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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
Around 2018, Anna Liljedahl was browsing Facebook when she came across something that made her stop. The platform began employing facial recognition software to identify individuals in images; it was able to tag faces in the background of birthday photos and extract names with startling accuracy from crowd shots. When…
A game developer who has spent the last ten years creating worlds for a major studio is starting over somewhere in California right now, maybe in a spare bedroom, maybe at a used desk next to a window that looks out on nothing in particular. The badge has vanished. There…
When you step outside on a clear April night and stare up long enough, something changes. The day’s cacophony, including the news, the screen, and the traffic, disappears, leaving only the sky and the gradual realization that a lot is going on up there this month. By all standards, April…