Business When Office Buildings Go Beyond GreenThe New York Times - By JOE GOSEDevelopers and landlords have for decades sought green certification to help them attain a level of sustainability that can make their buildings more efficient, and cheaper, to maintain in the long run.
Technology Silicon Valley Came to Kansas Schools. That Started a Rebellion.The New York Times - By NELLIE BOWLESWELLINGTON, Kan. — The seed of rebellion was planted in classrooms. It grew in kitchens and living rooms, in conversations between students and their parents. It culminated when Collin Winter, 14, an grader
Media Industry As Notre Dame burned, an algorithmic error at YouTube put information about 9/11 under news videosNieman Lab - Joshua BentonA reminder that even efforts to limit misinformation can end up spreading it instead — and that human editors watching over the algorithms can be a pretty good thing, too. It’s terrible news for anyone
Technology The Real Stars of the InternetThe New York Times - By JOHN HERRMANI’ve been to the bagel place down the street from my apartment maybe a hundred times. The staff is friendly. I like the food. They’re always open. Lots of people have their own opinions about it. Googling
Boeing 737 MAX How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developerieee.org - Gregory Travis Design shortcuts meant to make a new plane seem like an old, familiar one are to blame Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty ImagesThis is part of the wreckage …
Gear & Gadgets Helvetica, the World's Most Popular Font, Gets a Face-LiftWIRED - Arielle Pardes “Helvetica is like water,” says a recent video about the most popular typeface in the world. The 62-year-old font family, with its sans-serif shapes …
Susan Wojcicki The Most Measured Person in Tech Is Running the Most Chaotic Place on the InternetThe New York Times - By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHIEven by the nightmarish standards of the empire she oversees, Susan Wojcicki, the chief executive officer of YouTube, has had a dreadful start to 2019. During a single week in February, BuzzFeed reported
Opinion We Built an ‘Unbelievable’ (but Legal) Facial Recognition MachineThe New York Times What we found shows the technology’s promise — and perils.
Hells Angels 50 Years After Altamont: The End of the 1960sThe New York Times - By BILL OWENS and JONATHAN BLAUSTEINA half-century ago, 1969 capped a radical, idealistic decade that saw the rise of the hippie generation and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King
Real Estate I’m Over Open-Concept DesignThe New York Times - By RONDA KAYSENAt some point, the previous owners of my house decided to take down the wall separating the living room from the dining room, creating an open space that, in theory, was a good idea. But in reality, it
Science Scott Kelly Spent a Year Taking Photos in Space. They’re Beautiful.The New York Times - By SCOTT KELLYIt was not supposed to be a photo safari. NASA lofted Scott Kelly into orbit aboard the International Space Station in March 2015 for a year so that scientists could learn what happens to the human body
Technology Buying a Tesla Seems Pretty Easy. But There Are a Few Things to Know.The New York Times - By ZACH WICHTERWhen Tesla said on Thursday night that the most basic, $35,000 version of its Model 3 would no longer be offered online, my colleagues and I were confused. Isn’t a Silicon Valley company supposed to be
Opinion Facebook Is Stealing Your Family’s JoyThe New York Times - By KJ DELL’ANTONIAMy kids have had some good news lately. Academic triumphs, hockey tournament wins, even a little college admissions excitement. They’ve had rough moments too, and bittersweet ones. There have been last
Technology Google’s Sensorvault Is a Boon for Law Enforcement. This Is How It Works.The New York Times - By JENNIFER VALENTINO-DeVRIESLaw enforcement officials across the country have been seeking information from a Google database called Sensorvault — a trove of detailed location records involving at least hundreds of millions of devices
How Much Hip Can the Desert Absorb?The New York Times - By PENELOPE GREENBOMBAY BEACH, Calif. — On a blustery Thursday in late March, Stefan Ashkenazy, a hotelier and arts patron from Los Angeles, was bucketing through town in his dusty Chevy Tahoe, pointing out the sights
Uber Uber, Losing $1.8 Billion a Year, Reveals I.P.O. FilingThe New York Times - By MIKE ISAAC and KATE CONGERSAN FRANCISCO — Uber, the ride-hailing service that has upended transportation around the world, took a major step toward the largest initial public offering in years when it officially unveiled its finances
Technology SpaceX lands all three Falcon Heavy rocket boosters for the first time everThe Verge - Loren Grush, Sean O'KaneThe core booster stuck the ocean landing this time Following the second launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, all three of the rocket’s booster cores successfully landed back on Earth. The two outer cores the
Opinion I Don’t Care. I Love My Phone.The New York Times - By SAMANTHA IRBYMy phone is my favorite possession. I wish I could pretend it has been some torrid courtship, that after much cat-and-mousing the two of us succumbed to our mutual attraction and decided to settle down
Opinion I Didn’t Write This Column. I Spoke It.The New York Times - By FARHAD MANJOOA few months ago, I stumbled onto a new way of writing. I don’t mean an unusual literary or textual style; I mean a new physical method for the painstaking task of chiseling the formless geologic schists
Technology In Bubbles, She Sees a Mathematical UniverseThe New York Times - By SIOBHAN ROBERTSPRINCETON, N.J. — On the evening of March 19, the mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck gathered with revelers at the Institute for Advanced Study for a champagne reception. Some hours earlier she’d been awarded
Real Estate A Tour of Designer Charles de Lisle’s Rustic Cabin in SonomaThe New York Times - By STEVEN KURUTZCharles de Lisle Age: 50 Occupation: Designer Location: Sonoma County, Calif. Favorite Room: After looking for land in the area for 20 years, Mr. de Lisle and his partner, Ralph Dennis, who live mostly
Opinion Prince Harry Wants to Ban Fortnite? Here’s What He’s MissingThe New York Times - By JENNIFER SENIORIf you have a child, particularly a boy, particularly a boy who’s a tween or teenager, you are no doubt acquainted with Fortnite, the third-person shooter game that never met a platform it didn’t like.
Technology Are Bankers and Venture Capitalists Really Getting Fleeced by Patagonia?The New York Times - By VANESSA FRIEDMANThe great fleece freak-out of 2019 — the days of crazed excitement around the idea that Patagonia, the outdoor clothing company, was sticking it to Wall Street and Silicon Valley by refusing to make any
Long-form Journalism How A.S.M.R. Became a SensationThe New York Times - By JAMIE LAUREN KEILESWhen Jennifer Allen watched videos of space, she sometimes felt this peculiar sensation: a tingling that spread through her scalp as the camera pulled back to show the marble of the earth. It came in wave,
Defeating Feature FatigueHarvard Business Review - Roland T. Rust and Debora Viana Thompson and Rebecca HamiltonThe Idea in Brief Are you adding features upon features to your products to boost revenues? If so, you’re probably endangering your brands—and your customer relationships. Why? Consumers think they want
Los Angeles, CA Congestion Pricing: N.Y. Embraced It. Will Other Clogged Cities Follow?The New York Times - By WINNIE HU[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Los Angeles traffic is so bad that buses crawl along at less than 12 miles an hour. In San Francisco, car speeds have fallen
Tech Industry How the Tech Giants Make Their Billionsvisualcapitalist.com - Jeff Desjardins How the Tech Giants Make Their BillionsAt a glance, it may seem like the world’s biggest technology companies have a lot in common.For starters, all …
Business Saudi Aramco Is World’s Most Profitable Company, Beating Apple by FarThe New York Times - By STANLEY REEDThe earnings of Saudi Arabia’s giant oil company have long been a mystery, kept under wraps by the country’s government. But on Monday, Saudi Aramco opened its books, revealing that it generated $111.1
Long-form Journalism Airbnb Has a Hidden-Camera ProblemThe Atlantic - Sidney FussellThe home-rental start-up says it’s cracking down on hosts who record guests. Is it doing enough? When Max Vest shook hands with the host of his Miami Airbnb back in January, the man introduced himself
