Opinion Rethinking Sleep SOMETIME in the dark stretch of the night it happens. Perhaps it’s the chime of an incoming text message. Or your iPhone screen lights up to alert you to a new e-mail. Or you
With the press embargo on iPhone 5 lifted, we’re finally hearing about the product from people who have actually held and used it. Before that, and still after, both positive and negative media impressions have been unable to resist mentioning the bogeyman known as near field communication (NFC ).…
On my first day at Shichahai Sports School, the elite athletic academy in Beijing, Coach Chang introduces me to his ping-pong class. "We have a new American student," he says, peering out from behind the prescription sunglasses he wears indoors. As all eyes turn toward me, I feel a rush of nerves.…
The original iPhone Photograph by Tony Avelar/AFP. Like many of Apple’s inventions, the iPhone began not with a vision, but with a problem. By 2005, the iPod had eclipsed the Mac as Apple’s largest so
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So. The iPhone 5 has been unveiled and many people–including me–were underwhelmed. Lighter, thinner, new back, (slightly) new color scheme. Just tweaked a little. Like changes to a car model from year
The opening dialogue of Christopher Nolan’s 2006 film, The Prestige : Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something o
Even after his parachute opened, Tyler Stark sensed he was coming down too fast. The last thing he’d heard was the pilot saying, “Bailout! Bailout! Bail—” Before the third call was finished, there’d
In recent years, the aesthetic of UIs has followed a dominant ideology that attempts to replicate the physical world. With a handful of software/product updates and new releases in the last few months, we’ve begun to see how it might be time to find a new balance (see Clive Thompson’s article in…
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Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Brad Plumer points us to a new survey from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication,
Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps,
The future of technology is this: extreme usability coupled with extreme simplicity. The more we learn about technology — and the more we learn about ourselves — the more we discover and realize how t
Diary of a Mad Fact-Checker Precision only gets you so far. “The Writer” (2009) by Kelly C. Tate. I work on and off as a fact-checker at the most accurate magazine in America. I think so, at least. The checker assigned to this piece may come up with a list of competitors for that title—and in that…
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Photo by Shutterstock . The brazen lies of the Romney/Ryan campaign — on full display in Paul Ryan’s spectacularly dishonest speech at the Republican National Convention — have political pundits at a
Code, nerd culture and humor from . Bugged Sep 01 2012 It’s just after midnight and I’m sitting in a hospital room in the pediatric unit next to my ten-year-old son. He’s asleep now, after a hard day
What would the world be like if the land masses were spread out the same way as now - only rotated by an angle of 90 degrees? —Socke It would profoundly alter our biosphere in general and public radio
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Published in Monday Note · 4 min read · Sep 2, 2012 -- “Monsieur Voiture, you hopeless [redacted French slur], you still can’t prepare a proper mayonnaise! I’ll show you one last time while standing o
Bring Your Stories and Ideas 4 min read · Aug 14, 2012 -- Medium is a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s
Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on a world outside our planet Earth, passed away today. Let that sink in a little bit. The first human to ever leave Earth and stand on another body. For al
Neil Armstrong steps onto the Moon Nobody born after 1935 has walked on the moon. Nobody since the nineteen thirties . The children of eight decades since have still not made it back there, or reached
By Adam Grossman on June 17, 2015. Today we’re releasing a major new version of Dark Sky with a new design, advanced notification features, crowd-sourced weather reporting, and faster loading. A big goal of this update is not only to make the app significantly better, but also to limit how often you…
Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. makes for powerful courtroom drama. Calling it drama, however, is faint praise. It’s entertaining and thrilling but the effects are shallow and they don’t l
The old tech giant freshens up, but still looks like a follower. Contributed by Stephen Coles on Aug 24th, 2012. Artwork published in 2012 . Today, Microsoft announced a new logo using Segoe . It is t
Illustration by Jon Krause “SPEEK EENGLISH, TACO,” THE GIRL with the giant backpack yelled when Maria asked where to find a bathroom. The backpack giggled as it bounced down the hall. It had been hour
Myths about the Hero Twins , one of whom is shown holding a bow here, are an important part of Navajo identity. In certain circles, there is a violent allergic reaction whenever someone suggests that religion and science are compatible. A particular type of atheist is especially vulnerable to this…
I just returned from a five-day trip in which I worked a lot , doing significant amounts of writing, web development, and especially iOS development. And I did it all on my base-model Retina MacBook P
Terror, Power, and Cruelty An Israeli soldier mans his post in Hebron. / Tali Caspi One morning, when I was about four years old, I proudly announced from the back seat of my family’s car, “Mother, I want you to know that I am the first kid in my whole kindergarten to think inside my head rather…
paul offline It's all anybody asks me. I tell them I'm not using the internet for a year, and they just need to know: "How's it going?" "It's going great," I say. "Yeah?" they say, dubiously. Their ey
Mario Savio, shown here at a victory rally in UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza on Dec. 9, 1964, was the face of the free speech movement. AP In 1964, students at the University of California, Berkeley, form
For Brave , the team at Pixar had to deal with a hero or rather heroine, who is on screen for almost every shot, but who needed wild, yet beautiful hair. The simulation department needed to develop a
Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock In late 2010, Sean Brooks received three e-mails over a span of 30 hours warning that his accounts on LinkedIn, Battle.net, and other popular websites were at risk. He was t
We need to talk about email clients. I’ve been joking for years that I’m going to write an email client and charge $500 for it — an email client that actually meets the needs of developers and profess
If you want an overview of everything new in Panther, the best resource I’ve seen, by far, is Mark Pilgrim’s “What’s new in Panther” — 11 pages, 100 screenshots, and pretty much a point-by-point overv
I’ve spent my whole life thinking about dots, largely in the form of on-screen pixels. I remember first seeing a Pac-Man coin-op arcade game, wondering how it worked, and deducing the basic gist: the
Next post Previous post I keep seeing stacked area charts in my travels around the ’net. Horace Dediu at Asymco , for example, seems particularly fond of them. 1 It’s easy to see why. They have big bl
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