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
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
Apple's long-awaited streaming music service, Apple Music , will launch on Tuesday. Replacing the official music app on iOS, Apple Music combines your iTunes library and uploads with on-demand streami
On Monday afternoon, I went to Apple’s campus to meet with Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, and Beats Founder, Jimmy Iovine, to talk about Apple Music. Apple
SR’s Fab 5 is a collection of inside scoop, analysis and insight from yours truly, PewterReport.com publisher and Bucs beat writer Scott Reynolds. Here are a few things that caught my attention this week at One Buc Place and around the NFL: FAB 1. GREENBERG HELPED REVOLUTIONIZE BUCS’ CONTRACTS…
I get really really tired of hearing the phrase “mental illness” thrown around as a way to avoid saying other terms like “toxic masculinity,” “white supremacy,” “misogyny” or “racism.” We barely know
Software has been around since the 1940s. Which means that people have been faking their way through meetings about software, and the code that builds it, for generations. Now that software lives in o
Careers Management & Careers That goofy teasing and hyper play actually help young children develop, according to new research Updated June 16, 2015 8:26 pm ET Dads are drawing new attention in the la
The tragedy in Charleston last week will no doubt lead to more discussion of several important and recurring issues in American culture—particularly racism and gun violence—but these dialogues are unl
Add this article to your reading list by clicking this button WE DO not yet know why a gunman entered a church in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday and killed nine people at a prayer meeting, but in a sense it does not matter. One searches…
A Maron-Obama selfie. Marc Maron Friday morning, Marc Maron—whose WTF podcast has featured some of the most raw and riveting interviews with comedians of all time—interviewed President Obama. This was
Home / Featured Content / White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism Dr. Robin DiAngelo explains why
There’s already been a fair amount written on the subject on the future of texting and of messaging-as-an-interface. Jonathan Libov had a pretty comprehensive set of ideas that established how a light
Argentine ants on the move in California. (Photo: Mark Moffett/Adventures Among Ants ) Blasting out from their little corner of the world, they colonized continents, subdued native populations, and co
A new report into U.S. consumers’ attitude to the collection of personal data has highlighted the disconnect between commercial claims that web users are happy to trade privacy in exchange for ‘benefi
Inside the mind of the man behind Google's most important products I f you use any Google product, chances are Google’s SVP Sundar Pichai has had some say in how it was created. Pichai joined Google i
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