About a year ago I found myself in a funny position. A friend of mine told me about a very enticing job opening at the crypto company she worked for. This was around when NFTs were starting to blow up. The position was basically being a representative for NFT artists who dropped NFTs on their platform. The pay? Six figures. The people? I could have cared less. The only catch was that I'd have to do some serious research on these “non-fungible tokens." So I did.

What does the future of public transit hold?

The more you know

Welcome to uncanny valley

They say capitalism breeds innovation, but the need to spend extra time answering your smart dishwasher's product survey in order for the thing to function hardly feels "innovative." They say artificial intelligence is going to replace humans, but a pathetic little robot that needs a human to help it out of the snow doesn't seem very intimidating. And don't get me started on subscription-based features. Other than blatantly holding your car hostage, what's the point of a bluetooth-enabled key f…

Connecting objects to the internet just leads to boring dystopia

Welcome to the Internet of Crap

Yikes

Seems like just yesterday I was playing snake on my indestructible Nokia 3310 and asking my parents to buy me a clear glacier GameBoy Advance. Now they're literally putting Microsoft Zunes and iMac G3s in museums. If you needed another reason to feel old, this Twitter thread full of nostalgic pictures of old tech will take you on a trip down memory lane. What was up with all the colorful transparent hardware in the 90s? And can we bring that back? Today's world of slick, elegant design could use

Wait until you realize how much they get paid.

Is this Black Mirror?

I cn sllep just fien.

Alexa told the girl to 'plug in a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs'

Guess those hands are staying dirty

'If SHEIN was a home'

Fashion, darling