Times Square is one big, busy machine. Powered by American ingenuity and more than a few megawatts of electricity, these six square blocks stay bright 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You’ve seen Times Square in movies and on TV a million times. A lot of you have probably seen it in real life, teeming […]
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The Man Who Fought the Synanon Cult and Won
Paul Morantz helped bring Synanon down—and almost paid with his life. Here, he tells his story to Gizmodo’s Matt Novak.
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When Your Kid Has a Disease No One’s Ever Heard About
In The New Yorker, Seth Mnookin reports about what one couple, Matt Might and Cristina Casanova, did when they discovered that their son had a rare condition that no doctor had ever heard about. We featured Might’s account of his family’s search to diagnose his son’s disease in 2012.
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“Beat By Dre: The Exclusive Inside Story of How Monster Lost the World.” Sam Biddle, Gizmodo
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week—featuring Slate, Gizmodo, The Awl, Two Serious Ladies, Time, fiction from The New Yorker, and a guest pick by Anna Hiatt.
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A look at the women who work as “Internet cam girls,” and the criminal activity that may be occurring behind some of the cam networks: ‘Cam sites are ideal for laundering. The studios are being used to have girls online accepting a financed hand that uses ‘dirty’ money to buy the private time. The studio […]
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Featured Longreader: Peter Axtman, public relations associate. See his story picks from Gizmodo, ESPN, The Village Voice, plus more on his #longreads page.
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An explainer on Google’s challenges with privacy, its competition with Facebook and Twitter, and two big questions: Is search no longer central to its mission? And are Google’s recent moves “evil” by its early company standards? It’s hard to understand how Google could screw up its core product like that. But there’s a remarkably simple […]
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Why do startups struggle after being acquired by giant companies like Yahoo? They’re forced to focus on integration instead of innovation: When a new startup comes into an established company, the first wall it typically hits is CorpDev, or corporate development: the group within a business that manages change. CorpDev is usually charged with planning […]
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A father recounts his family’s quest to diagnose a rare disease in their son: We discovered that my son inherited two different (thus-far-unique) mutations in the same gene—the NGLY1 gene—which encodes the enzyme N-glycanase 1. Consequently, he cannot make this enzyme. My son is the only human being known to lack this enzyme. Below, I’m […]
