I got up on Election Day and burst into tears — not a genteel twin trickle but a great heaving burst, zero to firehose. Tears spattered the inside of my glasses, dripped from my lips, and left mascara

In the wake of a forthcoming Donald Trump presidency, all-Republican Congress, and the likely nomination of a strongly-conservative judge in the vein of Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court, it’s worth

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. The 13-inch MacBook Pro (top) and a 12-inch MacBook on a table in Ireland. When Apple provided me with a 13-inch MacBook Pro the day before I

There’s a lot of unease out there among Mac users. First, there was the lack of 2016 updates to any Mac model that wasn’t the littlest MacBook. The Mac Pro and Mac mini have languished for several yea

You can't fault longtime die-hard Mac users for being a little frustrated with Apple. In the space of just a decade, they've watched their favorite platform go from being the center of the company's a

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Last week, Apple launched its latest MacBook Pro laptop

Here’s a basic reality: criticizing and second-guessing Apple is a hobby for many of us, and a profession for more than is probably healthy for the Apple ecosystem. That is a basic reality that isn’t going to change any time soon. I long ago got used the the idea that no matter what Apple said or…

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Since nobody’s getting the new Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pros until mid November, and I was fortunate enough to spend some hands-on time with

Much ink has been spilt over the last year on the subject of the MacBook Pro. In short, Apple hasn’t given its professional laptop lineup a real overhaul in some time. Only the smaller 13” model ever

Talking 2016 Macbook Pros with Apple SVP Craig Federighi! Video Gear I use: http://kit.com/MKBHD/video-gear#recommendation17959 Intro Track: Ongoing Thing by 20syl, Oddisee ~ http://twitter.com/MKBHD

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Hello from the South Bay, where I just attended perhaps the last Apple media event in the Town Hall conference center at Infinite Loop. Here a

4 min read · Oct 24, 2016 -- As soon as the 7 Plus was announced with its dual lenses and depth effect (Portrait Mode), I knew I was going to have to upgrade from my normal-sized iPhone to the big guy

Posted on October 12, 2016 Posted by John Scalzi Original photo by Neverbutterfly, used under Creative Commons license. Click on picture to be taken to the original. Today is the beginning of early vo

Posted on October 11, 2016 Posted by John Scalzi Original photo by Gage Skidmore, used under Creative Commons license ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ). Click on photo to see original. At this point there is no doubt

Ikea is a behemoth. The home furnishing company uses 1 percent of the planet’s lumber, it says , and the 530 million cubic feet of wood used to make Ikea furniture each year pulls with its own kind of

Diary of an AssCan: A Mark Watney Short Story Please note: This story includes language that some might find offensive. November 13th Holy crap. I mean seriously. Holy crap. Holy. Crap. I can’t… I can

By Chiara V. Cabiglio and Narrissa Spies As PhD student Narrissa Spies glanced down at her phone to check her email, a wave of relief washed over her. In her inbox was an award notification from the H

As we wait with bated breath for the announcement of new Macs next Thursday, it’s worth thinking about the future of Apple’s PC line. I don’t mean its future in the grand scale of things—I’ve already

The 2016 Race How One 19-Year-Old Illinois Man Is Distorting National Polling Averages There is a 19-year-old black man in Illinois who has no idea of the role he is playing in this election. He is su

Credit... Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Opinion Hillary Clinton for President Our endorsement is rooted in respect for her intellect, experience and courage. Credit... Chang W. Lee/The New York Time

The Third Transportation Revolution Lyft’s Vision for the Next Ten Years and Beyond Introduction: A Country Built for Cars I remember when I first fell in love with cars. It started small with Hot Wheels when I was three and Micromachines when I was six. Everything about them was fast and exciting —…

Enlarge / Asking Siri the important questions. Andrew Cunningham When Mac OS X (as it was then called) first moved to a yearly release cycle in 2011, Apple had trouble defining its scope for each rele

8 min read · Sep 18, 2016 -- (What follows is satire written in the voice of a character. The views of that character are not shared by the author. This note provided in case that’s not completely fli

Credit: Chris Gash “If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong.” —Richard Feynman Four years ago in these pages, writer Shawn Otto warned our readers of the danger of a growing antiscience current in

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Apple’s iPhone development cycle has been a two-step for a while now: The company changes the outside design one year, and then keeps it stead

Let’s get something out of the way upfront: iOS 10 is a big release. It’s not big in an iOS 7 way, with a full-system redesign, nor does it introduce quite so many new APIs and features for developers

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. Let me start with an admission: I’ve never really liked Apple headphones. I didn’t like the original iPod earbuds, and while the next-generati

On July 30, 2014, Siri had a brain transplant. Three years earlier, Apple had been the first major tech company to integrate a smart assistant into its operating system. Siri was the company’s adaptat

Title: A Search for Stellar-Mass Black Holes via Astrometric Microlensing Author: J. R. Lu, E. Sinukoff, E. O. Ofek, A. Udalski, S. Kozlowski First Author’s Institution: Institute for Astronomy, Unive

I always resisted joining a music-subscription service. My former Macworld colleague Chris Breen was always a fierce proponent of them , first Rhapsody and then Spotify . (Now that Chris works at Appl