On the internet, as with most of life, you can’t count on things lasting forever. Websites close down, servers get turned off, the wrong button gets hit and years of work is erased. But just as you ...

TRUE TO ITS NAME, the word ephemerality—from the Greek ephēmeros, meaning "lasting only a day"—has crept into the modern technological lexicon, gaining traction as a buzzy catchphrase to describe a ...

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel has been known to be pretty surreptitious when it comes to sharing secrets about how the company works, but today he provided a little more transparency around its mission ...

Leading social media platforms are introducing features that allow users to share content that can only be viewed once. For example, consumers can set chats to be deleted immediately after being ...

Summer Guthery and Francesca Sonara. Photo: Maria Baranova. Courtesy of times. Legacy seeking, Guthery and Sonara believe, is antithetical to experimentation, which is part of why times has a finite ...

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Confide, the encrypted chat app that’s reportedly popular among Trump staffers, is facing a class action lawsuit that claims Confide misled consumers about its ability to protect messages from being ...

MOINOPOLIS recently announced their call for papers for their issue #2, called ‘Ephemerality and Architecture’. Have market forces encouraged this shift towards ephemerality or is it a natural ...

Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke has developed a body of work that resists easy categorization. His buildings often seem both ancient and provisional, carrying a monumental presence while ...