Back To Square One
Jack Dorsey’s dazzling startup promised to transform the credit and finance industry. What happened?

August 11, 2014 at 4:19PM
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Adderall Has a Tech Industry Problem
As performance expectations rise, deadlines tighten, and 80-hour work weeks become the norm, stress and drug addiction rates in the Valley explode. And yet we mythologize this self-abuse as superhuman.

August 11, 2014 at 4:19PM
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The History Of Sound At The Movies
Dive into the early experiments of Edison trying to incorporate sound from film’s inception, through the experiments in the early 1920s, “The Jazz Singer” and the industry sound overhaul, and finally the multi-channel surround and modern movie sound technologies.

August 11, 2014 at 3:00PM
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Hello Dave. I control your thermostat. Google’s Nest gets hacked
“Hello, Dave.” The immortal words of Hal, the rogue computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” showed up on the display of a Google Nest appliance control system. That’s not supposed to happen.

August 11, 2014 at 2:58PM
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The World Of Everything-As-A-Service
Over the last few years, it’s become dramatically more simple and capital-efficient to launch and grow Internet businesses. In particular, “X-as-a-Service” providers help startups get off the ground with only a few hundred dollars.

August 11, 2014 at 2:00PM
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How A Computer Algorithm Predicted West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak Before It Was Announced
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is focusing a spotlight on a unique online tool run by experts in Boston that flagged a “mystery hemorrhagic fever” in forested areas of southeastern Guinea nine days before the World Health Organization formally announced the epidemic.

August 11, 2014 at 2:00PM
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Turns Out Your Complex Passwords Aren’t That Much Safer
A complex password isn’t necessarily a secure password. It all depends on the security of the password system.

August 11, 2014 at 10:56AM
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Comcast Confessions: growing pains of a goliath
The Verge interviewed more than 150 current and former employees in an effort to understand Comcast’s lousy reputation. We heard the same stories over and over again: customer service has been replaced by an obsession with sales; technicians are understaffed while tech support is poorly trained; and the company is hobbled by internal fragmentation.

August 11, 2014 at 10:56AM
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The Difference Between POV, Timelapse And Hyperlapse, Visualized
The word “hyperlapse” has been getting tossed around a lot lately. But what exactly makes a hyperlapse, well, hyper? And why do they look so good?

August 11, 2014 at 8:58AM
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Wifi in the Woods
The opportunity to fully disconnect is at risk in an ever-more-connected world.

August 11, 2014 at 8:41AM
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