The stranger and more complex story of change in my computing life is the decision to move from an iPad Pro and a Macbook to a Chromebook. My computing is complicated and I wear too many hats but what I’m talking about here is my day-to-day main portable computing device. In late 2015, I decided to…
I was sitting in the nearly empty restaurant of the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, getting ready for a showdown with the federal government that I had been trying to avoid for more than seven y
On March 15, Instagram posted a note on its blog that sent the internet into a frenzy: “To improve your experience, your feed will soon be ordered to show the moments we believe you will care about th
Smartwatche mają być w założeniu jeszcze bardziej personalnymi minikomputerami osobistymi niż telefon komórkowy. Czy to działające niezależnie, czy na stałe połączone niewidzialną nicią za pośrednictw
Published on February 25, 2015 in Writer In the summer of 2014, we started dabbling with the Android SDK to get a feeling of what it would mean to develop an Android adaptation of iA Writer. We discov
One keyboard bug three decades in the making A few weeks ago, someone reported this to us at Medium: “I just started an article in Polish. I can type in every letter, except Ś. When I press the key fo
I haven’t been so excited about watches since the last time I wore a watch about 15 years ago was when all the cool kids in school had one. Since then I have found it hard to justify a small obstructi
The basic chemistry of hair dyes has changed little over the last century, but what do we know about the risks of colouring our hair, and why do we do it? Rebecca Guenard finds out. Every two months B
Dark forces So far, we’ve focused on the simplest dark matter models, consisting of one type of object and minimal interactions among individual dark matter particles. However, that’s not how ordinary
People want access to everything, anytime, and there is little to stop them from having it. “Even if you added Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, Sony Crackle and everything else combined, that is still less content available legally than illegally,”
Time reports : Bono, Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr believe so strongly that artists should be compensated for their work that they have embarked on a secret project with Apple to try to make
Twitter’s CFO made some headlines recently by suggesting that Twitter was going to tweak t he reverse chronology of the feed and introduce algorithmic curation: Twitter’s timeline is organized in reve
Be sure to read our latest SSD article: The SSD Relapse for an updated look at the SSD market. The Prelude I spent about three weeks working on my review of Intel’s X25-M SSD . Most of that was resear
KitKat on older devices: A SoC-limited affair Most phones come on two-year contracts, though, so how did the 2012-era lineup of flagship devices do when it came time for KitKat? Poorly—just look at al
Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. It begins: What we wanted to do was spill boi
Enlarge / Another animal with A and B variants? Did you guess gibbons? Flickr user: Tambako My type of gibbon One of the appeals of the Blood Type Diet is that it comes with an origins story that expl
In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers revived a debate I’d had with futurist Ray Kurzweil in 2012 about the jobless future.
He echoed the words of Peter Diamandis, who says that we are moving from a history of scarcity to an era of abundance. Then he…
Examining Poland's game development scene by looking at the country's history. For 5 zloty, a little less than $2, you can climb an observation platform along the banks of the Vistula River. In the di
Are they really as good as people say? Are you really tied down to a constant internet connection? Most importantly of all; is a Chromebook really worth your money? Luke Saunders Apr 25, 2014 · 10 min
Quinn Norton May 20, 2014 · 17 min read Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with i
It starts out simply. One day, you're scrolling through the Naval Criminal Investigative Service database, identifying a perp's body when an alert flashes red on your monitor. " INTRUSION DETECTED ,"
Android fosters a wide and varied app ecosystem, enabling companies both large and small to produce compelling software. The ability to write an app and easily distribute it to most of the world has g
112 interakcji Żadna darmowa poczta elektroniczna od dużych, masowych dostawców nie daje gwarancji całkowitej prywatności. Niektórzy twierdzą, że powinniśmy korzystać z polskich dostawców poczty elekt
Photos by Dan O’Neil Teenagers know a lot more about privacy than we think, so what are they trying to tell us when they post? I know which of my teenage students smokes weed in the park after class on Fridays, and which other students are with him. I know which ones are struggling with making…
Game Info Platform iOS, Android Publisher Square Enix Developer Square Enix Montreal Release Date Apr 17, 2014 I was annoyed when Hitman Go was announced. As a fan of the series, I wanted more of what
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NOTE : Wow! Microsoft is thinking about bringing back the Start Menu and Modern apps on the Desktop . This is perfect timing! Here you’ll see why it’s a good idea and how they should do it. DISCLAMER
CyanogenMod is one of the most popular third-party Android ROMs available, with over 8 million users. It's an operating system that's grown from the modding community into a mainstream alternative to
GOG.com's Guillaume Rambourg giving Jenga advice Digital games distribution site GOG (Good Old Games) has spent the last five years offering classic videogame titles DRM-free to its customers. Earlier
Believe it or not, but Monday marked my first hands-on experience with the Pebble Smartwatch. I’ve striven to avoid the product all of these months, because I figured that Apple would eventually get a
Enlarge / The final release of OS/2, version 4.0. Even colored tabs and wavy logos weren't enough to save it. os2museum.com The long twilight struggle IBM would no longer develop new versions of OS/2,
Klasyk mawiał, że nostalgia to filtr wygładzający krawędzie przeszłości. Zgadzamy się. Wobec idoli lat szczenięcych – od Bogarta po Van Damme'a – jesteśmy (prawie) bezkrytyczni. Tym razem przyglądamy