Miguel de Icaza wrote a thoughtful, informative piece this week regarding how MonoTouch works, and how it might avoid conflicting with Apple’s new Section 3.3.1 . It was published two days ago, thus,
Twitter has become hugely popular and is only getting bigger. Some users don’t understand that the formatting and content of their tweets has a huge impact on how well or poorly they are received as i
Another year, another awesome poster from Jess Bachman showing how the United States government spent our taxes . As usual, we spend huge amounts of money on defense-related stuff. It was $664 billion
The Phone The first question is, how did the phone leave Apple’s campus? Starting a few weeks ago, some number of iPhone engineers who, because of the nature of their work were already familiar with t
Two years ago this month, Apple Computer released a small, sleek-looking device it called the iPod. A digital music player, it weighed just 6.5 ounces and held about 1,000 songs
In the wake of the 2008 financial meltdown and the deep, long recession that followed, the decline of America has become the preferred intellectual preoccupation of the elite—left, right, and center.
API Public Beta Fever 1.14 introduces the new Fever API. This API is in public beta and currently supports basic syncing and consuming of content. A subsequent update will allow for adding, editing an
"I think the experience of using an iPad is going to be profound for many people," Jobs says. "I really do. Genuinely profound." That rings a bell. "I've heard it said that this is the device for you," I reply. "The one that will change everything." "When people see how immersive the experience is,"…
Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say, Europe. New evidence of both the extent of the population and its agricultural advancement leads to a remarkable…
The magic begins with the first sentence: A scandal has erupted in the City Council of Bulgaria's Plovdiv as several councilors have been caught milking virtual cows on the Facebook application Farmvi
The American debate over taxes is ferocious and highly partisan. Some, mostly Republicans, reflexively oppose all taxes. Others, mostly Democrats, decry the lack of progressivity and fairness in the t
This year's South By Southwest (SXSW) festival is rapidly approaching. Beginning with the Interactive Media events on March 12th, Austin, Texas will be the place to connect with the brightest in tech
A simple typo gave Michael Ivey the idea for his company. One day in the fall of 2008, Ivey’s wife, using her pink RAZR phone, sent him a note via Twitter. But instead of typing the letter d at the beginning of the tweet — which would have sent the note as a direct message, a private note just for…
Stop the presses! The New Yorker , our sister publication and a magazine so staid that yes, in fact, it does insist on capping the second "o" in "cooperate" with a diaeresis , is mixing it up in the b
Heavy snowfall in a warming world By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:29 PM GMT on February 08, 2010 A major new winter storm is headed east over the U.S. today, and threatens to dump a foot or more of snow on Philadelphia, New York City, and surrounding regions Tuesday and Wednesday. Philadelphia is still…
Stand up for the facts! Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info I would like to contribute Carolyn Maloney stated on Ja
Joel Surnow calls the show he helped create “patriotic.” Photograph by Martin Schoeller. The office desk of Joel Surnow—the co-creator and executive producer of “24,” the popular counterterrorism dram
S ince coming back to the United States after three years away in China, I have been asking experts around the country whether America is finally going to hell. The question is partly a joke. One look
Krugman and his wife, Robin Wells, at home with their cats, Doris Lessing and Albert Einstein. Photograph by Tina Barney When it is cold at home, or he has a couple of weeks with nothing to do but wri
Associated Press Felony convictions vacated for 4 former Navy officers in sprawling 'Fat Leonard' bribery scandal Read the full story USA TODAY A 4-year-old girl disappeared in 2021. Can new images he
I had intended, of course, to say something about the outcome in Massachusetts, which, though in the end rather close, has already turned out to be a decisive event in our current political struggles
H ow should we characterize the economic period we have now entered? After nearly two brutal years, the Great Recession appears to be over, at least technically. Yet a return to normalcy seems far off
Don't miss this extremely valuable story in the Economist on inequality and social mobility in the US. The magazine -- which is no bastion of bleeding heart liberalism -- has issued an important warni
Leading Articles Flexible Thinking Working from home could enable more physically and mentally disabled people to re-enter the workforce, with benefits both for them and the wider economy Robbing the
It was once the “land of a thousand cities” and home to some of the world’s most renowned scientists, poets, and philosophers. Today it is seen mostly as a harsh backwater. To imagine Central Asia’s future, we must journey into its remarkable past.
A few weeks ago, a journalist devoted a substantial part of a profile of yours truly to my failure to pay due attention to the “Austrian theory” of the business cycle—a theory that I regard as being a
Op-Ed Columnist The State of the Union Is Comatose HANDS down, the State of the Union’s big moment was Barack Obama’s direct hit on the delicate sensibilities of the Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito
Airport security in America is a sham—“security theater” designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists. Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease.
In many ways, the men who made The Godfather—director Francis Ford Coppola, producer Al Ruddy, Paramount executives Robert Evans and Peter Bart, and Gulf & Western boss Charles Bluhdorn—were as ruthless as the gangsters in Mario Puzo’s blockbuster. After violent disputes over the casting of Marlon…
Economic Scene Centrist, and Yet Not Unified So what should happen with health reform now? The stunning victory of Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican who will have Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat
The first thing I ever heard about Americans was that they all carried guns. Then, when I came across people who’d had direct contact with this ferocious-sounding tribe, I learned that they were actually rather friendly. At university, friends who had traveled in the United States came back with…
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