MH370 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Where Is It?The Atlantic - William LangewiescheFive years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say. At 12:42 a.m. on the quiet, moonlit night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER operated
Play button Three years in, Google’s hardware honcho is just getting startedFast Company - Harry McCrackenRick Osterloh has shaped the modern era of Google gadgets. Signs of progress are tangible, but the vision is much bigger. When Google senior VP of devices and services Rick Osterloh greets me at his offices
11 infuriating Apple glitches, and the best ways to cope with themFast Company - By Sean CaptainThough known for slick, intuitive design, Apple has let a bunch of glitches and poor design choices persist for way too long in its mobile devices and computers. “It just works,” has long been Apple’s
The man behind HuaweiLos Angeles Times - Norman Pearlstine, Robyn Dixon, David Pierson, David S. Cloud, Alice Su, Max Hao LuRen Zhengfei turned a company with no intellectual property into the world’s largest telecom and made China a global leader in 5G technology. Washington says he had help from Beijing. The meetings with
YouTube Kids YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run RampantBloomberg A year ago, Susan Wojcicki was on stage to defend YouTube. Her company, hammered for months for fueling falsehoods online, was reeling from another …
Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My BrainThe New York Times - By KEVIN ROOSEMy name is Kevin, and I have a phone problem. And if you’re anything like me — and the statistics suggest you probably are, at least where smartphones are concerned — you have one, too. I don’t love referring
This guy holds the Guinness World Record for collecting spreadsheetsFast Company - By Harry McCrackenAriel Fischman’s office shelves are a veritable museum devoted to the era of VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, Multiplan, and other products that once duked it out for number-crunching supremacy. In a world in which
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It SecretThe New York Times Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.
Dodged questions from Facebook’s press call on misinformationTechCrunch - Josh ConstineFacebook avoided some of the toughest inquiries from reporters yesterday during a conference call about its efforts to fight election interference and fake news. The company did provide additional transparency
Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground upTechCrunch - Matthew PanzarinoI’m not sure if you’re aware, but the launch of Apple Maps went poorly. After a rough first impression, an apology from the CEO, several years of patching holes with data partnerships and some glimmers
iOS 12: Geeky features iOS needsmacworld.com - Jason was lead editor at Macworld for more than a decade and now writes about Apple at Six Colors and podcasts at Relay FM and The Incomparable. If June is for Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), then May is for stories speculating about what will be announced at WWDC. My …
Who Charges Those Electric Bird Scooters?The Atlantic - Taylor Lorenz“Bird hunting” has become a pastime and a side hustle for teens and young professionals, but for some it’s a cutthroat business. Every afternoon around 4 p.m., when school lets out, Brandon, an 18-year-old
Starbucks Brews A Tech-Infused Future, With Help From MicrosoftFast Company - By Harry McCrackenWhen the biggest name in coffee sought to use tech to make its stores both more human and more efficient, it found a partner in another Seattle institution. You’d expect a Starbucks at the company’s corporate
Instagram Looks Like Facebook’s Best HopeBloomberg Through the glass doors, beyond the giant camera logo and before the artisan coffee stand, visitors to Instagram’s headquarters in Menlo Park, …
AirPods AirPods and the Three Stages of Apple Criticismmedium.com - Jonathan Kim It’s rare for critics, commentators, and especially commenters to admit that they were wrong. One reason is that they are rarely asked to, and being …
Theranos The Seven Biggest Lies Theranos ToldBuzzFeed - Stephanie M. LeeElizabeth Holmes once dazzled the world with a story that seemed almost too good to be true: Theranos, her Silicon Valley startup, was going to revolutionize medicine with its blood-testing technology.
This Is Why It’s So Hard To Calculate How Much Uber Drivers EarnFast Company - By Ruth ReaderAn MIT study measuring low driver wages was quickly debunked, but researchers need better data, and ride-hail companies rarely cooperate. Last week, a working paper from MIT claimed that a third of Uber
Inciting a new futureTechCrunch - Matt BurnsSwati Mylavarapu and Matt Rogers are the definitive Silicon Valley power couple. Rogers, a cheerful, be-fuzzed technologist, co-founded Nest Labs. Swati, a sharp visionary, was at Square for four years
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever MetGizmodo - Kashmir Hill In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from …
Play button Tony Fadell’s Next Act? Taking on Silicon Valley—From ParisWIRED - Adam Fisher Tony Fadell is at the Grove, a spectacularly beautiful country estate outside of London. The event is Founders Forum: the ultra exclusive …
Mark Zuckerberg’s Fake News Problem Isn’t Going AwayBloomberg Technically speaking, Mark Zuckerberg has been on paternity leave. In late August his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave birth to their second child, a girl. …
Satya Nadella Rewrites Microsoft’s CodeFast Company - By Harry McCrackenMicrosoft’s CEO has stopped infighting, restored morale, and created more than $250 billion in market value. All it took was focusing on what matters most. Satya Nadella’s corner office, on the fifth of
Play button Polaroid is back in the instant photography business it created and abandonedFast Company - By Harry McCrackenWhen Polaroid stopped making instant film cameras in 2007 and ceased instant-film production the following year, it was sad—but also, in the era of digital photography, perfectly understandable. Left little
15 Questions I Still Have After Apple’s Big EventFast Company - By Harry McCrackenWhat we don’t yet know about Apple’s new product lineup is at least as interesting as what became official on Tuesday. If you were paying attention to the pre-event scuttlebutt, Apple’s product launch
WhatsApp’s Cofounder On How It Reached 1.3 Billion Users Without Losing Its FocusFast Company - By Harry McCrackenEven under Facebook ownership, Jan Koum says that the simplicity and efficiency that made WhatsApp a hit in the first place remain all-important. Three and a half years ago, Facebook announced its plan
How Apple Plans to Change the Way You Use the Next iPhoneBloomberg - Mark Gurman Apple Inc. plans to transform the way people use its next high-end iPhone by eliminating the concept of a home button and making other adjustments to …
Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech GiantThe New York Times - By KENNETH P. VOGELWASHINGTON — In the hours after European antitrust regulators levied a record $2.7 billion fine against Google in late June, an influential Washington think tank learned what can happen when a wealthy
Uber’s New CEOstratechery.com - Ben Thompson • The #DeleteUber campaign • The fallout from Susan Fowler Rigetti’s blog post, including the Holder investigation and report • A lawsuit from Waymo alleging …
FOIA: Internal Emails Show Government Officials Scrambling to Explain Why Climate Scientist’s Meeting With Mark ZuckerbergVICE - Sarah EmersonUnpublished documents reveal new details about the circumstances behind the high-profile Facebook event. On a sunny Saturday afternoon, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dropped into Montana's famed Glacier
