This is the best piece I've read yet about the acquisition: 'Let’s talk about Sparrow' - http://t.co/xCeRqnxZ

Video games can go wrong when the person playing them is desensitized to reality, the authors say. Photo Illustration/Thinkstock Editor’s Note: Psychologist Dr. Philip Zimbardo is a professor emeritus

Warning: This story has some relatively major spoilers for plot points in Spec Ops: The Line . Spec Ops: The Line has been one of the year's most surprising titles for me. I'll admit I was almost enti

I would have to travel for two days to reach Dr. Wasteland, M.D. He wanted someplace remote. I couldn’t imagine a better place than the abandoned town of Kumyrna. Charlie Hall / Bohemia Interactive My

My mind is a strange and dangerous place. I shouldn’t go in there alone after dark. But the other night I was thinking, just me and myself, about all the new camera releases this year. Which has made

Athletes spill details on dirty secrets in the Olympic Village http://t.co/iJ63k3d5 Great article on the partying & sex during the Olympics.

July 13, 2012 Announcing an audacious proposal The overwhelmingly positive response to my blogpost, What Twitter could have been has been inspiring. The post has generated 80K pageviews thus far. With

It’s like this: The browser’s doomed, because apps are the future. Wait!Apps are doomed because HTML5 is the future. I see something almost every daysaying one or the other. Only it’s mostly wrong. [I

Photography Throughout history, the fine art community has had a reluctance to accept photography as a proper form of artistic expression. With time artists using the medium began to slowly explore it

May 29, 2012 Steve Jobs and The Cloud Shortly after returning to Apple in 1997, Steve Jobs shared his thoughts about the future of the company with attendees at the Worldwide Developers Conference. He

Many Mac power users and developers are concerned about the iOS-ification of the Mac OS and how much more of that process will be found in sessions at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)

CVE-2012-2122: A Tragically Comedic Security Flaw in MySQL Jun 11, 2012 5 min read HD Moore Last updated at Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:14:11 GMT UPDATE: Want to know if your MySQL Server is vulnerable? Downl

It's funny. Or sad. Or predictable. It's predictably sadly funny that many tech media outlets are saying that Apple's iPad finally has a bonafide competitor in the Microsoft Surface . Set aside for no

Brian worked for the American government. Specifically, he worked for a small branch on a very small project with a budget so small that it was governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. To cut costs,

paul offline 1020 My sister helps take care of a 7-year-old, who recently asked "what is the internet?" It's a good question. She (the 7-year-old) thought it meant computers and phones. I remember chu

Oceans Away! By • July 3rd, 2012 You feel compelled to support great writing… Before I tell you the story of how I tricked and deceived my son, an innocent 7-year-old who trusts me with his life, his

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A short while after the WWDC 2012 keynote, when Apple made the iOS 6 BETA publicly available, somebody tweeted in German that there are probably already more devices running iOS 6 than Android 4. I tr

Break-Up Letter To A Girl I Never Actually Dated... Or Spoke To http://t.co/W1kN6IEv

A great #longread for the afternoon - An Unsung Hero of the Nuclear Age: http://t.co/nW2fV3aV

30 Ways To Make Your 20s Better http://t.co/EWFsepTq Some pretty good advice here.

I strive every day to: 1) See the good in every human being. 2) Shift the focus of my awareness away from myself, my needs, and and my expectations. To see the world as others see it, at minimum, and to see the world as it actually is, at best. 3) Ponder the things I don’t know anything about, and…

In the fifth grade, I somehow managed to inadvertently charm the hearts of 10 starry-eyed girls, which meant that, before I even turned 10, I had in both my metaphorical and literal lap 10 potential c

The iEconomy Apple’s Retail Army, Long on Loyalty but Short on Pay 1 / 8 Apple stores are renowned for impeccable design, deft service and spectacular revenues. Last year, the company’s 327 global sto

There’s something magical about the touchpad on a MacBook. Out of the box, the first time you use it, it just works. Built out of a big slab of glass, the surface offers just enough friction for optimal finger sliding. Whether on the MacBook Pro or the Air, the trackpad is masterful at figuring out…

June 17, 2012 It’s Called Progress, Folks Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, wrote a gem of an editorial for Wired just after Apple released the new Retina MacBook Pro. Mr. Wiens’ business is in DIY repair and replacement parts, so he’s obviously affected whenever Apple releases a new machine containing…

The year is 2009. In history books, it'll widely be recognized as the year that most of America -- heck, the world -- would prefer to forget. Job after job was lost , bank after bank fell, and humanit

“Curation is replacing creation as a mode of self-expression.” – Jonathan Harris @ jjhnumber27 #creativemornings — Tina Roth Eisenberg (@swissmiss) June 1, 2012 As a former actual curator , of like, actual art and whatnot, I think I’m fairly well positioned to say that you folks with your blog and…

What Happens When A Girl Shaves Her Head http://t.co/iHnEvWQo