It has been widely rumored that Siri will be supporting 3rd party apps. Right now most heavy users of Siri have become accustomed to the multitude of apologies and I-don’t-knows that accompany out-the
As some have already noted, the damage done to Midtown Manhattan in The Avengers could easily top $160 billion, all told (here’s the original source of that estimate ). That’s a lot of money. By compa
Home iOS iOS 6 Features and functionality from Android, BlackBerry, webOS, Windows Phone and more, still ripe for iOS 6 inspiration What will Apple bring to iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 6 ? W
A reader writes: Why do nuclear power stations (and other power stations, for that matter) have cooling towers in that weird half-hourglass shape? I presume the guys who built them knew what they were
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People always ask me how they can make great coffee. I’ve never had a good universal answer. The real answer is to get an expensive grinder 1 and an inexpensive AeroPress , then brew freshly roasted b
If you’re one of the people who likes to skim reviews and are not interested in scrupulous breakdown: I’ll save you the time and just say I love this thing. The Das has had its drawbacks with calibrating myself to blank keys and its behemoth size - but I don’t regret it one bit.
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M y younger brother Dan gradually put on weight over a decade, reaching 230 pounds two years ago, at the age of 50. Given his 5-foot-6 frame, that put him 45 pounds above the U.S. National Institutes
There’s been lots of buzz on the topic of whether or not you should learn to code. As an engineer, I don’t have unbiased thoughts on the matter. I tweeted Jeff Atwood’s piece because, well, I agree that it’s pretty silly to think that the world is going to be a better place if the Mayor of New York…
Apple Apple has introduced significant improvements to the iPhone's camera capabilities in nearly every iteration of the device. And while rumors about the next-generation iPhone have largely concerne
I believe that many Apple observers have been too invested in picking off the low hanging fruit of obviously out-of-touch commentators, columnists, and analysts. Apple is winning. It’s fun to pick on the idiots, and we do tune in for the affirmation that engenders, but that’s not insight. It’s a tag…
I perform all my own stunts. Some people get sweaty palms when they look down from tall buildings, but for me it’s when it’s time to upgrade WordPress or migrate to a new server. As nervous as I may g
Let’s get a couple of things straight right off the bat. First, it’s absurd to take the opinion of an obvious Apple partisan like me about Windows 8. I’ve been using the Mac for more than 20 years, so
Holy Crap, I’m Programming on My iPad: A Web Developer’s look at Diet Coda No seriously, I was 1 . Honest to God, I did real programming and fixed a couple of real bugs for an imminent new feature/product on Vimeo using Panic’s Diet Coda . I even did it all using just the touch-screen keyboard…
From left, Nancy, Van, and Michael Wolff in 1958. On the way to visit my mother one recent rainy afternoon, I stopped in, after quite some constant prodding, to see my insurance salesman. He was press
On a bright May afternoon in 2007, a German artist and printmaker named Hans-Jürgen Kuhl took a seat at an outdoor café directly opposite the colossal facade of the Cologne Cathedral. He ordered an es
Read part one of The Telegraph's Jonathan Ive interview. "Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing. We don't really talk about design, we talk about developing ideas and making products," says Jonathan Ive, the London-born head of design for…
Read part two of The Telegraph's Jonathan Ive interview. Just one person looks twice at Jonathan Ive as we walk through the Apple store in London's Covent Garden and that's a member of staff. The cust
For the sake of argument let’s take it as a given that the next iPhone will sport an 1136 × 640 display, with the same 326 pixels-per-inch resolution as the iPhone 4 and 4S, the same width, but an ex
Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet o
Posted by Roger Cicala April 25, 2012 It’s been a while since I wrote a history article and two or three people seemed to like them. Since I’m one of those two or three people, and it’s my blog, I fig
VARANASI, India — I needed to do a double and then a triple take to believe my own eyes. Last month, on the last afternoon of a seven-day boat journey down the Ganges River, from Allahabad to Varanasi
European Pressphoto Agency A man praying in the Ganges River in May 2004. KOLKATA, India — India is embarking on an expensive last-ditch attempt to restore the heavily polluted Ganges River basin, hom
Brain injuries can sometimes reveal extraordinary talents in people. Now, savant syndrome is helping to create whole new fields of scientific discovery. Wikimedia Commons For a long time, it was a mys
I'm a little crazy about user interface design. And while I am no professional, new ideas for how software could or should work can keep me up late into the night, sketching in my Moleskine. About a week ago a really simple idea hit me as I was falling asleep: the App Switcher in iOS should be…
A reader writes: Sometimes when I plug in my headphones it seems as if I'm not receiving any vocals. Its still stereo, but I find that the headphone jack isn't completely in. What's going on here? And
At 3:08 p.m. EDT on July 20, 1969, out of contact with Earth over the far side of the moon, the computer that guided the Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) Eagle (image at top of post) opened valves in its d
Looking for ways to support my writing? Check out the Alora's Tear series. Marco Arment in an interview for Wired’s Gadget Lab : “Pagination is obviously an artificially bolted-on construct on the iPad and iPhone, especially when the source content is unpaginated web articles,” Arment says.“The most…
Margie Profet generated solutions to seemingly intractable puzzles of biology. Then she disappeared. Margie Profet was always a study in sharp contradictions. A maverick thinker remembered for her innocent demeanor, she was a woman who paired running shorts with heavy sweaters year-round, and had a…
35 References 67 Citing Articles Letters 19 Comments Introduction Interactive Timeline Surgery 1812-2012. Surgery is a profession defined by its authority to cure by means of bodily invasion. The brutality and risks of opening a living person's body have long been apparent, the benefits only slowly…
(This is the first of a series of posts related to next week’s tenth anniversary of A New Kind of Science. The second covers what’s happened since it was published, and the third its future.) On May 1
Most of the hard core C++ programmers I know hate user interface programming. This surprises me, because I find UI programming to be quintessentially easy, straightforward, and fun. It’s easy because
Emphasis shortcuts for selected text Preferably Command-B and Command-I. Selection should remain (expanded to include inserted emphasis characters) so that I can add multiple emphasis if I want. Typin
When I was a kid, I had a morning routine with my family. Over breakfast, we’d divvy up the newspaper. I’d go straight for the Business section, and from there to the back pages with yesterday’s stock prices. Scanning down the lines of tiny text, I’d look for SUN, ORCL, MSFT, AAPL, SGI. Then back to…
Theorists claim they can prove that wavefunctions are real states. Theoretical physicists propose that wavefunctions are not just statistical tools. Credit: Alamy The philosophical status of the wavef
It’s that time of the year again… Against my better judgment, I have opted, once again, to upgrade my current version of the Adobe Creative Suite (5.5) to the new version (6.0). I am not quite ready t
An amazing rant-comment by “wast334” on The Verge’s post about Instapaper 4.2, which I hope he won’t mind me posting in its entirety: While I don’t fully fault you for indulging in this kind of app, d
I am running two Marathons this year. The first is a carefree jaunt across the Golden Gate Bridge and along the streets of San Francisco. The second is to save a child’s life.
For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Thomas Brand I work at Children’s Hospital Boston. I spend the majority of my…
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