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
3 min read · Dec 12, 2014 -- I am late to events about 90 percent of the time. Dinner with friends, appointments, meetings. I hate this about myself. When I was younger and more beholden to their sche
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…
One of the challenges of writing on the Internet – of writing in general, in fact – is the understandable propensity of readers to draw but one conclusion from what you intend to be a nuanced piece. I
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.…
The Perfect-Victim Pitfall At some point between the moment a Missouri grand jury refused to indict a police officer who had shot and killed Michael Brown on a Ferguson street and the moment a New Yor
A year ago I wrote about the modern era of podcasts . In that article, I made a forward-looking statement: With all this growth, what improvements are we seeing in the tools? As of this writing, a hor
On the third floor of Nintendo’s U.S. headquarters, next to the conference rooms named after Mario and Donkey Kong, there’s a door that you can’t open. There’s no boss key or warp pipe here—unless you
It’s been less than two months since the Apple Watch was announced, and it won’t ship for several more months, but Apple is getting developers on the fast track by launching the Watch’s SDK, WatchKit,
Christopher Mims, writing in the WSJ, “ The Web Is Dying; Apps Are Killing It ”: Everything about apps feels like a win for users — they arefaster and easier to use than what came before. But undernea
For some bewildering reason that’s likely a reflection of society’s bankrupt standards for journalism, a lot of people read Business Insider. Whenever one of my products or I am mentioned in it, I get
Porsche: The Hedge Fund that Also Made Cars Priceonomics “When you play the game of thrones you win or you die. There is no middle ground.” Cersei Lannister, The Game of Thrones *** In 2008, Porsche w
The point of the most famous thought-experiment in quantum physics is that the quantum world is different from our familiar one. Imagine, suggested the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, that we seal a cat inside a box. The cat’s fate is linked to the quantum world through a poison that will be…
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E very year, around about this time, thousands of European robins escape the oncoming harsh Scandinavian winter and head south to the warmer Mediterranean coasts. How they find their way unerringly on
Over the weekend I installed OS X Yosemite on my MacBook Air. Its new interface, partially inspired by the dramatic aesthetic shift that its sibling made with iOS 7, will take some getting used to for
Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock When the book is finally closed on the product line known as OS X, last year’s release of OS X 10.9 Mavericks may end up getting short shrift. Sure, it brought tangible ener
To Siri, With Love Credit... Louie Chin Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as I watched my 13-year-old son deep in conversation with Siri. Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple’s “intelligent personal
A couple of years ago, a startup called Stamped created an app and service that let you rate anything and everything. Your local doughnut shop? Rate it and tell your friends. Your favourite beach? Rate it and tell your friends. In fact, rate anything you want! But Stamped never anticipated the…
Earlier today I was reminded of how ridiculous it is when people say there's a difference between the way young technologists and old technologists think. I was told that young technologists don't lik
After some hands-on time with the Apple Watch , I’ve learned a few things. Perhaps the most important of which is that the majority of discussions regarding the Apple Watch by the traditional watch me
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‘Fuck Earth!’ Elon Musk said to me, laughing. ‘Who cares about Earth?’ We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large open-plan office at SpaceX headquarters in Los Angeles. It was a sunny afternoon, a Thursday, one of three designated weekdays Musk spends at SpaceX. Musk was…
Four times this past summer, in a spare room on the top floor of the headquarters of the National Science Foundation (NSF) outside of Washington, D.C., two congressional staffers spent hours poring over material relating to 20 research projects that NSF has funded over the past decade. Each folder…
Photo: Jon Hicks/? Corbis. All Rights Reserved. On September 19, there was a mob scene around a large glass cube at the corner of 57 th Street and Fifth Avenue. Thousands of people stood in a mass, se
Signaling Post-Snowden Era, New iPhone Locks Out N.S.A. Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive, introducing the new iPhones, which feature enhanced data encryption. Credit... Jim Wilson/The New York
When I reviewed iOS 7 last year , I took a different approach and tried to consider Apple’s redesigned OS from the perspective of someone who uses iPhones and iPads for work and personal tasks on a da
Last week I decided to test the most secretive, hotly anticipated smartphones on earth in a place where there was no danger of them being recognized or damaged or both: Disneyland. Both my wife and I
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
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