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By request, here’s my post explaining how I view The Correspondent’s decision not to have its headquarters in New York or the US, and to base the English-language operation in Amsterdam. (I am an advisor, and the Membership Puzzle Project, which I lead, is partners with The Correspondent.) You can find the background to this…
Airbnb, once a saviour from overpriced hotels, has become the new overpriced hotels since becoming the short-term accommodation staple. But with the rise of community living and workcations, an alternative might be to just sleep where you cowork. That’s the idea behind PodShare, a coworking space with beds, which has three locations in Los Angeles….
The authenticity of the following anonymous op-ed has been verified by Medium’s editorial staff. I am an Uber employee and I support the drivers’ strikes. The strikes called on Monday by Rideshare Drivers United (RDU) in Southern California and Gig Workers Rising in San Francisco are a sign of the deep frustration many ride-share drivers…
After a civil rights backlash, Facebook will now treat white nationalism and separatism the same as white supremacy, and will direct users who try to post that content to a nonprofit that helps people leave hate groups. Image: ZACH GIBSON/AFP/Getty Images In a major policy shift for the world’s biggest social media network, Facebook banned…
Mark Zuckerberg is planning to merge the messaging services of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram into one encrypted system Hannah Murphy in San Francisco March 27, 2019 Print this page Mark Zuckerberg believes the future of social networking lies in private messaging. His convictions are so strong that he plans to merge the messaging services of…
The startup could build the largest repository of annotated and scored news articles. Some precautions apply. No one has ever attempted to create a review system for news comparable to what Rotten Tomatoes is to the movie business. Reasons are multiple: assembling a team of reviewers for news is tricky; the appreciation of news material itself is…
On Monday, as the town buzzed about new box office records set by Us, the film’s 40-year-old director, Jordan Peele, was not wiling away the hours in a Universal lot bungalow fielding congratulatory calls from studio execs. Peele was on a cramped stage in East Hollywood at improv mecca Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, the starriest guest…
Nope, I haven’t forgotten how to write. Nor did my editor go on vacation. You see, to share the pain of using an Apple laptop keyboard that’s failed afterfour months, I could only think of one idea: take all the broken letters out of my column. Then I realized that would make the whole thing unreadable. So to… Read with E’s ONRead with R’s ON Why is the breaking of my MacBook Air keyboard so insanely maddening? Let’s take a trip down Memory Lane… April 2015: Apple Inc. releases the all-new MacBook…
Talks continued over the weekend to avert a programming blackout that would affect more than 24 million customers of AT&T’s DirecTV, U-verse and WatchTV services. Photo: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg News Updated March 24, 2019 2:29 p.m. ET Carriage deals between pay-TV distributors and programmers typically hinge on price. In the negotiations between AT&T Inc. T…
Visitors want fast websites, but advertisers want brand safety and viewable ads. In the end, ad concerns often end up winning at the expense of the user experience. According to data ad tech consultancy RedBud — examined for Digiday across 15 of the top 20 U.K. publishers — brand safety, viewability and verification tags represent…