The 50,000-word story of Microsoft’s antitrust case.

He was an early video streaming startup founder who threw parties where celebrities like Bryan Singer had sex with teenage boys. Then, he came to believe that music mogul David Geffen was trying to kill him.

What happens after your goofy little company gets swallowed by Amazon.

The Harvard Law professsor on billionaires, politics and Uber.

What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.

The fall of billionaire Henry Nicholas, co-founder and CEO of microchip-maker Broadcom, who lost his job and his marriage amidst allegations of drug use, cooking the books, and building a secret party lair beneath the house he shared with family.

Ted Nelson's Xanadu project began in 1960 and was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. It didn't go that way.

Update: The software was finally, quietly released in April.

The surprisingly difficult work of building bots that can walk.

Privacy, memory, data and advertising—how the modern web has become a Ponzi scheme and how we might be able to fix it.

But not for want of programmers trying.

The laundry wars of Silicon Valley.

Tom Cruise did not, in fact, jump up and down on Oprah’s couch.

The fall of PCCare247, an Indian company in the business of selling fixes to problems that didn’t exist.

How a Japanese company took over the American living room.

Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark’s schools. They got an education.

The story of Soylent, a Silicon Valley concoction designed to replace your meals.

In appreciation of meaningful, ubiquitous, enduring applications.

Previously: Paul Ford on the Longform Podcast.

A reclusive hacker wages a shadow war against payday loan cyber-extortioners.

How the Google co-founder, forced out of a leadership role in 2001, came back to run the company 10 years later.

The dark side of startup life in Silicon Valley.

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An interview with Barry Diller about Aereo and the past, present and future of TV.

Previously: Vanessa Grigoriadis on the Longform Podcast.

Shai Agassi had nearly $1 billion in funding and a dream to replace gas guzzlers with electric cars. All he was missing was a plan.

A teenager orchestrates his own attempted murder via an Internet chatroom.

An investigation into the ill-fated text messaging platform ZunZuneo.

The Bitcoin ghostwriter who wasn’t.