This year, Peter Thiel’s Hereticon conference changed lives. Some attendees left with fresh tattoos and piercings, others with a newfound belief in UFOs. But Delian Asparouhov and Nadia Eghbal...

This is Parentverse, The Information Weekend’s advice column for tech-savvy parents. Email us your questions at parentverse@theinformation.com. Or, if you don’t mind sharing them with your fellow...

TJ Keasal has been dressing up her videogame characters in new-release Nikes and Adidas since she was in middle school. Long before Fortnite let players outfit their avatars, Keasal, a 32-year-old...

Once the Wild, Wild West (or, really, just a fancy ski destination), the state of Wyoming is now a popular relocation destination for tech and venture capital entrepreneurs lured there by wide open...

Should we buy this town?” The tweet, accompanied by a link to a Zillow listing for a $4.7 million abandoned ghost town in Colorado, was almost certainly a joke—but then again, maybe not. The...

In this week’s Decamped, we chat with Wesley Chan, a former general partner (and current board partner)at Felicis Ventures and the founder of Google Analytics and Google Voice. In August 2020, he...

Within the dark caverns and crevices of Twitter, there is a singular sunny corner: the lair of the non-fungible token influencer. Their tweets are littered with optimistic acronyms: LFG for “let’s...

Kira Vaden was compulsively refreshing eBay, watching prices rise and fall on one specific product: “vintage” iPod Shuffles from the late aughts. Vaden, a 23-year-old Starbucks barista from Peoria,...

For 17 emotional weeks, the Elizabeth Holmes trial had all the makings of a primo soap opera: heartache, drama, sex, lies, twists, turns and one helluva femme fatale. We had main characters:...

A new year is a cause for reflection—and for resuming this column, which I intend to write regularly, but not every week. You may recall I took a break to have my third child. All is well—and...