Americans scarcely marked the eightieth Armistice Day, this past November 11. But standing with stricken faces before the Cenotaph at Whitehall and the Ossuaire at Verdun, and tolling bells in the glo
Take a look at a Magnum Photos gallery on British teatime . There are rules to making a proper cup of tea. Now that “the holidays”—at their new-style Ramadan length, with the addition of Hanukkah plus
Today’s update to AirPort Utility for Lion reminds me of a topic I was willing to write about but eventually left in my nvALT queue due iOS 5 ( review ) and iCloud, various app releases, and the usual
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Way back in 2004 I wrote about how a scrappy young Google was replacing an increasingly stodgy Microsoft as the predominant tech company. A year later I wrote about how Google hoped to benefit from kn
Clear boils basic to-do list functionality down to something like a pure sensory experience. As you can see from the demo video, Clear boils basic to-do list functionality down to something like a pur
It's time to raise the outrageously low capital gains tax. When it comes to taxes, the Republican primary electorate this year has a split personality. As ever, it demands that presidential candidates
Note: At the State of the Union on January 26, President Barack Obama argued, "Anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn't know what they're talking about." According to a Foreign Policy report, the president had read and been influenced by the TNR…
Photo Illustration: William Duke Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. For some time, I’d been hearing stories from my sources in t
Well, it was really more like 17 weeks, but who's counting. ;) First, I'll give the punchline. Chad, you were skinny! Why diet? High school: 140 pounds College: 150 pounds Grad school: 160 pounds Afte
Let’s Start Paying College Athletes Credit... Collages by Sara Cwynar Mark Emmert, the president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the almighty overseer of American college sports, like
In the race to build computers that can think like humans, the proving ground is the Turing Test—an annual battle between the world’s most advanced artificial-intelligence programs and ordinary people. The objective? To find out whether a computer can act “more human” than a person. In his own quest…
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By Philip Pilkington, a journalist and writer living in Dublin, Ireland You wanted God’s ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creat
Twenty-five years ago today, a company named Quantum Computer Services rose from the ashes of a failed startup called Control Video Corporation . It launched a dial-up online service for the Commodore
T imes Square and Hollywood Boulevard, cleaned up in recent years, remain icons of depravity, modern Sodom and Gomorrahs full of drugs, prostitution, and pornography, which is why last spring they were among the places one was most likely to come across the billboards set up by ninety-year-old…
Two weeks ago, Google announced that they were integrating Google+, their brand new social network, with Google search results , calling the new feature "Search, Plus Your World". The resulting change
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
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Not so long ago, a high-ranking Chinese official, who obviously had concluded that America’s decline and China’s rise were both inevitable, noted in a burst of candor to a senior U.S. official: “But, please, let America not decline too quickly.” Although the inevitability of the Chinese leader’s…
Pregame: How Are We Going to Play This? Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at w
Let’s face it, there’s a general anxiety about the future of America. There’s Tom Friedman’s column today, which my doctors have now forbade me from critiquing in order to keep my blood pressure down.
The iEconomy How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work People flooded Foxconn Technology with résumés at a 2010 job fair in Henan Province, China. Credit... Donald Chan/Reuters When Barack Obama joined Sil
Google. It’s one of the most common household words in modern society, and yet for a company that is used by most of us essentially as an algorithm, it tends to trigger a highly emotional response when overheard. It’s a dream job for college students nearing graduation, a highly coveted invitation…
16th Jan 2012 The Life and Death of Camino By July 2002 Mac OS X was just over one year old, Safari was still several months away, and very few web browsers took advantage of the innovative new featur
A design-centered culture is at throwaway empty phrase unless everyone responsible for the culture of design is in each other’s faces. Titles and acronyms give you a starting point for understanding what a person might do, but what really matters is the respect that comes when you take the time to…
There is no rational explanation for the amount of preparation Gruden does. Illustration by Dan Adel Jon Gruden has one of the most recognizable faces in professional football, partly because he hasn’
The Certainty of Memory Has Its Day in Court Witness testimony has been the gold standard of the criminal justice system, revered in courtrooms and crime dramas as the evidence that clinches a case. Y
On a Sunday afternoon in May of last year Warren Buffett, America's second richest man and, some feel, the greatest investor in its history, was meeting the press in an Omaha hotel when a dark-suited
Why do I hate Android? It’s definitely one of the questions I get asked most often these days. And most of those that don’t ask probably assume it’s because I’m an iPhone guy. People see negative take
The fundamental goal I have for a wallet via its design is that it prevents me from randomly collecting crap. Years of folding leather wallets with myriad pockets and flaps all yielded precisely the same result: a Costanza-sized monstrosity that contained random crap that at one time I thought I…
Over the past 12 months I’ve been on a self-imposed quest for knowledge. We’re at a changing - almost revolutionary - point with the web as I (start) writing this on November 1st, 2011. Here’s why: Uncertainty We as web designers have been trying to impose constraints on the inherently fluid and…
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