On the set of "The Canyons" in Los Angeles last summer: Amanda Brooks, Lindsay Lohan and Paul Schrader. Credit... Jeff Minton for The New York Times Lindsay Lohan moves through the Chateau Marmont as if she owns the place, but in a debtor-prison kind of way. She’ll soon owe the hotel $46,000. Heads…

A few years ago, at a Las Vegas convention for magicians, Penn Jillette, of the act Penn and Teller, was introduced to a soft-spoken young man named Apollo Robbins, who has a reputation as a pickpocket of almost supernatural ability. Jillette, who ranks pickpockets, he says, “a few notches below…

Earlier in “Is Siri really Apple’s future?” I outlined Siri’s strategic promise as a transition from procedural search to task completion and transactions. This time, I’ll explore that future in the context of two emerging trends: Internet of Things is about objects as simple as RFID chips slapped…

Gotcha. Traitor. Snicker. Those were some of the reactions when people discovered that I was using an iPhone. I stand before you accused of using a competitor’s [sic] product and I plead guilty. Moving beyond the gotcha blogs, there’s an actual reason for using technology products and services other…

In our ongoing series of interviews with developers and creators in the Apple community, I had the chance to talk with John Siracusa. John is well known in the Apple community for his detailed OS X reviews and other articles published on Ars Technica . He co-hosted a podcast called Hypercritical for…

One of the biggest challenges of building technology products is that to bring a technology product or service to market requires great engineers to do their best work without really knowing the answer as to whether the choices being made will yield success or failure. This seems obvious but is…

If access to your research is restricted by a paywall it hasn't really been 'published' at all. Photograph: Craig Aurness/Corbis Publishing science behind paywalls is immoral. There, I said it. I know, I know. It's an easy trap to fall into – I've done it myself. To my shame, several of my own early…

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On loan from Chelsea for the season the teenage midfielder Josh McEachran is enjoying life at Middlesbrough. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian J osh McEachran is still only a teenager but he already knows that appearances can be deceptive and public images distorted. It is something…

I did not know Aaron Swartz , unless you count having copies of a person’s entire digital life on your forensics server as knowing him. I did once meet his father, an intelligent and dedicated man who was clearly pouring his life into defending his son. My deepest condolences go out to him and the…

Click for ongoing posts about Aaron, his memorial service, his death, and the malicious prosecution brought by the DoJ against him To the extent possible under law, Cory Doctorow has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to " RIP, Aaron Swartz ." Update : Go read Lessig : "He was…

It’s the funny season in technology land. The holidays are over, the major technology trade shows are soon to pass, and thousands of tech writers have nothing to report. So we get stories like the Wall Street Journal quoting unnamed sources that say Apple halved their component orders for calendar…

Beast had a birthday last week. The First Dog of social networking — live-in companion to Mark Zuckerberg and his bride, Priscilla Chan — turned two. The proud owners baked a cake for the Hungarian sheepdog and decided to throw an impromptu party. Naturally, when it came time to compile the guest…

Tomorrow is the funeral for Aaron Swartz, the programmer and sometime activist who killed himself last Friday, while facing federal trial. No one knows, or will ever really know, what caused Swartz to take his own life. But his suicide, in the face of possible bankruptcy and serious prison time, has…

(Some will say this is not the time. I disagree. This is the time when every mixed emotion needs to find voice.) Since his arrest in January, 2011, I have known more about the events that began this spiral than I have wanted to know. Aaron consulted me as a friend and lawyer. He shared with me what…

Here is my Larry Hagman story. Get comfy. This will take a while. The year is 1980 and I am the Head Writer on Pink Lady , an infamous variety series that was forced by high-level corporate interests on All Concerned: Its producers, its staff, some of its stars, certain folks at NBC who didn't want…

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How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama's reelection Three members of Obama's tech team, from left to right: Harper Reed, Dylan Richard, and Mark Trammell ( Photo by Daniel X. O'Neil ). The Obama campaign's technologists were tense…

Photograph from Warner Bros. / Getty Most Japanese girls giggle. The little maid on the fourth floor of the Miyako Hotel, in Kyoto, was no exception. Hilarity, and attempts to suppress it, pinked her cheeks (unlike the Chinese, the Japanese complexion more often than not has considerable color),…

One afternoon in the early 1980s , Mitchell Medina and Robert Lech were hanging out in the dining room of Medina’s Essex Fells, New Jersey, home. The two friends got together about once a week. This time the conversation turned to the topic of invention. Lech, a chiropractor, was in the process of…

T he players at Table 25 fought first over the choice of pawns. Doug Herold, a forty-four-year-old real estate appraiser, settled on the car. The player across from him, a shark-eyed IT recruiter named Billy, opted for the ship and took a pull from a can of Coors. The shoe was taken by a goateed…

I’ve always loved shows that take you behind the scenes of creative efforts: Project Runway and Classic Albums being two of my favorites. Here’s one about the development of Twitterrific 5. Since a lot of the people reading this aren’t developers, I’m going to keep the jargon to a minimum. You’ll be…

Before his death on Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs made sure that the elevation of Tim Cook, his longtime head of operations and trusted deputy, to chief executive officer of Apple Inc. would be drama-free. "He goes, ‘I never want you to ask what I would have done,"’ Cook recalls in the Dec. 10 issue of…

The People's Web Every day, millions of people rely on independent websites that are mostly created by regular people, weren't designed as mobile apps, connect deeply to culture, and aren't run by the giant tech companies. These are a vision of not just “Link In Bio” is a slow knife We don’t even…

'To get to the highest level, you have to be in the Premier League,' says Ajax's Christian Eriksen. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian Christian Eriksen's mind drifts back to Denmark's friendly against England early last year, when Ajax's prodigiously talented playmaker stole the show. It was…

EVERY FEW MONTHS, Jack Dorsey screens a carefully selected film for his employees at San Francisco–based Square, Inc.—a movie that "speaks to something we need to learn as a company," as he explains it. He's considering Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times as his next cinematic lesson. "Every little move…

Guy’s Big Bite Burger. (Photo via Flickr ) In January of 1968, the beginning of a year when the world caught on fire, Guy Ferry was born in a hospital in Columbus, Ohio. And in that moment, though America would not realize it for years to come, she had welcomed into her heartland perhaps her…

The BBC's Leo Kelion talks to Tony Fadell about the iPod and his latest venture Nest Tony Fadell is one of Silicon Valley's biggest names. He's known as the "father of the iPod" for his work on the first 18 generations of Apple's music player and was also involved in the hardware design of the…

Op-Ed Contributor A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy Omaha SUPPOSE that an investor you admire and trust comes to you with an investment idea. “This is a good one,” he says enthusiastically. “I’m in it, and I think you should be, too.” Would your reply possibly be this? “Well, it all depends on what my…

From Tim Cook’s letter announcing the latest reorganization at Apple last week: Jony Ive will provide leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) across the company in addition to his longtime role as the leader of Industrial Design. Jony has an incredible design aesthetic and has been the…