Behind the Smiles
Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed.
Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed.
Will Evans Reveal Nov 2019 25min Permalink
Jerold Haas was on the brink of blockchain riches. Then his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio.
Brendan I. Koerner Wired Nov 2019 35min Permalink
How he made big and early bets on new technologies—and won.
Michal Lev-Ram Fortune Jan 2015 20min Permalink
When a longtime resident started stealing her neighbors’ Amazon packages, she entered a vortex of smart cameras, Nextdoor rants, and cellphone surveillance.
Lauren Smiley The Atlantic Nov 2019 35min Permalink
While searching for the person who grifted me in Chicago, I discovered just how easy it is for users of the short-term rental platform to get exploited.
Allie Conti Vice Oct 2019 25min Permalink
The rise and stunning collapse of a cybersecurity firm.
Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Oct 2019 40min Permalink
Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Motherboard show how Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city.
Sarah Emerson Vice Oct 2019 20min Permalink
How digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big attack will be even harder to crack.
Andy Greenberg Wired Oct 2019 30min Permalink
The largest crowdfunding site in the world puts up a mirror to who we are and what matters most to us. Try not to look away.
Rachel Monroe The Atlantic Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Why everything is getting louder.
Bianca Bosker The Atlantic Oct 2019 15min Permalink
Where will predictive text take us?
John Seabrook New Yorker Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Haley downloaded the app for fun. Now millions of people watch her videos.
Rebecca Jennings Vox Oct 2019 25min Permalink
Highlights from two hours of leaked audio from recent staff Q&A sessions with Facebook’s CEO.
Casey Newton The Verge Oct 2019 Permalink
Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns.
Anna Wiener New Yorker Sep 2019 30min Permalink
“I found it both freeing and disturbing to spend time on a platform that didn’t ask me to pretend that I was on the Internet for a good reason.”
Jia Tolentino New Yorker Sep 2019 Permalink
“Neil Young is crankier than a hermit being stung by bees. He hates Spotify. He hates Facebook. He hates Apple. He hates Steve Jobs. He hates what digital technology is doing to music.”
David Samuels New York Times Magazine Aug 2019 30min Permalink
Uber and Lyft take a lot more from drivers than they say.
Dhruv Mehrotra, Aaron Gordon Jalopnik Aug 2019 30min Permalink
The crowdfunded phone of the future was a multimillion-dollar scam
Adi Robertson The Verge Aug 2019 25min Permalink
Where Big Tech goes to ask deep questions.
Andrew Marantz New Yorker Aug 2019 30min Permalink
Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.
Nitasha Tiku Wired Aug 2019 50min Permalink
How to pay for your food, diapers, and beers through ad fraud.
Joseph Cox Motherboard Aug 2019 10min Permalink
The button that ruined the internet—and how to fix it.
Alex Kantrowitz Buzzfeed Jul 2019 10min Permalink
The people who run these platforms have to make decisions about the greater good—whether they want to or not.
Aaron Sankin Gizmodo Jul 2019 30min Permalink
They travel America in vans and RVs stopping at Targets and Wal-Marts in search of rare soap and coveted toys to stock Amazon’s fulfillment warehouses.
Josh Dzieza The Verge Jul 2019 15min Permalink
How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet.
Nicky Woolf Tortoise Jun 2019 Permalink