R ESEARCHERS WORKING with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, according to top-secret documents obtained b
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2014 was a big year for emoji. In the spring, Twitter implemented emoji on their website. In June, the emoji standard was extended to include around 250 new images . With the release of iOS 8 in the f
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Guest-post by John Johnson , professor of Astronomy in the Caltech Department of Astrophysics. His research is on the detection and characterization of exoplanets. This post is a re-post from his blog
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Published in Be Yourself · 6 min read · Feb 15, 2015 -- It all started with my nephew at a family dinner. We were grilling him about a kid his age, someone we vaguely knew. “He’s an OK guy, I guess,”
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This weekend, a man wearing a skull mask posted a video on YouTube outlining his plans to murder me. I know his real name. I documented it and sent it to law enforcement, praying something is finally
Everyone who’s entitled to the good life raise their hands. Photo by Goodshoot/Thinkstock I first encountered the upper middle class when I attended a big magnet high school in Manhattan that attrac
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Microsoft, Apple, and Disappointment January 22, 2015 I've been thinking a lot about Microsoft's HoloLens that was announced yesterday. It looks pretty awesome! Make sure to check out the site, look a
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Neil Cybart, writing at Above Avalon : One thing became abundantly clear after analyzing Apple’s recentearnings report : Jeff Williams is doing a phenomenal job. Assenior vice president of Operations,
So, I bought a PC. Like a lot of long-time Mac users, I expect, I had never purchased a PC. I’ve used a lot of them in the workplace, which is why I use Macs at home. It’s not that they don’t work, it
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Next post Previous post By now you’ve read Marco Arment’s post on Apple’s declining software quality. You’ve probably read the responses by Lukas Mathis , Daniel Jalkut , John Gruber , Casey Liss , an
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Published by Kirk on October 20, 2014 , updated December 30, 2014 The announcement of Apple Pay was met with much press, and a lot of misunderstanding. Without naming names, it’s fair to say that ther
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This is a re-post from December, 2013 Gifts are a funny thing. A year ago, for Christmas 2012, my wife “gave” me an iPad mini. I use quotes because I actually bought it; supply was constrained, and wh
Talking with a friend the other day I learned something I had not previously understood. The people of the NYPD want the support of the community the same way we support soldiers who are or were fight
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WARNING : SPOILERS AHEAD!!! This essay ends with cheating. Specifically, my friend Greg and I, after playing a particular videogame for 11 hours straight, are stuck. We call a fellow gamer to learn what moves we need to make to get to the next level. With the new information in hand, we finally…
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Mapping on iOS Hullo! Design Explosions is a new series by UX Launchpad , a one-day, hands-on, fun design class based in sunny Seattle. Today we’re going to use Google Maps and Apple Maps as a design lesson. If you haven’t already, please check out our brief introductory post before you read on.…
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