The drinking fountain button is tragically misunderstood

An elegant button for a civilized era.

Buckle up because El Niño is almost here, and it’s going to get hot

The world is headed into “uncharted territory.”

The sudden death and rebirth of Tweetbot

When Twitter shut off API access, third-party apps were left high and dry. One app chose to pivot to become a Mastodon app.

These are Microsoft’s Bing AI secret rules and why it says it’s named Sydney

Bing AI has a set of secret rules that governs its behavior.

Inside Elon Musk’s first meeting with Twitter employees

Everything Elon Musk told Twitter employees about what’s next.

Why Medium failed

Medium was supposed to elevate writers and ideas. What happened?

How an Excel TikToker manifested her way to making six figures a day

Kat Norton built an Excel training business after going viral.

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Professors are struggling to teach Gen Z

Mark Zuckerberg is betting Facebook’s future on the metaverse - The Verge

An interview with the CEO about his most sci-fi speculation.

The business of influence with YouTuber MKBHD

Marques Brownlee on how he is scaling his brand

The US Navy will replace its touchscreen controls with mechanical ones on its destroyers

After a deadly 2017 crash between a destroyer and an oil tanker

Welcome to Lake Duck Pond, a fake town of 82,000 people

Lower Duck Pond is a thriving town of 80,000 people — all made up by Redditors.

Nomads travel to America’s Walmarts to stock Amazon’s shelves

To stock Amazon’s shelves, merchants travel the backroads of America in search of rare soap and coveted toys.

The Mormon Church vs. the internet

Leaving a community isn’t easy, but a subreddit and QuitMormon.com makes the process simpler and more human.

Grubhub is using thousands of fake websites to upcharge commission fees from real businesses

Grubhub has been buying up to 23,000 fake domains that resemble real restaurants.

How do you engineer a solution to an aging dog?

John Scalzi’s original story for Better Worlds, our science fiction project about hope.

Dirty dealing in the $175 billion Amazon Marketplace

"These schemes really require the mind of someone whose depravity knows no bounds."

'The Simpsons' jumped the shark in one of its best episodes

By this point, Homer had many unbelievable achievements under his belt. Three seasons earlier, he went to space. But it's not how absurd the moment is that qualifies it for jumping the shark. It's what impact the moment has on the show's character.

Former Facebook exec says social media is ripping apart society

How YouTube perfected the feed

How Google Brain transformed YouTube

Why Slack may live to regret its smarmy letter to Microsoft

Slack has always been easy to like. The fast-growing team communication startup had a classic underdog story, with its founders falling ass-backwards into enterprise software following a failed...

How to read a book a week

In February, I read Belle Beth Cooper’s Fast Company piece "How I became a morning person, read more books, and learned a language in a year," which listed the four steps to assuming a new hobby:...

How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world

Igor Schwarzmann is the German co-founder of Third Wave, a strategy consultancy based in Berlin that works with small-scale industrial manufacturers. The company’s clients range across Europe, the...

The yachts of America’s Cup are faster and weirder than ever

When I think of yachts, there are billowing white sails helmed by a steady skipper from the stern, smart deck shoes, and Hemingway’s macho protagonists who toil under harsh conditions in briny sea...