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YouTube created the creator economy
Nineteen years after Jawed Karim uploaded the very first YouTube video, the awkward, 19-second clip in front of San Diego Zoo’s elephant enclosure is memorable today only because...
Chatbots promise a future that will never arrive
Conversing with your computer has been a dream of futurists and technologists for decades. When you look at 2004’s state of the art, it’s staggering to see how...
From mono to mainstream: 20 years of Bluetooth audio
“When you think about the history of Bluetooth, and specifically about audio, you really have to go back to the mid-to-late ’90s.”Chuck Sabin is a Bluetooth expert. As...
How 19 years of Amazon Prime has satisfied our need for speed
Just as Tech Reader was hitting publish on its first posts, I was putting a freshly minted English degree to use working at an indie bookshop in Los...
The Tesla Model S shook the industry, but its echo is fading
The consumer electronics industry has changed radically over the past two decades. AR/VR devices have come and gone and come again, smartphones have grown from filling our pockets...
Steam defined the modern video game industry
Gather ’round, children, and let me tell you a story about the old bugaboo we used to call DRM.Digital Rights Management was the beast under every gamer’s bed...
