Why the Rental-Car Crisis Feels Personal
Supply is low, demand is high—but that alone cannot explain the weird indignity of renting a vehicle.
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When Multilevel Marketing Met Gen Z
Amelia Whelan used social media as an accelerant for her sales community. Then things blew up.
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A.I. Predicts the Shapes of Molecules to Come
DeepMind has given 3-D structure to 350,000 proteins, including every one made by humans, promising a boon for medicine and drug design.
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We’re Already Colonizing Mars
This is the way colonization starts: not with comfy habitats and astronauts, but with Instagram posts and discarded parachutes.
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Google Reveals Major Hidden Weakness In Machine Learning
Deep learning algorithms are prone to a previously unknown problem, say a team of computer scientists at Google.
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Remote but Inclusive for Years, and Now Showing Other Companies How
Ultranauts has been developing creative ways to hire, manage and motivate a far-flung and diverse work force for seven years.
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The Quantum Internet Will Blow Your Mind. Here’s What It Will Look Like
The next generation of the Internet will rely on revolutionary new tech — allowing for unhackable networks and information that travels faster than the speed of light.
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Things I Learned to Become a Senior Software Engineer
Everything I learned to become a senior software engineer. From good skills to have, to dealing with difficult engineering problems.
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On Discord With the Boys Scalping Harry Styles Tickets
Hanging out on Discord with today’s teen-idol ticket scalpers—average guys, no bots
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Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer
I sat next to a senior software engineer for a year. Here’s what I learnt.
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Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks
“I honestly just wanted to know why the F train didn’t have clocks. I never expected it to be so complicated.”
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A New Luxury Retreat Caters to Elderly Workers in Tech (Ages 30 and Up)
At Modern Elder Academy, on the Baja coast, guests share anxieties about ageism and obsolescence.
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Did Strava copy its mobile route builder from another app?
What do you do when a new feature in a competitor's smartphone app looks a lot like the defining feature of your app? What can you do? That’s the position San Francisco developer Eric Wolfe has found himself in the past few weeks after social fitness giant Strava recently rolled out its Route Builder for Mobile. As
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The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now. Enjoy It While You Can.
Inspired by Silicon Valley’s hyper-growth, companies elsewhere are burning cash in hopes of being the next big thing.
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My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data
The Cambridge Analytica scandal is drawing attention to malicious data thieves and brokers. But every Facebook app—even the dumb, innocent ones—collected users’ personal data without even trying.
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New Mexico’s Sad Bet on Space Exploration
Spaceport America was supposed to bring a thriving space industry to the southern New Mexico desert—but for now it’s a futurist tourist attraction, not an operational harbor to the cosmos.
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The City That Remembers Everything
The smart city is moving beyond cameras and microphones to stranger surveillance tools.
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Meet the People Who Listen to Podcasts at Super-Fast Speeds
"I have often, when finding out about a new podcast with a large back catalog, made myself a 100-hour-plus playlist to catch up."
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Where Self-Driving Cars Go to Learn
Arizona’s promise to keep the driverless car industry free of regulations has attracted dozens of companies, including Uber, Waymo and Lyft.
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The Coming Software Apocalypse
A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes.
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Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Stop You From Reading This Because The Algorithms Have Already Won
And the machines are running the asylum.
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Houston's Flood Is a Design Problem
It’s not because the water comes in. It’s because it is forced to leave again.
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End of the checkout line: the looming crisis for American cashiers
Donald Trump is fixated on a vision of masculine, blue-collar employment. But the retail sector has long had a far greater impact on American employment – and checkout-line technology is putting it at risk
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A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet: They’re Sleeping
Just a power nap in the timescale of the universe.
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What We Lose When the World Moves On From Email
Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian email thread shows the historical value and irresistible allure of a technology that continues to betray us.
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Is China Outsmarting America in A.I.?
HONG KONG — Sören Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany, and seemed set to go to Europe or the United States, where…
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The Weird Thing About Today's Internet
The world’s biggest tech companies might be bigger than you think.
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