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Tech

The Serial Swatter

How internet trolls dangerously exploit over-militarized police.

Jason Fagone New York Times Magazine Nov 2015 10min Permalink

Business Tech

Living and Dying on Airbnb

After his father died in an Airbnb rental, the writer investigates what the company can do to improve safety.

Zak Stone Matter Nov 2015 20min Permalink

Tech Media

Raiders of the Lost Web

How a Pulitzer-finalist, 34-part-series of investigative journalism vanishes from the internet.

Adrienne LaFrance The Atlantic Oct 2015 15min Permalink

Tech

Inside Reddit’s Plan to Recover From Its Epic Meltdown

The plan, basically: bring back the two founders (who were estranged), focus entirely on mobile, and apologize as much as possible.

Jessi Hempel Wired Oct 2015 25min Permalink

Business Tech

First, Let's Get Rid of All the Bosses

Inside Zappos as it transitions to something called a “Teal organization” that involves no managers and what amounts scouting merit badges and something called “People Points.”

Roger D. Hodge The New Republic Oct 2015 10min Permalink

Sex Tech

If They Build It, Will We Come?

The technological future of the struggling porn industry.

Charlie Warzel Buzzfeed Sep 2015 25min Permalink

Business Tech

How Much of Your Audience Is Fake?

For online advertisers, probably most of it. An investigation.

Ben Elgin, Michael Riley, Joshua Brustein Businessweek Sep 2015 15min Permalink

Business Tech

What Happens Next Will Amaze You

A talk on personal data and the people who collect it:

"Let me ask a trick question. What was the most damaging data breach in the last 12 months? The trick answer is: it's likely something we don't even know about."

Maciej Ceglowski Idle Words Sep 2015 Permalink

Tech World

What #Pobrezafilia Means for Mexico

Mexicans on social media have their own hashtag for images of naked – and plainly impoverished – women.

Julie Morse The Morning News Aug 2015 10min Permalink

Tech

Daniel Wolfe Is Killing Himself Live on Facebook

The search for an Iraq veteran on the brink of suicide.

Zach Baron GQ Aug 2015 25min Permalink

Business Tech World

Google’s $6 Billion Miscalculation on the EU

European antitrust regulators just won’t leave Google alone.

Brad Stone, Vernon Silver Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2015 20min Permalink

Arts Tech

Logan Paul Has Conquered the Internet, But He Can’t Figure Out How to Conquer the World

He’s got millions of followers on Vine. He’s got sponsors paying him tens of thousands to promote their products. He’s got a vanity license plate that says “AYYYYYYY.” It’s not enough.

Caroline Moss Tech Insider Jul 2015 20min Permalink

Tech

The Web We Have to Save

What the internet looks like to someone who spent the past six years in an Iranian prison.

Hossein Derakhshan Matter Jul 2015 15min Permalink

Business Tech

Thirteen Months of Working, Eating and Sleeping at the Googleplex

Meet Ben Discoe, a programmer who did it from October 2011 to November 2012.

Joel Stein Businessweek Jul 2015 10min Permalink

Tech

Web Design: The First 100 Years

Right now, never-ending technological progress feels inevitable. It isn’t. And that’s a good thing. A talk on the future of the internet.

Maciej Ceglowski Idle Words Sep 2014 Permalink

Tech

Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It

The men who are trying to find out if wireless carjacking is possible.

Andy Greenberg Wired Jul 2015 15min Permalink

Crime Tech

The Mob's IT Department

Two successful tech geeks slip into organized crime.

Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2015 20min Permalink

Tech Media

Sexts, Hugs, and Rock 'N' Roll

Hanging out with a new celebrity class: the teen kings and queens of social media.

Ellen Cushing Buzzfeed Jul 2015 30min Permalink

Business History Politics Tech

A World Without Work

If jobs as we’ve known them for a century are going away, what will replace them?

Derek Thompson The Atlantic Jul 2015 35min Permalink

Business Crime Tech World Movies & TV

Inside the Hack of the Century

What really happened at Sony Pictures during the cyberattack – and questions about whether the company should have seen it coming.

  1. Part 1: Who Was Manning the Ramparts at Sony Pictures?

  2. Part 2: The Storm Builds

  3. Part 3: The Cyberbomb Is Detonated

Peter Elkind Fortune Jun 2015 55min Permalink

Crime Tech

Who Set Jessica Chambers on Fire? The Internet Is Trying to Find Out

A murder case in Mississippi catches the eye of amateur sleuths on Facebook, who proceed to harass everyone involved in the case.

Katie J.M. Baker Buzzfeed Jun 2015 30min Permalink

Science Tech

Instagram’s Most Famous Mules

On the man who has turned the grunt work of packing into a social media phenomenon.

Carolyn Kormann New Yorker Jun 2015 10min Permalink

Tech

All Is Fair in Love and Twitter

On the service’s multiple origin stories.

Read more

Excerpted from Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal.

Nick Bilton New York Times Magazine Oct 2013 25min Permalink

Tech

What Is Code?

A 38,000-word answer.

Paul Ford Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2015 25min Permalink

Business Tech

Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla

When Elon Musk went to Russia to buy some rockets.

Read more

Excerpted from Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.

Ashlee Vance Businessweek May 2015 35min Permalink

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