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Uber's billion-dollar losses expose the fragile state of the on-demand economy
When Ayda Valilar first read that Uber was losing billions of dollars, she couldn’t believe it. She’d been driving for the ride-share service for nearly five years, and had tried unsuccessfully to...
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Twitter: It is too late for it to become the giant people expected
BEFORE Jack Dorsey helped found Twitter, the social-media firm known for snappy, rapid-fire updates, he worked briefly as a masseur. More recently, Mr Dorsey has been trying to massage away the aches...
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US playwright Edward Albee dies aged 88
Image copyrightAPImage caption Edward Albee was best known for his 1962 play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?US playwright Edward Albee, the author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, has died aged...
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A Mental Disease by Any Other Name
It starts without warning—or rather, the warnings are there, but your ability to detect them exists only in hindsight. First you’re sitting in the car with your son, then he tells you: “I cannot find...
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Closed Source Engines Are a Big Risk
I've been learning a lot about what I prefer in terms of tech to develop games since starting a company where we help build a wide variety of games and demos for people.So far, our two major projects...
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US Economic Liberty Has Been Sinking for Sixteen Years
When Economic Freedom of the World is released every September, it’s like an early Christmas present. This comprehensive yearly publication is a great summary of whether nations have policies that...
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Your Dependencies Are Your Problem; Or, Why I Don't Use React Router
There’s been a lot of negativity surrounding the latest release of React Router, v4.Some of the criticisms contain a kernel of truth, but that kernel is wrapped in a bitter shell of entitlement and...
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A Two-Mile Beer Pipeline Carries Belgium’s Lifeblood to Be Bottled
VideoA Pipeline of Beer: Not Just a FantasyHalve Maan Brewery lies in the center of Bruges, Belgium, but its bottling plant is on the city’s outskirts. Trucks became expensive and impractical, so the...
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Investing for Geeks
One of my numerous very boring hobbies is reading booksaboutinvesting so you don’t have to. Often when I told people I was building a (toy) stock exchange they’d ask me for stock advice, which is about...
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Bay Area unicorn Mode Media shuts down, leaves bloggers unpaid
Over the past couple of years, a herd of unicorns — the tech industry’s term for private companies worth more than a billion dollars — have thundered through Silicon Valley. This week, one of them...
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Is your SSH password revealed when you attempt to connect to the wrong server?
Yes. The password is sent after the encrypted connection is established, but the remote server gets the password in plaintext.If you care about that, the best and easiest solution is to use SSH keys.If...
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To do in San Francisco this weekend: the first-ever roguelike celebration
Noah writes, "This weekend a group of roguelike enthusiasts and developers are getting together for the first ever Roguelike Celebration. It'll feature talks from developers of the game that spawned...
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Learning Web Audio by Recreating the Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno
Steve ReichIt's Gonna Rain1965 Performing and listening to a gradual musical process resembles: pulling back a swing, releasing it, and observing it gradually come to rest; turning over an hour glass...
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Muni ISP forced to shut off fiber-to-the-home Internet after court ruling
The city council in Wilson, North Carolina, has reluctantly voted to turn off the fiber Internet service it provides to a nearby town because of a court ruling that prevents expansion of municipal...
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Google's New TCP Congestion Control Algorithm
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ enum { INET_DIAG_PEERS, INET_DIAG_PAD, INET_DIAG_MARK,+ INET_DIAG_BBRINFO, __INET_DIAG_MAX, };@@ -157,8 +158,20 @@ struct tcp_dctcp_info { __u32 dctcp_ab_tot; };+/*...
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Remember that time Nintendo got rid of the headphone jack?
Enlarge/ The Game Boy Advance SP and its external ports. Notice anything missing?A leading technology company announces the next in its successful and long-standing line of handheld hardware. The new...
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Messy Networks for the Internet of Things
Warning: this post gets a bit technical. It’s for the LPWA geeks.You probably know I’m a big fan of new low-power wide-area networks for the Internet of Things. And most people know about two major...
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The Thrill of Losing Money by Investing in a Manhattan Restaurant
New York restaurants merge the low-margin world of food businesses like grocery stores with taste-predicting industries like Hollywood.Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER MARLOW / MAGNUMIf you live in New York...
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To Catch a Mosquito
Aedes albopictus is an early riser. Of the fifty-one mosquito species in New York, albopictus—a close cousin of Aedes aegypti, the species responsible for spreading Zika—prefers to restrict its...
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Life’s Work: An Interview with Penn Jillette
Michael LewisPenn Jillette is one-half of the magic duo Penn & Teller, who launched their act to great acclaim in the 1980s but have never stopped changing it. A performer on stage and screen for...
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