Drones and Everything After
What happens when humans get superpowers.
What happens when humans get superpowers.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells New York Oct 2014 25min Permalink
How the tech billionaire came to own 87,000 acres, three hotels, a wastewater treatment plant, a cemetery and 380 cats.
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Sep 2014 30min Permalink
Tech investors gave Seth Bannon, co-founder of the seemingly surging startup Amicus, over four million dollars, despite knowing almost nothing about him.
Noam Scheiber The New Republic Sep 2014 15min Permalink
Established media companies used to sue YouTube. Now they’re betting on it.
Felix Gillette Businesweek Aug 2014 15min Permalink
How a Chinese national, with the help of a suspected spy, disappeared with laptops and hard drives that may have contained sensitive information from the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center.
Ryan Gabrielson, Andrew Becker ProPublica Aug 2014 15min Permalink
A profile of the Megaupload founder, who has started a political party in New Zealand as the U.S. continues to fight for his extradition.
Carole Cadwalladr The Observer Aug 2014 20min Permalink
A five-part series on the instant gratification economy.
Liz Gannes Re/Code Aug 2014 50min Permalink
On Stewart Butterfield, the founder of Flickr and now Slack, a wildly popular, difficult-to-describe messaging service that has 38,000 paying subscribers just a few months after launching.
A profile of celebrity cat Lil BUB and the man who was contemplating bankruptcy before he found her.
Camille Dodero Spin Aug 2014 20min Permalink
On Singapore’s attempt to create a more harmonious society using mass surveillance and data analysis.
Shane Harris Foreign Policy Jul 2014 20min Permalink
Behind the nation’s closed doors, with YouTube.
From Word to smartphones.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus Wired Jul 2014 10min Permalink
On a $40 million raise and a fired co-founder.
Nicholas Carlson Business Insider Jul 2014 Permalink
On Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson, two anarchists with a history of creating controversial software, and their dream of an economy based on untraceable, uncontrollable money.
Andy Greenberg Wired Jul 2014 25min Permalink
The 50,000-word story of Microsoft’s antitrust case.
John Heilemann Wired Nov 2000 3h10min Permalink
He was an early video streaming startup founder who threw parties where celebrities like Bryan Singer had sex with teenage boys. Then, he came to believe that music mogul David Geffen was trying to kill him.
Ellie Hall, Nicolás Medina Mora, David Noriega Buzzfeed Jun 2014 20min Permalink
What happens after your goofy little company gets swallowed by Amazon.
Tim Rogers D Magazine Jun 2014 15min Permalink
The Harvard Law professsor on billionaires, politics and Uber.
Nitasha Tiku Valleywag Jun 2014 15min Permalink
What the gospel of innovation gets wrong.
Jill Lepore New Yorker Jun 2014 25min Permalink
The fall of billionaire Henry Nicholas, co-founder and CEO of microchip-maker Broadcom, who lost his job and his marriage amidst allegations of drug use, cooking the books, and building a secret party lair beneath the house he shared with family.
Bethany McLean Vanity Fair Nov 2008 40min Permalink
Ted Nelson's Xanadu project began in 1960 and was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. It didn't go that way.
Update: The software was finally, quietly released in April.
The surprisingly difficult work of building bots that can walk.
Will Knight Technology Review Jun 2014 Permalink
Privacy, memory, data and advertising—how the modern web has become a Ponzi scheme and how we might be able to fix it.
Maciej Cegłowski Idle Words May 2014 Permalink
But not for want of programmers trying.
Alan Levinovitz Wired May 2014 40min Permalink
The laundry wars of Silicon Valley.
Jessica Pressler New York May 2014 20min Permalink