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Business Travel

Paradise Lost: The Rise and Ruin of Couchsurfing.com

The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by an alum of surveillance-analytics firm Palantir, has gone back on its always-free ethos.

Andrew Fedorov Input Magazine Sep 2021 30min Permalink

Tech

I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget

In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I’m forever getting married.

Lauren Goode Wired Apr 2021 25min Permalink

Tech

'Greetings, Premier, I Run a Gay Website'

How a dating app helped a generation of Chinese come out of the closet.

Yi-Ling Liu New York Times Magazine Mar 2020 30min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "You Will Never Be Forgotten"

Surviving sexual assault in a rapidly digitized world.

Mary South The New Yorker Jan 2020 30min Permalink

Tech Music

The Tween-Ruled App Turning Middle Schoolers Into Pop Stars

The lip-syncing app Musical.ly claims that it has signed up 50% of American teens.

Elspeth Reeve Elle Jul 2016 Permalink

Crime Sports Tech

The Strava Files

After two cycling-related deaths, the social fitness network becomes a target.

David Darlington Bicycling Magazine Oct 2013 35min Permalink