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 ...
Meta’s Acquisition Strategy: What Facebook Bought and What It Missed
In April 2012, a writer on this very site posed a question that seemed perfectly reasonable at the time: should Facebook buy Foursquare? Facebook had just ...
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 ...
Viral Customer Service Moments That Built Brand Loyalty in the Social Media Age
In October 2011, a Reddit user named zambuka42 posted a screenshot of an Amazon customer service chat. The details were ordinary: a package shipped to his ...
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 ...
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 ...
AI in Healthcare: From IBM Watson to Modern Medical AI
In September 2011, IBM announced that its Jeopardy-winning supercomputer Watson would partner with WellPoint to revolutionize healthcare decision-making. The ...
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 ...
State-Sponsored Cyber Warfare Units and the Global Threat Landscape
In May 2011, the Chinese government publicly acknowledged what cybersecurity researchers had suspected for years: a dedicated military hacking unit existed ...
The Evolution of Windows App Packaging: From AppX to MSIX
In April 2011, the first leaked details about a new application packaging format for Windows 8 surfaced online. It was called AppX, and the tech press treated ...
Facebook’s Like Button Bait and Switch: A History of Meta’s Dark Patterns
On a quiet Oscar Sunday in February 2011, Facebook pulled off one of the most calculated product changes in social media history. Without warning, without a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Russia’s Government Transition to Open-Source Linux: From Putin’s 2010 Order to 2026
In late December 2010, then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a 17-page document titled "Transition Plan of the Federal Authorities and Federal Budgetary ...
