John Lewis and Fergus Cumming A tulip bulb produces flowers. Those flowers are what people actually enjoy consuming, not the bulb. Whilst that’s blindingly obvious for tulips, the equivalent is als…

India may have failed at its attempt to land a probe on the moon: It has lost communication with the lunar lander minutes before it was supposed to reach the lunar surface.

One sunny afternoon this April, a Chinese teenager nicknamed Gallen was backpacking through Bali, hunting for things to do. But he didn’t turn to TripAdvisor for crowd-sourced suggestions (too time consuming) or scroll through Instagram for local geotags…

@backspace Hey John, caught this late but didn't want it to go unacknowledged. The TLDR: We agree, the print-optimized maps are not ideal in this context. But... (1/2)

Even when they are buying the same sandwich

JOMO—the joy of missing out—is a way to live an intentional life. It’s realising that FOMO is distracting you from your life’s purpose.

People who do their jobs from home, freelance or frequently travel for work are fueling a renaissance in American cities that lie outside the major job hubs.

Human centred design is anthropocentric design. By focusing on humans only, we frame out the rest of the living planet, and ignore its ongoing destruction.

Today, Wikipedia was hit with a malicious attack that has taken it offline in several countries for intermittent periods. The attack is ongoing and our Site Reliability Engineering team is working hard to stop it and restore access to the site. As one of…

This likely won't be good for Apple's business in China ...

A Simple Unix-like operating system. Contribute to ozkl/soso development by creating an account on GitHub.

Rivers worldwide are polluted with antibiotics that exceed environmental safety thresholds by up to 300 times, according to research unveiled at a conference Monday.

Our waking and sleeping lives are punctuated by fragments of recalled memories: a sudden connection in the shower between seemingly disparate thoughts, or an ill-fated choice decades ago that haunts us as we struggle to fall asleep.

Despite Amazon’s innovation elsewhere, Goodreads has stagnated for 12 years, and its problems are endless

Duckly is a pair programming tool that enables you to code together with people using different IDEs. Share your code in real-time, talk, share your server, terminal and more with Duckly.

Driving an ambulance in an opioid-torn city in the age of Narcan.

Amid the college admissions scandal, another type of cheating was overlooked: Students already in college who pay others to write their papers.

Until 2017, he was the only leader his country had known since independence in 1980. He presided over its long decline.

I turned 30 last week and a friend asked me if I'd figured out any life advice in the past decade worth passing on.  I'm somewhat hesitant to publish this because I think these lists usually seem...