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The Third Transportation Revolution Lyft’s Vision for the Next Ten Years and Beyond Introduction: A Country Built for Cars I remember when I first fell in love with cars. It started small with Hot Wheels when I was three and Micromachines when I was six. Everything about them was fast and exciting —…
Enlarge / Asking Siri the important questions. Andrew Cunningham When Mac OS X (as it was then called) first moved to a yearly release cycle in 2011, Apple had trouble defining its scope for each rele
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Farhad Manjoo, in his State of the Art column for The New York Times, published shortly after Apple’s September 7 event, “ What’s Really Missing From the New iPhone: Cutting-Edge Design ”: The absence
Credit: Chris Gash “If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong.” —Richard Feynman Four years ago in these pages, writer Shawn Otto warned our readers of the danger of a growing antiscience current in
Thom Holwerda on Twitter , quoting a tweet of mine touting the iPhone 7’s astounding Geekbench scores: Funny how just like in the PPC days, benchmarks only startmattering when they favour [insert plat
Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Apple’s iPhone development cycle has been a two-step for a while now: The company changes the outside design one year, and then keeps it stead
I didn’t fully grasp Apple Watch at first. I didn’t feel right about my initial review , and effectively took another crack at it three weeks later. My unsettled feeling over the initial review was co
Let’s get something out of the way upfront: iOS 10 is a big release. It’s not big in an iOS 7 way, with a full-system redesign, nor does it introduce quite so many new APIs and features for developers
The show opened with a genuine surprise announcement: Nintendo has created a real game for the iPhone: Super Mario Run. And, there to announce it, was Shigeru Miyamoto. The applause for his appearance
Steve Jobs, on stage with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher in 2010, explaining Apple’s decision not to support Adobe Flash on iOS : We’re trying to make great products for people, and we have atleast th
Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Let me start with an admission: I’ve never really liked Apple headphones. I didn’t like the original iPod earbuds, and while the next-generati
On July 30, 2014, Siri had a brain transplant. Three years earlier, Apple had been the first major tech company to integrate a smart assistant into its operating system. Siri was the company’s adaptat
Title: A Search for Stellar-Mass Black Holes via Astrometric Microlensing Author: J. R. Lu, E. Sinukoff, E. O. Ofek, A. Udalski, S. Kozlowski First Author’s Institution: Institute for Astronomy, Unive
Vesper Vesper wasn’t an app for everyone. A lot of people thought it was under-featured and overpriced from the get-go. Maybe it was too simple. Another word is elegant. Now it’s shutting down . Vespe
I always resisted joining a music-subscription service. My former Macworld colleague Chris Breen was always a fierce proponent of them , first Rhapsody and then Spotify . (Now that Chris works at Appl
On a sleek white coffee table in Apple CEO Tim Cook’s fourth-floor office in late July, beneath framed posters of Robert F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jackie Robinson, a rose gold iP
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Nate Silver, “ Trump Is Doubling Down on a Losing Strategy ”: So it’s not surprising that Trump has undertaken a major shakeupof his campaign, hiring Bannon and promoting the pollsterKellyanne Conway.
Over at the twitter dot com website, there has been a briefly-trending topic #fav7films , discussing your favorite seven films. Part of the purpose of being on twitter is to one-up the competition, so
Fast Company : Let’s start talking about Maps. How are you developing Maps, and how broadly might it apply as Apple looks ahead? Eddy Cue, SVP of Internet software and services: The first thing to know about Maps is there’s no one developing maps in a significant way except us and Google. There’s…
When I met Apple Music marketing chief Bozoma Saint John at Apple for an interview, she had just come from a photo shoot and she looked, well, fabulous. While she was wearing high heels (which put her
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Matter Scientists Ponder an Evolutionary Mystery: The Female Orgasm Evolutionary biologists offered a new way of thinking about the female orgasm based on a reconstruction of its ancient history. An e
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Probably the most important fact when it comes to analyzing Unilever’s purchase of Dollar Shave Club is the $1 billion price: in the world of consumer packaged goods (CPG) it is shockingly low. After
Apple engineer Jordyn Castor has never been one for limitations. She was born 15 weeks early, weighing just under two pounds. Her grandfather could hold her in the palm of his hand, and could even sli
Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Is Apple removing the headphone jack from the iPhone? Nobody really knows, though rumors have swirled for quite a while now. A recent exchange
At a recent dinner, my wife and I realized we've known each other for ten years. This, naturally, led to our reminiscing of what we were doing ten years ago and discussion of what we might do ten year
Home iOS iOS 10 If you haven't been paying attention to Apple this week, there's just a teensy bit about the company's upcoming operating systems you might have missed. New versions of watchOS, tvOS,
Venue Moscone West isn’t big enough for 5,000 attendees to fit in a room, so a few thousand WWDC attendees always had to sit in an overflow room where they’d watch the keynote on video. That’s a major
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“We’re doing something a little different this year. We’ve got a bunch of App Store/developer-related announcements for WWDC next week, but frankly, we’ve got a busy enough keynote that we decided we’
I’ve always loved the idea of someone else making a mixtape for me. When I was in middle school and until the first year of high school, we didn’t have the Internet at home. My parents were against bu
America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. 7 min read · May 14, 2016 -- William S. Burroughs — Naked Lunch I started
Another fascinating moment on MSNBC last night. Rachel Maddow, talking about Bill Weld , the Libertarian candidate for vice-president, who likens Trump's deportation plan to Kristallnacht , at the sta
For the past three weeks, I've been using an iPhone SE. I'm an Android user. I like my widgets and my Google apps, and I always felt the iPhone was too fancy and breakable for me. This was my first ex
John Oliver discusses how and why media outlets so often report untrue or incomplete information as science. Connect with Last Week Tonight online... Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel
In September 2014, at Madison Square Garden in New York, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, addressed a crowd of nearly 20,000 people. It was a sold-out spectacle worthy of a lush Bollywood produc
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