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Nelson Cash Netflix’s 'Skip Intro' Button Makes TV Ever More Like an App
The option to bypass title sequences seems convenient, but it also tightens the bond between viewer and screen.
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Julian Bleecker Why Computers Should Be Hidden
A luxury bicycle computer forecasts a welcome future of humble, embedded systems.
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Olly / Santi S / Serg036 / Shutterstock ... You Are Already Living Inside a Computer
Futurists predict a rapture of machines, but reality beat them to it by turning computing into a way of life.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP The Empire of Apple
The company’s new iPhone and retail “town centers” presage a future of Apple as global infrastructure—one that may already have arrived.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters The Banality of the Equifax Breach
With over half of the entire U.S. adult population potentially exposed, what’s left to do but shrug and sigh?
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Richard Carson / Reuters Houston's Flood Is a Design Problem
It’s not because the water comes in. It’s because it is forced to leave again.
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters A Googler's Would-Be Manifesto Reveals Tech's Rotten Core
Office culture is only part of the problem.
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Stephan Savoia / Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP ... Why Zuckerberg and Musk Are Fighting About the Robot Future
It looks like the two tech titans are arguing about AI’s impact on humanity. Really they’re protecting their personal brands.
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Breville Why a Toaster Is a Design Triumph
The “A Bit More” button doesn’t reinvent the appliance’s form. It finds its soul instead.
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Fotoslaz / Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The ... The iPhone Is Dead. Long Live the Rectangle
Ten years later, smartphones have been fully domesticated.
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Eric Gaillard / Reuters For Google, Everything Is a Popularity Contest
The limits of the search giant's philosophy
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Matt York / AP Did Climate Change Ground Flights in Phoenix?
Yes, but it didn’t act alone.
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Ian Bogost The App That Does Nothing
A fake social network might be the only thing your smartphone needs.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters Cryptocurrency Might be a Path to Authoritarianism
Extreme libertarians built blockchain to decentralize government and corporate power. It could consolidate their control instead.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters The Nomad Who’s Exploding the Internet Into Pieces
Could decentralizing online life make it more compatible with human life?
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Amir Cohen / Reuters The Fidget Spinner Explains the World
The latest cultural trend is a perfect fossil of human life in the immediate present.
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Dove How Dove Ruined Its Body Image
A new ad in the brand’s long-running campaign spoils its body-positive track record.
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David Goldman / AP The Real Chaos of Campus Gun Laws
New legislation in Georgia shows ambiguous campus-carry laws might create a greater burden than the guns themselves.
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Giant Sparrow Video Games Are Better Without Stories
Film, television, and literature all tell them better. So why are games still obsessed with narrative?
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The Ultimators CRISPR Has a Terrible Name
Why does a revolutionary gene-editing technology sound like a candy bar?
