Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
wpautop disabled Wired Logo iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch In early 2013, Kevin Lynch accepted a job offer from Apple. Funny thing about the offer: It didn’t say what he would be doing. So intense is Apple’s secrecy that all Lynch knew was his vague title, vice president of technology, and…
Silicon Valley investors recently bet $50 million on a luxury sock company. And the most surprising part was how normal it seemed. Venture capital investment is at its highest point since the late 1990s. Funders are flying close to the sun. The stable of privately backed “unicorn” tech companies—those valued at more than $1 billion before their initial public…
A new wave of smart devices sensors and Internet of Things collecting data will make it hard to remain anonymous offline. Will the public wake up to the risks all of that data poses to their privacy? Image: iStock/maxkabakov Should we do something just because we can? That simple question has bedeviled many leaders over…
A warning that’s displayed to Internet users who have been exposed to the malicious code forcing their browser to hammer Github servers. cache hit 176:single/related:113512d42fdae4484580a08c02bd611c empty The massive denial-of-service attacks that have intermittently shut down GitHub for more than five days is the work of hackers with control over China’s Internet backbone, according to two…
“Most girls aren’t into this kind of stuff.” No way, do you have the list? The list of things most girls are into? I’ve been trying to find that thing forever, can you forward it to me? You have my email. Thanks, man, you’re the best. “You got it! Clever girl!” Accolades I would prefer…
Previously in this series: Two Monks invent dinner parties. MONK #1: do birds have meetings MONK #2: absolutely they have a Meeting Hat and everything MONK #1: what do they have meetings about MONK #2: mostly who gets to wear the meeting hat MONK #1: do human women sleep in beds or– MONK #2: no…
Attending America’s “dream school” is a financial nightmare. New York University, routinely described by American high schoolers and their parents as one of their top “dream schools,” is one of the most popular application choices for aspiring college students. According to the university’s admissions department, 60,322 people applied for admission to NYU’s Class of 2019, a…
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A man following his vehicle’s GPS navigation drove the couple’s car off a partially demolished bridge. (Ken Davidson/Northwest Indiana Gazette) A Chicago woman was killed after her husband followed their car’s GPS navigation off a partially demolished bridge that has been closed since 2009, according to reports. Zohra Hussain, 51, died after their Nissan Sentra…
Thirty-one-year-old comic Trevor Noah was hired to replace Jon Stewart yesterday, and the backlash has already arrived with a vengeance. Noah has a large following in his native South Africa, and has toured extensively abroad, but he isn’t so well-known in the U.S. — to date, he has three “Daily Show” “correspondent” appearances under his…