How a small group of gamers has been able to “set the terms of debate in a $100 billion industry, even as they send women like Brianna Wu into hiding and show every sign that they intend to keep doing so until all their demands are met.”
What happens when humans get superpowers.
How the tech billionaire came to own 87,000 acres, three hotels, a wastewater treatment plant, a cemetery and 380 cats.
Tech investors gave Seth Bannon, co-founder of the seemingly surging startup Amicus, over four million dollars, despite knowing almost nothing about him.
Established media companies used to sue YouTube. Now they’re betting on it.
How a Chinese national, with the help of a suspected spy, disappeared with laptops and hard drives that may have contained sensitive information from the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center.
A profile of the Megaupload founder, who has started a political party in New Zealand as the U.S. continues to fight for his extradition.
A five-part series on the instant gratification economy.
On Stewart Butterfield, the founder of Flickr and now Slack, a wildly popular, difficult-to-describe messaging service that has 38,000 paying subscribers just a few months after launching.
A profile of celebrity cat Lil BUB and the man who was contemplating bankruptcy before he found her.
On Singapore’s attempt to create a more harmonious society using mass surveillance and data analysis.
Behind the nation’s closed doors, with YouTube.
From Word to smartphones.
On a $40 million raise and a fired co-founder.
On Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson, two anarchists with a history of creating controversial software, and their dream of an economy based on untraceable, uncontrollable money.
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.
