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E very year, around about this time, thousands of European robins escape the oncoming harsh Scandinavian winter and head south to the warmer Mediterranean coasts. How they find their way unerringly on
Over the weekend I installed OS X Yosemite on my MacBook Air. Its new interface, partially inspired by the dramatic aesthetic shift that its sibling made with iOS 7, will take some getting used to for
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To Siri, With Love Credit... Louie Chin Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as I watched my 13-year-old son deep in conversation with Siri. Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple’s “intelligent personal
A couple of years ago, a startup called Stamped created an app and service that let you rate anything and everything. Your local doughnut shop? Rate it and tell your friends. Your favourite beach? Rate it and tell your friends. In fact, rate anything you want! But Stamped never anticipated the…
Earlier today I was reminded of how ridiculous it is when people say there's a difference between the way young technologists and old technologists think. I was told that young technologists don't lik
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‘Fuck Earth!’ Elon Musk said to me, laughing. ‘Who cares about Earth?’ We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large open-plan office at SpaceX headquarters in Los Angeles. It was a sunny afternoon, a Thursday, one of three designated weekdays Musk spends at SpaceX. Musk was…
Four times this past summer, in a spare room on the top floor of the headquarters of the National Science Foundation (NSF) outside of Washington, D.C., two congressional staffers spent hours poring over material relating to 20 research projects that NSF has funded over the past decade. Each folder…
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Signaling Post-Snowden Era, New iPhone Locks Out N.S.A. Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, introducing the new iPhones, which feature enhanced data encryption. Credit... Jim Wilson/The New York
When I reviewed iOS 7 last year , I took a different approach and tried to consider Apple’s redesigned OS from the perspective of someone who uses iPhones and iPads for work and personal tasks on a da
Last week I decided to test the most secretive, hotly anticipated smartphones on earth in a place where there was no danger of them being recognized or damaged or both: Disneyland. Both my wife and I
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The live stream aside, this week’s Apple event was great. Now, I know these press events aren’t technically meant to be entertainment — they are mostly meant to be informational — but, Apple has alway
So Long, Macworld 5 min read · Sep 10, 2014 -- Today, Macworld magazine shuttered their print version and laid off most of the staff. They had a round of layoffs awhile back, but this more devastating
Apple TV the beloved stepchild of the Apple product line-up has continuously been dubbed a hobby since its introduction. The label gives Apple optionality. The label allows Apple to say, “Well, we’re
As the internet is ablaze with rumors/predictions/leaks about what tomorrow’s Apple event might hold for huge industries like payments, healthcare, and identity management, I figured I’d focus on a more niche perspective. What might an Apple wearable hold for runners? I ask this question for mostly…
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When the iPhone 4S was released in 2011, the immediate reactions from the media and tech community were even more tepid, unreasonably disappointed, and petulant than usual. We got a much faster and du
After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? 17 min read · Nov 20, 2013 -- A few years ago, I start
Update : Hours after this post went up, and Jeff Atwood renamed his fork of Markdown to “Common Markdown” . All the criticism below is still 100% valid. They’re making a project that suits their own n
Published in Monday Note · 6 min read · Aug 31, 2014 -- On September 9th, Apple will announce products likely to be seen as a new milestone in Tim Cook’s tenure as Apple’s CEO. You Break It You Own It
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Next post Previous post The consensus is that Apple’s going to announce two new, larger iPhones: one at 4.7″ and the other at 5.5″. The iPhone 5s, with its puny 4″ screen, will drop in price and get o
About four thousand years ago, somewhere in the Middle East — we don’t know where or when, exactly — a scribe drew a picture of an ox head. The picture was rather simple: just a face with two horns on top. It was used as part of an abjad , a set of characters that represent the consonants in a…
I'm working from my parents' home this week in the suburbs of Kansas City. The space is familiar, even though I haven't lived here for a decade. I find a bowl of grapes for a snack in the fridge. I ta
It’s late in the afternoon on a lovely and calm April 8th a Sunday in 2012. The sun was shining, the sky was blue, and there were four people in my car — I was driving. I remember exactly where I was.
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Today at 10am PST, Instagram is lifting the veil on Hyperlapse , one of the company's first apps outside of Instagram itself. Using clever algorithm processing, the app makes it easy to use your phone
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And why simple manners can transform your relationships 9 min read · Aug 13, 2014 -- The Good Boy, 1837 M ost people don’t notice I’m polite, which is sort of the point. I don’t look polite. I am big
Raw Data The Intelligent-Life Lottery Credit... Carl Wiens Almost 20 years ago, in the pages of an obscure publication called Bioastronomy News, two giants in the world of science argued over whether
The Media Equation View of #Ferguson Thrust Michael Brown Shooting to National Attention Capt. Ronald S. Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol on Friday in Ferguson, Mo. Credit... Jeff Roberson
Op-Ed Contributor To Know Suicide BALTIMORE — WHEN the American artist Ralph Barton killed himself in 1931 he left behind a suicide note explaining why , in the midst of a seemingly good and full life
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