Editorial President Obama’s Dragnet Within hours of the disclosure that federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a count
Mad. Furious. Instantaneous rage. I’m not proud to admit it, but there is a short list of seemingly inconsequential events that give me blind, piercing rage. It’s an embarrassing list that I cannot fully share, but here’s a few: When a single key on my keyboard is slowly failing. When you chew with…
This is Part 2 of an exploration of what changes, if any, may be coming to TV. Yesterday I examined why cutting the cord yet keeping the shows you watch (i.e. unbundling) was a fantasy. Also, I should
May 28, 2013 at 10:50 AM by Now that the Xbox One has been revealed , joining the already-released Wii U and the previously announced PlayStation 4 , we can finally get a sense of what the next genera
Steve Jobs, in his biography, on his meeting with Larry Page after the former became CEO:
We talked a lot about focus. And choosing people. How to know who to trust, and how to build a team of…
Sweating the details of iOS 7 Published in Thoughts and words · 5 min read · May 10, 2013 -- “Completely flat,” “Like Android,” “Microsoft-flat,” etc., etc., etc. The talk about how Apple is going to
Last year, Jony Ive was interviewed in the London Evening Standard . It makes for interesting reading (despite the awful title). Our industry is in the throes of an aesthetic shift. At one end of the spectrum, there’s the stitched leather and wood of iOS; at the other, the stark, ascetic…
We’ve been managing our photos together for almost a decade now. Things were nice and simple at the start and we both knew what to expect from each other - I pulled my photos off my camera on the comp
The first real-world demo of Google Glass’s user interface made me laugh out loud. Forget the tiny touchpad on your temples you’ll be fussing with, or the constant “OK Glass” utterances-to-nobody: the supposedly subtle “gestural” interaction they came up with–snapping your chin upwards to activate…
Triptych Image: Left Panel: Kelly Mark, "Nothing Is So Important That It Needs To Be Made In Six Foot Neon"; Middle Panel: "La Fonda Dancers"; Right Panel: HGs, "Freemon Street"
“What, in the end, makes advertisements so superior to criticism? Not what the moving red neon sign says — but the fiery…
Betaworks has been in the news a lot lately for, well, disrupting the news. It recently purchased Instapape r and before that Digg , and it's currently working on an alternative to Google Reader . But
"History teaches us nothing except that something will happen' - Hugh Trevor-Roper In the 1990s, the PC market was mostly a corporate market (roughly 75% of volume). Corporate buyers wanted a commodit
The price of a brick. NOTE: This blog has been moved to here http://www.realityprose.com/what-happened-with-lego/ “What happened with Legos? They used to be simple. Oh come on, I know you know what I’
How I Became a Hipster Henry Alford with his bicycle, which he rented to get the true Brooklyn experience, at a busy corner of hip and chic in Williamsburg. Credit... Casey Kelbaugh for The New York T
A few months ago I was on this Jet Blue flight from New York to Burbank. And I like Jet Blue, not just because of the prices. They have this terminal at JFK that I think is really nice. I think it mig
In Memoriam 1942 – 2013 “Roger Ebert loved movies.” RogerEbert.com Reviews Great Movies Chaz's Journal Blogs Far Flungers Channels Contributors Judy Try as she might, Zellweger’s Judy never goes beyond an impression of the multi-talented artist; her all-caps version of acting failing to allow the…
Late last night, Apple released a new iPhone ad. It’s pretty great and a lot of people have taken to the interwebs to say so. But, as usual with the marketing stuff that Apple puts out, there’s a bit more going on here. Specifically, I think that the ad says an interesting thing about the way that…
There once were two planets, new to the galaxy and inexperienced in life. Like fraternal twins, they were born at the same time, about four and a half billion years ago, and took roughly the same shap
Published in Be Yourself · 5 min read · Apr 25, 2013 -- To understand why I was only a little shocked — in an oh-my-god-you-had-sex-and-talked-about-it way, not a look-at-this-predator kinda way — whe
I’m sitting at my desk at the University of Washington trying to conserve energy. It isn’t me who’s losing it; it’s my computer simulations. Actually, colleagues down the hall might say I was losing it as well. When I tell people I’m working on speculative theories about dark matter, they start to…
Title : Dark Matter Search Results Using the Silicon Detectors of CDMS II Authors : The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) collaboration A schematic showing the usual interaction between incoming par
via @TheTech 3 min read · Apr 20, 2013 -- I got back to my room late, after a long dinner with a friend. I’d been teaching all week at the University of Wisconsin in Madison; I’d spoken to three class
To anyone who has visited the current “campus”, it’s obvious that Apple has outgrown it some time ago. It’s also obvious given the increase in headcount and operational expenses over time as can be se
Radioactive iron may be first fossil imprint of a nearby cosmic explosion. DENVER Oceanic sediment contains an iron isotope that ancient bacteria accumulated 2.2 million years ago when debris rained o
Y ou can learn a lot about the way the movie industry works in a given moment by looking at its successes (whether accidental or engineered), but often you can learn even more by looking at its failur
Earlier this week the web was abuzz with Apple’s latest clear strike against freedom: they refused the newest issue of the independent comic Saga to be distributed through ComiXology due to “postage-s
April 12, 2013 at 7:53 PM by When Apple decided to make its own web browser back in 2001, it chose KHTML / KJS from the KDE project as the basis of its rendering engine. Apple didn’t merely “adopt” th
April 7, 2013 at 1:04 PM by Technology can be a surprisingly ideological topic. In politics, the spectrum of belief is right on the surface: conservative/liberal, right/left. In tech, that same spectr
In ev’ry job that must be done There is an element of fun. You find the fun and snap! The job’s a game. In the 1964 musical film “Mary Poppins,” all it takes is a snap of the nanny’s fingers and the t
Oh sure they sold SOME. Ultimately Google Glass got used mostly by very specialized workers who typically operated in solitary and didn't have to interact with other humans. Of the general public, the
Note: It’s Saturday (well, it WAS Saturday), and that means this is my opinion and not necessarily that of Astrobites. Justin Vasel already covered the numbers here . Well. That happened. It’s sad how
Last week, Google announced they are shutting down Reader. Many people were upset by the move, especially because so many of us depend on Reader for reading RSS feeds even if we don’t directly use it.
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I usually agree with Om Malik, but not this time, on why he won’t use Google Keep , Google’s new Evernote clone: It might actually be good, or even better than Evernote. But I still won’t use Keep. Yo
March 19, 2013 at 7:58 PM by The mobile market, everyone agrees, is the technology industry’s future. What’s not so clear is which company is best positioned to thrive in that future. For smartphones
Forgotten what a magical and revolutionary device the iPhone is? If you have — and Apple increasingly appears to think so — the company has a handy reminder: A new “ Why iPhone ” Web page that explain
Jean-Louis Gassée : Yes, Apple is held to a (well earned) different standard. Once achallenger with an uncertain future, Apple has become The Man.Years ago, it could productively poke fun at Microsoft
When the iPad first launched, many people reached for a quick analysis that it was a device "only for content consumption". Despite time and experience having proven those people quite obviously wrong, the debate seems to persist as to what the iPad is, precisely, for . My own opinion is that the…
Published in The Tesla Collection · 5 min read · Feb 22, 2013 -- Sure, it’s an obvious comparison, one that’s been made many times in the past year or two. But it’s a comparison that’s worth pondering
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