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Internet kommer inte bli sig likt
Under onsdagen röstade EU-parlamentet för en länkskatt och för ett internetfilter. Emanuel Karlsten om ett internet som inte kommer vara sig likt. Med 438 röster mot 226 röstade EU-parlamentet för en länkskatt och för ett internetfilter. Med några små, kosmetiska...
The YouTube stars heading for burnout: ‘The most fun job imaginable became deeply bleak’
When Matt Lees became a full-time YouTuber, he felt as if he had won the lottery. As a young, ambitious writer, director and presenter, he was able to create low-budget, high-impact films that could reach a worldwide audience, in a way that would have been impossible...
Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web
The story that broke earlier last month that Google would again cooperate with Chinese authorities to run a censored version of its search engine, something the tech giant has neither confirmed nor denied, had ironic timing. The same day, a group of 800 web builders...
Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea
The dead books are on the top floor of Southern Methodist University’s law library. “Antitrust Dilemma.” “The Antitrust Impulse.” “Antitrust in an Expanding Economy.” Shelf after shelf of volumes ignored for decades. There are a dozen fat tomes with transcripts of the...
The iPhone’s autocorrect is a blessing and a curse. A longtime Apple designer explains why it’s so hard to teach software to read your mind.
I HAVE A confection to make. Ugh! No, I don’t want to bake a cake. Let me type that again. I have a confession to make. I worked for many years as a software developer at Apple and I invented touchscreen keyboard autocorrection for the original iPhone. I’m proif if...
The Man Behind the Barcelona Attacks Was on Police Radar for Years. How Did They Let It Happen?
A year after the attack on Las Ramblas, the unfolding story of Abdelbaki Es Satty points more to a failure of the police than of the community he hid among. Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, who will testify alongside Twitter Chief Executive Jack...
The iPhone’s original UI designer on Apple’s greatest flaws
It’s been a decade since the British designer Imran Chaudhri first imagined a user interface that would introduce millions of people to the smartphone. Chaudhri joined Apple in 1995, soon rising to become the design director of the company’s human interfaces...
Star Wars, explained by someone who’s (gasp) never seen it
When it comes to pop culture, something that can define you, for better or worse, is your relationship to Star Wars. There are fans who love it, people who hate it and some who have never seen it. CNET's former editorial intern Perla Shaheen falls into the last...
Let’s Really Think About This ‘New Low-Cost Laptop to Succeed MacBook Air’ Thing
But today we’re three years into the era when the just-plain MacBook is the radically thin and light model, and the Air is the best-selling baseline model that isn’t really any thinner or lighter than the Pro models. Well, so what? We drive on parkways and park on...
Lästipset: ”Facebook måste stoppa utländska annonsörer”
'”Företaget har gjort en del saker för att motverka att plattformen används av mörka krafter som vill påverka vår demokrati och valrörelse. Det är självklart bra och förtjänar beröm. Vad som inte är bra är att deras insatser inte på långa vägar är nog”, skriver...
Meet the People Helping Tim Cook Run Apple
On Friday, Tim Cook will mark the seventh anniversary of his ascension as Apple Inc.’s seventh chief executive officer. At 57, he’s in his prime, and all signs point to a durable tenure. When Apple’s board named Cook CEO back in 2011, the directors signed him on for a...
Spyware Company Leaves ‘Terabytes’ of Selfies, Text Messages, and Location Data Exposed Online
This story is part of When Spies Come Home, a Motherboard series about powerful surveillance software ordinary people use to spy on their loved ones. A company that markets cell phone spyware to parents and employers left the data of thousands of its customers—and the...