SAN FRANCISCO -- The day before Apple kicked off its annual Worldwide Developer Conference ( WWDC ), the company hosted a special orientation session for the recipients of its WWDC Scholarship Program
When Xi was fourteen, Red Guards warned, “We can execute you a hundred times.” He joined the Communist Party at twenty. Illustration by Tavis Coburn In anticipation of New Year’s Eve, 2014, Xi Jinping
For the past four years, I’ve been running a series called My Must-Have Apps that, once a year, collects all the apps I find indispensable to get work done on my iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Considering cha
Note : This story has not been updated for several years. The WWDC 2015 Keynote was like a great book with a weak ending. I’m one of those it’s-about-the-journey people, though, and in the end our mem
Thing #1: The Apple Watch will never replace your iPhone. This is not a MacBook for your arm. The screen is tiny. It has no keyboard. You can read the news on it. You can read Twitter. These are thing
The culture-collide of old-school record business and new technology was no more evident than in a private room following Apple’s announcement of its new music service on June 8. There, on perpendicul
My grandfather is dying. The cloud is alive. Our future is bizarre I started using Google Photos after it first launched last week. I was immediately impressed for all the reasons that Casey Newton me
On February 10th, 1982, in a room full of designers and engineers drinking champagne and eating cake, Steve Jobs called out the names of Apple's Macintosh team. And one by one, beginning with motherboard engineer Burrell Smith, they signed their names to a large sheet of paper. These 47…
Note : This story has not been updated for several years. When the Apple Watch first arrived, there was a word that I noticed kept popping up: Intuitive . Was the interface intuitive? Could you just s
Here are the top ten things to look for when I pick an option quarterback 10. ARM STRENGTH: Not as important as others but more important then accuracy. Strength and the ability to throw the ball over the top of the defense keeps the defensive structure sound. It keeps the top of the defense as the…
Nearly half a century after he released his first album, Bob Dylan continues to release new albums (including, last year, a compilation of Christmas songs) and tour the country playing concerts. Sean
From day one of this blog I have insisted that I don’t do product reviews: I don’t buy every phone or, in this case, watch on the market, and I happily defer to publications that specialize in exactly
Opinion Poor Little Rich Women Credit... Malika Favre WHEN our family moved from the West Village to the Upper East Side in 2004, seeking proximity to Central Park, my in-laws and a good public school
John Allsopp’s prescient essay is about the tension between the culture of print design and the culture of web design, circa 2000. That tension persists—not just between print and web, but between peo
A few months ago, my good friend, Olivier Lacan , tweeted: Why do CSS author seem to agree that “btn” stands for button while “large” doesn’t need “lrg”?Stop abbreviating because others do it. — Olivi
The horrific Amtrak derailment outside Philadelphia this week set off some predictable uncertainty about what exactly had happened—a reckless motorman? An inadequate track? A missing mechanical device
The Best Travel Mugs to Keep Drinks Hot or Cold Never take a sip of 70-degree anything again. These tumblers keep hot drinks steamy and cold ones icy. Matt Jancer Grimes Wants to Be Less Famous (and R
The digital wristwatch was my introduction to gadgets, and gadget lust. It all started with the Texas Instruments LED digital watch I received one boyhood Christmas morning, way, way back in the late
A week with the new thing Published in The Message · 7 min read · May 6, 2015 -- It is on my wrist. Do I wish it to be? Not really. Did I crave it? No. Well, maybe a little. I am human. And it is new.
In order to get an opinion from a different perspective, I’ve also asked my wife Erin to share some of her thoughts about Apple Watch. This is my review, butyou can also read her review . I’ve had my
Quin Paek for Re/code This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. While there have been many reviews of the Apple Wat
A press handout picture from Apple in the late 1970s. Apple Inc. And now, some breaking news from 1977: There is a new company in California that makes computer kits for individual hobbyists. It's cal
I concluded last year’s assessment of iOS 8 on a positive note: The scope of iOS 8’s changes will truly make sense as developers keep building brand new experiences over the coming months. iOS has beg
H eading into the 1997 NFL draft, quarterback prospect Jim Druckenmiller had scouts drooling. Hall of Fame coach Bill Walsh, who was serving as a consultant to the 49ers at the time, referred to the 6
TAMPA, Fla. — Get off the plane here Friday afternoon, and go to the newsstand to see what the local papers say about what was, according to Bucs general manager Jason Licht, probably the most importa
In our house, there’s a device in almost every room - and that’s without counting the ones that move around with us. They have various different form factors, and those shapes create expectations abou
When we looked at Jameis Winston in the lead up to the 2014 season, we identified several areas of his game that needed improvement. Those included footwork in his drop backs, shortening his base, mai
When You Were Young and Your Heart Was an Open Book Regular readers of this column are well aware of my affinity for the James Bond movies. I’ve been a fan for as long as I can remember. As a kid grow
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If the Buccaneers don’t make Jameis Winston their latest potential franchise quarterback in four days, they’ve managed to concoct an impressive smoke screen. The Tampa Tribune has published extensive
Jameis Winston 2013 This one is a doozy. This might take awhile so get comfortable and buckle up. ***Note – Due to current privacy laws, the accuser’s name has been redacted in each document and image
Only the NFL could take a bit of information we already know and turn it into a three-hour announcement. The league’s annual schedule release day is a farcical litmus test of how desperate we are for
Before its launch, I said that the Apple Watch would be as much a watch as the iPhone is a phone. Recall that when the iPhone was launched it was anchored on three tentpoles, one of which was being a
Have you got any contacts that have extensions in their phone numbers? If you do, you’ll know that adding extension information to your contacts can give your iPhone fits when placing calls. There is,
A t the end of last winter, a gigantic billboard advertising Android, Google’s operating system, appeared over Times Square in New York. In a lower-case sans serif font – corporate code for friendly –
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