How Loot Boxes Led To Never-Ending Games (And Always-Paying Players)
On the origins of an industry standard that borders on predatory.

November 15, 2017 at 12:49PM
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The New Firefox Is Here, Meet ‘Quantum’
Chrome, it looks like you’ve got some competition.

November 15, 2017 at 10:40AM
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The Brutal Fight to Mine Your Data and Sell It to Your Boss
Silicon Valley makes billions of dollars peddling personal information, supported by an ecosystem of bit players. One of them, an upstart called HiQ, is going up against LinkedIn in a battle for your lucrative identity.

November 15, 2017 at 08:42AM
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How Many Coders Does It Take to Turn On a Lightbulb?
The tale of kubernetes.

November 15, 2017 at 06:30AM
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Tinder and Grindr don’t want to talk about their role in rising STDs
Health experts see online dating as the new frontier for STD prevention — but major sites don’t want to engage.

November 14, 2017 at 05:13PM
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Your company’s Slack is probably sexist
Does gender influence digital communication? When I began asking colleagues, nearly every woman said yes. Overwhelmingly, men said no.

November 14, 2017 at 02:10PM
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Apple, Google, and the constant chase for tech that can’t be reverse-engineered
Like augmented and virtual reality, machine learning is often thought of as a distant promise. However, in 2017, it has materialized in major ways. Machine learning is at the heart of what makes this year’s iPhone X from Apple and Pixel 2 / XL from Google unique.

November 14, 2017 at 12:08PM
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Why Amazon Just Spent a Fortune to Turn ‘Lord of the Rings’ Into TV
There is no “Moneyball” for media. In entertainment, overkill is underrated.

November 14, 2017 at 09:53AM
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The Greatest Computer Network You’ve Never Heard Of
How the PLATO system, a pre-internet online platform that first came to life at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the 1960s, quietly fostered some of the first digital natives.

November 14, 2017 at 09:53AM
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The Tech Industry’s Gender-Discrimination Problem
The dramatic imbalance in pay and power has created the conditions for abuse. More and more, women are pushing for change.

November 14, 2017 at 04:21AM
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