The Big Picture A few days into testing the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, I accidentally left my personal iPhone 5S on a desk next to the iPhone 6 Plus. While my back was turned, the Plus tried to eat my 5
The live stream aside, this week’s Apple event was great. Now, I know these press events aren’t technically meant to be entertainment — they are mostly meant to be informational — but, Apple has alway
So Long, Macworld 5 min read · Sep 10, 2014 -- Today, Macworld magazine shuttered their print version and laid off most of the staff. They had a round of layoffs awhile back, but this more devastating
Apple TV the beloved stepchild of the Apple product line-up has continuously been dubbed a hobby since its introduction. The label gives Apple optionality. The label allows Apple to say, “Well, we’re
As the internet is ablaze with rumors/predictions/leaks about what tomorrow’s Apple event might hold for huge industries like payments, healthcare, and identity management, I figured I’d focus on a more niche perspective. What might an Apple wearable hold for runners? I ask this question for mostly…
The iPhones Here’s what I expect. Two new iPhones, one 4.7 inches, the other 5.5. Same internal specs on both — same A8 SoC, same cameras, same guts. The only difference will be the screen (and the so
Humans are astounding creatures, our unique and highly complex traits encoded by our genome – a vast sequence of DNA ‘letters’ (called nucleotides) directing the building and maintenance of the body and brain. Yet science has served up the confounding paradox that the bulk of our genome appears to…
When the iPhone 4S was released in 2011, the immediate reactions from the media and tech community were even more tepid, unreasonably disappointed, and petulant than usual. We got a much faster and du
After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? 17 min read · Nov 20, 2013 -- A few years ago, I start
Update : Hours after this post went up, and Jeff Atwood renamed his fork of Markdown to “Common Markdown” . All the criticism below is still 100% valid. They’re making a project that suits their own n
Published in Monday Note · 6 min read · Aug 31, 2014 -- On September 9th, Apple will announce products likely to be seen as a new milestone in Tim Cook’s tenure as Apple’s CEO. You Break It You Own It
Published in The Message · 7 min read · Aug 18, 2014 -- We’re making a book. The margins are important. Do you know how important? CRAIG MOD I saw a film recently on an airplane that made me cry. The
Next post Previous post The consensus is that Apple’s going to announce two new, larger iPhones: one at 4.7″ and the other at 5.5″. The iPhone 5s, with its puny 4″ screen, will drop in price and get o
About four thousand years ago, somewhere in the Middle East — we don’t know where or when, exactly — a scribe drew a picture of an ox head. The picture was rather simple: just a face with two horns on top. It was used as part of an abjad , a set of characters that represent the consonants in a…
I'm working from my parents' home this week in the suburbs of Kansas City. The space is familiar, even though I haven't lived here for a decade. I find a bowl of grapes for a snack in the fridge. I ta
It’s late in the afternoon on a lovely and calm April 8th a Sunday in 2012. The sun was shining, the sky was blue, and there were four people in my car — I was driving. I remember exactly where I was.
Datapoints Two Countries, Two Vastly Different Phone Bills Credit... Minh Uong/The New York Times If your monthly cellphone bill seems high, that may be because American cellphone service is among the
Today at 10am PST, Instagram is lifting the veil on Hyperlapse , one of the company's first apps outside of Instagram itself. Using clever algorithm processing, the app makes it easy to use your phone
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And why simple manners can transform your relationships 9 min read · Aug 13, 2014 -- The Good Boy, 1837 M ost people don’t notice I’m polite, which is sort of the point. I don’t look polite. I am big
Raw Data The Intelligent-Life Lottery Credit... Carl Wiens Almost 20 years ago, in the pages of an obscure publication called Bioastronomy News, two giants in the world of science argued over whether
The Media Equation View of #Ferguson Thrust Michael Brown Shooting to National Attention Capt. Ronald S. Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol on Friday in Ferguson, Mo. Credit... Jeff Roberson
Op-Ed Contributor To Know Suicide BALTIMORE — WHEN the American artist Ralph Barton killed himself in 1931 he left behind a suicide note explaining why , in the midst of a seemingly good and full life
SCROLL DOWN T he message arrives on my “clean machine,” a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package. “Change in plans,” my contact says. “Be in the lobby of the Hotel ______ by 1
One of the more fascinating psychotic conditions in the medical literature is known as Cotard’s syndrome, a rare disorder, usually recoverable, in which the primary symptom is a “delusion of negation.
DreamWorks’ How To Train Your Dragon 2 considerably expands the world introduced in the first film, and that expansion includes a significant new presence: Valka, the long-lost mother of dragon-riding
What sight could be more moving than a mother nursing her baby? What better icon could one find for love, intimacy and boundless giving? There’s a reason why the Madonna and Child became one of the world’s great religious symbols. To see this spirit of maternal generosity carried to its logical…
“You can’t cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump.” - W.C. Fields You’ve no doubt heard by now about the EmDrive , the impossible space engine that runs off of mi
Maybe Amazon really is rattled by the whole Authors United phenomenon organized by Douglas Preston . The writers are encouraging their readers to email Jeff Bezos, the Amazon chief executive, and tell
When I think about tech companies that respect women, I think about Apple. No one else in the industry seems to include women in its messaging like it does. The company doesn’t market its products wit
My article on the financials behind Unread's first year prompted a lot of helpful conversation on the Internet last week. It will take me a long time to digest it all, but here are the TL;DR highlights: Find Your Niche and Own It – Building…
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Literature tells us that our desires know no reason. We read Racine’s Phaedra or Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet , and we see people captured by passion, acting in defiance of all sense or explanation. But science is never satisfied with ineluctable mystery, even in the realm of desire. During the…
A Candid Look at Unread’s First Year To my knowledge, indie developers don’t publish the kind of numbers that you’ll find in this post. My sales records are none of your business , as the saying quite literally goes. The question in your mind will no doubt be why am I writing this at all? It’s a…
When I received the first beta of Marco Arment’s new app, Overcast , back in May, I didn’t think I could use an iPhone-only podcast client with no iPad version and no streaming support as my daily pod
I’ve been listening to podcasts regularly for almost a decade, and there have always been more great podcasts than I’ve had time to listen to. Podcasting doesn’t have a content problem. More great pod
Last month Apple released a preview of their new operating system, OS X Yosemite. Following the visual refresh in iOS 7, Yosemite features a significant visual change. Apple has added the familiar blu
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