NICHOLAS CARLSON New York Times The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way. (…) In many ways, Yahoo’s decline from a $128 billion company to one worth virtually nothing is entirely natural. Yahoo grew into a colossus by solving a problem that no longer exists. And while Yahoo’s products have undeniably improved, and…
The Smithsonian Magazine Skating rinks are already open for fewer days in the year than they were just a decade ago
Klint Finley Wired Today, there are a lot of places you can learn to code. If you want to become an elite programmer, though, you need feedback. That’s where exorcism.io comes in.
Wired The gender gap in tech is a widely acknowledged problem. Issie Lapowsky talked to females in the industry to find how bad it really is. For women who have experienced this bias—and there are many—the simple act of talking about it is taboo.
Journal de Montréal Il dit que ces lieux religieux sont «des incubateurs d’islamisme» au Canada et il demande au fédéral d’agir.
Un entretien avec Ignacio García-Mata, S.J. et Sergio Gabriel Raczko Tiré de la revue Le Brigand — La république des Guaranis Extrait de L’aventure chrétienne Vers 1600, 5500 missionnaires sillonnent l’Amérique. Les Jésuites créent même au Paraguay une sorte de socialisme chrétien ce qui causera leur perte des décennies plus tard. Au Paraguay, pour sauver les…
La Presse Fait inhabituel, ils ont même envoyé des huissiers dans le bureau personnel de la grande patronne du service afin qu’une copie de chaque jugement lui soit remise en mains propres. (…)
By Adrian Chen Wired Baybayan is part of a massive labor force that handles “content moderation”—the removal of offensive material—for US social-networking sites. As social media connects more people more intimately than ever before, companies have been confronted with the Grandma Problem: Now that grandparents routinely use services like Facebook to connect with their kids and…
(Documentaire de la CBC, 52 minutes) Porndemic puts faces and personalities to the extraordinary profitable business of pornography today. Porn has quietly reinvented itself on the world-wide-web, becoming more mainstream and culturally embedded everyday. After starting with a visit to the old guard, the besieged Larry Flynt in his penthouse perch, Porndemic drops in on…