Digital Life

Work partners Jon Chintanaroad (left) and Mike Prestano are all smiles now, but founding a tech startup together threatened their friendship — and their business.

Couples Counseling Catches On With Tech Co-Founders

7:03pm April 23, 2015

by April Dembosky

Friction between close business partners is the reason many startups fail. But increasingly in Silicon Valley, co-founders of companies are turning to therapists before things go south.

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Airbnb Anticipates Tourism Boost With Launch In Cuba

6:21pm April 22, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Ted Henken, professor of Latin American studies at Baruch College, CUNY, about Airbnb's entry into Cuba.

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What Can #NOLASCHOOLS Teach Us?

10:38pm April 21, 2015

by Michel Martin

Michel Martin is hosting a conversation about education in New Orleans, 10 years after Hurricane Katrina sparked a transformation of public schools there. Add your voice at #NOLASCHOOLS.

One study found that half of the Internet's top 25,000 websites aren't "mobile-friendly."

National

Google's New Search Algorithm Stokes Fears Of 'Mobilegeddon'

5:37pm April 21, 2015

by Sam Sanders

This week, Google started prioritizing mobile-friendly websites in Google searches made on a smartphone. The change could hurt businesses whose sites don't pass Google's mobile-ready test.

National

Twitter Now Allows Users To Receive Direct Messages From Any User

5:04pm April 20, 2015

by Sam Sanders

Before today, a Twitter user could send direct messages only if the recipient was one of the user's followers. Now there's an option that would allow users to message anyone on Twitter.

Men Strive To Give More To Charity When The Fundraiser Is Cute

5:28pm April 17, 2015

by Maanvi Singh

If you're wondering how to get more people to contribute to your online charity drive, consider a photo of you smiling. Even better if you're an attractive woman. Biology is to blame, researchers say.

On YouTube, A Global Archive Of Daily Life, Both Humble And Transcendent

3:08pm April 16, 2015

by Alexis Madrigal

The video-sharing website is now 10 years old. YouTube estimates that each day 432,000 hours of video gets posted on the service: a stunning record of our current civilization.

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Arts

Cooking With Emoji: We're Taking Eggplant Back From The Bros

2:39pm April 16, 2015

by Maria Godoy

The eggplant emoji has become a favorite of salacious sexters. To rescue its sullied rep, we turn to our emoji keyboards and conjure up recipes to highlight the fruit's, ahem, culinary attributes.

European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager announces formal charges against Google, accusing the company of abusing its dominant position as Europe's top search engine.

EU Charges Google With Antitrust Violations, Will Also Look At Android

10:08am April 15, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Saying that Google abused its grip on the online search market by "systematically favoring" its own shopping services at the expense of others, a European panel releases a list of antitrust charges.

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The Noun Project uses crowdsourcing to gather an army of people to define words using icons. This is just a small selection of the huge icon dictionary.

Arts

How Iconic: A Word Is Worth Thousands Of Pictures

10:37am April 13, 2015

by Caele Pemberton

Inspired by the origins of the Oxford English Dictionary, the Noun Project uses crowdsourcing to gather an army of people to define words. But instead of using other words to do it, they use icons.