From painstakingly researched biographies and histories charting the rise and fall of modern business empires to deep dives into the birth of influential gadgets, these are some of the best tech books to gift.
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Tech or not, there will always be a need for reliable, quality journalism.
— Kerry Ehrin, Jay Carson, Charlie “Chip” Black, Mark Duplass, imdb.com
Spreadsheets are out; megalomaniacal ambition is in.
It’s 3 a.m. Do you know what your iPhone is doing?
WhatsApp has revealed a vulnerability in its system that could have allowed hackers access to its users' phones, with a London-based human rights lawyer possibly among the targets.
I suppose I am in the wrong for expecting my $1,600 computer to be able to cope.
Interactivity is a sense in itself, it brings whatever is special within the individual and allows them to put themselves into the story.
Used to be in the pre-internet era there were self-anointed judges, who criticized your taste. You’re not listening to or watching the right stuff. Now, no one cares. The judges are on their own island stuck in the twentieth century.
Kids today are growing up in a post-broadcast era, and because of this, it’s absolutely essential to find ways to teach an understanding of algorithms, recommendation engines, and targeting. Why does the internet look different to everyone, and what does that mean?
The crisis of graphic design which we will have to address and that is the notion that when this is your world, you move from a reality where under modernity the viewer is an observer of reality to the new paradigm where you are the protagonist of reality. You are the camera that can move in any dir…
What happens when Instagram glitches or Slack stalls, and we snap out of our Very Online existence? Spoiler: Research shows that we don’t log off. We just scurry off to different (sometimes darker) corners of the web.
What’s both crucial and easy to miss about TikTok is how it has stepped over the midpoint between the familiar self-directed feed and an experience based first on algorithmic observation and inference. The most obvious clue is right there when you open the app: the first thing you see isn’t a feed o…
The general manager said she has seen people come from all over the world to relive fond memories or experience the novelty of a floppy disk.
Here, on the internet, is a nowhere space, a shallow time. It is a flat and impenetrable surface. But with a book, we dive in; we are sucked in; we are immersed, body and soul.
[T]he power of art—and many books are, still, art, not entertainment—lies in the way it turns us inward and outward, all at once. The communion we seek, scanning titles or turning pages, is not with others—not even the others, living or long dead, who wrote the words we read—but with ourselves. Our…
We call this endless, immaterial material a feed, though there’s little sustenance to be found.
Just like a city shapes the lives of its inhabitants, software shapes the lives of it users. Therefore software is a domain of great responsibility.
Considering how calculated Holmes has shown herself to be, it's not hard to imagine that she'd take this into account — we are talking about a woman who reportedly tracked down and stocked up on the exact Issey Miyake mock-turtlenecks favored by Jobs himself.
Critics say the companies are monetizing our attention, mishandling our data and profiting from our children. They've concentrated too much economic power. They're shaping our society in ways we don't fully understand yet.
For consumers, this means forgoing convenience to control your ingredients: Read newsletters instead of News Feeds. Fall back to private group chats. Put the person back in personalization. Revert to reverse chron. Avoid virality. Buy your own server. Start a blog. Embrace anonymity. Own your own do…