Inside Pioneer: May the Best Silicon Valley Hustler Win
Even founder Daniel Gross has a hard time explaining Pioneer. Over the course of one phone call, he compared it to Fortnite Battle Royale, Airbnb, […]
Month: September 2019
6 Best Game Controllers (2019): PC, Xbox, PS4, Switch
For a certain generation, there is a vile word that conjures up an icy dread. The name of a cursed thing, a monster of cheap […]
Little Talk of Sustainability at Amazon’s Big Hardware Event
Amazon hasn’t divulged exact numbers for how many Echos, Fire TVs, Eeros, or Ring cameras it sells each year, but in January, it revealed that […]
Kodak Smile Classic Review: The Best Zink Instant Camera
Photography has always been sold as a way to preserve memories. But for most of us that’s probably no longer really true. Photography today is […]
A Developer Deletes His Code to Protest Its Use by ICE
Computer server management software is usually pretty boring. But when that software is sold to a federal agency that separates families and detains children, even […]
Why We Need Brain Scan Data Guidelines
Your brain is a lot like your DNA. It is, arguably, everything that makes you uniquely you. Some types of brain scans are a lot […]
The Danger of Thinking We’re All ‘Addicted’ to Tech
Does repeating a falsehood make it true? It seems so, at least when it comes to the myth that technology is addicting us all. While […]
Apple iPhone 11 Review: The iPhone for Nearly Everybody
Despite slowing smartphone sales, Apple’s mobile devices still send totally sane people with jobs to maintain and babies to raise and bills to pay into […]
Artificial Intelligence Confronts a ‘Reproducibility’ Crisis
Sometimes, basic information is missing because it’s proprietary—an issue especially for industry labs. But it’s more often a sign of the field’s failure to keep […]
How Tech Firms Like Uber Hide Behind the ‘Platform Defense’
The state of California is set to pounce, so—big surprise!—Uber is playing Silicon Valley’s favorite get out of jail card: the “platform defense.” As in, […]