes)

Friday, September 03

• The Latest NFT Fad Is a Text-Based Fantasy Game Building Block (Coindesk)
• Gimme the Loot! (Collisions)
• NFTs, DeFi Boost for Ethereum Dims Clamor of Bitcoin Maximalists (Bloomberg)
• 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)

Friday, August 27

• Netflix and Video Games (MatthewBall.vc)
• Turns Out The Hardest Part of Making a Game Is…Everything (IGN)
• Cryptocurrency Companies Are Leaving China in ‘Great Mining Migration’ (WSJ)
• El Salvador Gets Ready for a Risky Bitcoin Experiment (WSJ)
• A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps (ArsTechnica)
• The Real C.E.O. of “Succession” (The New Yorker)

Friday, August 20

• The FBI’s warning to Silicon Valley: China and Russia are trying to turn your employees into spies (Protocol)
• Electric cars and batteries: how will the world produce enough? (Nature)
• Waymo Is 99% of the Way to Self-Driving Cars. The Last 1% Is the Hardest (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• 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)

Friday, August 13

• Why the Stablecoin Issuers Will Inherit the Earth (Bloomberg)
• I Joined a Penguin NFT Club Because Apparently That’s What We Do Now (NYTimes)
• 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)

Friday, August 06

• 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)
• The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea (Vice)
• How Olympic Surfing Is Trying to Ride the Machine Learning Wave (WSJ)

Friday, July 30

• Groceries in 10 Minutes: Delivery Start-Ups Crowd City Streets Across Globe (NYTimes)
• THE SUMMER INTEL FELL BEHIND (The Verge)
• Why the US can’t just beam internet into authoritarian states like Cuba (Quartz)
• Social-Media Manager, the Most Millennial Job, Comes of Age (WSJ)
• Hollywood Calls the Russo Brothers When It’s Time to Build a New Universe (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Friday, July 23

• What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson? (NYTimes)
• Startup Claims Breakthrough in Long-Duration Batteries (WSJ)
• The Novel Material That’s Shrinking Phone Chargers, Powering Up Electric Cars, and Making 5G Possible (WSJ)
• Robotaxis: have Google and Amazon backed the wrong technology? (Financial Times)

Friday, July 16

• THE GAME MAKERS AND ARTISTS PUSHING ROBLOX TO ITS LIMITS (The Verge)
• Obscure Cyber Agency Becomes Nemesis of China’s Tech Giants (Bloomberg)
• 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)

Thursday, July 08

• Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump (New York Times)
• The U.S. says humans will always be in control of AI weapons. But the age of autonomous war is already here. (Washington Post)
• GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright (Julia Reda)
• Ireland’s Days as a Tax Haven May Be Ending, but Not Without a Fight (New York Times)

Friday, July 02

• 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? (Wall Street Journal)
• ROBBING THE XBOX VAULT: INSIDE A $10 MILLION GIFT CARD CHEAT (Bloomberg)
• ‘Time and space don’t exist in the spirit world’: How psychics are embracing remote work (Los Angeles Times)
• The Tin Man Gets His Heart: An Oral History of ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’ (The Ringer)

Friday, June 25

• What Is Blue Box? A Vast Conspiracy Grips the Video Game World (Bloomberg)
• A very brief history of every Google messaging app (The Verge)
• The Boy Who Could DeFi: Meet the 13-Year-Old Who Built a $7M Money Manager on Ethereum (Decrypt)
• How Roku used the Netflix playbook to beat bigger players and rule streaming video (CNBC)
• Can a $110 Million Helmet Unlock the Secrets of the Mind? (Bloomberg)

Friday, June 18

• Ransomware claims are roiling an entire segment of the insurance industry (Washington Post)
• THE RISE AND FALL OF AN AMERICAN TECH GIANT (The Atlantic)
• Anatomy of a Seed Round During COVID-19 (Fresh Paint)
• Meet Wu Dao 2.0, the Chinese AI model making the West sweat (Politico)
• Tech Companies Are Training AI to Read Your Lips (Vice)
• How governments and spies text each other (Wired)
• Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away (Bloomberg)

Friday, June 11

• The hard truth about ransomware: we aren’t prepared, it’s a battle with new rules, and it hasn’t near reached peak impact. (Double Pulsar)
• When ransomware strikes, this company helps victims make bitcoin payments (CNBC)
• APPLE ISN’T JUST A WALLED GARDEN, IT’S A CARRIER (The Verge)
• THE APP THAT MONETIZED DOING NOTHING (The Atlantic)
• Marcus Graham: Looking back on 10 years of Twitch’s experiment with livestreaming (Venture Beat)

Friday, June 04

• How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers (The New Yorker)
• Inside The ‘World’s Largest’ Video Game Cheating Empire (Motherboard)
• The NFT Market Has Collapsed, Oh No (Kotaku)
• Armed Low-Cost Drones, Made by Turkey, Reshape Battlefields and Geopolitics (Wall Street Journal)
• Developer relations (Marco Arment)
• Apple WWDC 2021: iOS 15, new MacBook Pros, and what else to expect (The Verge)

Friday, May 28

• ‘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 (New York Times)
• The Mystery of Magic’s Greatest Card Trick (New York Times)

Friday, May 21

• Now that WarnerMedia and Discovery have tied the knot, the pressure’s on ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal (CNBC)
• $ASS Coin Billionaire: Tales From the Fringe of the Crypto Craze (Bloomberg)
• Can Sony reclaim its former glory? (Engadget)
• How to Make Carbon-Neutral Gasoline Out of Thin Air (Intelligencer)
• Twitter Thread About Shift+2 (@figmadesign)

Friday, May 14

• To Understand Amazon, We Must Understand Jeff Bezos (New York Times)
• The PlayStation 5 Is Starting to Look Like the Revolution It Promised (Wired)
• 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)

Friday, May 07

• How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Actually Consume? (Harvard Business Review)
• Crypto pros are getting tired of the 79 billion dollar dogecoin joke (Bloomberg)
• I’m seeing a lot of people FOMO quit their jobs to join “crypto” (Jon Syu)
• THE LAST DAYS OF SATOSHI: WHAT HAPPENED WHEN BITCOIN’S CREATOR DISAPPEARED (Bitcoin Magazine)
• John Swartzwelder, Sage of “The Simpsons” (The New Yorker)

Friday, April 30

• The new wave of crypto users: migrant workers (Rest of World)
• Europe Is Trying to Reclaim Its Lost Chipmaking Glory (Bloomberg)
• As Nintendo’s entertainment kingdom expands, it’s still about the games (Fast Company)
• Spotify’s Surprise (Stratechery)
• Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion (The Atlantic)
• mRNA vaccine technology (Peter Attia MD)
• How mRNA Technology Could Change the World (The Atlantic)

Friday, April 23

• Netflix, Disney and Amazon’s Streaming Wars Heat Up Overseas (Wall Street Journal)
• The pandemic nearly crushed pet-care startup Rover (Business Insider)
• Meet Virtual Reality, Your New Physical Therapist (New York Times)
• TMSC’s expansion challenge told in 10 timely charts (Bloomberg)
• Why the Chip Shortage Is So Hard to Overcome (Wall Street Journal)
• Designed by Apple in California, Not Assembled in China (Above Avalon)
• 15 Years of Spotify: How the Streaming Giant Has Changed and Reinvented the Music Industry (Variety)

Friday, April 16

• Dogecoin: The meme that somehow became a real cryptocurrency (Cnet)
• They were ancient internet memes. Now NFTs are making them rich (Wired)
• Why did Microsoft spend $19.7 billion to purchase Nuance? The answer may lie beyond health care. (Protocol)
• A Little-Known Upstart Might Just Beat Google to Autonomous Driving (Bloomberg Business Week)
• 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)

Friday, April 09

• 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)
• DoorDash Drivers Game Algorithm to Increase Pay (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Revenge Of The Winklevii (Forbes)
• Bill Hwang Had $20 Billion, Then Lost It All in Two Days (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Friday, April 02

• People’s Expensive NFTs Keep Vanishing. This Is Why (Motherboard)
• 5 Years After the Oculus Rift, Where Do VR and AR Go Next? (Wired)
• How a Chip Shortage Snarled Everything From Phones to Cars (Bloomberg)
• Why Computers Won’t Make Themselves Smarter (New Yorker)
• Graphene and Beyond: The Wonder Materials That Could Replace Silicon in Future Tech (WSJ)
• Turing Award Goes to Creators of Computer Programming Building Blocks (NYTimes)

Friday, March 26

• Intel Unleashed, Gelsinger on Intel, IDM 2.0 (Stratechery)
• The long, complicated, and extremely frustrating history of Medium, 2012–present (NeimanLab)
• Microsoft CEO Hunts Anew for Creator Hub After TikTok Bid Fails (Bloomberg)
• The fuss about BitClout (Axios)
• Crypto social network BitClout arrives with a bevy of high-profile investors — and skeptics (TechCrunch)
• Analysis: Money no object as governments race to build chip arsenals (Reuters)
• Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call (ArsTechnica)
• VC Firms Have Long Backed AI. Now, They Are Using It. (WSJ)
• The Hard Truth About Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption (Decrypt)
• Mac OS X Turns 20: A Look Back at the Operating System That Helped Save Apple (PCMag)

Friday, March 19

• The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It? (O’Reilly)
• Moore’s Law for Everything (SamAltman.com)
• Empathetic Robots Are Killing Off the World’s Call-Center Industry (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Loans that hijack your phone are coming to India (Rest of World)
• How a social app you’ve never heard of became a haven for Gen Z (Protocol)

Friday, March 12

• Interview: Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe (Noahpinion.substack.com)
• TWITTER IS REINVENTING ITSELF (The Verge)
• Excel Never Dies (Not Boring)
• How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation (MIT Technology Review)
• Bilibili: How a Chinese site dedicated to anime subculture grew up with its Gen Z users to become a mainstream success (South China Morning Post)
• Sometimes It’s OK to Give Up (Wired)

Friday, March 05

• The problem for Paramount+ (and every other streamer)? Everyone already has Netflix. (Recode)
• Who Really Writes Twitter’s ‘Trending’ Summaries (OneZero)
• Blockchain, QR codes and your phone: the race to build vaccine passports (Protocol)
• How a tiny startup is reinventing the DVR for the cord-cutter era (Fast Company)
• China’s Tencent Becomes an Investment Powerhouse, Using Deals to Expand Its Empire (WSJ)
• I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it (Input)

Friday, February 26

• Xiaomi is undercutting the whole tech industry. And it’s working (Wired)
• American Idle (Eugene Wei)
• Why Plus Is a Minus When Naming Your Streaming Site (NYTimes)
• Shockingly Real Tom Cruise Deepfakes Are Invading TikTok (Daily Beast)
• We’re Just Rediscovering a 19th-Century Pandemic Strategy (The Atlantic)

Friday, February 19

• The Bizarre Reaction To Facebook’s Decision To Get Out Of The News Business In Australia (TechDirt)
• Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long? (Noam Bardin)
• Why the three biggest vaccine makers failed on Covid-19 (Financial Times)
• 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)
• What Peter Jackson’s original two-movie Lord of the Rings almost looked like (Polygon)

Friday, February 12

• Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT): Beginner’s Guide (Decrypt)
• 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)
• Cadillac Super Cruise Review: Better Than Tesla’s Autopilot (MotorTrend)

• Chip Shortage Spirals Beyond Cars to Phones and Consoles (Bloomberg

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• HOW SONY DESIGNED THE PS5’S ULTIMATE EASTER EGG (The Verge)
• Who Really Created the Marvel Universe? (The New Yorker)

Friday, February 05

• Andy Jassy Twitter Thread (@ankithharathi)
• This Hedge Fund Made $700 Million on GameStop (WSJ)
• PFOF is the Ad Model for Brokerage (Justin Paterno)
• Superstar Cities Are in Trouble (The Atlantic)
• They’re Flocking to America to Make a Fortune Playing Video Games (NYTimes)

Friday, January 29

• Inside the Reddit army that’s crushing Wall Street (CNN Business)
• The Big Short SQUEEZE from $5 to $50? Could GameStop stock (GME) explode higher?? Value investing! (Roaring Kitty)
• How a Penny Stock Explodes From Obscurity to 451% Gains Via Chat Forums (Bloomberg)
• Think Americans Wouldn’t Wager on Russian Table Tennis? Care to Bet? (NyTimes)
• CashApp Is King (Aika’s Newsletter)
• Can Growth Go Out of Style? (Irrelevant Investor)
• YouTube’s Spammy Sex Bots Make a Ton of Money (OneZero)
• Who’s Making All Those Scam Calls? (NYTimes Magazine)

Friday, January 22

• Biden picks Jessica Rosenworcel as acting FCC chief (NBC News)
• The Inside Story of How the Lowly PDF Played the Longest Game in Tech (Marker)
• The Moderation War Is Coming to Spotify, Substack, and Clubhouse (OneZero)
• SAMSUNG GALAXY S21 ULTRA REVIEW: THE REAL DEAL (The Verge)
• Samsung Galaxy S21 review: The best Android phone for the money (Engadget)

Friday, January 15

• Is Letterboxd Becoming a Blockbuster? (NYTimes)
• 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)
• Spotify Bets Big on Podcasts as a Path to Profitability (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Friday, January 08

• Xbox: The Oral History of an American Video Game Empire (Bloomberg)
• FarmVille Once Took Over Facebook. Now Everything Is FarmVille. (NYTimes)
• Archaeology is going digital to harness the power of Big Data (Ars Technica)
• Here are the 6 most exciting space missions of 2021 (TNW)

Wednesday, December 30

• The Turing Test is obsolete. It’s time to build a new barometer for AI (Fast Company)
• Tech Choices Dictate Teen Friendships During Pandemic (WSJ)
• 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)
• With Money, and Waste, China Fights for Chip Independence (NYTimes)
• The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life (NYTimes)

Wednesday, December 23

• Our Digital Lives Drive a Brick-and-Mortar Boom in Data Centers (NYTimes)
• The North Carolina Kid Who Cracked YouTube’s Secret Code (Bloomberg)
• What if life were a video game? These 650,000 people imagine it that way. (The Washington Post)
• Czech Startup Founders Turn Billionaires Without VC Help (Bloomberg)
• Inside the Whale: An Interview with an Anonymous Amazonian (Logic Magazine)
• Star Wars toys keep changing, and leaving kids behind (Polygon)
• Shigeru Miyamoto Wants to Create a Kinder World (The New Yorker)

Friday, December 18

• Where Tech Workers Are Moving: New LinkedIn Data vs. the Narrative (Big Technology Newsletter)
• Why I Decided to Leave Substack (A Media Operator Newsletter)
• New WarnerMedia chief Jason Kilar is moving to shake up Hollywood. Insiders are questioning if he has what it takes to turn around the entertainment giant without destroying it. (Business Insider)
• Can’t get a PlayStation 5? Meet the Grinch bots snapping up the holidays’ hottest gift. (Washington Post)
• How AltaVista, our first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss (Tedium)
• My $200,000 Sushi Dinner (NYTimes)

Friday, December 11

• Social Strikes Back (A16Z)
• “A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C (Ars Technica)
• 7 Rejections (Brian Chesky)
• Facebook Sees WhatsApp As Its Future, Antitrust Suit or Not (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Who’s Behind the Fight Between Warner Bros. and Hollywood? It’s AT&T (NYTimes)
• Inside the Human Science of Spotify’s New Music Friday Playlist (Variety)
• How eBird Changed Birding Forever (Outside)

Friday, December 04

• Hollywood’s Obituary, the Sequel. Now Streaming. (NYTimes)
• 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)

Wednesday, November 25

• Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon? (NYTimes Magazine)
• Hollywood’s ‘We’re Not in Kansas Anymore’ Moment (NYTimes)
• 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)

Friday, November 20

• ‘An overnight success 10 years in the making’: Atlanta is the future for Black leaders in tech (Protocol)
• Huawei, 5G, and the Man Who Conquered Noise (Wired)
• The Substackerati (CJR)
• Jack Ma vs. the Party: Inside the collapse of the world’s biggest IPO (Nikkei Asia)
• Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys (Matthew Green’s Blog)
• ‘Like Being Grilled Alive’: The Fear of Living With a Hackable Heart (OneZero)

Friday, November 13

• Twitter Thread on ARM history (@kenfhirriff)
• China Has Caught Up To U.S. In AI, Says AI Expert Kai-Fu Lee (Forbes)
• Welcome Back to the Office. Please Wear This Tracking Device. (OneZero)
• Students Have To Jump Through Absurd Hoops To Use Exam Monitoring Software (Motherboard)
• Masayoshi Son Again Pulled SoftBank From the Brink. This Time He Had Help. (WSJ)
• The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This (NYTimes)

Friday, November 06

• Ben Thompson’s Stratechery, Part 2 (Tim Wu)
• The Xenobot Future Is Coming—Start Planning Now (Wired)
• ‘This is revolutionary’: new online bookshop unites indies to rival Amazon (The Guardian)
• 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)

Friday, October 30

• The 100X Club: Software Startup Valuations Skyrocket Despite Small Revenue (The Information)
• How Discord (somewhat accidentally) invented the future of the internet (Protocol)
• The Tech Antitrust Problem No One Is Talking About (Wired)
• Streaming was part of the future — now it’s the only future (The Verge)
• The Elysium effect: The coming backlash to the billionaire ‘NewSpace’ revolution (Space.com)

Friday, October 23

• The Network: How a Secretive Phone Company Helped the Crime World Go Dark (Motherboard)
• Cloud gaming’s history of false starts and promising reboots (Polygon)
• ‘Virtual’ studios could offer a real alternative to green screen special effects (Engadget)
• The Google Case (Tim Wu)
• Audio’s Opportunity and Who Will Capture It (Mathew Ball)

Friday, October 16

• Lidar used to cost $75,000—here’s how Apple brought it to the iPhone (Ars Technica)
• Car design is about to change forever. This video encapsulates how (Fast Company)
• Clear Conquered U.S. Airports. Now It Wants to Own Your Entire Digital Identity. (OneZero)
• THE CONTEST TO PROTECT ALMOST EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET (WSJ)
• Cory Doctorow’s Writing Radicalized Young Hackers. Now He Wants to Redeem Them (Wired)

Friday, October 09

• Inside the US campaign to cut China out of the tech supply chain (NikkeiAsia)
• Why media formats (like Snapchat Stories and TikTok music videos) become hits? (Medium/Eric Feng)
• THE MASK BARONS OF ETSY (The Verge)
• 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? (ArsTechnica)

Friday, October 02

• What Opening Day for Asana and Palantir Says About Private Tech Stock Values (The Information)
• Techie Software Soldier Spy (Intelligencer)
• Sourcegraph: Devs are managing 100x more code now than they did in 2010 (Ars Technica)
• HOTorNOT shaped the social web as we know it (Mashable)
• Inside Facebook’s quadruple play: How the company is finally melding its apps (Fast Company)
• HYPE MANOF THE CENTURY (The Verge)

Friday, September 25

• Huang’s Law Is the New Moore’s Law, and Explains Why Nvidia Wants Arm (WSJ)
• How Nvidia’s CEO Cooked Up America’s Biggest Semiconductor Company (WSJ)
• This Deal Helped Turn Google Into an Ad Powerhouse. Is That a Problem? (NYTimes)
• The Supply of Disinformation Will Soon Be Infinite (The Atlantic)
• Why iPhone users are suddenly going wild creating custom looks for their home screens (CNBC)

Friday, September 18

• Exclusive: The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke . . . Is Now Officially Broke (Forbes)
• ‘Interactive entertainment is the standard bearer of the entertainment business’ (Protocol)
• Remote Work Is Killing the Hidden Trillion-Dollar Office Economy (Marker)
• Your Teenage Email Account Is a Lost Time Capsule (One Zero)
• Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters (Vintage Computing And Gaming)
• This unheard Steve Jobs tape is part of an amazing trove of tech history (Fast Company)

Friday, September 11

• Apple’s Rising Class of Leaders Will Shape a Post-Tim Cook Era (Bloomberg)
• Your Phone Wasn’t Built for the Apocalypse (The Atlantic)
• Esports Pros Have ‘Dream’ Jobs—but Game Publishers Have All the Power (Wired)
• How Netflix’s Reed Hastings Rewrote the Hollywood Script (Forbes)
• I was skeptical about attending Burning Man in VR, but it’s great (Fast Company)

Friday, September 04

• Cash App’s Surge During Covid-19 Pandemic Fuels Square Stock (WSJ)
• The Digital Future of Tabletop Games (A16Z)
• Robot Boats Leave Autonomous Cars in Their Wake (WSJ)
• Tech Startup, Trying to Be Amazon for Farms, Runs Into Ag Giants (WSJ)
• Inside Fitbit’s Plan to Detect Covid Symptoms With a New Wearable (OneZero)
• How I hacked my Lego NES into a real console (Input)

Friday, August 28

• The Anti-Facebook: 12 Years In, Facebook’s Cofounder Dustin Moskovitz’s Slow-Burn Second Act Asana Finally Has Its Moment (Forbes)
• Palantir: On Business, Cults, and Politics (The Diff)
• Belarus Turned Off the Internet. Its Citizens Hot-Wired It. (Gizmodo)
• The Event Industry Is Being Confronted By Its Napster Moment (Skift)
• Amazon and FedEx Push to Put Delivery Robots on Your Sidewalk (Wired)
• The Conscience of Silicon Valley (GQ)

Friday, August 21

• MONUMENTAL FAILURE - How Tulsa, Oklahoma, almost won Elon Musk using the language he knows best: memes (The Verge)
• The Case of the Top Secret iPod (TidBits)
• The Inside Story Of Robinhood’s Billionaire Founders, Option Kid Cowboys And The Wall Street Sharks That Feed On Them (Forbes)
• Sex, lies, and video games: Inside Roblox’s war on porn (Fast Company)
• Why the Facebookening of Oculus VR is bad for users, devs, competition (Ars Technica)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator review: clear skies with some light chop (Polygon)
• Why Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator should make Google and Amazon nervous (Protocol)

Friday, August 14

• The Secret SIMs Used By Criminals to Spoof Any Number (Motherboard)
• How We Got the Favicon (The History of the Web)
• The Black Internet Gold Rush That Wiped Away $75 Million in 18 Months (Level)
• A college kid’s fake, AI-generated blog fooled tens of thousands. This is how he made it. (Technology Review)
• The Return of Anonymous (The Atlantic)

Friday, August 07

• Pinduoduo: Vertically Integrated Social Commerce (Turner Novak’s Substack)
• The New Network (The Bulwark)
• The Vigilante Hunting Down Cheaters in Video Games (Motherboard)
• The Next ‘Mafia’? Mapping The Alumni Of Square (Protocol)
• Dan Rose Kindle Tweet Thread
• How TikTok’s Owner Tried, and Failed, to Cross the U.S.-China Divide (NYTimes)

Friday, July 31

• Philosophers On GPT-3 (updated with replies by GPT-3) (Daily Nous)
• 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)
• Car Companies Want to Monitor Your Every Move With Emotion-Detecting AI (Motherboard)

Friday, July 24

• Robinhood Has Lured Young Traders, Sometimes With Devastating Results (NYTimes)
• Robinhood and How to Lose Money (The Margins)
• Want to buy a parrot? Please login via Facebook. (Rest Of World)
• The Inside Story of How a Sleep Tracker Became the Hottest Device of the Pandemic (Marker)
• How Harvard’s Star Computer-Science Professor Built a Distance-Learning Empire (The New Yorker)
• The case for and against banning TikTok (Vox)
• The App of the Summer Is Just a Random-Number Generator (The Atlantic)

Friday, July 17

• Some of Reddit’s Wildest Relationship Stories Are Lies. I’d Know – I Wrote Them (Motherboard)
• Google’s secretive ATAP lab is imagining the future of smart devices (Fast Company)
• Inside Peacock’s Ambitious Plan to Crash a Crowded Streaming Field (Variety)
• Everything you need to know about Palantir, the secretive company coming for all your data (Recode)
• Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of Ethereum’s 2014 Premine (Coindesk)
• Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel (MondayNote)

Friday, July 10

• How Prosperity Transformed the Falklands (The New Yorker)
• Our Ghost-Kitchen Future (The New Yorker)
• Is Anyone Watching Quibi? (Vulture)
• How Wirecard Went From Tech Star to Bankrupt (WSJ)
• DE-ESCALATING SOCIAL MEDIA (NickPunt.com)
• Algorithms are now commodities (The Shape of Code)
• Hacker News thread about the above (Hacker News)

Thursday, July 02

• Mirror Wanted to Be the Next iPhone. Instead, It’s Selling to Lululemon. (Marker)
• There are more streaming choices than ever — why are prices going up? (The Verge)
• Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View (Learn By Shipping)
• Strategy Behind Blockbuster Grubhub Deal: Don’t Deliver (WSJ)
• Networks of self-driving trucks are becoming a reality in the US (recode)
• Did a Chinese Hack Kill Canada’s Greatest Tech Company? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Disney’s Developed Movie-Quality Face-Swapping Technology That Promises to Change Filmmaking (Gizmodo)

Friday, June 26

• How India’s Jio Won Facebook’s Heart (The Information)
• How a “crazy Dutch guy” won the online food delivery war (Silicon Canals)
• How Uber Turned a Promising Bikeshare Company Into Literal Garbage (Vice)
• The Credit-Card Fees Merchants Hate, Banks Love and Consumers Pay (WSJ)
• Top composers used to head to Hollywood. Now they’re into games (Wired)
• Reddit turns 15: The dramatic moments that shaped the internet’s front page (Mashable)

Friday, June 19

• Why venture capital doesn’t build the things we really need (MIT Technology Review)
• Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump (Craigmod.com)
• The Grandmaster Who Got Twitch Hooked on Chess (Wired)
• healthOS (Divinations newsletter)
• The Segway’s Inventor Has a New Project: Manufacturing Human Organs (OneZero)
• We spent a fortune on police body cams. Why haven’t they fixed policing? (Fast Company)
• What to expect from Apple’s WWDC 2020 (TechCrunch)

Friday, June 12

• With Real-Life Games Halted, Betting World Puts Action on E-Sports (NYTimes)
• Advertisers eye in-game ads as audiences swell in lockdown (Digiday)
• This Is How Much More Money Artists Earn From Bandcamp Compared to Streaming Services (Pitchfork)
• The most interesting man at Microsoft (Protocol)

Friday, June 05

• Worst. Deal. Ever. (Forbes)
• The Font That Solves The Big Problem With Dark Mode (Forbes)
• Indie history: How shareware helped build Epic Games (Engadget)
• Charli D’Amelio is TikTok’s biggest star. She has no idea why. (Washington Post)
• From RealPlayer to Toshiba, Tech Companies Cash in on the Facial Recognition Gold Rush (OneZero)
• Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (Nautilus)

Friday, May 29

• Amazon’s Big Breakdown (NYTimes)
• Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming (NYTimes)
• Who Will Own the Cars That Drive Themselves? (NYTimes)
• The rise of React (Increment)
• ‘We had no idea how to do it’: YouTube’s founders, investors, and first employees tell the chaotic inside story of how it rose from failed dating site to $1.65 billion video behemoth (Business Insider)
• Poolside.fm is the chillest place you should be hanging out right now (The Verge)

Friday, May 22

• A Case for Cooperation Between Machines and Humans (NYTimes)
• Copyright bots and classical musicians are fighting online. The bots are winning. (Washington Post)
• This DIY laptop costs as much as a MacBook Air — How is it selling so well? (Laptop)
• The State of the Self-Driving Car Race 2020 (Bloomberg)
• MEET THE FIRST NASA ASTRONAUTS SPACEX WILL LAUNCH TO ORBIT (The Verge)

Friday, May 15

• OnlyFans, Influencers, And The Politics Of Selling Nudes During A Pandemic (Elle.com)
• How Sporcle followed trivia fans from bars to Zoom and built a $2.5M business (Protocol)
• Founder Of Borders Bookstores, Webvan Returns With Dreams Of Beating Amazon At Food Delivery (Forbes)
• Inside HBO Max, the $4 Billion Bet to Stand Out in the Streaming Wars (Variety)
• The Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the Hacker Who Saved the Internet (Wired)
• Our weird behavior during the pandemic is messing with AI models (MIT Technology Review)
• Yes, websites really are starting to look more similar (The Conversation)

Friday, May 08

• The System That Actually Worked (The Atlantic)
• THE WORLD’S BIGGEST PC GAMES ARE FIGHTING A NEW SURGE OF CHEATERS AND HACKERS (The Verge)
• How Apple reinvented the cursor for iPad (TechCrunch)
• Instacart’s Frantic Dash From Grocery App to Essential Service (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• 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)

Friday, May 01

• Common Sense Comes Closer to Computers (Quanta)
• The challenges of developing autonomous vehicles during a pandemic (VentureBeat)
• This Should Be V.R.’s Moment. Why Is It Still So Niche? (NYTimes)
• Apple still depends on traditional American engineers, and is slowly losing them (Apple Insider)
• How Well Can Algorithms Recognize Your Masked Face? (Wired)
• Inside the MIT spinoff that’s making Inception-style dream manipulation possible (Digital Trends)
• You Have a TikTok Hit! Now, Quick — Change the Title (Rolling Stone)

Friday, April 24

• Silicon Valley balanced grueling schedules with workplace perks. Coronavirus is forcing change (CNET)
• Preppers Are Quite Prepared to Enjoy Some Vindication (NYTimes)
• Following the money in a massive “sextortion” spam scheme (Sophos)
• How Instagram managed to survive antitrust scrutiny when it was acquired by Facebook (Fast Company)
• IN THE CORONAVIRUS ERA, THE FORCE IS STILL WITH JACK DORSEY (Vanity Fair)

Friday, April 17

• ‘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)
• LIDAR: Peek Into The Future With iPad Pro (Halide)
• The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder (Wired)
• In Half-Life’s improv scene, anyone can speak for Gordon Freeman (Ars Technica)

Friday, April 10

• Can Airbnb Survive Coronavirus? (Citylab)
• Atlassian’s tools helped build today’s tech. How’s it prepping for the future? (Protocol)
• Zuckerberg’s Jealousy Held Back Instagram and Drove Off Founders (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Was Leisure Suit Larry Really an Accomplice in Early Banking Cyberattacks? (Vice)
• Has Apple finally bitten off way more than it can chew? (WiredUK)
• Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies (Stratechery)

Friday, April 03

• Google Data Centers’ Secret Cost: Billions of Gallons of Water (Bloomberg Green)
• Microsoft Edge is becoming the browser you didn’t know you needed (Ars Technica)
• The Xbox Series X master plan (Polygon)
• From courts to consoles: With live sports canceled, pro athletes join the streaming surge (The Washington Post)
• Telemedicine, Once a Hard Sell, Can’t Keep Up With Demand (WSJ)
• The Medical News Site That Saw the Coronavirus Coming Months Ago (NYTimes)

Friday, March 27

• Everything Is So Fucked, You Might As Well Get A Facebook Portal (Buzzfeed News)
• We Need A Massive Surveillance Program (IdleWords.com)
• Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers (Bloomberg)
• Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? (Wired)
• DJI Won the Drone Wars, and Now It’s Paying the Price (BusinessWeek)
• We visited a small Virginia town where drone deliveries have begun for real (Input Magazine)

Friday, March 20

• How Reddit’s coronavirus community became a destination (NBC News)
• Can Smart Thermometers Track the Spread of the Coronavirus? (NYTimes)
• Correlation and Market Meltdowns (Fred Wilson/AVC)
• Zoom conquered video chat — now it has even bigger plans (Protocol)
• The tech industry’s quest to help us sleep better is just beginning (Fast Company)
• How TikTok Is Taking the Tunes out of Pop (HighSnobiety)

Friday, March 13

• The Secret History of a Cold War Mastermind (Wired)
• TIM COOK’S TRICK FOR MAKING IPHONES IS NOW AT RISK FROM THE PANDEMIC (The Verge)
• Why All the Warby Parker Clones Are Now Imploding (Marker)
• How Google kneecapped Amazon’s smart TV efforts (Protocol)
• A Chatty Auction Site Is Taking the Classic Car World by Storm (NYTimes)
• The History of the URL (Cloudflare)

Friday, March 06

• 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)
• Hideo Kojima’s Strange, Unforgettable Video-Game Worlds (NYTimes Magazine)
• Can You Really Hire a Hit Man on the Dark Web? (NYTimes)
• This Utility Heats New York State—And Mines Its Own Bitcoin (Bloomberg)
• Classic iPod Hackers Say There’s No Better Way to Listen to Music (One Zero)

Friday, February 28

• How Monzo brought Silicon Valley’s ‘wild ideas’ to Britain’s staid banking system (CNBC)
• The bank manager will see you now: is Monzo ready to grow up? (The Guardian)
• Inside the race to build the best quantum computer on Earth (MIT Technology Review)
• A parody Twitter account hits a nerve with Silicon Valley VCs (Protocol)
• How North Korean Hackers Rob Banks Around the World (Wired)
• YC’s New Guide to Raising a Series A (Y Combinator)
• Printing’s Not Dead: The $35 Billion Fight Over Ink Cartridges (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Friday, February 21

• Did the Early Internet Activists Blow It? (Slate)
• Wikipedia Is the Last Best Place on the Internet (Wired)
• How the BBC’s Netflix-killing plan was snuffed by myopic regulation (WiredUK)
• Could micro-credentials compete with traditional degrees? (BBC)
• Debt is Coming (AlexDanco.com)
• The New Business of AI (and How It’s Different From Traditional Software) (A16Z)
• Aircraft, Big and Small, Are Changing Our Relationship With Flight (NYTimes)

Friday, February 14

• Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Lost Notebook (Wired)
• THE HIGH COST OF A FREE CODING BOOTCAMP (The Verge)
• Cost Cutting Algorithms Are Making Your Job Search a Living Hell (Vice)
• Are Algorithmically-Generated Term Papers the Next Big Challenge to Academic Integrity? (EdSurge)
• SoftBank’s $375 Million Bet on Pizza Went Really Bad Really Fast (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
• How a Space Engineer Made Her Own Rotary Cell Phone (Wired)

Friday, February 07

• MICROSOFT’S WINDOWS FUTURE IS NOW TIED TO HARDWARE (The Verge)
• Steven Levy’s Plaintext
• An Algorithm That Grants Freedom, or Takes It Away (NYTimes)
• ‘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)

Friday, January 31

• Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company (Angela Strange/A16Z)
• Don’t Brush Off Mouth Tech As a Passing Fad (Wired)
• The iPad’s original software designer and program lead look back on the device’s first 10 years (InPut)
• Super Bowl 2020: The madness and magic behind the game’s first 4K HDR broadcast (Digital Trends)
• Researchers Are Racing to Make a Coronavirus Vaccine. Will It Help? (NYTimes)
• How Do Bats Live With So Many Viruses? (NYTimes)
• Facial Recognition- The controversial and nearly ever-present technology that could replace the fingerprint (California Sunday Magazine)
• CollegeHumor Helped Shape Online Comedy. What Went Wrong? (Wired)

Friday, January 24

• Inside the World’s Highest-Stakes Industrial Hacking Contest (Wired)
• We’re Banning Facial Recognition. We’re Missing the Point. (NYTimes)
• The Secret History of Facial Recognition (Wired)
• Behind the Scenes at Rotten Tomatoes (Wired)
• Jobs, Cook, Ive—Blevins? The Rise of Apple’s Cost Cutter (WSJ)
• The Tesla Skeptics Who Bet Against Elon Musk (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• The Internet of Beefs (Ribbonfarm.com)
• The Hacker News Thread on The Internet of Beefs

Friday, January 17

• How Mormons Built the Next Silicon Valley While No One Was Looking (Marker)
• All the money in the world couldn’t make Kinect happen (Polygon)
• The Promise of Cloud-Native Games (A16Z/Jonathan Lai)
• The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, Who Will Build It, and Fortnite (MatthewBall.vc)
• Islamic fintechs are on the rise — but how viable is this tailored offering? (Sifted)
• The Big Question Now Facing Apple (Above Avalon)

Friday, January 10

• QUIBI VERSUS THE WORLD (The Verge)
• The hidden world and overlooked problems of acting in video games (Washington Post)
• Why your favorite celebs are ditching Twitter for an app you’ve never heard of (Fast Company)
• AN ORAL HISTORY OF RICKROLLING (Mel)
• Admit It: You Have a Box of Cords You’ll Never, Ever Use Again (WSJ)

Friday, January 03

• How to lose a monopoly: Microsoft, IBM and anti-trust (Benedict Evans)
• Windows: Facing the New Decade (2010–2020) (Steven Sinofsky)
• Ghosts in the Clouds: Inside China’s Major Corporate Hack (WSJ)
• ‘Shattered’: Inside the secret battle to save America’s undercover spies in the digital age (Yahoo News)
• This time, for sure! Ars Technica’s 2020 Deathwatch (Ars Technica)

Friday, December 27

• 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

• SoftBank Vision Fund Employees Depict a Culture of Recklessness (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy (Non-GAAP Thoughts)
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 (LATimes)
• 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

• Pessimists Archive Podcast
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• WHEN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMES WITH A FEW CATCHE S (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, August 02

• WHEN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMES WITH A FEW CATCHES (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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Product Breakfast Club podcast
• 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

• 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

• 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/Horace Dediu)
• AS COMMERCIAL SPACEFLIGHT TAKES OFF, THE AVIATION INDUSTRY GETS PROTECTIVE OF AIRSPACE (The Verge)
• The Fusion Reactor Next Door (NYTimes)

Friday, May 10

• 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

• 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

• 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 (TheVerge)
• 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

• 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

• The basics of modern AI—how does it work and will it destroy society this year? (ArsTechnica)
• FOXCONN IS CONFUSING THE HELL OUT OF WISCONSIN (The Verge)
• The man behind Huawei (The Los Angeles 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

• 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

• Podcast Suggestion: RunAs Radio
• 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 (Financial Times)
• 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

• 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

• ‘We Know Them. We Trust Them.’ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave. (NYTimes)
• DeepMind and Google: the battle to control artificial intelligence (1843)
• Foursquare’s first decade, from viral hit to real business and beyond (Fast Company)
• Meet The Billionaire Who Defied Amazon And Built Wish, The World’s Most-Downloaded E-Commerce App (Forbes)
• How to Stop Your Roommates From Messing With Your Amazon Echo (Lifehacker)

Friday, March 08

• 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 (TheVerge)
• 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

• 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/Connie Chan)

Friday, February 22

• 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)
• YouTube Story 1: Study blames YouTube for rise in number of Flat Earthers (The Guardian)
• YouTube Story 2: YouTube Unleashed a Conspiracy Theory Boom. Can It Be Contained? (NYTimes)
• YouTube Story 3: How YouTube helps flat-earthers organize (The Verge)

Friday, February 15

• 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

• 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

• The ShopTalkShow podcast
• 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

• 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 (ArsTechnica)
• Reddit’s r/changemyview is a template for how all online discussion should be (TNW)

Friday, January 18

• 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

• 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 (Los Angeles Times)
• Inside look at modern web browser (part 1) (Developers.Google)
• The Race to Diagnose Cancer With a Simple Blood Test (2069 - Medium)
• Lasers vs. Microwaves: The Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage (ieee Spectrum)
• PREPARING FOR Y2038 (ALREADY?!) (blogs.akamai)

Friday, January 04

• Podcast suggestion: Daily Fortnite
• Courier Prime
• He Hawks Young Blood As A New Miracle Treatment. All That’s Missing Is Proof. (HuffPo)
• Curbs on A.I. Exports? Silicon Valley Fears Losing Its Edge (NYTimes)
• The Bird Box Effect: How Memes Drive Users to Netflix (The Ringer)
• Birding Like It’s 1899: Inside a Blockbuster American West Video Game (Audubon)
• How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code (Quanta)
• The Hacker News discussion of the Quanta piece

Friday, December 28

• The Devchat.tv podcasts
• The GPS wars have begun (TechCrunch)
• Amazon gets into health insurance — and more 2019 health-tech predictions from top experts (CNBC)
• 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)
• Bird Box Is the First Great Monster Movie About This Poisonous Invention (PaleoFuture/Gizmodo)

Friday, December 21

• Software Defined Talk (Podcast)
• Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess (NYTimes)
• Inside Shenzhen’s race to outdo Silicon Valley (Bloomberg)
• The 2019 IPO class headlined by Uber will create a ton of new wealth. Will the billions go to mansions or missions? (Recode)
• 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)

Friday, December 14

• EV News Daily (Podcast)
• Evelyn Berezin, 93, Dies; Built the First True Word Processor (New York Times)
• 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)

Friday, December 07

• The Comics Canon (Podcast)
• Land of the “Super Founders“— A Data-Driven Approach to Uncover the Secrets of Billion Dollar Startups (Ali Tamaseb)
• YOUTUBE CREATORS BLINDSIDED BY MAJOR NETWORK’S COLLAPSE (The Verge)
• A 7-year-old boy is making $22 million a year on YouTube reviewing toys (MSN)
• Almost Every Electric Scooter in the World Comes From This Chinese Company (Bloomberg)
• Cryptopia In Crisis: Joe Lubin’s Ethereum Experiment Is A Mess. How Long Will He Prop It Up? (Forbes)
• 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)

Friday, November 30

• 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)
• How Amazon Web Services Reinvented the Internet and Became a Cash Cow (NYMag)
• The legacy of PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi, in 24 stories (Polygon)
• This Is the Way the Paper Crumples (NYTimes)

Tuesday, November 20

• How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakes (NiemanLab)
• Self-driving trucks in US offer window into where machines may replace humans (Christian Science Monitor)
• When Elon Musk Tunnels Under Your Home (The Atlantic)
• The Case Against Quantum Computing (IEEE Spectrum)
• HOW GOOGLE AND AMAZON GOT AWAY WITH NOT BEING REGULATED (Wired)
• How to Use an iPod Touch as a Secure Device Instead of a Phone (Motherboard)
• Scientists say goodbye to physical definition of the kilogram (The Verge)

Friday, November 16

• THE GENIUS NEUROSCIENTIST WHO MIGHT HOLD THE KEY TO TRUE AI (Wired)
• Are Killer Robots the Future of War? Parsing the Facts on Autonomous Weapons (NYTimes Magazine)
• 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)
• THE HAIL MARY PLAN TO RESTART A HACKED US ELECTRIC GRID (Wired)
• Space Camp grows up (Mashable)

Friday, November 09

• Why Technology Favors Tyranny (The Atlantic)
• Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer (NYTimes)
• HQ Trivia was a blockbuster hit — but internal turmoil and a shrinking audience have pushed its company to the brink (ReCode)
• ‘It’s Giant and Has Like Five Million Buttons.’ The Office Desk Phone Won’t Die (WSJ)
• Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (The New Yorker)
• Here Comes ‘Smart Dust,’ the Tiny Computers That Pull Power from the Air (WSJ)
• ASTRONOMERS SEE MATERIAL ORBITING A BLACK HOLE RIGHT AT THE EDGE OF FOREVER (SyFy Wire)

Friday, November 02

• The Facebook Dilemma, Part 1 (Frontline on YouTube) and
• A Cryptocurrency Millionaire Wants to Build a Utopia in Nevada (New York Times)
• The Man Behind the Scooter Revolution (CityLab)
• A Fork in the Road for Avis (Fortune)
• The Encyclopedia of the Missing (Longreads)

Friday, October 26

• Inside Rockstar Games’ Culture Of Crunch (Kotaku)
• At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks (WSJ)
• Podcast on Netflix Culture (Planet Money Podcast)
• It Might Get Loud: Inside Silicon Valley’s Battle to Own Voice Tech (Fortune)
• How Dara Khosrowshahi’s Iranian heritage shapes how he leads Uber (Fast Company)
• AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF SILICON VALLEY DISRUPTION (Wired)

Friday, October 19

• Craig Newmark, Newspaper Villain, Is Working to Save Journalism (New York Times)
• How the West Was Digitized: The Making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2 (Vulture/New York Magazine)
• Drone Journalism’s Battle for Airspace (Columbia Journalism Review)
• Mother Earth Mother Board (Wired)
• The Prophets of Cryptocurrency Survey the Boom and Bust (The New Yorker)

Friday, October 12

• This Is How Amazon Loses (NewCo Shift)
• The Pentagon’s Push to Program Soldiers’ Brains (The Atlantic)
• Alexa, Should We Trust You? (The Atlantic)
• Fear and loathing in venture capital (Max Niederhofer)
• The First Rule of Microsoft Excel—Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It (WSJ)

Friday, October 05

• The iPhone XS & XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Secrets (AnAndTech)
• Sex Workers Pioneered the Early Internet—and It Screwed Them Over (Motherboard)
• Raised by YouTube (The Atlantic)
• Old Unicorn, New Tricks: Airbnb Has A Sky-High Valuation. Here’s Its Audacious Plan To Earn It (Forbes)
• EA announces ‘FIFA 19’ PS4 esports tournament (Engadget)

Friday, September 28

• How Uber is getting flying cars off the ground (CNET)
• Coinbase Wants To Be Too Big To Fail (Fortune)
• The Apple Watch – Tipping Point Time for Healthcare (Steve Blank)
• Meet the Community Keeping Obsolete Supercomputers Alive (Motherboard)
• The first Android phone 10 years later: An annotated review (CNET)
• Hacker says he’ll livestream deletion of Zuckerberg’s Facebook page (Engadget)

Friday, September 21

• Inside Facebook’s Election ‘War Room’ (NYTimes)
• Bitcoin Miners Flock to New York’s Remote Corners, but Get Chilly Reception (NYTimes)
• Living The Stream (ESPN The Magazine)
• A brief history of the numeric keypad (UX Collective)
• Inside the Dramatic, Painful–and Hugely Successful–Return of Reddit’s Founders (Inc)

Friday, September 14

• Android 9 Pie, thoroughly reviewed (Ars Technica)
• Why a Leading Venture Capitalist Is Betting on a Decentralized Internet (Breaker)
• Olaf Carlson-Wee Rode the Bitcoin Boom to Silicon Valley Riches. Can He Survive the Crash? (WSJ)
• Memo to the Silicon Valley boys’ club: Arlan Hamilton has no time for your BS (Fast Company)
• Driverless Hype Collides With Merciless Reality (WSJ)

Friday, September 07

• 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)
• How Android Pie’s Adaptive Battery and Adaptive Brightness work (Venture Beat)
• The man who won the lottery 14 times (The Hustle)

Friday, August 31

• Franken-algorithms: the deadly consequences of unpredictable code (The Guardian)
• Logged off: meet the teens who refuse to use social media (The Guardian)
• How Big Tech Swallowed Seattle (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages (The New Yorker)

Friday, August 24

• Late to the Driverless Revolution (WSJ)
• Posting Instagram Sponsored Content Is the New Summer Job (The Atlantic)
• THE UNTOLD STORY OF NOTPETYA, THE MOST DEVASTATING CYBERATTACK IN HISTORY (Wired)
• The Vanishing Idealism of Burning Man (The New Republic)
• Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism (The Atlantic)
• A monstrous primer on the works of H.P. Lovecraft (Polygon)

Friday, August 17

• VIRGIN GALACTIC’S ROCKET MAN (The New Yorker)
• Inside Evernote’s brain (Fast Company)
• LET’S ALL GO BACK TO TUMBLR (The Outline)
• Why Can’t Europe Do Tech? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• To Get Ready for Robot Driving, Some Want to Reprogram Pedestrians (Bloomberg)

Friday, August 10

• Fintech Frenzy: Hype or Reality? A Closer Look at 6 Key Sectors (Fortune)
• 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)
• THE ULTRA-PURE, SUPER-SECRET SAND THAT MAKES YOUR PHONE POSSIBLE (Wired)

Friday, August 03

• How Robot Hands Are Evolving to Do What Ours Can (NYTimes)
• 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/SelectAll)
• Growing Up Jobs (Vanity Fair)

Friday, July 27

• Brock Pierce: The Hippie King of Cryptocurrency (Rolling Stone)
• How Silicon Valley Has Disrupted Philanthropy (The Atlantic)
• THE ‘GUERRILLA’ WIKIPEDIA EDITORS WHO COMBAT CONSPIRACY THEORIES (Wired)
• Inside Google’s Shadow Workforce (Bloomberg)
• MySpace and the Coding Legacy it Left Behind (Code Academy)

Friday, July 13

• Hell for Elon Musk Is a Midsize Sedan (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• How Twitter Became Home to the Teen Status Update (The Atlantic)
• Why Some of Instagram’s Biggest Memers Are Locking Their Accounts (The Atlantic)
• GEORGE HOTZ IS ON A HACKER CRUSADE AGAINST THE ‘SCAM’ OF SELF-DRIVING CARS (The Verge)
• THE ONLY GOOD ONLINE FANDOM LEFT IS DUNE (The Outline)
• Netflix Isn’t Being Reckless, It’s Just Playing a Game No One Else Dares (Netflix Misunderstandings, Pt. 3) (Matthew Ball/Redef)

Friday, July 06

• Xiaomi founder Lei Jun’s tech empire goes way beyond smartphones (Quartz)
• SELF-DRIVING CARS ARE HEADED TOWARD AN AI ROADBLOCK (The Verge)
• How to Make Piles of Money Using Instagram (Bloomberg)
• Ice Poseidon’s Lucrative, Stressful Life as a Live Streamer (The New Yorker)

Friday, June 29

• I Delivered Packages for Amazon and It Was a Nightmare (The Atlantic)
• HOW THE STARTUP MENTALITY FAILED KIDS IN SAN FRANCISCO (Wired)
• Despite Caution Over Cryptocurrency, Investors Are Bullish (NYTimes)
• The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn’t Over Yet (Bloomberg)

Friday, June 22

• How Twitter Made The Tech World’s Most Unlikely Comeback (BuzzFeed)
• The Legend of Nintendo (Bloomberg)
• Intel now faces a fight for its future (The Verge)
• INSIDE THE CRYPTO WORLD’S BIGGEST SCANDAL (Wired)

Friday, June 15

• The Time Canada Wanted Its Own Internet Because It Thought the US Would Mess It Up (Motherboard)
• Instagram’s Wannabe-Stars Are Driving Luxury Hotels Crazy (The Atlantic)
• HOW THE TRENDIEST GRILLED-CHEESE VENTURE GOT BURNT (Wired)
• THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RACY MODULE THAT ALMOST RUINED D&D (Wired)

Friday, June 08

• ‘I can understand about 50 percent of the things you say’: How Congress is struggling to get smart on tech (Washington Post)
• The Twitter crime mystery that gripped Spain (BBC)
• Meet the people who still use Myspace: ‘It’s given me so much joy’ (The Guardian)
• Exploring The Digital Ruins Of ‘Second Life’ (Digg)
• Why Aren’t We All Buying Houses on the Internet? (Slate)

Friday, June 01

• Obama’s US Digital Service Survives Trump—Quietly (Wired)
• he Search for Women Who Want Cybersecurity Careershe Search for Women Who Want Cybersecurity Careers
• How Futures Trading Changed Bitcoin Prices (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
• The Growing Emptiness of the “Star Wars” Universe (The New Yorker)

Friday, May 18

• Death in the alpine (High Country News)
• How Evan Spiegel Fumbled Snap’s Redesign (The Information)
• Apple and Its Rivals Bet Their Futures on These Men’s Dreams (Bloomberg)
• I Tried to Get an AI to Write This Story (Bloomberg)

Friday, May 11

• Don’t Skype Me: How Microsoft Turned Consumers Against a Beloved Brand (Bloomberg)
• How to Make Your Open Office Less Annoying (The Atlantic)
• The 15 People Who Keep Wikipedia’s Editors From Killing Each Other (WSJ)
• The Wealthy Are Hoarding $10 Billion of Bitcoin in Bunkers (Bloomberg)
• Supercomputers are driving a revolution in hurricane forecasting (Ars Technica)

Friday, May 04

• ‘Hi, It’s Amazon Calling. Here’s What We Don’t Like in Your City.’ (WSJ)
• Over 400 Startups Are Trying to Become the Next Warby Parker. Inside the Wild Race to Overthrow Every Consumer Category (Inc)
• All We Want to Do Is Watch Each Other Play Video Games (NYTimes)
• CoinTalk (podcast)

Friday, April 27

• Inside Jeff Bezos’s DC Life (Washingtonian)
• Hulu Beyond ‘Handmaid’s Tale’: Execs and Stars on a Promising Yet Uncertain Future (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Can Silicon Valley Get You Pregnant? (Fast Company)
• You could be flirting on dating apps with paid impersonators (Quartz)

Friday, April 06

• Lawyer bots take the hassle out of fighting parking tickets and property taxes — and could cost local governments real revenue (Recode)
• How Europe’s new privacy rule is reshaping the internet (The Verge)
• Checking in with the Facebook fact-checking partnership (Columbia Journalism Review)
• A 200-Year-Old Idea Offers A New Way to Trace Stolen Bitcoins (Wired)
• South Korean millennials are reeling from the Bitcoin bust (The Verge)

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