The Shut-In Economy
In the new world of on-demand everything, you’re either pampered, isolated royalty  —  or you’re a 21st century servant.

March 25, 2015 at 04:23PM
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Biotech boot camp
US funding agencies are turning to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to focus fledgling biomedical companies on success — even when that means making a scientific course correction.

March 25, 2015 at 03:16PM
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Will Facebook Messenger Kill Email?
Last year Facebook made us install its messaging app. Now it’s recruiting developers to make sure we use it for just about everything

March 25, 2015 at 01:08PM
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New Yorkers Fight Over The Last Remaining 212 Area Codes
For Kelli Parker and her husband, Andy Lippitt, finding a place to live in Manhattan was secondary to obtaining what they thought would instantly identify them as New Yorkers: his-and-hers cellphone numbers with 212 area codes.

March 25, 2015 at 01:08PM
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A CD Shattered By Rotational Speed, Filmed At 170,000fps
Everyone knows you can spectacularly ruin a CD in a microwave, but ramping up the RPMs has a similar effect.

March 25, 2015 at 12:55PM
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Critical Sharks Part IV: Fear of Apple
There is an unfortunate climate of fear in the software community today. It is primarily in ephemeral video interviews and podcasts that we get any semblance of coherent criticism and even then it is reticent. In written interviews, these fair-weather critics go on to reverse their opinions and praise the products of modern minimalist UI design because it is more convenient not to risk questioning powerful industry leaders.

March 25, 2015 at 12:06PM
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Time Borrowed
Posting journalism directly to Facebook will be great for those publishers who do it early. They will enjoy a set of small privileges that will express themselves in major ways: their stories will load faster than links to outside sites; their posts will merge more seamlessly into the addictive News Feed. Yet, Facebook is giving publishers the keys to its oldest product — the product it is spending billions of dollars to attempt to replace.

March 25, 2015 at 12:06PM
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Driverless cars need to be spy machines so they don’t kill you
Without its Big Brother capabilities, an autonomous car just wouldn’t work, the same way Google wouldn’t be as good if it didn’t “read” our emails or archive our search history.

March 25, 2015 at 12:06PM
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Facebook F8 live blog
Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook crew take on all comers in a dance-off. Just kidding, they’re talking about product stuff and stuff.

March 25, 2015 at 11:26AM
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A brilliant Tinder hack made hundreds of bros unwittingly flirt with each other
A California-based programmer has tweaked the app’s API, creating a catfish machine that fools men into thinking they’re talking to women — when in fact they’re talking with each other.

March 25, 2015 at 10:50AM
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