Note : This story has not been updated for several years. I spent two decades writing reviews for technology products that featured a mandatory score on a five-point rating scale. The idea of applying
“If we’ve had a pause in upgrades and updates, we’re sorry for that — what happened with the Mac Pro — and we’re going to come out with something great to replace it.” Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller is talking to a small group of reporters in a white stucco building…
Let’s not beat around the bush. I have great news to share: Apple is currently hard at work on a “completely rethought” Mac Pro, with a modular design that can accommodate high-end CPUs and big honkin
There is a simple and surprisingly durable myth about what causes men to rape women. It goes like this: if a man is too horny, from sexual deprivation or from being constitutionally oversexed, he will
Modern Love Credit...Brian Rea Note: Amy Krouse Rosenthal died on March 13, 2017, 10 days after this essay was published. You can read her obituary here. In June, 2018, her husband published this response. I have been trying to write this for a while, but the morphine and lack of juicy cheeseburgers…
"The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer." This motto of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers during World War II neatly sums up a particularly American way of looking at hard
Posted on February 20, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi On Saturday night Krissy and I went and saw Hamilton in New York. This was a moment greatly anticipated by a large number of my friends who had seen t
As a massive star dies, expelling most of its guts across the universe in a supernova explosion, its iron heart, the star’s core, collapses to create the densest form of observable matter in the unive
I have a small confession to make. Bad arguments dressed with the tinsel of pseudo-intellectualism are like catnip to me: they drive me crazy, and I’m a total sucker for batting them around. Deep in m
Posted on February 10, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi Hey, Scalzi! It is I, your fake interlocutor! I wish to ask you about your thoughts on Trump and the news this week! Ugh. I mean, okay? I guess? You d
8 Min Read SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Inside the original Macintosh computer, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs inscribed the signatures of his team, revealing his deep concern for even the hidden features o
Good piece by Dr. Drang, pondering why iPad owners seemingly are slow to upgrade older iPads for new ones : What’s surprising to me is how slow iPad software has advanced inthe seven years since its i
Next post Previous post Whenever Apple announces downward trending sales figures for the iPad—which is to say, every quarter for the past few years—people go on the internet and try to explain why. Th
Why use one processor when two will do? This week, Bloomberg reported that Apple has developed an ARM-based chip that it will integrate into future Macs to handle some of the low-power responsibilitie
Fourteen years ago, I found myself an unexpected micro-target of a left-liberal protest demonstration. I had visited London to watch the debate and subsequent vote in the House of Commons over the Ira
Posted on January 31, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi It’s been two weeks since I’ve written about Trump here! And what a two weeks it’s been! Herewith, not-especially-well-organized thoughts on a fortnigh
Op-Ed Contributors Don’t Expect the First Amendment to Protect the Media Credit... Illustration by Pablo Delcan; Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times When President Trump declared on Saturday that r
The signs were so clever. “We shall overcomb.” “Viva la vulva.” “I MAKE THE BEST SIGNS I REALLY DO EVERYONE SAYS SO THEY’RE TERRIFIC.” Someone even made a papier-mâché vagina dentata. The people were
Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. As we close the door on 2016, I thought it would be useful to look back at the year gone by and ask a panel of my peers who pay attention to Apple an
Nominee Betsy DeVos’s Knowledge of Education Basics Is Open to Criticism Betsy DeVos, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nominee for education secretary, at her confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Credit.
With All Due Disrespect John Lewis on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in 2015. As a young man, Congressman John Lewis, who represents most of Atlanta, literally put his life on the line in pu
Authors: Kaveh Pahlevan & Alessandro Morbidelli First Author’s Institution: Laboratoire Lagrange, Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, France Status: Published in Nature, open ac
Eight Was Enough President Obama in 2012. Mr. Obama warned us against retreating into our bubbles, but he was never able to escape his own. Credit... Damon Winter/The New York Times IT wasn’t supposed
Why would Apple release a 10.5" iPad? Dan Provost Follow Jan 11, 2017 · 2 min read Rumors have been swirling about Apple working on an iPad that falls inbetween the 9.7" and 12.9" sizes they currently offer in the Pro lineup. John Gruber and Jim Dalrymple briefly discussed this on the latest episode…
Chuq Von Rospach has a thoughtful look at the state of Apple . The whole piece is worth reading, but his comments on two particular products stood out to me. First, the AirPort lineup: Apple has produ
This has been the winter of our discontent. 2016 was the year the tone changed. There’s always been a lot of criticism and griping about anything Apple does (and doesn’t do — it can’t win) but in 2016 I feel like the tone of the chatter about Apple changed and got a lot more negative. This is…
In last week’s Dear Mona , Brandon, first-time e-mailer, long-time masturbator, wrote to me asking: “I masturbate eight times per week. Am I normal?” In my response, I used data from the National Surv
Sex appears in my inbox at least once a month. We all occasionally wonder if we’re normal, especially when it comes to the most private parts of our lives. This week, after I received two questions fr
Credit: Izhar Cohen Have you ever noticed that when you present people with facts that are contrary to their deepest held beliefs they always change their minds? Me neither. In fact, people seem to do
Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Wireless headphones aren’t new. Individual wireless earbuds aren’t even that new. But the profile, power, and prowess of Apple make the AirPod
Posted on December 19, 2016 Posted by John Scalzi ( NOTE: This review of Rogue One is spoiler-free but I will be allowing the conversation in the comment thread to contain spoilers, so if you haven’t
What do Rogue One: A Star Wars Story , opening this week, and the Mac have in common? John Knoll. John Knoll is chief creative officer at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the division of LucasFilm that
I Covered Tech for the Times for 28 Years, And Now My Time Is Over I’m retiring from the greatest job I ever knew — but I still believe that journalism will thrive. On December 1,the New York Times wa
To much fanfare the MacBook Pro was released. Then to much disillusionment its biggest limitation became clear: that it has a 16GB RAM ceiling on all of its models. The community reaction was strong e
During the 2016 primary, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich was an outspoken supporter of Bernie Sanders. When he threw his weight behind Hillary Clinton ’s bid in the general election, he did so whi
No, Trump, We Can’t Just Get Along Donald Trump at The New York Times on Tuesday. Credit... Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times Donald Trump schlepped across town on Tuesday to meet with the publisher o
With every release of a new iPhone powered by another cutting-edge processor designed by Apple, the rumbling grows. It’s amplified by the perception that the Mac is being delayed and hamstrung by the
4 min read · Nov 26, 2016 -- Over the last few days, officials in the Clinton campaign have received hundreds of messages, emails, and calls urging us to do something, anything, to investigate claims
This article first appeared on RobertReich.org. California is now the capital of liberal America. Along with its neighbors Oregon and Washington, it will be a nation within the nation starting in Janu
Scientists are scaling trees in Tasmania in an attempt to save the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot after the wild population dropped to the “stupidly low numbers” of just 14 individuals. T
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