technology

GPS app wrongly marked a Colorado man’s private driveway as a public shortcut, routed thousands of cars through it, ignored every complaint, until someone crashed

Etai Eshet

'The hype is way overblown': 15 Employees quietly changing their career plans because of AI

Jesse Kessenheimer

New hire ruins 9 months of employee work, management sign off on her actions: 'I can't even blame her'

Ally Perry

Landlord replaces all physical keys with a 'smart app,' charges tenants a monthly $15 tech fee to cover the cost: 'It is literally a subscription service just to enter my own home'

JR Atkinson

A Dusty Colllection of 25 Y2K Gadgets That Somehow Look More Futuristic Than Today’s Tech

Inés Soubrie

Teacher refuses to give failing student a passing grade after he keeps coming to class with his uncharged iPad and no ability to take notes

Ben Weiss

Manager uses ChatGPT to write employee's performance review, sparking debate on the importance and ethics of having AI handle certain aspects of our work: 'It didn't even understand my role'

Brad Dickson

Over convenience is hindering us and ‘Friction-Maxxing’ can help us add useful difficulty back into our lives

JR Atkinson

Grandma draws the ire of "unschooling" daughter-in-law after giving her iPad-kid 4th-grade granddaughter a real book to read instead of her iPad: 'She actually needs to practice reading not listening'

Brad Dickson

A Tech-Driven Society has Ruined the Art of Love, But Fear Not: There is a Romance Renaissance On the Horizon

Jesse Kessenheimer

Friction-Maxxing might be the thing that saves us from our own worst tendencies: 'Frictionmaxxing is really humanmaxxing'

JR Atkinson

22 Cat Ipad Kids Who’ve Been Lost to Technology

Laurent Shinar

It's Time To Let Go of Old Internet Nostalgia and Make Way for Finer Internet Curation

Ally Perry

Gaming company tacitly refuses to hire employees over 35 years old, lays off workers after a certain age: 'The hiring manager openly told me that the candidate I wanted to hire was too old (she was 46)'

JR Atkinson

Socially anxious man deletes dating apps and cold approaches 30 women, shares his fascinating results: 'My heart would race just thinking about saying hello'

JR Atkinson

Remote consultants forced to work off old computers, they get even with management by slowing their pace down: 'There really is no way for us to go quicker without quicker laptops'

Ben Weiss