This is the Fourier Transform. You can thank it for providing the music you stream every day, squeezing down the images you see on the Internet into tiny little JPG files, and even powering your noise-canceling headphones. Here’s how it works. The equation owes its power to the way that it lets…

macOS: It’s time to take the next step. (with concept photos!) The Apple event yesterday presented a small handful of incremental changes to the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. But besides the iPhone 7, one of the largest outstanding questions remains where is the Mac going, what’s next,…

The internet as we see it today is still a fairly recent phenomenon. In 2016, even the most pedestrian, phone book-looking website aspires to be something more than merely an "entry" within the grand information catalog of the web. It aspires to be an application. A program. An interactive…

Richard Reiner Contributor Richard Reiner is the chief technology officer of True Key by Intel Security . Will 2016 be the year when passwords become obsolete? Or will we just continue to grin and bear it? And what’s the matter with passwords, anyway? Passwords have been around a long time (think…

Back in the Fall of 2012, a few months after I had taken it upon myself to start moving all my work from OS X to iOS, I came across Ole Zorn's Pythonista . A Python interpreter for iPhone and iPad that could natively integrate with iOS system features, Pythonista opened up a new world to me,…

My iPad Pro Home screen. Four years ago, I struggled to move from a Mac to an iPad. Today, I only have to open my MacBook once a week. And I wish I didn't have to. In February 2015, after years of experiments and workarounds, I shared the story of how the iPad Air 2 became my primary computer . The…

Want to control your computer with your voice? OS X El Capitan has a feature for that. If you've always dreamed of shouting spoken commands to your computers like the folks on your favorite science-fiction series, you can get just a wee bit closer with the dictation accessibility features in OS X El…

When you upload a video to YouTube, the site processes each frame individually and passes them through an algorithm to try and find a few of the best to be your video’s thumbnail. You get to pick between the ones it chooses, or you can upload your own. And while many YouTube creators opt for the…