1/3 Credit...Illustration by Matt Dorfman 1/3 Credit...Illustration by Matt Dorfman 2/3 Credit...Illustration by Matt Dorfman 3/3 Credit...Illustration by Matt Dorfman The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere. The journey mostly zips along the Junipero…

Ricardo Schneider holt eine Kanne Kaffee aus der Küche, er hat eine rote Decke auf den Tisch gelegt und zwei Becher hingestellt. Seine Wohnung, fünf Minuten vom Einkaufszentrum Helle Mitte in Berlin-H

Article Raising kids online in 2026? Start with these 8 rules Parenting kids online in 2026 means new risks from AI, scams, and social media. These 8 simple rules give parents clear scripts and actions to keep kids safer. Feb 10, 2026 Article|General From resistance to routine: How our team changed…

A year ago — to the day — I closed my review of iOS 6 by noting that Apple tends to prefer subtler updates: If you compare any two sequential major releases of iOS, you’re not going to see complete overhauls of the operating system. You can therefore imagine how dumb I feel now, staring at a version…

Anzeige Ich bin Weltrekordlerin. Das ist kein Scherz, obwohl es so klingt, denn ich kann eigentlich nichts besonders gut. Ich habe auch nichts geübt bis zur Perfektion, mein ganzes Leben lang, wie andere Weltrekordlerinnen. Und doch ist es wahr. Ich halte einen Weltrekord, und zwar, wie ich finde,…

11 / 2011 Any LaTeX user with an iPad has had the same thought: I want to use my favourite document creation system on my favourite device. Despite everything I am about to say about the LaTeX codebase, there is nothing like it for composing beautiful documents, and the iPad is the most beautiful…

–:–:–:– Founder Summit 2026 in Boston: Don’t miss ticket savings of up to $300. Register Now. Save up to $680 on your Disrupt 2026 pass. Ends 11:59 p.m. PT tonight. REGISTER NOW. A Photographer’s Take On The iPhone 5S Camera Matthew Panzarino 2:17 PM PDT · September 12, 2013 The iPhone 5S…

iOS iOS 7 Reviews last updated 24 August 2015 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A complete visual departure from previous versions, iOS 7 focuses on clarity by removing all but the most essential elements and chrome, deference by…

Gestern gab Apple bekannt, das neue iPhone lasse sich künftig auch per Fingerabdruck entsperren. Ich finde, das ist eine gute Nachricht zur richtigen Zeit. Jedenfalls dann, wenn man wie ich die Themen Totalüberwachung durch Sicherheitsdienste und Datenschutz derzeit für vernachlässigt hält.…

Shares Reality is one honey badger. It don’t care. About you, about your thoughts, about your needs, about your beliefs. You can reject reality and substitute your own, but reality will roll on, eventually crushing you even as you refuse to dodge it. The best you can hope for is to play by reality’s…

Davecat with his mistress, Elena (left) and wife Sidore (right). (Renato Velarde) Davecat met his future wife, Sidore Kuroneko at a goth club in 2000, so the story goes. The less romantic but perhaps more true version is that he saved up for a year and a half to buy her online. She cost about…

Now that we have enough details about how the NSA eavesdrops on the internet, including today's disclosures of the NSA's deliberate weakening of cryptographic systems, we can finally start to figure out how to protect ourselves. For the past two weeks, I have been working with the Guardian on NSA…

Dass der Ehering etwas zu locker an ihrem Finger sitzt, zeigt, wie sehr die letzten Jahre an ihr gezehrt haben. Die Jahre, seit sie Kinder hat. Nächte ohne Schlaf, die Überforderung, Angst und die zwei Kinder, die sie sich anders vorgestellt hatte. Nicht so anstrengend, nicht so schwierig. Und die…

Der Drahtseilakt Das Mädchen sitzt auf der Schultoilette und betet. Sie ist sich nicht ganz sicher, ob das Gebet irgendwo ankommt, aber in diesem Moment hilft es ihr einfach zu beten. Bitte, mach, dass ich die Prüfung bestehe. Dann entriegelt sie die Tür und geht nach einem letzten Blick in den…

I vividly remember the Facebook post. It was my friend’s 5-year-old daughter “Kate,” (a pseudonym) standing outside of her house in a bright yellow bikini, the street address clearly visible behind her on the front door. A caption read “Leaving for our annual Labor Day weekend at the beach,” and…

Biz & IT Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” For Ars, three crackers have at 16,000+ hashed passcodes—with 90 percent success. Dan Goodin – May 27, 2013 8:00 pm | 493 Thanks to the XKCD comic, every password cracking word list in the world probably has…

It is one of the most common components of emergency medicine: an intravenous bag of sterile saltwater. Luckily for anyone who has ever needed an IV bag to replenish lost fluids or to receive medication, it is also one of the least expensive. The average manufacturer’s price, according to government…

A couple of weeks ago, I was scheduled to take a trip from New York (JFK) to Los Angeles on JetBlue. Every year, my family goes on a one-week pilgrimage, where we put our work on hold and spend time visiting temples, praying, and spending time with family and friends. To my Jewish friends, I often…

Published in XATO · 8 min read · Aug 19, 2013 -- The message here is that US courts can force a business to subvert their own security measures and lie to their customers, deliberately giving them a f

Joshua Tree moon / Ellen Huerta/ Jan 1 2013 Thoughts on trading in pride and security for authenticity Ellen Huerta 10 min read· Aug 16, 2013 -- ‘It takes courage to grow up and be who you really are.’ — e.e. cummings About 6 months ago, I decided to quit my very good job at Google to explore a…

Simple steps to lead a simple and content life. Ketan Anjaria 4 min read· Jun 5, 2013 -- 7. Stop checking email in the morning. Seriously cut that garbage out. Your brain actually functions differently when you first wake up, spending that time doing the busy work of email is a terrible waste of…

A Shiny Content Farm is Still a Content Farm Andrea Phillips 4 min read· Jul 8, 2013 -- There’s a lot of buzz around Medium right now. It’s shiny and incredibly easy to use! Great sharing features mean increased social media buzz! Founded by some of the guys who made Twitter so of course it’ll be…

There are plenty of ways to achieve a higher state of consciousness. Most of them involve ingesting some kind of psychoactive substance, or getting in a white tank filled with water, or sitting in fro

An einem Februarmorgen brach das Unheil in die Welt des kleinen Dorfes Menznau: Ein Mann schoss um sich, tötete, verletzte. Innert Minuten war Menznau weltbekannt. Vier Tischgespräche, in den Monaten nach dem Abzug der Kameras. Text Erwin Koch Illustration Elisabeth Moch Dass das bei uns geschieht.…

Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game — but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit. Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the…

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“Hello Mr Welch. Visa Card Services here.” That was the line with which my nightmare started one Sunday morning, hungover, sitting on the sofa trying to piece together the night before. The landline rang. I was surprised because I’d only given the number to about three people. The person on the…

Markus klettert aus seinem Tanklaster und zieht sich rote Gummihandschuhe an. Er ist hier, um die Dixi-Klos sauber zu machen. Mit einem schweren schwarz-gelben Schlauch geht er in Richtung der zwölf Plastikkabinen – ein Slalomlauf zwischen den Betrunkenen. Ein Junge mit Wollmütze, Sonnenbrille und…

When xkcd creator Randall Munroe first posted a new installment of his webcomic titled "Time" on March 25, it looked deceptively simple: a picture of two black and white stick figures, a man and a wom

There’s a big problem in social media right now. Poke, a Facebook app, lets people send messages that self-destruct after a few seconds. It’s boring. A crucial and indispensable source of news and information, absolutely. But more often than not, it’s also tedious and predictable. Digital Diary One…

Wir sitzen in einem kleinen Café am Levinsky-Park, einem verwahrlosten Grünstreifen im Süden von Tel Aviv. Die Szenen vor dem Fenster lassen kaum vermuten, dass wir uns in der israelischen Stadt am Mittelmeer befinden. Die Hautfarbe der meisten Passanten ist schwarz. Die Schriftzüge an den Scheiben…

All dressed in black and adorned with piercings, a small but growing community of goths is one manifestation of the new cultures and subcultures emerging in Kenya. By Rowan Emslie On the streets of Nairobi. Photograph by Matthias Kihr. Nairobi, Kenya: David Lith is a tattoo artist working out of…

(Welcome to the first edition of View Source, a weekly column in which Rex Sorgatz obsesses over the new ways we create, consume, and manipulate moving images.) The Case of the Trombone and the Mysterious Disappearing Camera Earlier this year, a video of an older gentleman playing trombone became an…