I t looks, at first, like one of a zillion unfunny video clips that now circulate on the internet: “Once Upon a Virus” features cheap animation, cheesy music, and sarcastic dialogue between China—repr
Our accounting office is right next to a Telus store full of Android and Windows fanatics. I haven’t been able to get any person in the store to even consider an iPhone or Mac for themselves, let alon
Ninety-five percent of American schools now conduct drills to prepare students for a school shooter. For adults who were out of high school by the time of the 1999 Columbine shooting, this is an unfam
Getty Images/Ringer illustration Things looked and felt a little bit different this year, but the three most fun days of the NFL offseason calendar are in the books: After 255 picks, a bevy of trades,
Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade,
I will tell you up front (at the risk of making you close the tab, but honesty and humility are in part the subject matter here): This may be the least sexy movie-star profile you will ever read. Beca
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With the continuing health and economic crisis, one of the areas that needs even more attention is the culture of the organization. With layoffs, furloughs, and other dramatic changes, people are hurt
Maps Redesign Case Study A redesigned Apple Maps experience; giving you the personal navigation system of your dreams. Designed and written by Ayman Jaddaa. Edits and some copywriting done by Marzia
You probably remember this moment. It was April 2018, the peak of the Cambridge Analytica scandal , and Mark Zuckerberg was testifying before an angry Congress. Republican senator Orrin Hatch, then 84
In the summer of 2017, I decided it was time to put on my big-girl pants and try to talk to my internet provider about my bill. It had been gradually ticking up over the past several months without ex
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President Donald Trump speaking from the White House in Washington, DC, February 7, 2017. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images The first three years of the Trump administration have gone a lot better than I
Although it’s probably the 100th-most unthinkable thing to hit the world of sports this month, Tom Brady — generally regarded as history’s greatest quarterback — will start next season donning a Tampa
Table of Contents All in-depth articles about my Apple career: How I ended up at Apple (1999) AppleCare (1999-2000) Mail team (2000-2004) Aperture: Senior QA (2004-2005) Eye Candy QA (2005-2011) Flipb
At 8:45 each weekday morning, I drop off my four-year-old at preschool, hug him goodbye, and drive back home. Most days, that is the last time I share a room with another human being until he and my w
Amidst the millions of social media users is a sizable chunk well-acquainted with what I’ll call “post-post anxiety.” It’s a dreadful malady, really; with symptoms that come on after you’ve fired off
I still work in tech, but I’ll never go back to the Valley Published in OneZero · 6 min read · Mar 3, 2020 -- Photo: digidreamgrafix/Getty Images I spent the summer of 2016 as a Google intern, working
Opinion The Editorial Board Joe Biden Former vice president of the United States. The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and cert
WMATA/Shutterstock/Madison McVeigh/CityLab One hundred years ago, the United States had a public transportation system that was the envy of the world. Today, outside a few major urban centers, it is b
Let’s face it if you tried to read every parenting book out there — your kids would be in their late teens, if not early adulthood, by the time you put even a small dent in the great heap of expert pa
Over the years, Apple has built up a portfolio of services and add-ons that you pay for. Starting with AppleCare extended warranties and iCloud data subscriptions, they expanded to Apple Music a few y
Remember when Wikipedia was a joke? In its first decade of life, the website appeared in as many punch lines as headlines. The Office 's Michael Scott called it “the best thing ever,” because “anyone
Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens
“Left but not woke” is the Bernie Sanders brand. If anybody failed to recognize it before, nobody can miss it now. Last week, the mega-podcaster Joe Rogan endorsed Sanders. The Sanders campaign tweete
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here . Or just read on… Today I’m going to write about podcasting, with some observations on ho
Last week Jason Snell published his annual Six Colors Apple Report Card for 2019 . This year 65 voters (hand-selected by Snell) graded Apple in 12 areas. I was one of them, and, like last year , thoug
The new Fantastical. Over six years after the debut of the second major iteration of Fantastical – version 2.0 for iPhone, which I reviewed in October 2013 – Flexibits is introducing a new version of
Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters,
Ten years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the iPad on stage at the Yerba Buena theater in San Francisco . It surprised everyone, in several ways. Some expected a touchscreen Mac with a stylus. Some e
E very morning of my Joe Rogan experience began the same way Joe Rogan begins his: with the mushroom coffee. It’s a pour-and-stir powder made from lion’s mane and chaga—“two rock-star mushrooms,” acco
Subscribing to YouTube Channels With RSS ⇥ eggfreckles.net Thomas Brand: For most people watching the occasional stupid video isn’t that big of a problem because people tell Google who they are
Developer Chris Wetherell built Twitter’s retweet button. And he regrets what he did to this day. “We might have just handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon,” Wetherell recalled thinking as he watched th
Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston led the NFL in passing with a franchise-record 5,109 yards. He was also second in the NFL in passing touchdowns with a career-high 33 in 2019 – also a Tampa Bay r
What should you do for your end-of-the-year review with an employee? Use this one-on-one meeting template. With December upon us (already!), many managers have been asking me if I have a one-on-one me
Update: A few months after this piece was published, I was invited by Harvard’s Berkman Center to speak about this topic in more detail. Though the final talk is an hour long, it offers much more insi
Apple entered the 2010s just as the iPhone began to explode in popularity. The iPhone became the most successful consumer product, ever. Sales surged for another five years and still make up a majorit
Democracy depends on the consent of the losers. For most of the 20th century, parties and candidates in the United States have competed in elections with the understanding that electoral defeats are n
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