Media Platforms Design Team Published in the April 2012 issue Twenty-five years ago young Americans had a chance. In 1984, American breadwinners who were sixty-five and over made ten times as much as
O n February 14, 2012, millions of Americans retrieved the latest copy of Time Magazine from their mailboxes and found, on the cover, a picture of two dogs snuggling against a pastel pink backdrop. Ab
Of course, I watched the Macworld SF keynote yesterday, and apart from noticing the iWork.com icon, I also saw all sorts of nice UI changes and icons. I skimmed through Apple’s new online guided tours
Sometimes, you get the strangest, yet most appealing ideas walking down the street instead of when you’re at your desk nibbling on a pencil. It just hits me, sometimes before I go to sleep, or when I’
Tom and I have been working on Frameographer on and off for about 6 months. Like our other products, it was created to scratch our own itch. We were dissatisfied with the current offerings in the mark
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Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years.…
Published 24 March 2012 Share page About sharing Image caption, Koepcke returned to the crash scene in 1998 Juliane Koepcke was flying over the Peruvian rainforest with her mother when her plane was h
Opinion A Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney THE recent remark by Mitt Romney’s senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom that upon clinching the Republican nomination Mr. Romney could change his political views “lik
What’s the value of all the upgraded features in the third-generation iPad? $100. I’ll show my work later in this article, but it’s an important number. Apple is consistently criticized by pundits, bl
Opinion A Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney THE recent remark by Mitt Romney’s senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom that upon clinching the Republican nomination Mr. Romney could change his political views “lik
Welcome back, friends, to the show that never ends! Another year has passed us by, and it’s time for our annual reckoning of the worst in Apple coverage ! While you’re waiting for the four-letter word
Three pundits, three outlandish claims! First, our old friend Rob Enderle is back! (Did he ever leave? Is there some way we could arrange that?) And this one is tagged Not Safe For Work! Also, Not Saf
The following post is less than traditional. I wanted to write on something that is very dear to my heart, something that I feel is rather underrepresented in the astrophysical community. It is a refl
Last night’s release of Paper , a new drawing and sketching app for iPad (The Verge has a good review and interview with its developers), got me thinking about a trend I’m seeing lately in several hig
There's a moment in the history of medicine that's so cinematic it's a wonder no one has put it in a Hollywood film. The scene is a London laboratory. The year is 1928. Alexander Fleming, a Scottish microbiologist, is back from a vacation and is cleaning up his work space. He notices that a speck of…
I read this great piece by Stephen Hackett today, and while I was reading it I figured I’m often asked why I (and to an extent our team ) do what I do every day. So here’s a brief explanation. It’s ab
A few hours ago, I came back from the Apple Store at Roma Est driving all the way back home after a 19-hour wait for the new iPad. Tired – exhausted, my head exploding for the absurd coffee intake I f
Most Recent Today’s Picks Empathy Exam She Sacrificed Her Youth to Get the Tech Bros to Grow Up As a young industrial designer, Patricia Moore undertook a radical experiment in aging. Her discoveries
For the last two months, you've seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google's new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece outlinin
Sometimes the simplest answer isn’t the right one, but it sure is faster than having to think! Why would Apple announce Mountain Lion now? Must be trouble! Does boycotting Apple over Chinese working c
Get 3 issues for £1 Fortean Times is a monthly magazine of news, reviews and research on strange phenomena and experiences, curiosities, prodigies and portents. You'll need a sense of adventure, curiosity, natural scepticism and a good sense of humour . Every month, Fortean Times takes you on an…
I am told that the manner by which others understand that I am busy is when my writing coherence suffers. This primarily occurs in email when whole words are dropped, sentences become jumbled, and logic falls on the floor. Rands, I literally did not understand what you were asking in that email.…
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Authors: Fabio Iocco, Marco Taoso, Florent Leclercq, and Georges Meynet Author’s Institution: Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris We hear quite a bit about dark matter on astrobites, but almost always in the context of galaxies, galaxy clusters, or the large-scale structure of the universe. Today’s…
The gist of Mike Daisey’s defense is the idea that, though the pieces of his story weren’t actually true, they combined to make for a story that painted a larger truth. Wrong. Daisey was not getting a
Meeko the calf stood nuzzling a pile of hay. He didn’t seem to have much appetite, and he looked a little bored. Every now and then, he glanced up, as though wondering why so many people with clipboar
A reader writes: Why do horns make things louder? I mean, I accept that they do, on gramophones and megaphones and PA speakers at the train station and brass instruments and so on, but what's actually
Since the 1960s, researchers have been scrutinizing a handful of patients who underwent a radical kind of brain surgery. The cohort has been a boon to neuroscience — but soon it will be gone. In the f
Title: “Galaxy,” defined Authors: Beth Willman & Jay Strader First Author’s Institution: Haverford College Words about Words “The classification of astronomical objects is more than a semantic pursuit
When Apple’s iPad event ended last week , I walked out of the venue, spoke to Phil Schiller for a couple of minutes and went into a meeting with Apple executives. That’s where I picked up my new iPad
(Yes, there is a 9,000-word Quora post on airplane cockpits.) It used to be that a key ingredient in human knowledge was the suppression of human passion. From science's method to journalism's , peopl
You can’t throw a rock at the iTunes and Mac App Stores without hitting a minimalistic writing app. If you do a lot of writing, I see no reason not to find an application that has been built to best s
Do you ever find yourself wondering about the glamorous life of an Apple liveblogger? Do you imagine yourself as me, jet-setting across the country to bask in Apple CEO Tim Cook's presence while he pr
To read this week’s issue online, click the front cover. For highlights, scroll down. As the Open House Festival 2023 approaches, visitors to London's renowned Freemasons' Hall are in for an extraordi
The pixel has always been the smallest unit in screen-based design. Because it’s been indivisible, it is the concrete unit of measurement among screen-based designers. The phrase “a pixel is a pixel i
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