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Despite its cutting-edge image, Japan has a soft spot for the decidedly 20th-century machines.

Posted on Friday 24 Sep 2021. 990 words, 1 link. By Matt Webb.

How a pencil made out of compressed particle boards became a schoolyard fad—and what that pencil line has to do with Olestra.

For decades, EFF and others have been documenting the monumental failures of content moderation at the platform level—inconsistent policies, inconsistently applied, with dangerous consequences for online expression and access to information...

In U.K. Parliament testimony, Google’s chief internet evangelist gave a frank explanation of why its systems can’t always tell good information from bad.

One way to tell if the audience is happy is to ask a simple question: “Do you want it spicier?” (or the equivalent). If half the people want it to go in one direction and the other half…

Selective Service is updating contingency plans for draft of doctors, nurses and other health care workers in case of national emergency that overwhelms military's medical corps; in confidential report, outside contractor Widmeyer Communications describes how draft might work, how to secure compliance and how to mold public opinion and communicate with health care professionals whose lives would be disrupted; report calls for establishing limited, discreet contacts in advance with various providers and hospitals; summary of report (M)

Ours is a culture that celebrates having more. More clothes, more rooms, more closet space, more cars, more gadgets, more stuff, more… But does it make us happier?

Professors are struggling to teach Gen Z

Welcome to Native Land. This is a resource for North Americans (and others) to find out more about local Indigenous territories and languages.

Within the past 50 years, the global community has solved two huge problems that had the potential to harm every person on Earth

Why rationing might be part of the future.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

How I amassed more T-shirts than I can store.

This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. Like a lot of people, I have found myself overscheduled this summer. I’m still doing less than summers of the pre-pandemic past, which often felt like one wedding sliding straight into another without end, but it still feels like

HOTorNOT, the viral joke website from 2000, pioneered the social web and influenced sites such as YouTube, Twitter, Tinder, and Facebook.

Tech companies are continuing to constantly try to roll out newer, updated smartphones to the market. That said, Americans aren’t as quick to buy them -

For the first time in 17 years, we've completely remade our list of the best songs ever. More than 250 artists, writers, and industry figures helped us choose a brand-new list full of historic favorites, world-changing anthems, and new classics

18 months in, COVID-19 has forced Silicon Valley to end its obsession with optimization.

Mostly.

As pandemic restrictions ease, employers must prepare for an increasingly competitive talent market as workers rethink their careers and their expectations of work, a new Prudential survey finds.

Sixteen years ago, Sheila Bridges revamped the iconic toile pattern to celebrate Black culture. Today, you can find it at several major retailers and The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed - Charles Darwin One of the traits common to all the best teams I’ve been a part of is a commitment to building a good work

I write code since 2013 and started my entrepreneurship journey in 2017. That gave me plenty of time to observe a recurrent pattern: Engineers love to get it right. Entrepreneurs love to get it done. It materializes in a lot of ways, here are the most striking examples: Engineer have the path in their head. Entrepreneur have the destination. It takes an engineer 6 months to write a blog post.

COMMISSIONED Software changes like the weather, and hardware changes like the landscape; each affects the other over geologic timescales to create a new

Balaji Srinivasan, an angel investor, wants to kick start an updated version of MIT's Billion Prices Project . He will invest $100,000 in t...

Q: Following the great video game crash of 1983, where did arcade operators and bar owners go next? A: Trivia games!