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Facebook’s reorganization into Meta is the ultimate bet on the power of founder control.

According to reports, a cryptocurrency miner in Abkhazia shot and killed his friend while trying to ward off thieves trying to steal his equipment.

Posted on Thursday 28 Oct 2021. 1,007 words, no links. By Matt Webb.

Do you have a home on the Web? I mean a page or a site that is yours. Not one that belongs to some .com, .org or .edu. One that’s truly yours, with a name you gave to it, nobody else has, and…

There’s a sort of inescapable wastefulness to having a cup of coffee, unless you happen to do your coffee drinking in the relatively narrow belt of the planet that supplies coffee beans to the whole rest of it. Here, where I am writing this blog, by the time any coffee beans arrive as grounds in […]

San Francisco—Public investments in open access fiber networks, instead of more subsidies for broadband carriers, will bring high-speed internet on a more cost-efficient basis to millions of Americans and create an infrastructure that can handle internet growth for decades, according to a new...

Sequoia’s transformation of its venture capital model is actually a shift from financial capital to productive capital

'Extreme Takeover' or 'Class War'? Two opposing stories vie for our votes.

Discussing why anthropomorphism came to dominate early animation, and why that trend never really faded away, while rubber-hose animation quickly did.

At a glance, the border between the United States and Canada would seem to be at the friendlier end of the international boundary spectrum. There is no giant wall and in normal times (outside of pandemic restrictions) many people cross over daily for work or to visit family. It is a tame border, or so

If you’re looking to stave off the Great Resignation, satisfaction can’t be measured only by looking at employee output.

Totenpass, a New York state company run by a contrarian investor, gold trader, jeweller, and bitcoin miner, is beta-testing a system for storing data for 100 years on credit card-sized slabs of gold-plated nickel. The founder and CEO is Roy Sebag, and he explains: ”Our revolutionary storage drive helps you to retain control of your […]

It’s a mess in there

Last year, when everybody was freaking out over TikTok, we noted that TikTok was likely the least of the internet's security and privacy issues. In part because TikTok wasn't doing anything that wasn't being done by thousands of other...

Watchdog finds dubious data gathering, illusory solicitations for consent

Art (movies, plays, fiction, paintings, poetry…) exists to create a change. Often, that’s a change in the viewer, and sometimes, powerful art changes the culture. Art with no intent can…

There’s a road near my house that was built early in the automobile era. It was built so that early adopter car owners would have something to do with their cars–a parkway that went now…

As the World Series looms, it's time to ask: If the robo-umpires piloted in the minor leagues move to the majors, will the fun of arguing about bad calls be sacrificed for accuracy?

Today, trade and globalization often reinforce the incentives for coercion and violence. But what might the history of India reveal about the economic conditions of toleration?

Between the 1970s and 1990s, the share of sequels in Hollywood didn't change. Since 1999, it's basically been more sequels, remakes, and adaptations every year. WHAT HAPPENED IN 1999? https://t.co/498jY4XI1x

Google is the world’s most popular search engine. A public company, currently with a $1.842 Trillion market cap