vulture lists
May 22, 2023
The 100 Hardest Video-Game Levels of All Time Dizzying shooters, agonizing puzzles, and water stages (ugh) that raise the question: Continue?
vulture lists
May 22, 2023
The 100 Hardest Video-Game Bosses, Ranked From gods and zombies to a shark and a tree, the one trait they share is an ability to end your game swiftly.
internet studies
May 10, 2021
25 Edits That Define the Modern Internet Video And create the vocabulary for an absurd, ingenious art form.
Ten Years of ‘Miracles’ The music video that launched a thousand memes went live a decade ago this week.
coronavirus
Apr. 11, 2020
Apple and Google Team Up on Tech to Trace the Spread of the Coronavirus The two companies will collaborate on ways to monitor the spread of coronavirus without compromising user privacy.
coronavirus
Apr. 10, 2020
There Will Be No New Emoji Next Year Because of the Coronavirus The Unicode Consortium, like everything else, is experiencing delays.
Is It Safe to Use Zoom? The video-call software has seen enormous growth and has had its many security issues exposed.
NJ Governor Requests Expertise of 6 People Who Still Know COBOL Why the effort to mitigate the coronavirus now means mobilizing coders who still know the decades-old programming language.
It’s Time to Play a Big, Dumb Video Game Instead of worrying about quality, try something mediocre that will drag on forever.
Welcome Back to the Appointment Internet Social distancing has given rise to an older — and better — way of being online.
internet disconnection
Mar. 31, 2020
Seven Work-arounds for Your Cruddy Internet Connection If you’re stuck at home going mad over your sucky internet, try some of these simple fixes before prostrating yourself before the ISP gods.
Coronavirus Is Threatening Facebook’s Business Model The company is almost always bulletproof, but a pandemic may be the exception to the rule.
These Students Re-created Their Closed High School on Minecraft “In the past week, the fact that I’ve seen the school in Minecraft more than real life, it’s kinda sad.”
The Dos and Don’ts of Video Calls With more people than ever working from home, we’re pioneering thousands of new ways to embarrass ourselves.
Will the Coronavirus Kill Airbnb? Furnished apartments intended for short-term stays are flipping to long-term rentals. What could possibly be causing this?
coronavirus
Mar. 24, 2020
The Professor Teaching to One Lone Pinocchio Doll UNC law school professor John V. Orth’s pre-recorded lectures went viral on Twitter earlier this week.
coronavirus
Mar. 23, 2020
Lower Your Video Quality for the Greater Good Everyone working and playing from home is taxing our internet infrastructure. You don’t need to watch everything in 1080p.
The Last Sport Still Standing With every other league suspended, it’s time to get really into watching marble races on YouTube.
For Wine Stores, Coronavirus Has Brought a ‘Fire Hose’ of Customers One wine shop owner talks about how busy the past week has been, and how it could all suddenly change for the worse.
TikTok Is Not The Internet’s Eden According to a report, moderators were advised to keep those with “ugly facial looks” & “dilapidated housing” off its front page.
Split or Steal Is a Game About Whether or Not You Want to Cooperate With OthersA video game based on the Prisoner’s Dilemma has surprising depth and sudden timeliness.
slacking off
Mar. 11, 2020
Work From Home Tip: Stop Capitalizing Words A simple way to trick your boss into thinking you’re still at your keyboard is by avoiding awkward autocorrects and overly correct grammar.
How Facebook Fact-Checking Can Backfire The “implied truth effect” means that Facebook’s fact-checking process may be worse than doing nothing.
F- -k It, Meme Think Piece The new meme shorthand means nothing and everything.
show fleet sweetie
Mar. 4, 2020
Twitter Is Testing Disappearing Tweets The new feature, Fleets, will be familiar to anyone who has posted a Story on Instagram or Snapchat.
bored people
Mar. 2, 2020
Coronavirus Quarantines Will Be Good for Memes Entire countries, locked in their homes with nothing to do. The perfect environment for incubating dumb stuff to post online.
vision 2020
Feb. 26, 2020
Mike Bloomberg Is Running His Campaign Like a Money-Gorged Tech Company An organization that has more money than it knows what to do with is throwing every idea at the wall to see what sticks.
You’ve Gotta Respect How Lazy the Bloomberg Social Media Recruits Are Some are posting so robotically that Twitter thinks they are bots. They make $2,500 per month.
The New 1975 Music Video Is a Six-Minute Crash Course in Memes The band’s latest song, “The Birthday Party,” features plenty of memes new and old. We annotated it for your convenience.
Facebook’s Election Rules Are No Match for Bloomberg’s Billions The billionaire has crafted aggressive social-media campaigns that adhere to the letter of the law but not the spirit.
the second term
Feb. 17, 2020
What Would Four More Years of Trump Look Like? The death of global climate efforts. Escalating trade wars. Nuclear brinkmanship. Here, 19 visions of a future that seems more possible than ever.
gotta go fast
Feb. 14, 2020
The Staff of New York Shows Off Its Sonic OCs Creating a Sonic OC is a time-honored internet tradition.
gotta go fast
Feb. 14, 2020
How Well Do You Know This Infamous Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube Video? Can you identify each of the top ten hottest female Sonic characters?
gotta go fast
Feb. 10, 2020
How Pingas Became One of Sonic the Hedgehog ’s Most Famous Memes Taken from an old Sonic cartoon, the sound clip gained notoriety after being used in hundreds of YouTube Poop videos.
vision 2020
Feb. 10, 2020
iowant to go to sleep
Feb. 5, 2020
More Security Isn’t Better Security The Iowa caucuses were crippled by aggressive secrecy and overzealous security measures around their voting app.
just asking questions
Jan. 31, 2020
Why Video Game Workers Need a Union: a Q&A with Emma Kinema Emma Kinema of the CWA’s new initiative to organize workers in video games and tech explains why new-economy workers need a union too.
Does Jeff Bezos Know How to Text? The Amazon CEO flubbed an all-important number swap.
cybersecurity
Jan. 22, 2020
I Hope Those Memes Were Worth It, Jeff Bezos The crown prince of Saudi Arabia allegedly compromised Bezos’s phone through a virus-laden video sent over WhatsApp.
augmented reality
Jan. 18, 2020
8tracks’ David Porter Explains How the Streaming Industry Has Changed A lot has shifted, but venture-capital aspirations and royalty rates remain as lofty as ever.
The Justice Department Wants to Unlock Your iPhone The feds are putting pressure on Apple once again to break iPhone encryption.
hey you you’re finally awake
Jan. 10, 2020
This Gamer Prank Is a Finely Layered Work of Art When is a blue screen of death not really a blue screen of death?
Facebook Exec: Facebook Is Like the One Ring, Helped Trump Win Andrew Bosworth compares Facebook to an evil ring from fantasy books. He also thinks it helped Trump win.
Facebook Announces Fake Ban Against Deepfakes The policy is narrowly defined and continues a huge carve-out, making it completely useless for combating misinformation.
Uber Is Selling Tickets for the City Bus in Las Vegas Imagine this: meeting your ride along a predetermined route.
andrew cuomo fix the subway
Jan. 2, 2020
Resolving the Great Subway Seat Debate What seat you choose on the subway says a lot about who you are and whether or not you’re a monster.
Which Type of Gatsby Party Are You Hosting? You’ve had a year and a half to decide. Now 2020 is upon us.
extremely online
Dec. 26, 2019
gig economy
Dec. 24, 2019
Travis Kalanick Is Fully Done With Uber The former CEO is leaving the company’s board at the end of the month, after being forced out for creating a hostile work environment.
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