New York Magazine
Is Your Phone the Reason You Feel Broke?
For the past year, the political class has been wearing itself out over what sounds like a simple question: Why are Americans so down on the economy? One point of agreement is that core indicators seem to have diverged from how people report actually feeling about the economy or are insufficient to explain such things in the first place.
A House Without Rules Makes for C-Span Gone Wild (New York Magazine)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/06/2023 - 13:14FTC Chair Lina Khan says corporations abuse their power. To fight them, she’s consolidating some of her own. (New York Magazine)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 10/27/2021 - 13:50Facebook Still Doesn’t Get It (New York Magazine)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 07/15/2020 - 06:43The American People Should See Trump’s Coronavirus Briefings in Their Entirety (New York Magazine)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 04/29/2020 - 09:39Inside the divorce rattling Silicon Valley and Democratic politics (New York Magazine)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 09/18/2019 - 16:33YouTube Exec Denies the Existence of ‘Rabbit Hole Effect’ that Definitely Exists (New York Magazine)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 03/31/2019 - 15:125G Is Going to Transform Smartphones — Eventually
In 2019, 5G will a buzzword you’ll hear increasingly often, but it’s not likely to change anything in your life. By 2029, it’ll be so ingrained into your daily life you’ll have trouble remembering when your phone (or watch or eyeglasses or smart mirror) used to be slow to respond, or unable to stream such high-resolution video, and nerds will be salivating over the when 6G data networks will finally arrive. And sometime in between, someone will come up with something that will fundamentally turn how we live on its head all over again.