Meredith Perry shows off a concept prototype of uBeam, a wireless charging platform that uses ultrasound to send electricity to devices through the air. Nick Bilton/The New York Times LOS ANGELES — Wh
One of my favorite features that Jamin Guy and I shipped in Riposte , an App.net client we made for iPhone, was our Screen Brightness Gesture. Part of the Riposte Pro set of upgrade-only features, the Brightness Gesture enabled you to quickly fade your screen’s brightness up or down by dragging with…
Earlier this week, Anil Dash wrote a smart piece unpacking the concept of “public.” He opens with some provocative questions about how we imagine the public, highlighting how new technologies that mak
The year was 1995. With little warning, the web burst into the homes of millions, starting a whole new era in the software industry. Developers flocked from inside and outside the tech industry to bui
Clayton Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation was first offered up to a general managerial audience just shy of 20 years ago, in a 1995 Harvard Business Review article on which Christensen was
And its challenge to the rest of us Published in The Message · 7 min read · Jul 21, 2014 -- It’s almost inevitable: I encounter Minecraft somewhere online—it’s easy to do, because there’s a lot of Min
Share Reddit Email 0 Shares By Yakir Englander via ISLAMiCommentary Yakir Englander Serious illness calls for first aid, then sometimes surgery, followed by healing the source of the disease. If you a
A Candid Look at Unread’s First Year To my knowledge, indie developers don’t publish the kind of numbers that you’ll find in this post. My sales records are none of your business , as the saying quite literally goes. The question in your mind will no doubt be why am I writing this at all? It’s a…
On Saturday, a Twitter account appeared that perfectly predicted the outcome of the final World Cup game, down to who scored the winning goal for Germany. It was a con—and a classic one. (We’ll talk a
Selena Deckelmann, a director of the Python Software Foundation, a data architect at Mozilla and a 20-year veteran of the software industry. You can find her on Twitter at @selenamarie.
Editor’s note: News earlier this month about sexual assault allegations against Urban Airship co-founder Scott…
Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancem
Marc Andreessen is a major architect of our current technologically mediated reality. As the leader of the team that created the Mosaic Web browser in the early '90s and as co-founder of Netscape, And
The Finnish capital has announced plans to transform its existing public transport network into a comprehensive, point-to-point "mobility on demand" system by 2025 – one that, in theory, would be so g
With Swift becoming open-source - and the [Swift Evolution] ( https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution ) document being public, this project was made mostly obsolete. However, it still serves as a his
HEBRON, West Bank—I first saw the boys through the rearview mirror of the car I was riding in, as they approached Shuhada Street. One of them was about the age of my daughter, who became a bat mitzvah
R. Stanley Williams works at HP Labs, and he has for a long time. In the video of him that I am watching, his pony tail flows out over his blue-collared shirt, and onto his lumpy sweater. He wants to
Ira Glass’s ‘This American Life’ Leaves PRI Ira Glass will now be responsible for his show’s marketing and distribution, as well as for finding corporate sponsors. Credit... Fred R. Conrad/The New Yor
Mike Challenger, of Bothell, Washington, applauds a speaker as he stands dressed in Revolutionary-period wear at a tax day tea party rally of about a hundred protesters, April 15, 2011, in Bellevue, W
Jonathan Ive, center, Apple's design chief, on the set of "Good Morning America" last year with Bono, left, of the music group U2. Fred Lee/ABC When Steven P. Jobs led Apple, he created a core princip
A scrapbook Published in The Message · 5 min read · Jun 30, 2014 -- After the Battery Park Seawall Extension was completed, Jordaine Sells found herself without a job. Then a friend told her about a n
Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate, is University professor of finance and economics at Columbia University. I hadn’t realized when I was growing up in Gary, Indiana, an industrial town on the southern
PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview .) ___________ Everyone feels something when they’re in a really good starry place on a really go
It started with an email in broken English. From what I could make out, someone wanted an old Twitter account I no longer use, and they wanted it because an online poll picked a name for an eagle that
Last weekend, prominent web designer Eric Meyer announced the death of his daughter, Rebecca. It was her sixth birthday. https://twitter.com/meyerweb/status/475729134149066752 For those who followed h
Hi, Marc . I grew up using your work. Thanks to one of my parents being employed by a university, I got to use Mosaic to browse the early Web way before most people had even heard of it. My first soft
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Tim Cook’s instruction from Steve Jobs was clear: Don’t let Apple become paralyzed like Disney did in the wake of Walt Disney’s death, endlessly asking what the esteemed founder would do in any given
Article Hero Image Reddit Work on Swift— Apple's surprise new programming language unveiled at WWDC— started development four years ago in conjunction with efforts to keep Objective C relevant. Swift
The rise and fall and rise of Upcoming.org Published in The Message · 9 min read · May 28, 2014 -- You haven’t made it until someone calls you a sellout. My moment was October 5, 2005, the morning aft
We witnessed something amazing yesterday: a WWDC keynote that will be remembered for a long time. And not for the reason you might expect. As developers, it’s easy to focus on the fantastic software t
50 Cent says: Make a vision board. Do it tonight, when you get home. Open your laptop. Create a new folder. Think about the things you want for your future. "I want you to Google pictures and put ever
Last Friday, after 22-year-old Elliot Rodger’s murderous rampage in Isla Vista, California came to an end with his $40,000 BMW crashing into a parked van and a gunshot to the head, Santa Barbara Sheri
Editor’s Note: From time to time we publish special features outside of our normal editorial schedule. This is an open letter from a group of women technologists and leaders, writing together to addre
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