Journalist Sarah Kendzior burst onto the scene in 2016 after predicting Trump would win the presidency. Two years after that election, her subsequent essay collection, The View From Flyover Country, detailed a despairing industrial Midwest where the populist candidate found many of his votes. Now, after a couple of bestsellers and a hit
Teleparty (formerly Netflix Party) came into its own alongside the likes of Zoom cocktail hours, virtual museum tours, and same-day
People appear to be more willing to lie for personal gain when they use a laptop versus a smartphone, our new peer-reviewed research shows. Given that the two devices have nearly identical technical capabilities—they’re both boxes with electronic brains—this surprised us and highlights the psychological impact of technology.
Our first in a planned series of studi
Imagine purchasing “up to” a gallon of milk for US$4.50, or paying for “up to” a full tank of gas. Most people would view such transactions as absurd. And yet, in the realm of broadband service, the use of “up to” speeds has become standard business practice.
Unlike other advertisements for goods and services—for example, what a ca
Brett Scott is a journalist and financial hacker who writes about the intersection of money and digital technology. His work can be found in publications such as The Guardian, New Scientist, Wired, and CNN.
HEre, Scott shares five key insights from his new book, Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets. Listen to th
This week, Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced the Orbital Sustainability (ORBITS) Act on the Congress floor. The bipartisan bill is aimed at developing active debris removal (ADR) technology, with the eventual goal of removing dangerous debris objects from orbit.
The debris problem
Over 100 million individual pieces of debris are in Earth’s orbit right now, ranging from flec
Man, do I not like dealing with email. And man, do I get a lot of it. And man, oh man, does it get worse the longer I don’t deal with it.
If you find yourself in a similar predicament, might I suggest following my morning Gmail routine?
The main goal is to sort the wheat from the chaff, respond quickly to messages that need to be acknowledged, and then organize the messages that need a little extra TLC into a manageable list–in that order.
Oh, and the name o
The social media app BeReal is having a moment.
A photo-sharing app, it sends a daily prompt (at a different time each day) to users to quickly take and share a real-time image—and is the #1 download in the social networking category of the Apple App Store. And it’s the seventh most popular in Google Play.
That success, though, is capturing the attention of
Apple announced its latest smartwatch, the Apple Watch Series 8, last week at its “Far Out” event in Cupertino. As new Apple Watches go, the 8 is just an incremental improvement over its predec
Airbnb is proposing a number of policy changes that governments and cities could adapt to improve remote work across the globe.
The home-rental platform released a white paper Thursday morning outlining steps that locations and lawmakers can take “to leverage the rise of remote work for their communities.” Recommendations include improving the visa process, encouraging visitor support of the local economy, and streamlining tax compliance.
“We don’t wa