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
John R. Moran: The opposite of design, then, is the failure to develop and employ intent in making creative decisions. This doesn’t sound hard, but, astonishingly, no other leading tech company makes intentional design choices like Apple. Instead, they all commit at least one of what I term the T
The following is an excerpt from Blake J. Harris’s new book, Console Wars . It has been slightly modified for this publication. O n September 23, 1889, just weeks before his thirtieth birthday, an ent
Great Mother’s Day story by Erika Hall: That moment has stayed with me my whole life — that cool, controlled response to a threat, the absolute refusal to play the victim. In both my grandmother’s stand against city hall and my mother’s calm dispatch of a home invader, I witnessed the assertion o
On a stunning cloudless day in the Nevada desert, Lisa Jackson stands with her back to an array of advanced solar cells, peering across a low chain link fence at NV Energy’s Fort Churchill Power Gener
Cento Lodigiani: The 12 basic principles of animation were developed by the “old men” of Walt Disney Studios, amongst them Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, during the 1930s. Of course they weren’t old men at the time, but young men who were at the forefront of exciting discoveries that were contr
In 1993 a psychologist , James Cutting, visited the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to see Renoir’s picture of Parisians at play, “Bal du Moulin de la Galette”, considered one of the greatest works of impressionism. Instead, he found himself magnetically drawn to a painting in the next room: an enchanting,…
“I found, in 1733, a young woman who thought as I did, and who decided to spend several years in the country, cultivating her mind.” So begins the description by Voltaire in his memoirs of a relations
T he headlines aren’t wrong: Nintendo’s had a very bad run of it lately . Wii U sales are down year-on-year, and its last year figures were already way down from its original projections. The fiscal 2
@TheEllenShow Well, that’s it folks: Twitter is dead. It had a good flight. A short flight, but a noisy one. Sadly, it is now headed the way of Flappy Bird . So claims the Atlantic in a 1,800-word “eu
For three years, Apple and Samsung have clashed on a scale almost unprecedented in business history, their legal war costing more than a billion dollars and spanning four continents. Beginning with the super-secret project that created the iPhone and the late Steve Jobs’s fury when Samsung—an Apple…
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E very friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro, 1 you don’t
In October of 2012, I was enrolled in one of my first serious animation classes, with a professor who I rather admired. I admired him so much, in fact, that I caught him outside of class time and aske
Please take a moment to check out this new cooking show. It's only 01:23 long and it is THE BEST. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOCtdw9FG-s
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April 27, 2014 at 8:53 PM by Most of the nonfiction books I read these days fall into two broad categories: books about people I admire and books about the creation of things I admire. Good books abou
Memorable Moments Being as it is Memorial Day, (have you all remembered this while scarfing down the bbq ribs and potato salad?), I will refrain from pissing and whining about my life for one day. Tha
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Ten years ago this month, my secret Web browser team at Apple became the “Safari” team—less than 30 days before we debuted the product on January 7, 2003. To this day, I don’t know who suggested the n
I have no plans to watch that new movie about Steve Jobs. As I have no plans to read Walter Isaacson’s biography of him. It’s not because I think those efforts are somehow not worthy of his memory. It
Opposites attract. That’s how the cliché goes, and people really believe they are attracted to those different from them: 86 percent say they want a partner who “complements them” rather than one who “resembles them.” There’s only one problem with this idea: It’s false. I studied 1 million matches
The most challenging part of last year's iPhone 5s review was piecing together details about Apple's A7 without any internal Apple assistance. I had less than a week to turn the review around and limi
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In the two and a half years since Timothy D. Cook took over as Apple’s chief executive, the company’s annual revenue has grown by about 58 percent, and its profits by about 40 percent. Jim Wilson/The
Today’s smartphones and tablets know a lot about us, but they don’t really know us. If Apple’s going to enter the wearable market, I believe (or at least, I hope) they will find an obvious benefit of
Given the many little flubs in this exclusive interview of Jonathan Ive for Time Magazine (originally published in The Sunday Times Magazine ), I figured an over-the-top headline for this post was war
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Big news coming on inflation, gravitational waves, and the microwave background. http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/03/16/gravitational-waves-in-the-cosmic-microwave-background/
Harry McCracken, “ United’s In-Flight Video Streaming: More Evidence That Apple Won the App Wars ”: Much of the time, I’m an Android user myself, so I’m happy whensomething is available for Google’s o
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