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Like Uber, But For Credit Card Fraud
Sharing economy services have made headlines by seamlessly connecting buyers and sellers of services from transportation and lodging to dogwalking and housecleaning. The peer-to-peer rental market...
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"I Feel Exhausted": How The Mailman Is Struggling To Keep Up With Free Shipping
For shippers, this is a make-or-break week. The last workweek before Christmas is traditionally their busiest of the year. As holiday gifts urgently make their way around the globe—with more than ever...
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Drone Plus Drum Machine Equals This Killer Flying Musical Instrument
Haig Beylerian, a musician and UX consultant, is wearing a helmet as he approaches the drum machine, because there's no telling what will happen when you tap a drone to make a beat.The touch-sensitive...
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ICANN, The Internet's Gatekeeper, Was Just Hacked
If the ludicrous aftermath of the Sony Pictures data breach isn't enough to convince you that the Internet is held together by duct tape and string, here's something else to chew on: ICANN, the...
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How A 6-Year-Old Learned Coding Skills With These Adorable Robot Toys
The learn-to-code movement is aiming younger.MIT, for example, recently released a free iPad app with its visual programming language ScratchJr., so kindergartners could use it to code stories and...
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Today in Tabs: Dog and Pyongyang Show
The dog, of course, is Franco/Rogen vehicle "The Interview," which was an unfunny mess that ended in a bloodbath. Precisely how much of a bloodbath was partly the decision of the State Department....
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Uncle Sam Wants You...To Crowdsource Science
It's not just for the private sector anymore: Government scientists are embracing crowdsourcing. At a White House-sponsored workshop in late November, representatives from more than 20 different...
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The New York City Hardware Startup Map, Holiday 2014 Edition
An update for the holidays: Last-minute gift-givers, fret not. The future of gadgets is near, and even if not all of the stuff you want now is available, half of the startups on this list are doing...
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All I Want For Christmas Is This Nonexistent Technology
The holidays are a time to spend with family and friends, to share in the joy of giving, and to puzzle over a preponderance of technological crap. Those truly terrible widgets and gadgets that line our...
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What Astronauts Will See—But Not Hear—When They Return To Earth From Mars
This is what astronauts returning from Mars—and those who missed the '60s—will see when they re-enter Earth.The hypnotic video—recorded through the crew module's windows—was among the first data...
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This Isn't The First Time Sony Didn't Have Enough Hacker Insurance
Sony is only the latest, most visible case in a string of corporate data breaches in recent years. Hackers regularly broke into Home Depot's systems in 2014. Twitter and Pinterest lost control of...
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Today in Tabs: Is 2014 Over Yet?
No, 2014 isn't over yet! There are 9 days left, which by my calculations means there will be at least 3.2 more news events that surprise us by proving that, despite all indications, our assessment of...
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The Year's Best Art On The Internet
A random dark net shopping bot, a rabid meme music video collage, concept websites, and a browser-based film—these were some of the best artworks of the year, and they weren't hanging in a Chelsea...
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The Music Streaming Wars Are Just Getting Started
This story includes quotes from David Porter, CEO of 8Tracks.com, and Sam Valenti IV of Ghostly International.Music streamed to our devices—that is, not downloaded—has been hustling us and buffering on...
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Today in Tabs: Christmas Steve
Here it is, Christmas Eve eve, what men's rights activists know as "Christmas Adam" and atheists call "Christmas Steve." I used to consider myself an atheist, but apparently now there is an atheist Ten...
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The 8 Things Technology Wants To Kill Next
One day I woke up and realized it had been years since I'd thought about my old Dell Axim X30 personal digital assistant (PDA), let alone touched one. The device quickly became extinct, replaced by...
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The Apps You Need Now to Keep Your Privacy Intact
There are the basic things you can do to protect your data and your phone, like avoiding public Wi-Fi networks, enabling built-in tools like "Find My iPhone," and using a good password. Both iOS and...
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A Top 10 List Of The 2014 Lists We Liked
The web itself was once famously described in a giant list (see right).That giant list became what we call Yahoo.The year will often be described in a giant list. Here, the list will be a list of the...
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LinkedIn's Data Science Secret: Your Hidden Org Chart
LinkedIn enjoys one big advantage against competitors Facebook and Twitter: It's the social network people can use at work. By positioning it as a service for professional development, LinkedIn has...
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Why You Should Learn Product Management Instead Of Coding
This article contains interviews with cofounder of HappyFunCorp Ben Schippers, Fellowship Instructor of The Flatiron School Blake Johnson, and Dean of Faculty at Bates College Matthew Auer.Apparently...
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