Home All articles Jun 12, 2013 John McCutchan Twitter Homepage Loreena Lee On this page Introduction While JavaScript employs garbage collection for automatic memory management, it is not a substitute

Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters,

I’ve loved Workflow since the first beta I was sent in August 2014. Workflow is my most-used iOS app of all time , and, in many ways, it is the reason my iPad Pro can be my primary computer . I’ve wri

Joe’s voice takes on a mocking tone. “You gotta quit driving !” he says. “Don’t drive as much.” He rolls his eyes and looks around at his pals, a handful of them perched on moulded plastic lawn chairs

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A from-the-heart non-technical guide. Published in Mission.org · 8 min read · Mar 4, 2017 -- I’m standing at the Australian coast, looking out onto a breathtaking sunset. I pull out my phone and take

21 min read · Nov 6, 2017 -- I’m James Bridle . I’m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don’t want what I’m talking about here anyw

Tens of millions of Winamp users are still out there. Flickr user uzi978 As many of us are busy crafting the perfect playlist for grilling outdoors, most likely such labor is happening on a modern str

Ian Allen “They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby I. “Love Will Make You Do Wrong” In the waning

Credit... Illustration by Pablo Delcan Feature The Great A.I. Awakening How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learni

Kim Scott , co-founder of Candor, Inc. , has built her career around a simple goal: Creating bullshit-free zones where people love their work and working together. She first tried it at her own softwa

Donald Glover wishes people would clap more. Not that they should applaud—he gets enough applause when he performs stand-up or when he gets recognized from Atlanta , the TV show he both writes and sta

Enlarge / Android's home screen over the years, from all sorts of different form factors. It's been more than two years since we originally ran Ron's epic 40,000-word history of the Android operating

Andrew Prokop is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations. He’s worked at Vox since the site’s launch in 2014, and before

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia has been on the air since 2005, and somehow, a show about five terrible idiots who hatch insane schemes and treat each other with unabashed disdain is probably going

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a fewparticular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only. This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known andconsidered

(Getty Images/Ringer illustration) During the Falcons’ 2015 season opener against the Eagles, following one of the first scoring drives they’d ever orchestrate together, Matt Ryan and Kyle Shanahan re

In July of 1996, just two months before Weezer ‘s Pinkerton dropped, frontman Rivers Cuomo issued a precarious warning to the band’s fan club about his mental state during the writing process. “There

Kotlin has a bunch of amazing features, and certain ones tend to grab the headlines — things like extension functions , higher order functions , and null safety among them. And rightfully so — those a

What do you do to top Google's highly regarded first-generation Pixel phone camera ? The same, only more. More HDR+ image processing. More chip power. More artificial intelligence . And more image sta

Welcome to year two of Google Hardware. In 2016, Google jumped into the Android hardware space with its first self-branded device, the Google Pixel . Google's software prowess shined on the Pixel 1, o

Tell me if this sounds familiar: You want to check the time, so you pull out your phone. But as soon as you turn on that screen, time suddenly becomes the least of your concerns. You remember to check

12 min read · Oct 15, 2017 -- At some point in 2006, or possibly late 2005, Noah Glass walked into our office all excited about something. That in itself isn’t news because Noah was always excited abo

Credit: LucasFilm One of the cool things about sci-fi is that it acts like a demo for technology that hasn’t been invented yet. In that way, it’s a bit like a UI design — an idea about how a product w

There’s a past version of me who probably wouldn’t have believed that the devices Google announced at its fall event were actually designed by Google. The old me might have thought: The company that h

For several years now, Disney has been the only Hollywood studio with a digital movie locker worth using , but a host of other industry heavyweights have now jumped on board to launch an expanded vers

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When Sundar Pichai was growing up in Chennai, south-east India, he had to make regular trips to the hospital to pick up his mother’s blood-test results. It took an hour and 20 minutes by bus, and when

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Yesterday, Google announced the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, two phones I’ve been excited about for a while now. They have big screens, a delightfully playful design sens

Unbeknownst to me, at the very moment on Monday morning when I was asking Google CEO Sundar Pichai about the biggest ethical concern for AI today, Google's algorithms were promoting misinformation abo

An unintended effect of Google’s heavy-handed attempt to silence Barry Lynn and his Open Markets program at New America has been to shine a really bright light both on Google’s monopoly power and the

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When I was a child, I could spend all day at Shining Time Station, thefictive train depot with its own eponymous TV show, where Thomas theTank Engine and all his plate-faced locomotive friends worked

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T here were six hours during the night of April 10, 2014, when the entire population of Washington State had no 911 service. People who called for help got a busy signal. One Seattle woman dialed 911

Writing in one of Mussolini’s prisons in the 1930s, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci jotted down the fragments that would become his theory of intellectuals . New classes, like the European bourgeo

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