As staff at the Lower Manhattan headquarters of Macmillan Publishers headed into work one morning in January 2024, they filed past something strange on the walls—flyers welcoming a new member of the team named “NOA.” The cafeteria was festooned with purple balloons and banners, according to several workers present, and with NOA’s name in light-up
It is tough to overestimate Big Tech’s influence on the modern world. But how did we get here? The best tech books unravel the rise and, occasionally, fall of some of the dominant companies and characters that created the gadgets and software we spend so much of our lives using. You’ll find intensely detailed biographies,
Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. TOTOTO As a child, Jaclyn Moriarty decided that her greatest quality was probably listening. “I was very shy and extremely quiet and felt like I had nothing to say to the world,” says the author, sipping
Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. TOTOTO When I was a child, my grandmother collected dolls. Pedigree, antiques, never Barbies. European dolls made of celluloid and bisque; Madame Alexander dolls with names like Baby Brother and Pussycat; pretty porcelain dolls from Japan;
For our very WIRED Book Club’s first live broadcast, Kate Knibbs will be accompanied by the author of The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception and the Real Life of Nigeria’s Romance ScammersCarlos Barragan. Barragán, journalist and researcher of the The New York TimesHe flew to Lagos to join a group of desperate young scammers. The story
Amelia Nierenberg and Ségolène Le Stradic June 5, 2026 — 8:56am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Paris: Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose graphic novel series Persepolis introduced millions of readers to the struggles of ordinary Iranians during the turbulent
