Everything Everywhere

A flipboard for our ever-expanding technological world

By Noah Mittman

Noah Mittman
Social Audio
Can Clubhouse keep the party going?
The Verge - Ashley Carman
For the first time since the pandemic started, I had big Friday night plans: a VIPs-only mansion party. The who’s who of 2003, like Elton John, Howard Stern, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Lindsay would...
4 days ago
Noah Mittman
Yahoo
'How Do You Get Spaghetti Stains Out of Underwear?': An Ode to Yahoo Answers
Esquire - By Justin McElroy
Justin McElroy, co-host of My Brother, My Brother and Me, looks back on the website that shaped his career—and captured the absurdity of being human ... or too high. When my brothers Travis and Griffin...
Apr 8
Noah Mittman
Yahoo
The best of Yahoo! Answers
The Verge - Elizabeth Lopatto
During the aughts, there was a vague notion among techno-optimists that crowdsourcing knowledge was the answer to just about every problem. Using the wisdom of crowds, the thought went, people would have...
Apr 8
Noah Mittman
Media Industry
I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget
WIRED - Lauren Goode
In 2019, I made a painful decision. But to the algorithms that drive Facebook, Pinterest, and a million other apps, I'm forever getting married. I …
Apr 6
Noah Mittman
Facebook
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
Business Insider - Aaron Holmes
A user in a low-level hacking forum on Saturday published the phone numbers and personal data of hundreds of millions of Facebook users for free. The exposed data includes the personal information of 533...
Apr 3
Noah Mittman
Yelp
How Yelp is planning a comeback with reservations and pickup tools
modernretail.co - By Gabriela Barkho
Instead, the focus is mainly on other marketing funnels, like organic social growth via Instagram and Google — as well as keeping an eye on other …
Mar 22
Noah Mittman
Blockchain
NFTs Weren’t Supposed to End Like This
The Atlantic - Anil Dash
The only thing we’d wanted to do was ensure that artists could make some money and have control over their work. Back in May 2014, I was paired up with the artist Kevin McCoy at Seven on Seven, an annual...
Apr 2
Noah Mittman
Siri
Apple adds two brand new Siri voices and will no longer default to a female or male voice in iOS
TechCrunch - Matthew Panzarino
Apple is adding two new voices to Siri’s English offerings, and eliminating the default “female voice” selection in the latest beta version of iOS. This means that every person setting up Siri will choose...
Mar 31
Noah Mittman
"Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best understood as fears or anxiety about how capitalism will use technology against us. And technology and capitalism have been so closely intertw …
Short Stories
The Author Behind ‘Arrival’ Doesn’t Fear AI. ‘Look at How We Treat Animals.’
The New York Times - ‘The Ezra Klein Show’
Mar 30
Noah Mittman
Volkswagen
Volkswagen of America lied about rebranding to ‘Voltswagen’
The Verge - Sean O'Kane
Volkswagen of America lied about rebranding to “Voltswagen” in an effort to draw attention to the lone electric vehicle it’s currently selling in the United States, Reuters and The Wall Street Journal...
Mar 30
Noah Mittman
Media Industry
The Buzzy, Chatty, Out-of-Control Rise of Clubhouse
WIRED - Steven Levy
Paul Davison and Rohan Seth’s audio-only app is the tech crush of the pandemic. Now comes the hard part: hosting a global gabfest, without the …
Mar 17
Noah Mittman
"Computer, enhance!" for real
Adobe
From the ACR team: Super Resolution
adobe.com
Mar 10
Noah Mittman
Roblox Brings Young People Joy and I Hate It
slate.com - Evan Urquhart
In the era of limitless screen time, kids deserve a better online game platform. If you get your stock tips from preteens, you likely know that as of …
Mar 10
Noah Mittman
Digital Currency
Your million-dollar NFT can break tomorrow if you’re not careful
The Verge - Jacob Kastrenakes
Open up the $69 million NFT that Beeple sold at Christie’s, and you won’t find much. The name of the artwork isn’t there. The name of the artist is missing. And crucially, you won’t even find the actual...
Mar 25
Noah Mittman
Subculture
You Probably Don’t Remember the Internet
The Atlantic - Kaitlyn Tiffany
For many of us, for better or for worse, the internet is home. Our communities are here, because many of them could not exist any other way. Superfans, shitposters, amateur experts, wiki nerds, grizzled...
Mar 22
Noah Mittman
Media Industry
'I get better sleep': the people who quit social media
The Guardian - Soo Youn
My memory and recall are alarmingly good – borderline photographic. But when I used Instagram, I found it would short-circuit my recall in an alarming way. I’d be describing something mid-sentence and...
Feb 10
Noah Mittman
Technology
The bossware boom
futureproof.tips
Back in 2019, I visited a call center for a big, multinational insurance company. The company had invited me to see how it was using AI to improve …
Mar 22
Noah Mittman
Machine Learning
The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer
The New Yorker - James Somers
In Japan, a system designed to distinguish croissants from bear claws has turned out to be capable of a whole lot more. One morning in the spring of 2019, I entered a pastry shop in the Ueno train station,...
Mar 18
Noah Mittman
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/20/snapchat-paying-1-million-a-day-to-video-creators.html
Snapchat
Snapchat is paying $1 million a day to creators of popular short videos, and some are getting rich
CNBC - Jessica Bursztynsky
Mar 20
Noah Mittman
Dirt: TikTok and Suburban Gothic
Substack - Dirt
Will the literature of the suburbs be written on TikTok? Dirt is a daily email about entertainment. Daisy Alioto on the 2000s’ aesthetics of suburbia, …
Mar 12
Noah Mittman
Computers
A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16
VICE - Joseph Cox
A gaping flaw in SMS lets hackers take over phone numbers in minutes by simply paying a company to reroute text messages. I didn't expect it to be that quick. While I was on a Google Hangouts call with...
Mar 15
Noah Mittman
Security
Hackers Breach Thousands of Security Cameras, Exposing Tesla, Jails, Hospitals
Bloomberg - William Turton
A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live …
Mar 9
Noah Mittman
The Microsoft Exchange Hack and the Great Email Robbery
lawfareblog.com - By Nicholas Weaver
As I write this, the world is probably days away from the “Great Email Robbery,” where a large number of threat actors around the globe are going to …
Mar 9
Noah Mittman
The problem of CryptoArt
joanielemercier.com - by Joanie Lemercier
I spent the past 15 years flying to festivals, galleries, events, art fairs to exhibit and distribute my work while building my art practice. Most of …
Mar 10
Noah Mittman
Who will need CGI sets when we have super drone cam
This single shot #drone film by JayByrdFilms IS the best I’ve seen yet... THROUGH a Bowling Alley!!! Hard to believe its...
twitter.com
Mar 9
Noah Mittman
China-Linked Hack Hits Thousands of Microsoft Customers
The Wall Street Journal. - Robert McMillan, Dustin Volz
A cyberattack on Microsoft Corp.’s Exchange email software is believed to have infected tens of thousands of businesses, government offices and schools in the U.S., according to people briefed on the Many...
Mar 6
Noah Mittman
The Arts
NFTs are a dangerous trap
seths.blog - Seth Godin
Like most traps, they’re mysterious and then appealing and then it’s too late.An NFT is digital treasure chest, a status symbol and an apparent item …
Mar 6
Noah Mittman
5G Conspiracy Theories Are Fueling an Entire Economy of Scammy Gadgets
Gizmodo - Victoria Song
It’s an unfortunate truth that snake oil salesmen lurk behind every corner of the internet, waiting for the next conspiracy or wellness fad so they …
Mar 3
Noah Mittman
Hunting for a PS5 has become an entire subculture
Polygon - Diego Arguello
Every day on the internet, new micro-trends emerge, only to become old news five minutes later. In Polygon’s new series The Next Generation of Everything, we’re looking at what’s blowing up in the worlds...
Mar 1