February 16, 2016 A Message to Our Customers The United States government has demanded that Apple take an unprecedented step which threatens the security of our customers. We oppose this order, which

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Sarah Horrigan/Flickr Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column " Ask Leah " ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years. During the day, Leah is

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“ZOMG what a tasty burger” Can Microsoft and Twitter save the dying Urdu nastaliq script from the hegemony of the Western alphabet and an overbearing Arab cousin? 11 min read · Oct 8, 2013 -- A few ye

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This year we give thanks for a concept that has been particularly useful in recent times: the error bar . (We’ve previously given thanks for the Standard Model Lagrangian , Hubble’s Law , the Spin-Sta

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Illustration by Randall Munroe There once was a doctor with cool white hair. He was well known because he came up with some important ideas. He didn’t grow the cool hair until after he was done figuri

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From 2009 to 2013, every book I read, I read on a screen. And then I stopped. You could call my four years of devout screen‑reading an experiment. I felt a duty – not to anyone or anything specifically, but more vaguely to the idea of ‘books’. I wanted to understand how their boundaries were…

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