Terrific piece by Peter Bright on the notion that Microsoft should abandon Windows Phone in favor of Android: If Android were an open platform in the way that Firefox OS or Ubuntu for smartphones were an open platform, the forking suggestion would make more sense. The AOSP/GMS split wouldn’t exis

On December 19, Maria Baronova met me on the steps of the Nikulinsky courthouse, a squat Soviet-era building lost in a construction zone somewhere in Moscow’s eternal sprawl. Against the once-white bu

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The problem with the old thin client model was the assumption that processing power was scarce. In fact, Moore’s Law and the rise of ARM has made the exact opposite the case – processing is abundant.

This post was written by Rob Siltanen, chairman and chief creative officer at Siltanen & Partners. Apple ’s remarkable rise, coupled with Steve Jobs ’ recent death, has prompted quite a few people to

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On the Sunday afternoon before Thanksgiving, Barack Obama sat in the office cabin of Air Force One wearing a look of heavy-lidded annoyance. The Affordable Care Act, his signature domestic achievement

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In 2010, the people of Russia were asked to design an Olympic mascot , and the people responded—creating 24,000 cartoon bears, tigers, saints, snowflakes, witches, and wolves in just three months, a f

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The ice storm that shut down Atlanta this week was a "fiasco" that was "manmade from start to finish," according to Atlanta Magazine 's Rebecca Burns, writing for Politico . But w e have to note that, in part, the men who made the fiasco were white ones. One of the recurring reasons given for people…

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Anytime anybody in the universe says something negative about Microsoft, Brad Thorne* loses it. He fires up Twitter: “You’re fucking pathetic!... You have your head so far up your ass!... I can’t wait

If you use Netflix, you've probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you. Some of them just seem so specific that it's absurd. Emotional Fight-the-System Documentaries? Period Pi

“Can I help you with something?” said a pleasant English-accented voice. It was 4:46 p.m. on a Saturday and I’d been staring -- face contorted with confusion -- at the buzzer directory of 12 East 14th

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Climate Central’s Surging Seas project highlights land lost to a rising ocean, not land that remains, a change of visual emphasis. Stamen Design Like many designers, Eric Rodenbeck has had a long rela

A federal court dealt a deadly blow to net neutrality on Tuesday by striking down the FCC's open Internet rules and practically inviting broadband providers to offer preferential treatment to companie

Matt Rourke/AP Images A 12th-grader wrote a college admissions essay about wanting to pursue a career in oceanography. Let’s call her Isabella. A few months ago, we edited it in my classroom during lu

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Next week, LG will unveil new televisions running webOS , the ill-fated operating system it acquired in last February . Although LG is expected to retain some form of webOS’ interface , exactly what t

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Once again we see Floridian speed in a pro-style scheme matched against a bruising, power-option team, much like the classic Nebraska and Miami contests in the ‘80s and ‘90s. This is a matchup with a

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Yes, these two iconoclasts have disrupted multiple industries, but TED curator Chris Anderson goes much deeper and argues that what Musk and Jobs really have in common is a rare form of design thinking powered by unfettered conviction. When future historians report human progress during the 21st…

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