Phones Are Good, Actually with Taylor Lorenz
This week, Taylor Lorenz fights our latest moral panic. Are phones really making kids anxious, or are kids just good at noticing what's going on? {listen}
How Nintendo Leveled Up
Over the past 40 years, Shigeru Miyamoto has been inventing the modern video game one pixel at a time. From Donkey Kong to Super Mario Bros to The Legend of…
Chipmaker Intel to halt $25-billion Israel plant, news website says
JERUSALEM, June 10 (Reuters) - Intel Corp (INTC.O) , opens new tab is halting plans for a $25-billion factory in Israel, Israeli financial news website Calcalist said on Monday, in…
The Green-Energy Revolution Shows What Real Innovation Looks Like
Silicon Valley has long had an almost religious fixation on the concept of innovation. Venture capitalists and tech startup entrepreneurs are constantly portraying themselves as people breaking through the crust…
T-Mobile imposes $5 monthly price hike on customers using older plans
T-Mobile bought Sprint in 2020, reducing the number of major nationwide carriers from four to three. T-Mobile completed an acquisition of prepaid carrier Mint Mobile a few weeks ago and…
Breaking Things at Work:The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job by Gavin Mueller
A manifesto for the neo-luddite revolution: an exhilarating challenge to the way we think about work, technology, progress, and what we want from the future
Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry
How Things Work: If the coop model can succeed in Minneapolis, that would significantly undermine the power of Uber and Lyft's threats to pull out of other cities in the future.…
Class of ‘84: When Cyber Was Punk
In the second episode of our mini-series on groundbreaking works from 1984, we jack into the system and upload our minds into Neuromancer. William Gibson’s novel became a seminal work…
Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools
Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals. …
Your River’s Keeper
Water is essential for life, but how much do you know about the health of your local water supply? In this special episode, we speak with two Riverkeepers who explain…