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Business Tech

Behind the Smiles

Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed.

Will Evans Reveal Nov 2019 25min Permalink

Best Article Crime Tech

The Strange Life and Mysterious Death of a Virtuoso Coder

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

Business Tech

Disney CEO Bob Iger's Empire of Tech

How he made big and early bets on new technologies—and won.

Michal Lev-Ram Fortune Jan 2015 20min Permalink

Crime Tech

The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can’t Believe It Came to This

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

Crime Tech Travel

I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb

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

Tech

The Burn List

The rise and stunning collapse of a cybersecurity firm.

Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Oct 2019 40min Permalink

Business Crime Tech

How Facebook Bought a Police Force

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

Tech

The Untold Story of the 2018 Olympics Cyberattack, the Most Deceptive Hack in History

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

Business Tech

When GoFundMe Gets Ugly

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

Science Tech

The End of Silence

Why everything is getting louder.

Bianca Bosker The Atlantic Oct 2019 15min Permalink

Tech

The Next Word

Where will predictive text take us?

John Seabrook New Yorker Oct 2019 30min Permalink

Tech Media

The Not-So-Secret Life of a TikTok-Famous Teen

Haley downloaded the app for fun. Now millions of people watch her videos.

Rebecca Jennings Vox Oct 2019 25min Permalink

Politics Tech

Transcript: Mark Zuckerberg's Leaked Internal Facebook Meetings

Highlights from two hours of leaked audio from recent staff Q&A sessions with Facebook’s CEO.

Casey Newton The Verge Oct 2019 Permalink

Tech

Four Years in Startups

Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns.

Anna Wiener New Yorker Sep 2019 30min Permalink

Business Tech

How TikTok Controls Our Attention

“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

Business Tech Music

Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music

“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

Tech

“This is robbery. This business is out of control.”

Uber and Lyft take a lot more from drivers than they say.

Dhruv Mehrotra, Aaron Gordon Jalopnik Aug 2019 30min Permalink

Tech

Split Screen

The crowdfunded phone of the future was a multimillion-dollar scam

Adi Robertson The Verge Aug 2019 25min Permalink

Tech

Trouble in Paradise

Where Big Tech goes to ask deep questions.

Andrew Marantz New Yorker Aug 2019 30min Permalink

Best Article Tech

Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech

Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.

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Nitasha Tiku Wired Aug 2019 50min Permalink

Tech

America’s DIY Phone Farmers

How to pay for your food, diapers, and beers through ad fraud.

Joseph Cox Motherboard Aug 2019 10min Permalink

Tech

The Man Who Built the Retweet: “We Handed a Loaded Weapon To 4-Year-Olds”

The button that ruined the internet—and how to fix it.

Alex Kantrowitz Buzzfeed Jul 2019 10min Permalink

Tech

The Dirty Business of Hosting Hate Online

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

Best Article Tech

Road-Tripping With the Amazon Nomads

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

Tech

Destroyer of Worlds: The 8Chan Story

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

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