09.16.18 Opinion After Math: Oh boy, new toys! Numbers, because the holidays start right now apparently. By , 09.16.18 Save 09.14.18 09.14.18 in Wearables Smartwatches promised to make us healthier, and they finally might Apple's and Google's next wearables will be more than glorified pedometers. By…

The latest Oatmeal cartoon has been making the rounds of Twitter (largely thanks to John Gruber’s link ). It makes two points about the problems of piracy exceptionally well. The intentional point is that the content distributors often make it crazy-stupid hard for us to give them our money. Most of…

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by John Berardi, PhD . When we were kids, Mom was always looking out for our health. Chew your food. Eat your vegetables. And always eat breakfast because it’s the most important meal of the day. As busy grown-ups, a good breakfast often falls victim to the time…

In a few weeks, Apple will unveil the next generation iPad, John Packowski of AllThingsD confirms today . If history (and carrier code ) is any indication, it should go on sale shortly after that. Maybe even just a few days later . And that’s interesting because it doesn’t give developers a lot of…

Since its release two years ago, the iPad has always needed a better Twitter client. Tweetbot for iPad is the better Twitter app I have been waiting for, and it sets a new standard that future Twitter clients will have to be compared with. From a Twitter power user’s perspective, the iPad came at an…

Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss / American Poverty A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reporting appears often about the inner life of the American prison, but the catch is that American prison life…

There’s a whole laundry list of disclaimers attached to it, but my pal (and Pulitzer winner) Matt Richtel wrote about a Stanford research report suggesting that spending considerable amounts of time on multimedia/technology can make us unhappy. In his words : “The answer, in the peer-reviewed study…

As I watched Apple’s iBooks event in New York City last week, my mind began to race about the ramifications of such announcements. Everyone had a pretty good idea for weeks (or months if you read the Steve Jobs biography) that textbooks would be a focal point for Apple, but there wasn’t much thought…

An explosion last May at a Foxconn factory in Chengdu, China, killed four people and injured 18. It built iPads. Color China Photo, via Associated Press The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were…

A lot of people have asked for my take on The New York Times piece yesterday about the true cost of making Apple products in China. Let me first just say that it’s an important piece full of good reporting by Charles Duhigg and David Barboza. Parts of it are very sad — sickening, really. But let’s…

Simply looking over the numbers , it might be hard to wrap your head around what Apple just announced for their Q1 2012 results. A company this big is not supposed to be able to nearly double revenue year-to-year. Nor are they supposed to more than double profit. But Apple did both. The numbers are…

This Christmas I told my mother about Mohan Srivastava, some dude I first started thinking about ten-and-a-half months ago. Back then I’d written some diary thingie about “cheating,” “stealing,” and “cons.” The February 2011 issue of Wired was about all those things, too—the magazine had included an…

I spent much of last week on the road. Eager to get back home when my work was done, I took the red-eye flight from San Francisco to New York at 10 pm. I arrived home at 8:30 am and had to go straight to the office, after less than five hours of fitful sleep on the plane. By early afternoon, I felt…

I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I’d met…

I f you happened to be watching NBC on the first Sunday morning in August last summer, you would have seen something curious. There, on the set of Meet the Press , the host, David Gregory, was interviewing a guest who made a forceful case that the U.S. economy had become “very distorted.” In the…

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The USB cable had a good long run, but its usefulness and convenience is breaking down. I don’t just have an iPod with songs on it any longer. I have an iPhone, an iPad, and a Mac, and all three of them have all sorts of similar content. If you use more than one computer or device, then over-the-air…

Courtesy Ian Lockwood Debunking the Cul-de-Sac Emily Badger Sep 19, 2011 The design of America's suburbs has actually made our streets more dangerous Descend from 40,000 feet into just about any major metropolitan airport in the United States, and patterns of the trajectory of American life over the…

The Next Web: Andy Hertzfeld on Google+, UI design and how Bob Dylan influenced the Mac http://tnw.to/1A0xM by @mpanzarino on @TNWapple

While I was watching "Cars 2," an elusive nostalgia tugged at my mind. No, I wasn't remembering Pixar's original "Cars" from 2006. This was something more deeply buried, and finally, in the middle of one of the movie's sensational grand prix races, it came to me: I was sitting on the floor of my…

Every day we get up, go to work, go home, and go to sleep. Maybe our routines aren't quite that dull, but they're rarely perfect. Whether you feel the need to get more done or just feel better in general, we've got plenty of suggestions to help you upgrade your daily routine. Note: This week's top…

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Editor’s Note: This article was originally posted June 7, 2011 when Apple first previewed iOS 5. However, now that Apple has given us more information about the forthcoming iOS update—including a ship date—we updated the article on October 5 to contain the latest information we have on iOS 5. When…

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San Francisco WHEN we don’t get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don’t blame the soldiers. We don’t say, “It’s these lazy soldiers and their bloated benefits plans! That’s why we haven’t done better in Afghanistan!” No, if the results aren’t there, we blame the planners. We blame…

The internet did not replace television, which did not replace cinema, which did not replace books. E-books aren’t going to replace books either. E-books are books, merely with a different form. The electronic book is the latest example of how HTML continues to win out over competing, often…

No longer alone Portal made me feel so very alone, so very fearful, and so very sad. Beating the game, and reaching the surface, was a huge moment. It meant it wasn't all hopeless, that I might not be all alone, that I could have something to live for. This was a key part of my enjoyment of the…

I’m a die-hard paper fan. I have a few shelves of books in almost every room of the house and I love taking a stack of magazines or newspapers on a plane – this is so ingrained in my psyche that I actually save magazines a few weeks before a long trip so I have something to read. But slowly, ever so…