(Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) A few moons ago I was thinking of ways to take my Palm OS Fossil Wr...

More than 400 mio. scientific documents from more than 11.000 content providers. BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines for academic web resources.

Constraints act not as limitations but as catalysts for creativity. Examples from architecture, design, and art reveal the paradoxical relationship between boundaries and innovation.

For the final seven decades of the last millennium, most people in the developed world scheduled their evenings by answering a simple question: What’s on? For the first two of those decades, …

The “infinite creative” AI ad world is almost here.

Konrad Zuse was a pioneer in the creation of computing technology, a man whose destiny seemed to obstruct progress but couldn't prevent him from creating the first high-level programming language, one of the first computers, and the first book on digital physics.

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand…

Just as slow food is good for digestion, and thus the body, slow tech is good for the soul. Today, most of my life is digital and connected. It is not a surprise that I find joy in the time-slowing…

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Apple is not doomed, but for the first time in a long time its long-term fortunes are cloudy; the time to make change is now.

Not owning crucial code has meant it has been unable to replace the system that led to a scandal.

I've stopped using social media apps as much and have started using RSS again. I'm wasting less time scrolling past stuff I don't care about and more time reading things I enjoy. Try it.

As generative AI reaches a fever pitch of investment, product releases, and hype, most of us have ignored a profound flaw as we march relentlessly toward The Next Big Thing. Our most dominant AI pr…

I’m going to try to write something difficult. I don’t know if I’m going to pull it off, but that’s kind of the point. This is how writers improve: We tackle something we&#8…

A thorough review of trials, tribulations, and tests to bridge the gap from publishing online to federated social networking.

will we know it when we see it?

A community platform for a vibrant, diverse social web.

What Musk is branding, Bluesky may build.

Long before the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) was said to take the world by storm, the p-System  (pseudo-system, or virtual machine) developed at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) provide…

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The next generation of AR glasses starts now!

My whole desk setup now easily fits into a backpack and I can take it anywhere

If you think about it, the main use case for virtualization is isolation: Given that you have several applications running at the same time, how can you make sure they don't interfere with each...

Yes, Clippy made the cut.

“Can We Go to the Neighbourhood?” Amber Lapp has a lovely essay on how her daughter helped her live in her neighborhood: “The sight of this toddler in a sparkly pink tutu and Paw Patrol sneakers bulldozing norms of privacy and leading me deeper into the lives of neighbours felt especially audacious because, as Americana […]

The Spotify CTO maps out his mission to broaden your musical palate — via Swedish innovation, the nature of change, and more.

The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year.