Apple Park and the Steve Jobs Theater Apple Park’s main building — the ring — is simply massive. Driving past it on the way to yesterday’s event, it was hard not to be awed. I arrived around 8:30 for

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Posted on August 22, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi In the wake of Kai Cole’s piece about Joss Whedon , and some of the reaction to it , I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a man in the public sp

Thanks to last week’s inadvertent release of an unredacted build of HomePod’s version of iOS, we know some things that we didn’t know before. One of those things is that the new edge-to-edge iPhone is

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So, here’s the thing. I love my iPad Mini. It is exceptionally portable, easy to use, and efficient atthe things it does well. I’ve never owned an iPad Pro—I’ve eschewed thenormal size iPad since the

Posted on June 26, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi The first time I personally encountered Harry Potter was not long after the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, came out. I was 30 and m

Posted on June 22, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi First, my initial thoughts, as rendered on Twitter. I know folks who'll likely die if this GOP health plan passes. But I guess the big tax cut I'll get ou

Democrats Seethe After Georgia Loss: ‘Our Brand Is Worse Than Trump’ Jon Ossoff, the Democratic candidate, was joined by his fiancée, Alisha Kramer, as he addressed his supporters after his defeat in

If there’s a defining quality to the iPad Pro, it’s that the device seeks to go beyond the traditional touch interface of iOS to seek out additional ways of getting work done. For people who are comfo

Jonny Sun. Credit... Chris Buck for The New York Times Feature A Whimsical Wordsmith Charts a Course Beyond Twitter Jonny Sun’s online personality — a sentimental alien — has attracted a huge followin

6 min read · Oct 11, 2016 -- Audra Wolowiec, “(h)ear”, 2016 Hello, I’m glad that you care about women’s rights and want to be an ally! This makes you a decent human being. Not to mention on the right

I’ve spent the last week using a new 10.5-inch iPad Pro, and this is, in many ways, the easiest product review I’ve ever written. There are several significant improvements to the hardware, and no tra

There’s something about the screen of the new 10.5” iPad Pro that feels immediately novel but quickly becomes normal, and something that seems obvious at first but reveals itself as a deeper change af

I’m continuing on my journey to write about almost every quarterly edition of Field Notes that I have, and today, I’m reaching a milestone. There were a few exceptions I had to make , but with this po

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Monday was a big day for the iPad. Apple introduced new iPad Pro models, and the unveiling of iOS 11 revealed a major focus on iPad productivi

Note: Read about improvements to this technology in recent blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API. The success of the web as a platform relies on user trust. Many

The Hottest Body Part? For a Sapiosexual, It’s the Brain Aboubacar Okeke-Diagne, a 23-year-old Brooklyn resident who identifies as sapiosexual. Credit... Celeste Sloman for The New York Times Aboubaca

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Today Cultured Code launched the long-anticipated next version of its task management app, Things, for iPhone , iPad , and Mac . Things has been one of the go-to task managers on Apple platforms since

The March for Science , happening tomorrow 22 April in Washington DC and in satellite events around the globe (including here in LA ), is on the one hand an obviously good idea, and at the same time q

When I was asked to speak at the Los Angeles installment of the March for Science, a vision leapt unbidden to my mind: thousands of scientists and science-lovers gathered in Pershing Square, carrying

Critics of the March for Science have a point. But those scientists who will protest and speak up globally for research have the chance to make a greater one. More than 500 separate pro-science demons

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. I spent two decades writing reviews for technology products that featured a mandatory score on a five-point rating scale. The idea of applying

“If we’ve had a pause in upgrades and updates, we’re sorry for that — what happened with the Mac Pro — and we’re going to come out with something great to replace it.” Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller is talking to a small group of reporters in a white stucco building…

There is a simple and surprisingly durable myth about what causes men to rape women. It goes like this: if a man is too horny, from sexual deprivation or from being constitutionally oversexed, he will

Modern Love You May Want to Marry My Husband Credit...Brian Rea Note: Amy Krouse Rosenthal died on March 13, 2017, 10 days after this essay was published. You can read her obituary here. In June, 2018

"The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little longer." This motto of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers during World War II neatly sums up a particularly American way of looking at hard

Posted on February 20, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi On Saturday night Krissy and I went and saw Hamilton in New York. This was a moment greatly anticipated by a large number of my friends who had seen t

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I have a small confession to make. Bad arguments dressed with the tinsel of pseudo-intellectualism are like catnip to me: they drive me crazy, and I’m a total sucker for batting them around. Deep in m

Posted on February 10, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi Hey, Scalzi! It is I, your fake interlocutor! I wish to ask you about your thoughts on Trump and the news this week! Ugh. I mean, okay? I guess? You d

8 Min Read SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Inside the original Macintosh computer, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs inscribed the signatures of his team, revealing his deep concern for even the hidden features o

Next post Previous post Whenever Apple announces downward trending sales figures for the iPad—which is to say, every quarter for the past few years—people go on the internet and try to explain why. Th

Why use one processor when two will do? This week, Bloomberg reported that Apple has developed an ARM-based chip that it will integrate into future Macs to handle some of the low-power responsibilitie

Fourteen years ago, I found myself an unexpected micro-target of a left-liberal protest demonstration. I had visited London to watch the debate and subsequent vote in the House of Commons over the Ira

Posted on January 31, 2017 Posted by John Scalzi It’s been two weeks since I’ve written about Trump here! And what a two weeks it’s been! Herewith, not-especially-well-organized thoughts on a fortnigh