It is bad for American consumers and retailers—and it is under threat
An Enigma Machine combined with a Rubik's Cube makes an encryption device with unprecedented power.ContentsRubik's CubeEnigma MachineEnigma QubeKeyboardRotorsPlugboardPowerRubik's CubeI have made several posts recently about various cubes, including the Rubik's Cube. Enigma MachineIn 2015, MathWorks...
The billion-dollar industry helping students at major Australian universities cheat online assessments
In the post-COVID era of online assessments, “homework help” sites have been accused of becoming industrialised cheating factories — and it's making them rich.
Evernote faces a backlash after announcing it is restricting the use of the free version of its app.
The hot e-commerce app Wish has “hundreds of millions of users” (plus other fascinating stats)
Last week, toward the end of a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, GGV Capital managing director Hans Tung took the stage to interview one of his portfolio CEOs, Peter Szulczewski of Wish. With an increasingly boisterous crowd as their background, Tung managed to ferret out lots of fascinating infor...
Sony Releases Wearable Air Conditioners To Keep You Cool for Hours on the Go
This wearable air conditioner is a huge hit in Japan!
Android’s openness is a big reason for its success, but cellular carriers and phone manufacturers often use this openness to make the experience worse for its users. Android’s openness gives carriers and device manufacturers the freedom to do bad things.
My Tethering Experience With MyWi on AT&T
I recently got a text message from AT&T letting me know that I was “enjoying” free tethering with my iPhone, and that I would need to change my habits or be forced to upgrade to an official tethering plan. For...
Why sales of very basic mobile phones, without apps and internet connection, are increasing.
In the classic era of word processing, text was born between MS Word and a printer. Today, it is written and edited on multiple devices and apps, then mailed, printed, copied, pasted, annotated, published, RSSed, shared and re-shared, using all kinds of tools and platforms. Stubborn proprietary file...
All Eyes On Google (2004)
IN SIX YEARS, TWO STUDENTS TURNED A SIMPLE IDEA INTO A GLOBAL PHENOMENON. NOW COMPETITORS ARE SEARCHING FOR A WAY TO DETHRONE THE LATEST PRINCES OF THE NET
Knowledge is crude
Far from being a touchstone of the truth, knowledge is a stone-age concept that harms our dealings with the modern world
The Billionaire’s Bard
Neal Stephenson might be the most influential novelist among business tycoons since Ayn Rand. What does he believe?
On the rationalist fictions of Neal Stephenson
Could you please actually delete the entire Instagram & not just your account? /s
I think 日本語のアニメ is actually the right way to say "anime in Japanese", not "日本語でアニメ", while "日本のアニメ" could be understood as "anime of Japan"
I believe this tastes fantastic, but you could work on the appearance