Apple VP Greg Joswiak is grinning as he holds up what is easily the smallest iPhone adapter I have ever seen. iPod white and about the length of a matchstick, it’s designed to connect audio headphones with an industry standard 3.5-millimeter analog plug to the Lightning port on Apple’s newest…

‘The abuse Corbyn received for not singing the national anthem says much more about his detractors than it does about him.’Photograph: Jonathan Brady/AP C orbyn has survived his first week in opposition despite being attacked by the print media with such ferocity that I can only assume he’s been…

.@MarvelsAgents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'S @ChloeBennet4 tells us about her dream role. Hint: #KristenWiig is the lead: http://t.co/zRuEEbt76w

Fremont, CA -- Blackmagic Design announced that Toronto based visual effects shop Intelligent Creatures is using Fusion Studio to complete VFX for the hit show Orphan Black . VFX work for the show will now include extensive effects for the new season of the show. Orphan Black has become one of BBC…

Michael Fassbender: 'I'm pretty happy. I mean, Jesus…' Photograph: Alastair Thain W hen Michael Fassbender 's new film Shame , directed by Steve McQueen , previewed in Venice last year, a small part of him was relieved his mother couldn't make it. The film, about a New York-based sex addict, is,…

The Thames Barrier controls flood waters and surge tides to prevent flooding in central London and other areas upstream. Last winter its steel gates were closed a record 50 timesPhotograph: Emma Durnford/Alamy W hen the Romans built Londinium circa AD 50, they chose a good place to start. The land…

Anyone who thinks Twitter is a waste of time has never met Mark McArdle, who has literally tweeted his way into the Formula One paddock in Montreal. Known as Fake Charlie Whiting to his more than 16,000 Twitter followers, McArdle will be an F1 paddock guest of the real Fédération Internationale de…

"We don't do endings like that. It's all bullshit. What couples get together at the end?" I don't mean to be hyperbolic, but I'm pretty sure Larry David made the universe fold in on itself tonight. More specifically, he made the Curb universe and the Seinfeld universe merge and then fold in on…

aka: Screw you Joel Spolsky, We're Rewriting It From Scratch! This is a guest post by Dan Milstein ( @danmil ), co-founder of Hut 8 Labs . Disclosure: Joel Spolsky is a friend and I'm an investor in his company, Stack Exchange (which powers the awesome Stack Overflow ) -Dharmesh So, you know Joel…

Archie Panjabi … 'Fans have been very loyal.' Photograph: PR T he panic about the "exodus" of British ethnic minority talent to Hollywood has reached a fever pitch: culture minister Ed Vaizey will be chairing talks at Whitehall this week, discussing with representatives from the BBC, Arts Council…

!Commentary Commentary weekly your to back Welcome See what I did there? This week, we’re hitting up one of the finest pieces of cinema in the last 15 years and hearing from the uber-intelligent man behind it. The film? Memento . The director? Christopher Nolan. In this commentary, you’ll uncover…

London is huge, with more than 8.4 million residents within its nearly 660 square miles. With an annual budget of some £10.9 billion and more than 27,000 full-time employees, TfL is responsible for the daily operation of London’s entire public-transport network, which includes the city’s buses, the…

Intrepid Ibex: It's lonely at the top Enlarge / The default desktop of Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex. Scott Gilbertson The move away from GNOME did not hurt Ubuntu's adoption rate. It remains the most popular Linux distro by a wide margin, which makes it, among other things, the most popular target for…

Taylor Swift: ‘I’ve wanted this life since I was a kid’ I n Manhattan’s chi-chi Sant Ambroeus restaurant, the pair of smartly dressed women at the next table are making not-so-surreptitious “eek” faces at each other, having clocked that their neighbour for lunch is Taylor Swift . And that’s nothing…

Welcome to the standards jungle (we’ve got fun and games) It is one thing to decide a new HTML element is needed. It's quite another thing to actually navigate the stratified, labyrinthine world of Web standards—especially if no one on your team has ever done such a thing. Perhaps the best thing…

Enlarge / Now, apply consensus to climate... Josh Ezzell on Flickr A climate of consensus It's easy to find examples of how a consensus operates from any area of science, and the field of climate science is no different. A strong consensus has formed about the broad outlines of climate change,…

READ HERE: additional Q & A w/ Marc Myers on #CheekToCheek, word for word account of my experiences @itstonybennett: http://t.co/hEmMQ9WsOJ

Steve Jobs’s office remains Steve Jobs’s office. After his death in 2011, Tim Cook, his friend and successor as Apple chief executive officer, decided to leave the sparsely decorated room on the fourth floor of 1 Infinite Loop untouched. It’s not a shrine or place of mourning, but just a space that…

One Friday night, 30 men and 30 women gathered at a hotel restaurant in Washington, D.C. Their goal was love, or maybe sex, or maybe some combination of the two. They were there for speed dating. The women sat at separate numbered tables while the men moved down the line, and for two solid hours…

For most tech companies, expansion is all about country-by-county localization. When your service requires a city-by-city approach, the operation can be far bigger and more complicated. To find out what such a granular approach to expansion involves, we spoke to three companies at different stages…

What a day with my great friend @ladygaga. The students went gaga for Gaga!! http://t.co/P9AbeVejVI http://t.co/csiyXBOFh7

With today’s news that Hortonworks, one of our investments, has raised another $100 million in funding , it’s clear the industry is finally ready to accept and value open source startups as real businesses poised for long term growth. Why, after decades of entrepreneurs trying to use free open…

Square Pegs Practically speaking, not everyone is suited for the kind of group design activity we performed in the Cabal, at least not initially. People with strong personalities, people with poor verbal skills, or people who just don’t like creating in a group setting shouldn’t be forced into it.…

Five years ago, Ellie Goulding unleashed her angelic, tortured and breathy vibrato on to the audience of Later... With Jools Holland . And me. In a worn, shapeless T-shirt (the kind you wear on hangover days), her face partly obscured by a black hoodie, she poured the vocals of ‘Under the Sheets’,…

Since joining the Pinterest world, I have found so many things that I want to make! One that caught my attention was a dry-erase calendar. Check it out here: amazingness So, I decided to make one for my office out of green paint chips. When I went to Wal-Mart, the cashier gave me the "stink eye"…

While it's pretty unlikely that you're a target of deliberate brainwashing, it is likely that you're subject to some of the common techniques associated with the less-than-ethical practice. Here are a few common methods you encounter on a regular basis and what you can do to avoid them. First things…

A police officer holding a wrap on a stop-and-search operation in Soho (Photo by Tom Johnson ) Did you know that the majority of police officers don’t get into the force to bust people for ten bags? While it might occasionally seem like that – especially if you had little else to do growing up bar…

E very friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: "Bro, 1 you don't work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver." They…

Gentrification in London FOR young, upper-middle-class Londoners, the game of the moment is guessing where the cool kids will be going next. Gentrification, which progressed gently through neighbourhoods in Islington and Camden in the decades after the second world war, is now changing the city at…

In the fall of 1997, my university built a CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) to help scientists, artists, and archeologists embrace 3D immersion to advance the state of those fields. Ecstatic at seeing a real-life instantiation of the Metaverse, the virtual world imagined in Neal…

By Peter Miller Hannah Bloch Video by Spencer Millsap Video by Shannon Sanders PUBLISHED Tue Apr 08 21:07:00 EDT 2014 Early one morning in Washington, D.C., Bruno Frohlich awaits a delivery at his office on the sixth floor of the National Museum of Natural History . "The apes," he says, "will be…

How Much My Novel Cost Me Writing my first book got me into debt. To finish the next one, I had to become solvent Leah Goren IT’S HARD TO WRITE ABOUT BEING BROKE because brokeness is so relative; “broke” people run the gamut from the trust-funded jerk whose drinks you buy because she’s “so broke…

Image copyright AP Image caption Freedman was awed by the opening shot of Gravity; Williams noted the filmmakers' fealty to the laws of physics in space On Sunday night winners of the 86th Academy Awards will be announced in 24 categories. Two Oscar voters - a film director and a sound man - talk…

Welcome back to AVQ&A , where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together.…