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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Anticipation for Apple’s rumored iWatch is getting higher and higher. In fact, I’m in the market for a new watch, and the idea of a connected, multi-sensored, paradigm-smashing new device is tempting.
When you’re an American planning a trip to Africa, everyone tells you it will change your life. I certainly heard it more than once. Of course, I knew what they meant: change in the sense of the eye-opening that comes with travel. Seeing poverty. Being disconnected and out of one’s element. The…
Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Kuni Takahashi/The New York Times/Redux Dina Nath Batra, the retired headmaster whose lawsuit against Penguin India led the company to
In early March of this year Fireproof released the happy news that we've collectively sold 5.5 million copies of our mobile games The Room and The Room 2 since release. At Fireproof we'd always heard a mobile game had to be a casual, free to download, games-as-a-service title you can play for…
Youtube I was going to write about The Big Bang Theory —why, as a nerdy viewer, I sometimes like it and sometimes have a problem with it, why I think there’s a backlash against it. Then some maniac sh
More About Marc Marc Andreessen is a Cofounder and General Partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to pioneer a software category used b
It's hard to overstate just how good Threes really is. Touch Arcade's review deemed it a " perfect mobile game ." Ken Wong, the lead designer of the Escherian insta-classic Monument Valley said Threes
When Oprah Winfrey served on a Chicago jury in 2004, she couldn’t go to the bathroom attached to the jury room unless her fellow jurors sang to drown out the noise. One of the songs they sang was Kumb
Published in Monday Note · 7 min read · May 25, 2014 -- Propelled by Moore’s Law and the Internet, PCs have enjoyed four decades of strong growth, defying many doomsday prophecies along the way. But,
Illustration by Sean Freeman Jonathan Hoefler is standing in his office on the seventh floor of the Cable Building in Noho, sipping a mug of ginger tea and telling stories about an obscure 16th-centur
" All of them told us their stories, and behind each of these stories looms the shadow of that formidable father, a stern, arrogant, and violent man, whose voice alone made Adolf cringe, and who would
1. “Only Apple” has been Tim Cook’s closing mantra for the last few Apple keynotes. Here’s what he said at the end of last week’s WWDC keynote : You’ve seen how our operating systems, devices, and ser
Today is the fifteenth anniversary of my move from Croatia to the United States. I guess it’s time to stop using the above excuse when I mispronounce “haphazard”, forget a state capital, or get confus
The Plucky Squire turns Edge 389 into a fantasy storybook with exclusive fold-out cover By Edge Staff published 7 September 23 News 2D or not 2D: that is the question in All Possible Futures’ Nintendo
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