A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
22
votes
Showing only topics with the tag "long read".
Back to normal view
-
-
Detailed breakdown of new mechanics, systems, and enemies in Elden Ring
4 votes -
Little-known Federal software can trigger revocation of citizenship
9 votes -
Zeynep Tufekci on the Sociology of The Moment (Live) (Ep. 130)
4 votes -
An introduction to jq, the command-line JSON processor
14 votes -
Turns out the hardest part of making a game is...everything
8 votes -
Is this giant greenhouse in Kentucky the future of farming?
6 votes -
Seeking Trans liberation through birthwork
5 votes -
Democracy should be sentimentalist not rationalist
6 votes -
Thoughts on Dean Spade's essay "Solidarity Not Charity - Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival"
5 votes -
Lockdown effectiveness: Much more than you wanted to know
9 votes -
Against Theory, now with bots! On the persistent fallacy of intentionless speech
3 votes -
Victoria II, Part I: Mechanics and Gears
10 votes -
Why is it so hard to be rational?
6 votes -
How a board game about birds became a surprise blockbuster
14 votes -
The case for optimism
3 votes -
Developing ethical, social, and cognitive competence
3 votes -
The co-founder of Snopes wrote dozens of plagiarized articles for the fact-checking site
11 votes -
How life improved since 1990
14 votes -
The rocks and minerals of Minecraft
6 votes -
LeMessurier Stands Tall - A Case Study in Professional Ethics
4 votes -
How tech loses out over at companies, countries and continents
8 votes -
History of the Segway - Dean Kamen's literary agent revisits the story twenty years later to reflect on his contribution to the invention's hype and failure
3 votes -
Sophie Zhang risked everything to expose how Facebook enables global political manipulation. Now she’s telling her story.
14 votes -
Blizzard turned game developers into rock stars. Misbehavior followed
11 votes -
Tunnels are our transportation future
4 votes -
AI has the worst superpower… medical racism
23 votes -
Is Glenn Greenwald the new master of right-wing media?
6 votes -
Big Oil’s solution for plastic waste littered with failure
10 votes -
Nesting as prepping
10 votes -
How the long-dead public-television painter Bob Ross became a streaming phenomenon (and kicked up plenty of dirt in the process)
9 votes -
Whitney Houston, American girl: Why America embraced Whitney Houston, and how it destroyed her
3 votes -
An interview with air-quality specialist Sarah Coefield about wildfire smoke, ventilation, long-term effects on health, and more
5 votes -
Sucks to be him! How Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon.
10 votes -
What we still don't know about Emmett Till's murder
2 votes -
Kevin Smith made Netflix’s ‘Masters of the Universe: Revelation’ specifically to please ‘He-Man’ fans. Some got mad anyway
7 votes -
Hou Yifan and the wait for chess’s first woman world champion
4 votes -
Tuvix will never die
10 votes -
Forensic science can be a powerful crime-fighting tool, but misdeeds, dubious methodologies, and bogus claims threaten its reputation—and the reputation of science as a whole
7 votes -
Ethical behaviourism and the moral risks of human-robot relationships
4 votes -
How Twitter can ruin a life: The story of Isabel Fall
19 votes -
Did Twitter break young adult fiction?
10 votes -
Three months in Monte Carlo
4 votes -
The prison and detention camps built for Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China have enough room to detain over one million people
18 votes -
First it was an Assassin's Creed expansion, now it's Ubisoft's eight year nightmare
7 votes -
Sophisticated exploits used to breach fully-patched iPhones of journalists, activists, as detailed by Amnesty International's Security Lab
24 votes -
The blurred lines of parasocial relationships
5 votes -
The privacy war raging within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), where normally-secretive tech companies are wrangling over the future of your data — and their own power — in plain sight
14 votes -
The truth behind the Amazon mystery seeds
15 votes -
Covid 7/15: Rates of Change
4 votes