TV: Cutting the Cable, Watching Online
A few stories about the future of TV caught our eye this week that we wanted to follow up on. The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple may begin to offer TV subscriptions via the internet. The...
View ArticleTakeouts: Blackberry, Pricing Partridges, Sports Gifts
Tech Takeout: New York Times tech reporter Nick Bilton explains the implications of Blackberry manufacturer Research In Motion having had a second major email and internet outage in recent...
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Nick Bilton, Design Integration Editor for The New York Times and the User Interface Specialist & Researcher for The New York Times Research & Development Lab, and Joe Brown, Associate Editor...
View ArticleDoes the iPad Live Up to Its Hype?
After weeks of speculation and hype the Apple iPad was unveiled yesterday. What does it look like? What does it do? And will you want to buy one?Nick Bilton, lead Bits Blogger for the New York Times,...
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Does Technology Take Away the Element of Surprise?
These days, it seems that technology connects us with everything we want to know. Using our phones, Facebook, the pages of Wikipedia and YouTube videos, we instantly fulfill our desires for...
View ArticleHow Twitter Created Connections But Drove the Founders Apart
As Twitter's lawyers prepare to take the company public, they aired some of the company's financial dirty laundry in a regulatory filing this week, confirming that the social media service continues to...
View ArticleHatching Twitter
New York Times columnist and reporter Nick Bilton tells the story behind Twitter, a drama of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles, as the founders went from everyday engineers to...
View ArticleHatching Twitter
New York Times columnist and reporter Nick Bilton tells the story behind Twitter, a drama of betrayed friendships and power struggles, as the founders went from engineers to wealthy celebrities....
View ArticleThe Bots Are Taking Over
Internet bots are bits of code that run automated tasks online, often sending you spam links on social media. They're becoming increasingly sophisticated and are even being used by some governments and...
View ArticleBONUS TRACK: How Twitter Has Changed Nonfiction
Fluffly and indulgent as they might be the tiny dispatches and status updates of social media are a narrative gold mine for writers. Nonfiction writing will never be the same again. This came up, oddly...
View ArticleWould Donald Trump Have Made it this Far Without Twitter?
Nick Bilton, special correspondent for Vanity Fair, discusses his recent column “How Silicon Valley Created Donald Trump.” He argues that Silicon Valley’s innovations unwittingly created Donald Trump,...
View ArticleBreaking News
Simon Adler takes us down a technological rabbit hole of strangely contorted faces and words made out of thin air. And a wonderland full of computer scientists, journalists, and digital detectives...
View ArticleDriverless Dilemma
Most of us would sacrifice one person to save five. It’s a pretty straightforward bit of moral math. But if we have to actually kill that person ourselves, the math gets fuzzy.That’s the lesson of the...
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