The Good Browser Is Firefox Now, And Other Facts
​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: Chrome is still bad, the best way to win a game of horse and the people who only feel fear and anger.

June 1, 2018 at 06:40AM
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Silicon Valley’s “Flexibility” Fetish
How one seemingly benign concept has been used as cover for all kinds of self-serving proposals.

May 31, 2018 at 07:12PM
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The great video game exodus
Video game developers are leaving the industry at an unprecedented rate. Why?

May 31, 2018 at 05:48PM
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Xbox Is Losing the Console War—But That’s a Good Thing
Not being on top makes it a lot easier for Microsoft to take risks with its hardware.

May 31, 2018 at 01:59PM
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The future of web design doesn’t involve computers at all
Universe’s founder Joe Cohen believes that since we’ve reached a point where the majority of web browsing occurs on a smartphone, the next step is for web design to take place on the phone itself.

May 31, 2018 at 12:27PM
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The iPhone dongle is still my fucking nightmare
Two years into this horrible experiment, it’s clear Apple has made listening to music much, much worse.

May 31, 2018 at 11:09AM
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Watching A Robot Use Living Muscle To Lift Objects Is Actually Super Unnerving
Japanese researchers have managed to graft lab-grown muscles unto a robotic finger, thus making our robotic overlords one step closer to ruling us all in the near future.

May 31, 2018 at 10:33AM
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How Close Are We–Really–to Building a Quantum Computer?
Intel’s head of quantum computing talks about the challenges of developing algorithms, software programs and other necessities for a technology that doesn’t yet exist.

May 31, 2018 at 06:39AM
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Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox and you should too
Why should I continue to use Google’s browser when its incentives — to learn a lot about me so it can sell advertisements — don’t align with mine?

May 30, 2018 at 10:21AM
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This Tech Demo For An Inline Skating/Third-Person Shooter Game Looks So Rad
It’s only a few seconds, and the graphics are pretty barebones, but this looks aggressive… ly awesome.

May 29, 2018 at 04:00PM
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