Matt is the co-founder and CEO of Neighborhood Goods . In his spare time, amongst other things, Matt is co-founder of not-for-profit retail concept, Unbranded, co-host of Bonanza! on Relay FM, a membe

Technology at rest. Adam Davidson/NPR Here's the secret of the modern dairy farm: The essential high-tech advances aren't in machinery. They're inside the cow. Take a cow like Claudia. She lives at Fu

Apple CEO Tim Cook announcing the newest iPad Imagine you run a large technology company not named Apple. Let’s say you’re Steve Ballmer, Michael Dell, Meg Whitman, Larry Page, or Intel’s Paul Otellin

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Amid the various upgrades announced for Apple’s(s aapl) new iPad was a hot new wireless technology. You might think I’m referring to the tablet’s 4G LTE mobile broadband support, but I’m not. I’m talking about the far less sexy, but no less important, inclusion of Bluetooth 4.0, making iPad the…

#### Resolutionary Apple is calling the Retina display the most advanced display you’ve ever seen. It has 3.1 million pixels — a million more than are in my HDTV. I’ve had a Retina display iPhone sinc

Today, I’m happy to share that my first ebook, Bartending: Memoirs of an Apple Genius is well underway. It’s a collection of short stories from my time behind the Genius Bar. To mark the announcement, I’ve decided to share one of the chapters with you here. Look for the book on the Kindle bookstore…

Speaking of men’s rooms , let’s talk about hand dryers. This is the Dyson Airblade : (Or it may be some sort of strange silver bullfrog) Airblades aren’t terribly common, but they can sometimes be fou

Earthshine illuminates a way to detect life on exoplanets. By observing sunlight reflected off of Earth as it would be seen from the Moon, astronomers are devising methods to search for signs of life

Apple will announce its next iPad this week. It will have a better CPU, a better camera, and a magnificent new screen. While that’s all cool, I’m secretly more excited about another announcement: the

[Danny Silverman with a noble reason for switching from Instapaper to Readability](http://agblog.com/entry/3932): >You see, the ability to strip out all of the ads, pagination, navigation, and other c

To the average user, the two new security technologies coming to OS X this year—sandboxing and Gatekeeper—should be virtually invisible. But they could be all too visible to more advanced users, parti

Gallery Photo: Canon EOS 5D Mark III hands-on photos When Canon introduced the EOS 5D Mark II in late 2008, it was something of a cinematic revolution — its HD-capable, full-frame sensor granted acces

This week, I want to look at one of the unglamorous, but essential, parts of science: the problem of how to organize the information you have so that you know what you’ve got. For, like everything els

A few years ago I used to be a hothead. Whenever anyone said anything, I’d think of a way to disagree. I’d push back hard if something didn’t fit my world-view. It’s like I had to be first with an opi

The Instapaper “Read Later” bookmarklet is now redesigned as a faster, more compatible full-page overlay that’s easier to see. The previous little “Saved!” frame had a great run, but its time has pass

Creativity: now there’s a word I thought I wouldn’t see under attack. Don’t we live in a society that thrives on the idea of innovation and creative thought? The age of the entrepreneur, of the man of

Japan Weighed Evacuating Tokyo in Nuclear Crisis Journalists, in protective gear, were taken on a tour last week of Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, at the center of the cri

The decision-making power of honeybees is a prime example of what scientists call swarm intelligence. Clouds of locusts, schools of fish, flocks of birds and colonies of termites display it as well. And in the field of swarm intelligence, Seeley is a towering figure. For 40 years he has come up…

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In the last half decade, magic—normally deemed entertainment fit only for children and tourists in Las Vegas—has become shockingly respectable in the scientific world. Even I—not exactly renowned as a public speaker—have been invited to address conferences on neuroscience and perception. I asked a…

Horse_ebooks became a bona fide internet celebrity when organizers of ROFLCON, the premier conference on internet pop culture, asked in January: "Anyone know how we might be able to get in touch with @horse_ebooks?" Horse_ebooks has 40,000 Twitter followers and a wildly passionate fanbase, but…

Tesla Motors ’ lineup of all-electric vehicles — its existing Roadster , almost certainly its impending Model S , and possibly its future Model X — apparently suffer from a severe limitation that can

February 15, 2012 Nothing in Android makes sense except in the light of its original vision In 2008, I met Rich Miner, one of the founders of Android. It was during a pivotal time in the mobile indust

Microsoft’s Biggest Miss One of the benefits of a long car trip with my wife is the opportunity to have really great and insightful conversations with the smartest person I know. Yesterday, on the fir

Teenage boy achieves nuclear fusion at home ... is http://t.co/2ulnMvaR a bizarre joke - or the breakthrough of the century ...?