Twenty years ago, in the San Francisco neighborhood then called Multimedia Gulch , a state-of-the-art server from Sun Microsystems began to run a program that would one day lead to more than a million
Marketing PepsiCo Launched Two Consumer Ecommerce Sites in 30 Days — Here’s What We Can Learn From It With Americans stuck at home and relying on digital channels to buy staple products, PepsiCo leane
Phelan M. Ebenhack/Associated Press Peyton Manning threw 28 interceptions during his rookie season. Since then, Manning has turning into a Hall of Fame quarterback but also acted as a dismissal about
Enlarge / Putting El Capitan through its paces on a wide range of hardware. Andrew Cunningham Poor OS X can't get no respect. Apple's Mac operating system has been playing second fiddle to the iPhone
Welcome to Football 101, a series intended to help you, the fan, better understand some common NFL and college tactics so when you see a long run or a pick-six, you’ll have a better grasp of how and w
The Bengals ' Margus Hunt and the Saints ' Obum Gwacham are two defensive ends clinging at the margins of the NFL. Neither of them even played football until they went to college. I had never heard of
Many people look at the “s” model of the iPhone as a less significant release than the years Apple does a full design change, but that’s just not the case. This year’s iPhone 6s and 6s Plus is full of
“I heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Life seems harsh. And cruel. Says he feels all alone in threatening world. Doctor says: ‘Treatment is simple. The great clown – Pagliacci –
The other day, Cris Collinsworth, color commentator for NBC Sunday Night Football , was sitting in a cramped room in his basement in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. In a light-blue Polo and slip-on shoes, he g
In a wide-ranging discussion, Bernie Sanders discusses his views on socialism, single payer, open borders, Zionism, and more with Vox Editor-in-chief Ezra Klein. Table of contents below: 0:00 – Social
David Loftesness is now the head of engineering at eero and the co-author of Scaling Teams . There’s an all-too-common cycle in tech these days. Startup avoids management. Founder makes all the decisi
Sometime in the late 1970s, after he’d divorced his college sweetheart, had a kid with another woman, lost four statewide elections, and been evicted from his home on Maple Street in Burlington, Vermo
Jon Premosch For Buzzfeed News Tim Cook is twisted sideways in the deep passenger-side backseat of a black Cadillac Escalade, rolling through Manhattan from the Flatiron district up to the company's f
Over the last few weeks and months there has been increasing alarm that today, September 16, is a critical one for publishers — and by critical, I mean the diagnosis that most publishers will soon be
I’m disgusted by this story, reported by the Dallas Morning News tonight . A 14-year-old high school freshman named Ahmed Mohamed… Do I need to fill in the details? I’m outraged about a story involvin
Thom Holwerda posted a link on OSNews to my comments about Apple effectively having veto power over new web technologies. He didn’t add much commentary, other than: What could possibly go wrong . I’ll
Home iOS After the radical redesign of iOS 7, which gave us a cleaner, more flexible experience, and the functional revolution of iOS 8, which extended and continued that experience between apps and d
Published in Personal Growth · 8 min read · Sep 8, 2015 -- Much has been written about employee motivation and retention. It’s written by folks who actively use words like motivation and retention and
No argument here: Jony Ive has produced some of the best industrial design in the history of consumer products. He’s done it by cutting out all the extraneous parts. By eliminating edges, by smoothing
1. One of my earliest memories is of a burned-down Wendy's. My dad was a regional manager and had to take me because, through some confluence of parental circumstances, he ended up a.) alone with me w
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“Mankind faces a crossroads,” declared Woody Allen. “One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” The point is
Here's my own list of the interesting stuff announced during this year's WWDC, collected from the keynotes, various Apple docs, blog posts and tweets. If you're planning to watch the videos, I really
When the 2011 earthquake and tsunami struck Tohoku, Japan, Chris Goldfinger was two hundred miles away, in the city of Kashiwa, at an international meeting on seismology. As the shaking started, every
We love to hate meetings. And with good reason — they clog up our days, making it hard to get work done in the gaps , and so many feel like a waste of time. There’s plenty of advice out there on how t
A couple weeks ago, I was debating what I was going to talk about in this sermon. I told Pastor Kelly Ryan I had great reservations talking about the one topic that I think about every single day. Then, a terrorist massacred nine innocent people in…
Over the span of a few years, we interviewed 30 middle-class, suburban drug dealers in Atlanta, Georgia, hoping to gain access to the inner workings of this subculture. Drug dealing has inherent dange
Photo Credit Paul Rogers Personal Health Jane Brody on health and aging. Excessive use of computer games among young people in China appears to be taking an alarming turn and may have particular relev
Sometimes, in order to truly appreciate life with modern day conveniences, we have to be reminded of what life was like before them. As an experiment for the last week, I decided to live without the t
June Arbelo, a second-grade teacher at Central School, comforts a student who wants to go home during the first day of school. Tristan Spinski/GRAIN Leigh Robinson was out for a lunchtime walk one bri
Published in Monday Note · 6 min read · Jul 5, 2015 -- The limitations of algorithmic curation of news and culture has prompted a return to the use of actual humans to select, edit, and explain. Who k
F or the past couple of years the summers, like hurricanes, have had names. Not single names like Katrina or Floyd – but full names like Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown. Like hurricanes, their arrival
George Washington Custis Lee (1832–1913) on horseback with staff reviewing Confederate Reunion Parade in Richmond, Virginia, on June 3, 1907. Courtesy of Library of Congress. Photograph by Edyth Carte
Credit: Getty From the second he burst back onto the airwaves, a few thousand volts’ worth of adrenaline coursing through his voice, it was obvious. Not only has it absolutely killed Zane Lowe, being away from radio these last four months, but Beats 1 is something he’s seriously excited about.…
A t whatever age smart people develop the idea that they are smart , they also tend to develop vulnerability around relinquishing that label. So t he difference between telling a kid “You did a great
I was really hoping that I could switch to Apple Music from Spotify. I really wanted this to work. Not because Spotify is bad, but because change can be fun (and because searching any song with Siri o
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