The grinding work behind a single iPhone feature. Apple has made many things over the years, but its process has remained essentially the same: Find something ugly and complicated and make it prettier

With iOS entering the last stage of its single-digit version history, it’s time to wonder if Apple wants to plant new seeds or sit back, maintain, and reap the fruits of the work done so far. Last yea

Since the Apple event last week, I’ve been thinking a lot about 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s and how features alone don’t make a product. In advance of the event, we all read the reports that the new iPh

Apple has long been a company of measured progress, but for two years in a row, they’ve delivered a substantial leap in the abilities and extensibility of iOS. iOS 7 brought a complete top-to-bottom r

Back in the nineties, Microsoft threatened to stop developing Microsoft Office for the Mac. Had this come to pass, there would be no Apple today. Similarly, Apple had to go begging to Adobe to port their popular creative apps to Apple’s new platform. Their refusal to do so held back OS X for a long…

A newspaper delivery vehicle for the Sunday Mail in Brisbane, Australia (Wikimedia Commons) With the help of an extremely 21st century company, the Postal Service is going back—in a small way—to its 1

Enlarge / Mark Watney, astronaut. A man barely alive. Gentlemen, we can grow potatoes. Aidan Monaghan / 20th Century Fox Access to The Martian’s Toronto premiere required Ars Technica to allow 20th Ce

We are the 23-year-olds. We are the ones squirming in our chairs at the office because we still feel awkward in our grown-up clothes. We strut through city streets with eyes cast toward our screens, d

Photo Credit Shannon May If someone had told me 10 years ago that I would one day announce in The New York Times how old I was when I lost my virginity, I would have died of embarrassment. By the time

If we’re honest, the thing that makes many of us become Mac users in the first place is how the hardware looks. But for many, the thing that keeps us Mac users is that over the months and years of own

Next post Previous post Last week, a new iPhone bending video was released by Unbox Therapy. It compares the shell of the current iPhone 6 to that of a new shell that’s said to be from the upcoming iP

When Myke Hurley and Stephen Hackett launched Relay FM , they expected to build a small independent network of weekly tech podcasts. Just a year later, Relay FM features 16 different shows and delivers 1.5 million downloads every month. Building this loyal audience was an overnight success six years…

Cookie Monster. Photograph by Richard Termine/PBS.org. On the surface, there is nothing pernicious about the news that HBO will begin providing financial backing for five seasons of Sesame Street , wh

Given the fact that Alphabet née Google is the second most valuable enterprise in the world, it’s striking to consider Larry Page’s 2014 assessment of the company he co-founded with Sergey Brin: I thi

Many tech companies these days obsess over constantly redesigning and tweaking their logos . In that context, IBM’s 43-year-old logo is veritably the branding equivalent of ancient sacred scripture. I

Ain’t I a Type Nerd Too? Thoughts on feminism & type. 4 min read · Jul 24, 2015 -- For the past two days, I’ve entrenched myself in a Twitter conversation about the lack of women speakers at TypeCon.

Some of our biggest enemies are invisible to us. For the last two centuries, our fight against microbes has saved millions of lives. But, while antibiotics have helped us deal with most bacterial infe

Brent Simmons recently published a piece on the advent of building indie iOS apps for love : The platform is awesome. We love writing iOS apps. It’s fun and massively rewarding in every way except mon

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The Broadwell die, built on Intel's troublesome 14nm process. Intel Intel has confirmed today that it will build a third generation of processors on its 14nm process, and that the switch to 10nm manuf

One of the more interesting features of OS X El Capitan is the new Split View, which lets you run two apps side by side without any distractions (other than the other app, of course). It’s sort of lik

The most common question I get about my Apple Watch is this: “Is it waterproof?” Everyone from followers on Twitter to Laguna Beach lifeguards have noticed that I wear my watch while swimming and want

Lego’s 57-year-old toy empire was built on plastic. But now the giant Danish toy company is investing millions into getting rid of it. By 2030, Lego bricks will no longer be made from ABS, the oil-based plastic in the 60 billion blocks the company makes each year. “You could say that it’s a logical…

Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: Life’s Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable by Paul G. Falkowski Princeton University Press, 205 pp., $24.95 A New Hist

Years ago I read an article by Martin Rees, in which he surveyed the options for what the dark matter of the universe might be. I forget the exact wording, but near the end he said something like “The

Why I Buy “All Those Apps” Ever since my fascination with technology became known by my colleagues, I’m often asked for my opinion regarding all sorts of quibbles and buying decisions. Most of the time, I’ll do it willingly, as I enjoy talking about this stuff anyway. There’s one type of…

The iPad is my primary computer . What Apple announced at WWDC this week completely changes the iPad and, I believe, will mark a turning point for the device. Apple’s iPad announcements – with multita

Next post Previous post Even before I read Federico Viticci’s excellent article on iOS 9’s multitasking 1 features, I was thinking about how Slide Over and Split View will change the way people use th

Jony Ive has been "promoted"; is this one step towards retirement? Subscribe to Stratechery Plus to receive full access to Stratechery and a whole lot more. If you already have a subscription, sign in

The interface flaw in Apple’s latest gadget — and how to fix it. Published in Backchannel · 8 min read · May 18, 2015 -- It’s been almost a month since the first official reviews of the Apple Watch be

Let Physics Be the Dream It Used To Be Or, how to make physics fun 8 min read · May 2, 2015 -- I received a very nice e-mail this week from an esteemed theoretical physicist who was concerned about tw

Seymour Hersh speaking in 2005. Craig F. Walker/The Denver Post via Getty On Sunday, the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh finally released a story that he has been rumored to have been

I t’s been ​ four years since a group of US Navy Seals assassinated Osama bin Laden in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The killing was the high point of Obama’s first t

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http://www.houzztv.com Architect Jeffrey Pelletier has amassed a collection of 250,000 Lego pieces in the basement of his family's 1902 Seattle home. Watch the video to see how he organizes all those