The popular online tool is great at rapid decoding. Extracting meaning? Not so much.
Technology
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Uncategorized
Art in the Age of Blockchain
Why a rare Pepe meme is now easier to authenticate than a Leonardo.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Quotes
Money For Nothing in the Bitcoin Bubble
The cryptocurrency gold rush has made millionaires out of those obsessed with changing the world order.
Posted inStory
The Encyclopedia of the Missing
She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Digital Age Won’t Kill Paper
Just like handwriting survived long after the introduction of print, paper is still very much part of our internet-era economy.
Posted inReading List
Longreads Best of 2017: Science, Technology, and Business Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in business, tech, and science writing.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Quotes
The Fight to Escape “A World of Anonymous Abuse”
Online harassment is as serious as offline harassment, and it rarely stays “only” online.
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Why Ageism Never Gets Old
Tad Friend takes a look at the ways in which ageism is perpetuated in a variety of fields, particularly tech, where rapid-fire advances in technology keep rendering obsolete the knowledge and skills of those who are older.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes
What Happened to eBay?
I haven’t peeked at eBay in years, and apparently I’m not the only one who’s forgotten it exists.
Posted inQuotes, Science & Nature
The Dream of a Perfect Android
Hiroshi IshiÂguro has spent his career creating robots. But does he know enough about humans to make them lifelike?