*(I am pushing this past the paywall, because I believe this to be one of the bigger news items we will see for a while and thus very important.)* The changes Twitter made to their API ([as broken dow
"We associate truth with convenience..." - John Kenneth Galbraith If you've ever read the book "Freakonomics" (which I highly, highly suggest), author and economist Steven Leavitt, channeling the famo
I’ve spent my whole life thinking about dots, largely in the form of on-screen pixels. I remember first seeing a Pac-Man coin-op arcade game, wondering how it worked, and deducing the basic gist: the
Michael Grunwald Photograph by David Whitman Michael Grunwald, a Time magazine correspondent, this week publishes The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era , a gripping account of
Sam Byford: Where are you right now, and what are you doing? Oliver Reichenstein: I’m in Switzerland. My wife and I decided to move from Japan after the earthquake, because we deemed a triple meltdown
This article appears in the April 25, 2011 issue . Conservatives often complain that they’ve been exiled from power, whether in the corridors of the Capitol or the pages of the New York Times . Yet co
“If you’re going to criticize, you should propose,” Ryan says of his budget plan. Illustration by Jorge Arévalo One day in March, 2009, two months after the Inauguration of President Obama, Representa
Author’s Full Disclosure: As a member of the Arizona State football team from 2005-2009, I played against the Oregon Ducks four times. My teams went 0-4 and were outscored 181 to 77. I am still trying
This could be one of four things A very elaborate hoax. If it’s a hoax, kudos to whoever made it because it would require the same amount of design and engineering effort that would go into an actual smartphone. Not to mention all of the collaboration that would have been needed between the numerous…
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In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racis
Don’t worry: this isn’t yet another Getting Things Done love-in. GTD probably works, but it doesn’t work for you (or me). There are plenty of great apps to help you manage your life and your tasks, li
BY ANDY IHNATKO July 16, 2012 12:30PM
The Nexus 7 is a flexible device. Add a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and you’ve got one of the world’s most totable full-function workstations. Andy Ihnatko Photo
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Google’s new Nexus 7, a 7-inch Android tablet available from…
I recently bought with my own money a Google Nexus 7 and have so far spent a week with it. I'm trying my very hardest to be objective and ignore all my previous experiences with Android (which go back to the original Nexus phone). Before I received the Nexus 7, I had expected to like the hardware…
August 1, 2012 Twitter’s Landscaping Problem Twitter. On the surface, it’s another year, another bitch session. Developers are up in arms! Everyone is threatening to leave! Or, at least, hundreds of p
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Apple's traditional desktop computing business has suffered many indignities over the past decade. Once Apple's flagship product line, the Mac first found itself playing second fiddle to the iPod—a me
Postbox’s exit from the Mac App Store should sound very familiar to anyone who buys Mac software. If you read between the lines a bit, I think the real story there is one we’ve seen a lot since June 1
Last June, I wrote this about Georgia Tech football : As odd as it may seem, the pass is going to once again be the key to Georgia Tech's offensive success in 2011. No matter what happens, and no matt
Manuel, with coach Jimbo Fisher, said he thinks completing 70 percent of his passes in 2012 is a realistic goal. (Getty Images) I had a chance to spend the day out at the Elite 11 QB here in California. It’s always been one of my favorite events. I’ve been going to it for a decade. It’s just a fun,…
Photo: Catherine Ledner In a windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, two undergrads are playing a Monopoly game that one of them has no chance of winning. A team of psycholo
When the Macintosh was launched in 1984, computers running the MS-DOS operating system were nearing a dominant position in the market. Having launched in 1981 as the IBM PC, they were quickly cloned a
Email ‘vacations’ decrease stress, increase concentration UCI findings could boost on-the-job productivity Being cut off from work email significantly reduces stress and allows employees to focus far better, according to a new study by UC Irvine and U.S. Army researchers. Heart rate monitors were…
on Jul 7, 2012 at 10:04 pm Share The announcement of the Supreme Court’s decision largely upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Thursday, June 28 precipitated a genuine media dra
Let’s start by laying down the baseline premise: inequality in America has been widening for decades. We’re all aware of the fact. Yes, there are some on the right who deny this reality, but serious
We’re Talking About a Smaller iPad, Not a Bigger iPod Touch I’ve seen a fair bit of speculation that, if Apple produces a 7-inch iOS device, then maybe it would be a bigger iPod Touch, not a smaller i
In November, 1984, President Ronald Reagan was reëlected in a landslide victory over Walter Mondale, taking forty-nine states and fifty-nine per cent of the popular vote. The Reagan revolution was pow
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Ten years after Ichiro Suzuki broke into the majors, a reflection on the 2001 Mariners, Jackie Robinson, the Four Noble Truths and the cultural impact of baseball’s most enigmatic player.
Like most 6-year-olds in the METCO-serviced suburbs of Boston, I spent the last two weeks of…
There are worse spots to wait for Bill Murray than the Vince Lombardi Rest Area on the New Jersey Turnpike. Sure, the place smells like piss and feels like a peep-show booth, but it's got the Jersey-r
By having the case reargued, Roberts put the liberals in a box and transformed the decision’s impact on political campaigns. Illustration by Barry Blitt When Citizens United v. Federal Election Commis
A while back, David Sparks offered up a video showing how he uses TextExpander to dramatically speed up entry on repetitive tasks in OmniFocus . He was also generous enough to share his snippets . Whi
Happy Cog Cognition Topics Most Frequent Here are some topics that have been on our mind lately. For a full listing of topics, check out Our Topics Page . Process Design Team Front-end Development Car
Geoengineering holds out the promise of artificially reversing recent climate trends, but it entails enormous risks. Illustration by Nishant Choksi Late in the afternoon on April 2, 1991, Mt. Pinatubo
In Jonathan Lethem’s new book, “Fear of Music,” a study of the Talking Heads album by the same name and a riff on his emotional history with the band, Lethem refers to an earlier essay of his on the s
Not too long ago, Jenna Bilotta wrote an excellent article called, How designers and engineers can play nice 1 , in which she talks about ways for designers and engineers to work more productively. Ha
This article appears in the July 16-23, 2012 issue . Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at Cornwall Iron Furnace on Saturday, June 1
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