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Today in Tabs: New Media in Chaos
Chaos in new media! "WHO WILL SURVIVE?" -Gawker. "It's about to get ugly!" -Rafat Ali. "Shane Smith is a lying heap of drugs and dirty cash!" -Gawker again, sorry. "My new hobby is crushing writers...
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The Republican Party's Tech Countdown To 2016
Read the companion article: The Democratic Party Has Become A Software PlatformIn 2011, smarting from the loss of the Internet-fueled 2008 Presidential election, the Republican National Committee (RNC)...
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The Democratic Party Has Become A Software Platform
Read the companion article: The Republican Party's Tech Countdown To 2016In August, a technology company called NGP VAN that serves Democratic political candidates held a press conference. They...
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The Garden Of Emoji Delights: A Hellishly Modern Remix Of Bosch's Masterpiece
Hieronymus Bosch's surreal triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights takes us from creation to damnation in an epic warning of just how humanity's hedonistic compulsions can drive them out of a very nice...
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Will The Next Great American Novel Be Generated By Code?
November is National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo). You're probably thinking: Write a book in a month? Are you kidding? Such an endeavor would require an attention span of the sort we possessed...
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5 Smart Home Security Ideas That Should Join Forces And Become Voltron
A wave of smart home security products is coming to market that promise to make your connected home bionic. Pick an area of interest and there's some hardware that specializes in it. Some have...
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Awful Or Awesome?: Facial Recognition Is Now Available To Any App For Free
Depending on where you sit on the techno-optimist scale, the advent of facial recognition is either a marvelous tool or the downfall of privacy as we know it. Either way, the ability of computers to...
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Today in Tabs: The Seventh Stage of Grief is Tabs
The only thing you need to read today is Paul Ford's "The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-computing," on emulating old computers, losing a friend, and the history of networks both human and machine. I...
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What The Guardian Gained By Redesigning Its Website In The Open
Coding your product out in the open is fairly standard operating procedure for tech startups. It's not something that typically seeps through the legacy cultural barriers and dwindling budgets of the...
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An App Trying To Save Your Office From Dying Of Boredom
Analyzing enterprise data may never be as enjoyable as scrolling through an Instagram feed. But Chartcube, a new app launching today, is at least trying to make business data as easy to use.The free...
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Today in Tabs Episode VII: The Tab Awakens
Some days I sit down to write and it feels like nothing particularly terrible has happened online in the last 24 hours, which is great of course, but I also can't help finding it professionally...
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Think It's Hard to Remember Your Passwords? At Least You Know Your ABCs
Keeping track of passwords is a challenge at every organization. But it's especially challenging in schools, where teachers can find themselves spending valuable computer lab time helping young...
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The Most Polite App Ever
Notifications were fun, at first. Now it's becoming a countless barrage of status updates, "breaking" news alerts, not to mention that texts and chats that keep your phone buzzing. Even regular...
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The Monster Supercomputing Achievement That Lights Up Disney's "Big Hero 6"
The November 7 arrival of Disney's Big Hero 6 is as much a supercomputing triumph as it is an animated feast. It's the coming out party for Hyperion—a cutting-edge light rendering software shaped by...
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Today in Tabs: I Can't Make You Tab Me
Tabs is brought to you today by guest-tabber Jaya Saxena. Take it away Jaya. I mean that. Please take it away. –RustyThe first time I heard about Today in Tabs, a friend frantically emailed me to say...
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Quixey's Deep Mobile Search Will Change The Way You Use Your Phone
Search is broken. That's because just when we figured out how to crawl and organize the infinite pages of the World Wide Web, we switched to a new way of accessing the Internet: apps. Now, nearly 2...
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The Internet Archive As Massive Art Project
In Record Ruins pixels drift and screenshots melt before your eyes. If you look hard enough, you can recognize the melting, moshing remains of Microsoft Office error messages and Windows default...
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Apple Just Made It Way Easier To Switch From iPhone To Android
When it debuted in 2011, iMessage was a game changer. The instant messaging app came pre-loaded as a lightweight alternative to traditional SMS texts, and made it easy for two (or more) friends with...
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President Obama: The FCC Should Classify The Internet As A Utility
In a press statement this morning, President Obama unambiguously endorsed "net neutrality," or the principle that Internet service providers should not be allowed to grant faster connections to...
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EFF Asks Supreme Court To Rule On API Copyrights
On Friday the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on behalf of a veritable who's who of influential computer scientists, filed a brief with the Supreme Court asking it to rule that APIs cannot be...
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