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Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no…

See how top brands design their onboarding, upgrading, downgrading and other key user flows

How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always treat it as very important. A look at how collaborating with design can supercharge our own productivity.

qubibi: A label by Kazumasa Teshigawara focused on Digital Art

The first large-scale, crowdsourced study that monitors how Meta tracks people across the internet

Thoughts on elevating product quality

Here is a short and curious Twitter thread from app developers and security researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry: Apple’s analytics data include an ID called “dsId”. We were able to verify that “dsId” is the “Directory Services Identifier”, an ID that uniquely identifies an iCloud account. Meaning, Apple’s analytics can personally identify you. […]

Wine commands wealth, prestige, and attention from aficionados. How much of what they admire is in their heads?

A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse.

The fediverse is dealing with a huge wave of Twitter people bringing toxic ideas with them.

The revolutionary internet is over, and we don’t have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.

Stephen was a hired gun at my first start-up. His contract started a year before I arrived, but he was long gone before I walked in the door. The story goes that when Stephen started, he found a small, solid team of five engineers, a QA lead, and a project manager. They were slowly and steadily goin

Chasing swipes and clicks is now a losing strategy—the rising stars on the web have found a way to create a higher level of engagement.

The mystery of why Judas forsook Jesus goes to the heart of Christianity. A newly translated gospel offers a new view

We’d all like life to be simpler. But we also don’t want to sacrifice our options and capabilities. Tesler’s law of the conservation of complexity, a rule from design, explains why we can’t have both. Here’s how the law can help us create better products and services by rethinking simplicity.

It's myth-busting time! The world's richest and largest city is cheaper and roomier than you think.

Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications

No public subsidies. A day pass for the equivalent of 98 cents. Unlimited 90-minute rides for $14 per year. How?

We’re more predictable than we thought.

‘“Dolphin safe” labels on our tins are reckoned among marine scientists to mean next to nothing.’ Katherine Rundell on tuna and extinction speculation.

Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to find answers in scientific research.

Psychologists explain what an abundance mindset is (and a scarcity mindset) and how it can change your life.

Tracking natural disasters on Earth

Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this.

“Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of German researchers had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10 percent faster if they ate a chocolate bar every day. It made the front page of Bild, Europe’s largest daily newspaper, just beneath their update about the Germanwings crash. From there, it…

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