Technology

Innovative ideas and thoughts about technology

• trapped in the technologist factory
• Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow
• Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
• The Tyranny of Spreadsheets
• Why I left Google to join Grab
• Making the world more programmable
• Is a billion-dollar worth of server lying on the ground?
• An Ode to Excel: 34 Years of Magic
• End-user programming
• Data is the New Oil
• Why don’t we follow password security best practices?
• Why Doctors Hate Their Computers
• How the Enlightenment Ends
• The coders programming themselves out of a job
• How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day | Tristan Harris
• Customer Satisfaction at the Push of a Button
• The Last Invention of Man
• An Interview with an Anonymous Data Scientist
• Kill animals and destroy property before hurting humans, Germany tells future self-driving cars
• New Tech Start-Up Bubble
• I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name
• Ever wonder how Bitcoin actually work?
• Browse Against the Machine
• Get your loved ones off Facebook.
• Social media is polarizing users faster than ever
• Which Countries Destroy the Environment the Most?
• Haunted By Data
• Google.org Thinks It Can Engineer a Solution to the World’s Woes
• How to Hack an Election
• What 'viable search engine competition' really looks like
• DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment
• How the Circle Line rogue train in Singapore was caught with data
• When Bitcoin Grows Up
• It's Time To Recognize That Machines Are Learning All The Wrong Things
• SpaceX’s Big Fucking Rocket
• Consequences of an Insightful Algorithm
• Why you shouldn’t share links on Facebook
• Two Computer Scientists Are Programming An End To Food Waste In Chicago
• Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services
• What every Browser knows about you
• How The Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Going To Change The Lives Of The Bottom Billion
• Is Brooklyn's Microgrid-On-The-Blockchain The Future Of The Electric System?
• Futures of text
• A Computer Could Have Written All The Speeches You're Going To Hear Before The Election
• The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
• Four Impossible Things Before Key Escrow
• When Nerds Collide
• The Facebook experiment has failed. Let’s go back.
• I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away … worried.
• Maybe Better If You Don’t Read This Story on Public WiFi
• Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’
• The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car
• Macbook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter
• What can a technologist do about climate change?
• Why I teach people how to hack
• From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users’ Online Identities
• Dear Tech Industry
• “Wait, You Write In A Spreadsheet?”
• Coding is not the new literacy
• News Is Different
• What Happens Next Will Amaze You
• Don’t Worry, Smart Machines Will Take Us With Them
• The Web We Have to Save
• If you've got nothing to hide
• We Should All Have Something To Hide
• How I do my computing
• How technology is shaping our future: billions of self-employed makers and a few mega corporations
• Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook