MediumTechnology Beep Beep: The History of George Laurer and the Barcode Medium - Chris Stokel-Walker How a 67-cent pack of Juicy Fruit, and a guy who said no, changed the way we shopped Author’s note: This story was initially reported in 2014 but was …
MediumTechnology The App That Exposes Teens to Catcalls and Harassment Medium - Owen Phillips Engineers and product designers amplify content that meets their business goals. Their choices have unintended consequences. At first glance, the app …
MediumTechnology Twitter Will Finally Stop Making Your Images Look Terrible Medium - Eric Ravenscraft Social media is ruining the internet, but not in the way you think. (Okay, not solely in the way you think.) Every time an image is uploaded to …
MediumTechnology Why the Best Video Games Lie to You Medium - Jordan Erica Webber Creators are using misleading, forgetful, or deceptive protagonists to force gamers to think about subtext — and ask more questions as they play In …
MediumTechnology A Giant Volcano Lurks Beneath Santorini, Greece’s Most Touristy Island Medium - Stav Dimitropoulos On a recent November morning, Giannis Bellonias was sipping tsipouro on the veranda of his cave house in Santorini, Greece. “Visibility is poor today. …
MediumElaine Herzberg Who Killed Elaine Herzberg? Medium - Jack Stilgoe Who is ultimately to blame in the first self-driving car fatality — the technology, the victim, the safety driver, Uber, or the American city …
MediumChina Telecom 5G Is Coming Whether We Like It or Not Medium - Aimee Pearcy 5G probably won’t kill us, but there’s reason to object to it anyway There has always been a level of public opposition to cellular technology, but …
MediumChina Telecom What You Should Know About the Coming of 5G Medium - Aimee Pearcy It probably won’t kill us, but there are a few issues you should know about There has always been a level of public opposition to cellular technology, …
MediumArtificial Intelligence A.I. Fuels Inequality and Climate Change, a New Report Warns Medium - Dave Gershgorn The paper from AI Now also calls for a moratorium on facial recognition The artificial intelligence industry is promoting worker mistreatment, …
MediumVideo Conferencing Please Wear a Shirt on Your Video Calls Medium - Angela Lashbrook The uniting factor behind most of the jobs I’ve had — at a restaurant group, in PR, and in media — was the wasteful meetings. They were, almost …
MediumArt You Might Be Wearing Stolen Art Medium - Florence Ion The best way to support digital artists is to call out stolen work In this age of copy-and-paste design, imitation often isn’t the sincerest form of …
MediumTechnology The Best Gaming Headsets for Every Budget Medium - Alex Rowe After many years of overdone bass and lackluster microphones, gaming headsets have finally settled into a groove of surprising and consistent quality. …
MediumTechnology The Case for Removing All Politicians From Twitter Medium - Robert Howell Many celebrated when Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter would stop accepting political advertising. Perhaps it was a shot at Facebook CEO Mark …
MediumInternet ‘I Felt Like a Time Traveler’: 6 Months Without the Internet Medium - Thomas McMullan OneZero: What did you want to achieve with the project? Nastja Säde Rönkkö: The starting point was when I realized how young the internet is, and how …
MediumMexico City Uber Delivery Workers in Mexico Are Tracking Thieves Through Google Maps and WhatsApp Networks Medium - Martha Pskowski On a recent Tuesday night, Luisa Amezquita, a Rappi company delivery worker, was headed home after her last drop-off of the evening when her …
MediumScience A New Smart Contact Lens Can Charge Wirelessly Without Burning Your Eyeballs Medium - Yasmin Tayag The technology uses supercapacitors and will help speed the creation of contacts lenses that monitor the body When smart contact lenses — wearable, …
MediumStar Trek: The Next Generation If It’s OK to Fantasize About Someone You Know, Why Not in VR? Medium - Lux Alptraum Erotic deepfakes are only going to make the question of sexual ethics muddier and more confusing In a 1990 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a …
MediumLong-form Journalism Uber Delivery Workers in Mexico Track Thieves Through a Secret WhatsApp Network Medium - Martha Pskowski On a recent Tuesday night, Luisa Amezquita, a Rappi company delivery worker, was headed home after her last drop-off of the evening when her …
MediumLong-form Journalism The Influencer and the Hit Man: How a Years-Long Domain Name Feud Ended in a Bloody Shootout Medium - Ian Frisch How a years-long domain name feud ended in a bloody shootout When Ethan Deyo’s small, sandy-haired dog cocked his head and perked up his ears, Deyo …
Medium The Influencer and the Hit Man: How a years-long domain name feud ended in a bloody shootout. Medium - Ian Frisch How a years-long domain name feud ended in a bloody shootout. When Ethan Deyo’s small, sandy-haired dog cocked his head and perked up his ears, Deyo …
MediumTechnology An Eerie Historical Deepfake Imagines Nixon Telling the World the Moon Landing Failed Medium - Andrew Dickson A team of scientists used A.I. to create a convincing facsimile of a historical speech that never happened, and put the threat of fake information …
MediumTechnology Mood-Altering Wearables Are Silicon Valley’s Newest Delusion Medium - Aimee Pearcy New devices tap into the age-old promises of mood alteration You’ve got a deadline tomorrow, and you’re sitting in a coffee shop staring at a blank …
MediumMobile Photography A Googler Explains Exactly How the Pixel 4 Captures the Night Sky Medium - Aaron Gell OneZero: [Looking up at the sky.] That was a long drive, but wow, okay. Damn. Alex Schiffhauer: It’s intense, isn’t it? But no Milky Way — it looks …
MediumTechnology Authoritarian Nations Are Turning the Internet Into a Weapon Medium - MORGAN MEAKER From Twitter’s spies to complete shutdowns, repressive regimes are using A.I. and VPN fingerprinting to silence their critics When two former Twitter …
MediumSony How the PlayStation Took Over the World Medium - Eric Ravenscraft Will the strategies that have powered Sony’s success in gaming for 25 years translate to the streaming generation? It’s hard to overstate Sony’s …
MediumTwitter Twitter Users Are Brilliantly Taking Revenge on Bots That Steal Artwork Medium - Zulie Rane Battling the ‘I’d love to have this on a shirt!’ bots If you’re new to the deep, dark underworld of bots who steal art on Twitter, let me quickly …
MediumTechnology Twitter Users Are Brilliantly Taking Revenge on Bots That Steal Artwork Medium - Zulie Rane Battling the ‘I’d love to have this on a shirt!’ bots If you’re new to the deep, dark underworld of bots who steal art on Twitter, let me quickly …
MediumDigital Advertising How to Totally Escape Ad Tracking at Home Medium - Owen Williams Shutting down ad trackers at the network level is difficult, but not impossible When you go online or use an app, an array of companies quietly tracks …
MediumTechnology Architects Are Playing With the Future of Design in Video Games Medium - Thomas McMullan Game worlds can be blueprints for the real world, liberating spaces where rules can be reinvented and the invisible made visible Earlier this year, a …
