In November 2010, Apple quietly fixed the iPhone 4's antenna design flaw without ever publicly admitting there was a problem. That silent hardware revision, ...
Internet Surveillance Laws: From SOPA & CISPA to Modern Privacy Battles
Back in 2013, CISPA (the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act) triggered one of the largest online protests since the SOPA blackout. The bill proposed ...
The Biggest Apple Leaks and How Secrecy Shaped the Company
In September 2011, former Vice President Al Gore accidentally confirmed that Apple would release multiple new iPhones the following month. Speaking at the ...
Steve Jobs’ Legacy: Memorials, Statues & Tributes Worldwide
When Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011, Apple lost its co-founder and the technology world lost perhaps its most influential figure. Within weeks, tributes ...
Digital Identity Systems: Government Internet ID & Privacy Risks Explained
In January 2011, the Obama administration announced the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), a plan to create a standardized digital ...
Ray Kurzweil’s Predictions Scorecard: What He Got Right & Wrong
Ray Kurzweil has been predicting the future of technology for over four decades, and his track record is unlike anything else in the field of futurism. While ...
Tech Platforms Killed by Bad Redesigns: From Digg v4 to Twitter’s Rebrand
A redesign is supposed to make a platform better. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it triggers the kind of user revolt that sends a company into a years-long spiral ...
CAPTCHA Evolution: The History of How Websites Prove You’re Human
At some point in the last two decades, every person with an internet connection has been asked the same deeply strange question: prove you are not a robot. You ...
How Piracy Shaped Streaming and Killed the DVD Industry
Back in 2011, a writer at Techi.com made an argument that most of the entertainment industry dismissed as fringe thinking: pirates weren't the enemy. They were ...
Creative Tech Proposals: How People Use Technology to Propose
A marriage proposal has always been about timing, surprise, and the right moment. Long before smartphones and social media, people went to extraordinary lengths ...
PC Gaming vs Console Gaming: The Complete Comparison
The PC vs console debate has raged since the early 1990s, and three decades later, gamers are still arguing about it in Reddit threads, Discord servers, and ...
10 Proven Ways to Make Money From Home
The idea of earning a living without leaving your house used to sound like a late-night infomercial pitch. That changed permanently over the past few years. ...
Why Every Kid Should Learn to Code [Infographic]
A generation ago, knowing how to type was considered a bonus skill. Today, typing is assumed. Coding is following the same trajectory. Children who learn ...
The American Identity According to Social Media [Infographic]
Back in 2011, the question sounded almost philosophical: can a bunch of data about social networking actually help us understand the American people? Fifteen ...
Your Business Needs 7 Social Media Accounts, Not Hundreds
Back in 2013, a common pitch from social media agencies went something like this: "We'll get your business listed on dozens of social networks." It sounded ...
