In 1999, Professor Baba Shiv (currently at Stanford) and his co-author Alex Fedorikhin did a simple experiment on 165 grad students.They asked half to memorize a seven-digit number and the other half to memorize a two-digit number. After completing the memorization task, participants were told the…

Portland’s numerous karaoke options include singing with a live band at Tiger Bar. (Suzy Buckley Woodward) Enjoy the view — and stay the night — at the Nines. ( ) The Independent Film Channel (IFC) recently announced the renewal of its cult comedy series “Portlandia” for two more seasons, certain to…

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I’ve had an unusual number of interesting conversations spin out of my previous article documenting that mobile web apps are slow . This has sparked some discussion, both online and IRL. But sadly, th

WWDC, drinking, excess, introspection, changes, challenges: @ConorWinders' must-read personal story. Huge respect. http://t.co/2mqtdyGypf

Developers would love to love iCloud. But many of them find Apple’s syncing platform ineffective, unreliable, or worse. Some developers have even pointed to iCloud sync woes as a significant holdup in releasing new versions of their apps.

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By now, you’ve undoubtedly heard the news that U.S. District Judge Denise Cote has ruled against Apple in the antitrust suit filed against the company by the U.S. Department of Justice and 33 states, saying that Apple conspired with five major publishers to raise the retail prices of ebooks. Apple…

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The ability to do “version control” for data is a big deal. There are various options but one of the most attractive is to reuse existing tools for doing this with code, like git and mercurial . This

iOS 7 is not only the most skeuomorphic and liberating version of Apple's mobile operating system to date, it's also potentially the most fun. (I say potentially because it's not finished yet, and we'

Because I write about technology, people tend to ask me for tech advice. So ever since Google’s heartbreaking announcement that it was closing down Google Reader—and the newsfeed syncing APIs that wen

AP Photo AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Hundreds of jeering protesters helped stop Texas lawmakers from passing one of the toughest abortion measures in the country, shouting down Senate Republicans and forcing them to miss a midnight deadline to pass the bill. Initially, Republicans insisted they had…

This is a sentiment I’ve heard repeatedly over the past week or so, most recently in a quote from Justin Rhoades : It’s like a pendulum swinging from obvious visual affordances to engaging kinetic one

HTTP://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/WAXPANCAKE/8099381313/ On scaling XOXO, why we’re surveying our attendees, and sponsors as patrons. 6 min read · Jun 24, 2013 -- XOXO was perfect. At least for me, it was

Here's one of the best essays I've read on the NSA stories & Snowden, by @TNYJohnCassidy http://t.co/MUVelqEBpq

The iOS 7 preview that Apple showed off at its Worldwide Developers Conference sports a massively overhauled look. You’ve read all about it already—the parallax animation, the flatness, the 3D effects

An article in the Verge titled "Inside Pocket: how a startup beat its rivals to build the 'DVR for everything'" prompted me to think about the notion of scale, revenue, and sustainability over my nearly 20 years of work on the commercial Internet.

Pick-up artists are, sadly, a community . It even has a handy three-letter abbreviation: PUA. It dates back to the 1970s and has been enabled and expanded, like all affinity groups, by the Internet's

Sometimes you can understand why the government keeps secrets –because those secrets could endanger lives or derail military operations, or simply because they might be embarrassing. No one should have been shocked when the Obama administration was outraged at Edward Snowden’s leaks of documents…

DC Manchin Throws Weight At Reconciliation Talks With Vague Press Conference Citing Concerns By | November 1, 2021 2:56 p.m. Dems Eye Historic Shift To Taxing Wealth, Not Just Income It would impose a

There’s this great moment in the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) when the world’s most celebrated sushi chef turns to his son, who is leaving to start his own restaurant, and says: ‘You have n

Reuters USA Today has published an extraordinary interview with three former NSA employees who praise Edward Snowden's leaks, corroborate some of his claims, and warn about unlawful government acts. T

A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital being treated for his wounds, had his apartment…

CHRIS HADFIELD has captured the world's heart, judging by the 14m YouTube views of his free-fall rendition of David Bowie's "Space Oddity", recorded on the International Space Station (ISS). The Canad

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The Visionaries Behind Kanye’s Mask Credit... Nick Knight Malibu, Calif. — From Shangri-la Studio here you can see the Pacific Ocean just over the fence lapping calmly at Zuma Beach. And this compound

Eight month ago Tim Cook did to Apple's management what his predecessor, Steve Jobs famously did their product line years before, and during WWDC 2013 keynote, we saw the first major results of that d

Fantastic @markjaquith post on why the details around PRISM’s implementation matter. https://t.co/dAO0LRNfmQ