Published in The Tesla Collection · 5 min read · Feb 22, 2013 -- Sure, it’s an obvious comparison, one that’s been made many times in the past year or two. But it’s a comparison that’s worth pondering

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Sometimes, when you dig into the Earth, past its surface and into the crustal layers, omens appear. In 1676, Oxford professor Robert Plot was putting the final touches on his masterwork, The Natural History of Oxfordshire , when he received a strange gift from a friend. The gift was a fossil, a…

The Google Glass feature no one is talking about By Mark Hurst • Feb 28, 2013 Google Glass might change your life, but not in the way you think. There's something else Google Glass makes possible that

March 8, 2013 at 4:09 PM by The xMac has been back in the news lately—the idea, if not necessarily the name. Whether it’s called a “ Mac minitower " or a “ Mac Pro mini ,” we long-suffering Mac Pro fa

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Anyone wanting to see the whole “history is written by the victors” thing in process should read Tim Wu and John Gruber battle it out over exactly why Apple has kicked the crap out of everyone else si

March 4, 2013 at 1:15 PM by I must confess, I was neither surprised nor disturbed by last month’s announcement that the Opera web browser was switching to the WebKit rendering engine. But perhaps I’m

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Tim Wu, writing for The New Yorker “News Desk”, has done us all a grand favor by penning a sort of grand unified theory on how the “open beats closed” axiom can be true in the face of Apple’s decade-l

Stanley Kubrick was missing. The office he was using at MGM’s West 55th Street world headquarters in New York to supervise the national release of 2001: A Space Odyssey was empty, and nobody knew wher

Children Toil in India’s Mines, Despite Legal Ban A young coal miner studied English during a break in Khliehriat, India. The few nearby schools teach in local dialects. Credit... Kuni Takahashi for T

Rat-Size Ancestor Said to Link Man and Beast Humankind’s common ancestor with other mammals may have been a roughly rat-size animal that weighed no more than a half a pound, had a long furry tail and

In January of 2008 some friends and I launched PackRat, an early social game on Facebook. Eight months later, in August, we gave PackRat a cash-backed virtual currency. By December we were turning ove

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At the end of January, CNet News.com ran this story about the Mac version of Opera possibly being cancelled . The reason, ostensibly, is because Opera isn’t happy that Apple is now producing its own w

The year was 2004. I had just graduated college and my old Gateway mini tower PC was on its last legs. I was about to move out to California to begin my life. My parents asked what I wanted as a prese

When Marissa Mayer took over as Yahoo's new CEO, she was instantly beset with widespread calls to save Flickr . Traffic was steadily declining year over year. The mobile app was an atrocity living in

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2 min read · Jan 31, 2013 -- In early 2007—during “Obvious 1.0”—I was thinking up a lot of product ideas. And, of course, naming was often the hardest part (at least of the conceptualizing). I’m obses

COLUMN 16/01/2013 David Hepworth's regular column, in the January / February 2013 issue of InPublishing magazine. Should magazines have a bit more steak and a bit less sizzle? In November last year, J

Like any craftsman, I care deeply about my tools, because without them, I can’t do my job. But unlike a carpenter or plumber, my tools change constantly, putting me in the unenviable position of havin

Earlier in “Is Siri really Apple’s future?” I outlined Siri’s strategic promise as a transition from procedural search to task completion and transactions. This time, I’ll explore that future in the context of two emerging trends: Internet of Things is about objects as simple as RFID chips slapped…

The world got its first inkling of the quick wit that would make Apple’s Siri an icon during a packed press conference held before an auditorium of tech elite. "Who are you?" an Apple executive asked

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It’s the funny season in technology land. The holidays are over, the major technology trade shows are soon to pass, and thousands of tech writers have nothing to report. So we get stories like the Wal

I blame the floppy disk. For years, it served as the icon for “save,” clearly illustrating to the user that your data would be written to that flat square thing with the hole in it—a digital represent

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As far back as I can remember , I was told I would grow up to be an artist. By age six, my obsessively detailed renderings of Mechagodzilla , et al. were already drawing attention from adults. By the

David James, SMPSP / Everett When the House of Representatives finally, dramatically votes to approve the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery, Washington erupts in celebration. Membe