Mapbox Follow Mar 8, 2012 · 3 min read The big news out of yesterday’s new iPad launch came from a footnote in the iPhoto for iOS presentation: Apple is using their own technology and servers for the maps in iPhoto’s prominent photo journals. However, as confirmed firsthand by Daring Fireball and as…

With Facebook rapidly approaching 1 billion users, how many e-mails do you think they're sending each day? Hundreds of millions? Billions? Whatever the number, it's absolutely massive ... and they appear to be keeping tabs on as many as possible. If you open that email they sent, Facebook wants to…

Apple CEO Tim Cook announcing the newest iPad Imagine you run a large technology company not named Apple. Let’s say you’re Steve Ballmer, Michael Dell, Meg Whitman, Larry Page, or Intel’s Paul Otellin

Even then, though, there was a feeling that dedicated portable gaming consoles were reaching a plateau, while at the same time iOS, Android, and Windows Phone were all becoming competent gaming platforms. (Don’t think it’s a threat? Just ask pocket camera makers .) I'm looking at the Vita now and I…

Many have wondered what would happen to Apple after Steve Job’s death. I’m afraid things started to go south at Infinite Loop long before Steve passed away. Case in point: Mac OSX Lion, which I think

A couple years ago, I worked as a post-production assistant for a certain network that rhymes with The Shmistory Channel, and part of my job at the Shmistory Channel entailed mailing and FedExing scri

Pretty soon, you’re going to be 13. It’s an important year in your life, and as i’m sure you’re aware, it’s the year you can have an account on sites like Twitter, Gmail and Facebook. It’s a point whe

It might sound strange to use the verb “Love” in the title of a rant. But here goes. I love photography. Why am I telling you this? Isn’t it self-obvious? Don’t we all love photography? The answer is

Many Mass Effect 3 players feel kind of like Commander Shepard in this image, watching helplessly as events transpire out of their control Image courtesy of Bioware Usually, when superfans are unhappy

Always fight the bystander effect I’ve been sitting on posting about this for a while now. Back in January of this year a friend posted a status update (which has since been deleted) saying simply that some girl (no details / links) I did not recognise had posted a suicide message on a Tumblr post.…

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was formed to ensure America’s freedom to travel. Instead, they have made air travel the most difficult means of mass transit in the United States, at

Tesla Motors ’ lineup of all-electric vehicles — its existing Roadster , almost certainly its impending Model S , and possibly its future Model X — apparently suffer from a severe limitation that can

We attach so much meaning to things. To objects, to people, to time (time is money), to money, to our jobs, our daily lives, our interpersonal relationships, our image, our aesthetic, other peoples’ aesthetic, everything. Fucking things. Just things. Everything has a meaning or a back story or some…

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A couple of weeks ago, I talked about feature detection and browser detection . That post featured a little bit about user-agent sniffing and the comments continued the trend. I maintain that user-age

N o one would accuse Jaroslav Flegr of being a conformist. A self-described “sloppy dresser,” the 53-year-old Czech scientist has the contemplative air of someone habitually lost in thought, and his s

Editor’s Note : Marco Arment is probably best well-known as the founder and creator of Instapaper , but he also has an impressively popular podcast on the 5by5 network , as well as a weblog , where he

Sega's summer showcase delivered exciting updates to some of its most iconic franchises Upcoming games include two Persona titles, a big 2D revamp for the lovable blue hedgehog and more. By S. Rutherf

A kitty's nap is never done. Image courtesy of ChatChat The instructions underneath VVVVVV creator Terry Cavanagh's new browser-based MMO ChatChat simply read: "be a cat." These instructions also desc

Playing God: On Death, Motherhood and ‘Creatures’ By • January 27th, 2012 Check it out! The quotes on the box are marvelous: “I first saw this program in the same week that evidence was discovered of

Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the country. He had even invented a new procedure for this exact cancer that could…

I read this great piece by Stephen Hackett today, and while I was reading it I figured I’m often asked why I (and to an extent our team ) do what I do every day. So here’s a brief explanation. It’s ab

Google employs more than 20,000 people worldwide and the number of them working on Android are in the single digit percentage range. Google's business is search, but it has always had aspirations of m

In early 2009, just months after Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi launched Dropbox, a service that promised to sync users' photos, music, and documents across computers, Apple’s MobileMe team suggested

Illustration by Aurich Lawson In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on ne

Lo, in the twilight days of the second year of the second decade of the third millennium did a great darkness descend over the wireless internet connectivity of the people of 276 Ferndale Street in th