Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
All images: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo Samsung’s gone and done it guys. It’s made a perfectly wonderful laptop that retails for under a grand, is of exceptional quality, and is neither under-powered nor teeming with crappy finishes. This is the college-bound laptop everyone, including Apple, has failed to make for the last couple of years. We’ve been…
Four men in Detroit were arrested over the past week for posts on social media that the police chief called threatening. One tweet that led to an arrest said that Micah Johnson, the man who shot police officers in Dallas last week, was a hero. None of the men have been named, nor have they been…
A blogger and her husband Photo: James Devaney/Getty Images On Tuesday, Jennifer Aniston took to the Huffington Post to write a scathing article that addressed her recent pregnancy rumors, as well as general tabloid treatment of female celebrities. On Wednesday, as the natural order of the universe dictates, her…
When he’s choosing your music for you, Carl Chery, 37, is in Culver City, California, sitting at his desk in an office with no signage, trying to decide whether Drake and Future’s “Jumpman” (jumpman, jumpman, jumpman) has jumped the shark. Or sometimes he’s at home in his one-bedroom apartment on the border of West Hollywood and…
Last week, a corner of the internet went 100 percent gorillashit over a tweet comparing Taylor Swift’s vagina to a messy ham sandwich. And why shouldn’t it? It is gold-standard content, delightfully shocking and utterly insane. Several times that day, I returned to the tweet, pleasantly agog. But other people saw something more sinister in…
An app to locate rentable driveways for parking. An app to locate rentable yachts. An app to help you understand “cause and effect in your life.” An app that guides mindful meditation. An app that imparts wisdom. And a new proposal to create an app designed to stop police killings. We are overloaded daily with…
The newsroom is an exhilarating place to be. Stories break. News moves fast. I go to a mid-morning meeting every day where the reporters on my team throw out ideas about what they might be interested in covering, then I go write a few lines of code, add a few features, grab a lunch break,…
Data from SimilarWeb shows that Pokemon Go is about to pass Twitter in daily active users on Android — and it hasn’t even launched globally. ‘Pokémon GO’ Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users On Android – Forbes. Source: ‘Pokémon GO’ Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users On Android –…
It was 3am on 14 November 2015, and I had just woken up at my home in Toronto. I couldn’t get back to sleep, so I logged on to Twitter to check my messages. As I scrolled through, I read the details of the brutal terrorist attacks that had taken place in Paris hours earlier. Then I saw that my…
What has already been a discouraging summer for online news now looks even worse. A new Pew Research study reveals yet another reason for journalists to fret about recent changes to Facebook’s editorial vision. Last week, a Facebook vice president announced a major modification to how the company’s News Feed algorithm will rank stories. That…