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
Enlarge / What might have been. Lee Hutchinson / NASA / NOAA February 1, 2023: One of the most tragic events in the history of space exploration is the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and all seven
Carville was San Francisco’s streetcar neighborhood, Colleen Hubbard explains, where artists, lady bicyclists, and other bohemians hung out in 1900. Published in The Magazine on Medium · 4 min read ·
Illustration by Jody Hewgill We live in Carl Sagan’s universe–awesomely vast, deeply humbling. It’s a universe that, as Sagan reminded us again and again, isn’t about us. We’re a granular element. Our
“I’m Marketing. It’s a marketing team of one."
http://www.cultofmac.com/269222/steve-jobs-hated-idea-multi-button-mouse-designer-claims/
❤️ Steve Jobs
(Also, Yay! 1-button mice. Better for novices)
The Invention of the AeroPress Priceonomics Source: Stumptown Coffee Among coffee aficionados, the AeroPress is a revelation. A small, $30 plastic device that resembles a plunger makes what many consi
Rich Mogull, writing for TidBITS: For the first time, we have extensive details on iCloud security. For security professionals like myself, this is like waking up and finding a pot of gold sitting on my keyboard. Along with some of the most impressive security I’ve ever seen, Apple has provided a
Once derided as being like a plastic bag with the erotic appeal of a jellyfish, the female condom is being reinvented as the next big thing in safe sex. Emily Anthes investigates. 1. Excitement In 1987, an American pharmaceutical executive called Mary Ann Leeper flew to Copenhagen to get a firsthand…
The most salient sentence in Yukari Kane’s piece for The New Yorker’s Currency blog earlier this month — “ Why Is Apple Being So Nostalgic? ” — is the last, her author credit: Yukari Iwatani Kane is a
RT @higgis: The Wolfram Language. This is the coolest demo of a technology I’ve ever seen. Ever. Of anything. http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2014/02/24/starting-to-demo-the-wolfram-language/ (h/t @@simonianson
There has never been anything like the Saturn V , the launch vehicle that powered the United States past the Soviet Union to a series of manned lunar landings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The ro
FOR MORE #GLOBALPOV VIDEOS, VISIT: http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/globalpov/ It is time for America to reconsider who is dependent on welfare. Poverty is not only the lack of income and wealth but als
In the era of the Kindle, a book costs the same price as a sandwich. Dennis Johnson, an independent publisher, says that “Amazon has successfully fostered the idea that a book is a thing of minimal va
During the 1960s, a dirty, loaded word came into currency: Mafia. It signified one of the most terrifying forces on earth, the Italian-American faction of organized crime, and naturally the men who he
In broad strokes, here is my view of Microsoft’s history. In the beginning, Bill Gates stated the company’s goal: “A computer on every desk and in every home.” That was crazy. The PC revolution was we
RT @jaredsinclair: I wrote about the rationale behind some of the unusual decisions I made when designing Unread: http://blog.jaredsinclair.com/post/75555794917/designing-unread
Photo Marc Andreessen, a co-founder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Credit Keith Bedford/Reuters Editor’s note: Marc Andreessen’s venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has invest
Next post Previous post Generally speaking, I think it’s cheating to use what John Siracusa says as a topic for a blog post. I could get 2–3 posts out of almost any episode of Hypercritical or the Acc
Business When it comes to great magazine writing, what’s in a name? December 12, 2013 Saved Stories hobvias sudoneighm/Flickr I have had it with long-form journalism. By which I mean—don’t get me wron
TWELVE THOUSAND MILES. That’s how far it is from 17-year-old Gabriel Omar Santoro’s home in Argentina to Beijing. It’s a journey he’s made twice in the past year — but neither trip was for pleasure. G
Amidst all the well-deserved accolades celebrating the 30th anniversary of the original Macintosh , what has struck me is how very Apple that product — and the team that made it — was. For one thing,
By on . Our high-resolution temperature images are a composite of many data models—the same models we use to power Forecast . But most of those sources have a much lower resolution than the resulting image. Take NOAA’s Global Forecast System (GFS) . It had a resolution of 0.5 degrees, which is…
By on . Two years ago at this time we were fresh off a successful Kickstarter campaign and hard at work on the first version of Dark Sky. Back then we really didn't know anything about the weather — none of the three of us had any meteorology experience at all — and in fact we didn't really have any…
Jonathan Mahler’s When “Long-Form” Is Bad Form in The New York Times this weekend has generated a lot of discussion. I saw it as a sloppy collection of disparate rants with mixed validity, but one res
Next time you’re at a pro sports game, car race or rock concert, take a look at the cameras the professional photographers are using. Guess what? They’re not taking pictures with their phones. They’re
RT @StevenLevy: Finally, I posted my own reminisce on eyewitnessing birth of Mac, and why 2014 isn't and is like 1984. http://t.co/wurqawfRhttp://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/macintosh-30th-anniversary/
Do you have any general thoughts about the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh? All I can say is, I think the Mac reinvented the personal-computer industry in the eighties, and Microsoft copied it in th
Thirty years ago, Apple introduced the Macintosh, and we all learned why 1984 wasn’t going to be like 1984 . A lot has changed in 30 years, and yet even in as fast-moving a field as technology, Apple
The U.S. Court of Appeals made a significant and troubling decision this week: it shut down a 2010 FCC decree that prevented internet service providers (“ISPs”) from selectively enhancing or restricting traffic to certain destinations (websites, streaming services, etc.) The collective term for thi
In 2013 there were 18.8 times more Windows PCs sold than Macs. This is a reduction in the Windows advantage from about 19.8x in 2012. This decline is mostly due to the more rapid decline in Windows PC
In his 2003 novel Pattern Recognition , William Gibson created a character named Cayce Pollard with an unusual psychosomatic affliction: She was allergic to brands. Even the logos on clothing were eno
The author, at "work" (Pete Souza/The White House) Before Thursday into Friday, my head cold got worse, so on Friday morning I walked down to a bar-cafe-restaurant in my neighborhood. I had been there
Apple attorneys are set to meet on Monday with U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, the latest chapter in a strange and nonsensical legal battle. The case in question involves another of America's biggest
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