RT @jaredsinclair: I wrote about the rationale behind some of the unusual decisions I made when designing Unread: http://blog.jaredsinclair.com/post/75555794917/designing-unread
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Business When it comes to great magazine writing, what’s in a name? December 12, 2013 Saved Stories hobvias sudoneighm/Flickr I have had it with long-form journalism. By which I mean—don’t get me wron
TWELVE THOUSAND MILES. That’s how far it is from 17-year-old Gabriel Omar Santoro’s home in Argentina to Beijing. It’s a journey he’s made twice in the past year — but neither trip was for pleasure. G
Amidst all the well-deserved accolades celebrating the 30th anniversary of the original Macintosh , what has struck me is how very Apple that product — and the team that made it — was. For one thing,
By on . Our high-resolution temperature images are a composite of many data models—the same models we use to power Forecast . But most of those sources have a much lower resolution than the resulting image. Take NOAA’s Global Forecast System (GFS) . It had a resolution of 0.5 degrees, which is…
By on . Two years ago at this time we were fresh off a successful Kickstarter campaign and hard at work on the first version of Dark Sky. Back then we really didn't know anything about the weather — none of the three of us had any meteorology experience at all — and in fact we didn't really have any…
Jonathan Mahler’s When “Long-Form” Is Bad Form in The New York Times this weekend has generated a lot of discussion. I saw it as a sloppy collection of disparate rants with mixed validity, but one res
Next time you’re at a pro sports game, car race or rock concert, take a look at the cameras the professional photographers are using. Guess what? They’re not taking pictures with their phones. They’re
RT @StevenLevy: Finally, I posted my own reminisce on eyewitnessing birth of Mac, and why 2014 isn't and is like 1984. http://t.co/wurqawfRhttp://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/macintosh-30th-anniversary/
Do you have any general thoughts about the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh? All I can say is, I think the Mac reinvented the personal-computer industry in the eighties, and Microsoft copied it in th
Thirty years ago, Apple introduced the Macintosh, and we all learned why 1984 wasn’t going to be like 1984 . A lot has changed in 30 years, and yet even in as fast-moving a field as technology, Apple
The U.S. Court of Appeals made a significant and troubling decision this week: it shut down a 2010 FCC decree that prevented internet service providers (“ISPs”) from selectively enhancing or restricting traffic to certain destinations (websites, streaming services, etc.) The collective term for thi
In 2013 there were 18.8 times more Windows PCs sold than Macs. This is a reduction in the Windows advantage from about 19.8x in 2012. This decline is mostly due to the more rapid decline in Windows PC
In his 2003 novel Pattern Recognition , William Gibson created a character named Cayce Pollard with an unusual psychosomatic affliction: She was allergic to brands. Even the logos on clothing were eno
The author, at "work" (Pete Souza/The White House) Before Thursday into Friday, my head cold got worse, so on Friday morning I walked down to a bar-cafe-restaurant in my neighborhood. I had been there
Apple attorneys are set to meet on Monday with U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, the latest chapter in a strange and nonsensical legal battle. The case in question involves another of America's biggest
The most impressive thing about meeting Philip Pullman is how unimposing he is. Renowned as a master of mythologies, casting a cultural shadow that stretches from Hollywood films to intellectual debates about atheism and faith, you’d expect his Oxfordshire house to be some kind of remote, brooding…
The period was always the humblest of punctuation marks. Recently, however, it’s started getting angry. I’ve noticed it in my text messages and online chats, where people use the period not simply to
This past October, just before the leaves changed, I went on a six-day hike through the mountains of Wakayama, in central Japan, tracing the path of an ancient imperial pilgrimage called the Kumano Ko
When we first looked at photo editing apps for the iPhone several years ago, VSCO was a clear frontrunner, with its wide range of gorgeous filters, deep editing tools, and easy export options. Last ye
When I am in a foul mood, I have a surefire way to improve my outlook – I build something. A foul mood is a stubborn beast and it does not give ground easily. It is an effort to simply get past the fo
The year was 2004. I was enrolled in ECE 466 at NCSU, a compiler optimization/scheduling class. I remember walking into the lecture hall and seeing far too many PowerBooks and white iBooks. This was t
I haven‘t always loved New York. I first visited New York City in 2002. It was, coincidentally, the 8-month anniversary of 9/11. Julia’s brother Joel and I had been in Providence scoping out jobs and apartments so we took the train to NYC for a couple of days, and we walked everywhere during that…
You are 200 miles directly above the Martian surface — looking down. This image was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Jan. 27, 2010. (The color was added later.) What do we see? Well, sand,
You have been battered into a stupor of disaffection by a locust swarm of attack ads and unctuous doublespeak, courtesy of the most obnoxiously long campaign in history since the Crusades. Understood.
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In which I relate my experience as an NSA employee and impart my thoughts on the policies in place, my former coworkers, and the current cyber war. I am an American patriot. Many impressions may come
Photo "Same Sex Love in India" edited by Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai. Credit Courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan Now that the Supreme Court has restored the 19 th -century ban on homosexuality, when all
Reviving an old computer is like restoring a classic car: There’s a thrill from bringing the ancient into the modern world. So it was with my first “real” computer, my Mac Plus, when I decided to brin
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With the 50th anniversary of the show having just passed, there’s a lot of buzz about “Doctor Who” out there, especially among people who haven’t ever gotten into the show. (We also did an entire Incomparable episode about it .) Fifty years of history is pretty daunting, so if you’re on the outside…
Lincoln's last formal photograph, taken February 5, 1865 by Alexander Gardner. ( Wikipedia ) Updated at 12:57 p.m. ET on July 13, 2020 Abraham Lincoln often spoke and dreamed about being assassinated,
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