The great novels of the 1960s remain enjoyable because they got everything wrong.

The messaging system that he and a friend created in 1978 was a forerunner of social media services like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

The most popular part of my Monday Musings newsletter is a section called “Coolest Things I Learned This Week.” This is a collection of the most popular ideas I shared in 2019.

The defense bar’s decade’s long effort got rule makers to ensure that evidence of what companies know about dangerous products often remains hidden in court.

The trash industry and governments are investing in domestic processing, ramping up alternative strategies such as incineration and rolling out education campaigns. Some are dropping programs altogether.

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Windows 10 DesktopJuly 2015 –– An icon is defined, among other things, by its longevity. Icons don’t withstand change - they endure it, by evolving...

A significant part of the Internet-using population is aged 50 or older — including the people who invented it. Designers need to understand what older users need and why it’s not enough to just say, “I can read it, so what’s the problem?”

Engineers in Stanford’s Dynamic Design Lab are teaching a driverless DeLorean to steer with the agility and precision of a human driver with a goal of improving how autonomous cars handle in hazardous conditions.

During an unprecedented tech boom, the Bay Area asked itself who its real enemies were — and nobody liked the answers.

Why free speech, encryption and privacy matter so much. This video is chilling. https://t.co/ZMip5UKfiJ

Mute me for a bit if you don’t like long diatribes about startup debacles but this reminds me of a story (1/n)

Scientists "don’t think people realize how little time we have left,” to stop irreversible and disastrous changes to Earth’s climate systems. But there is hope.

Last week I attended the SBCL 20th anniversary workshop, held in Vienna, Austria. Here are some rough impressions - I wish I had detailed enough notes to recreate the experience for those who did not...

You protest, they watch.

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