The tech industry is still a tight-knit old boys’ club. Women are a minority in most (if not all) tech spaces. If “brogrammer” culture continues, tech will lose any number of talented women to burnout or better opportunities. If the tech industry wants to be inclusive of women, women must be allowed to lead.
The proportion of women at large tech companies remains staggeringly low at 25%, according to Deloitte. Additionally, most women in tech feel more pess
Rosario Reilly didn’t set out to be an educational publisher—she just wanted to give her kids a classical education that respected their Catholic faith.
In 2009, the mother of five in Manassas, Virginia, began assembling a homeschool curriculum eventually named Aquinas Learning. Thirteen years later, the program serves about 160 area students in grades K-12, who show up in uniform to a local center one day a week.
Students partake in a variety of classes, as
While ChatGPT and text-to-image tools are among the buzziest developments in tech right now, comprehending what they are and how they work can be an exercise in frustration.
The field of AI is a rabbit hole of technical and mathematical jargon, and simple explanations of even the most fundamental concepts is in short supply. As a result, tools like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion can feel like mystical black boxes, and it’s easy to lose track of the differences between them and
Buried in a dusty landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, are more than 700,000 discarded Atari game cartridges, including E.T., the 1982 Atari game based on the blockbuster film. This bleak trove of artifacts symbolizes the video game crash of 1983, when consumer demand plummeted and companies like Atari literally dumped their cartridges in the trash.
Why did the popularity of Atari video games rise exponentially only to collapse seemingly overnight? As soon as
I love to ride bikes. And I’ve spent a meaningful percentage of my life working in big cities. But I’ve only rarely gotten around urban environments on two wheels. Maybe that’s because bicycles, when you’re not on them, can be a burden. They’re big and bulky, are difficult to meld with other means of transit (such as subways), and aren’t always welcome in offices. They’re also at risk of being stolen if you leave them outside, regardless of how
While the work from home push and a lack of in-person socializing created a culture obsessed with other people’s rooms, 2022 found Zoom users further embracing virtual backgrounds.
While Zoom has had some variation on virtual backgrounds since 2016, it’s steadily added features like support for video backgrounds and slideshow backgrounds, and last year rolled out support for automatic background blurring. (Competitors like Google Meet and Microsoft Teams also have simi
For all of its breakthroughs and advances, there’s a lot of really dumb stuff that goes on in the world of technology, and 2022 had more than its share of baffling moments, head-scratching decisions, and products that make you wonder how they ever made it beyond the first pitch meeting.
While there were certainly some breakthrough events this year, we couldn’t help but catalog the more ridiculous ones. Here’s a look at the dumbest tech moments of 2022 (with the
While 2020 and 2021 brought us plenty of apps that capitalized on the remote work boom, 2022 feels a bit like a return to normalcy.
The best apps of the year spanned a wide range of categories, including some surprising new ones. We’ve seen a boom in AI tools for creatives, for instance, along with more ways to take control of your content and privacy. Clever productivity tools haven’t gone away either, with several great new apps for getting things done.
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It seems like a distant memory now, that moment when Netflix-and-chill started popping up in text messages and BuzzFeed posts galore. Partly, that’s because it was something like eight years ago—sufficiently far enough in the past to qualify as distant. More importantly, though, consumers have since been inundated with so many platforms and so much content that the idea of Netflix or anyone else being synonymous with the very concept of a streaming library now seems surreal; not
Judging from my Twitter feed, 2022 was a very noisy year for tech. We followed the Elon Musk drama, marvalled at the creations of generative AI, watched crypto markets tank and FTX implode, and (some of us at least) gazed deeply into the metaverse—and yawned.
Things could get more serious in 2023. More governments around the world may put checks on the tech industry’s power by placing restrictions on how it does business. The Supreme Court will decide whether social pl