Tesla Motors ’ lineup of all-electric vehicles — its existing Roadster , almost certainly its impending Model S , and possibly its future Model X — apparently suffer from a severe limitation that can
Apple is good at many things, but so far, it has not excelled at "social" Web services. For example, Ping, the music-focused service it launched in 2010, is seen as one of its rare failures.
But now Apple has a real chance to do something "social" properly, by turning its huge and growing base of…
I wrote a draft of this post a few weeks ago, before Mac OS X Mountain Lion was announced. It was pretty critical of Apple’s aggressive approach to sandboxing, and I’ve kept most of that, but the new
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Today’s Mountain Lion announcement introduces an important new security feature, called Gatekeeper, in addition to the “sandboxing” feature that premiered in Lion. I’d like to talk a little bit about
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I like pasta. I’d like to help people make better pasta. It pains me to think about all the poorly prepared pasta being served and eaten in America. My advice will focus on plain old store-bought drie
What is Apple at heart: a software company, or a hardware company? This is a perennial question. The truth, of course, is that Apple is neither. Apple is an experience company. That they create both h
• Title: In situ formation of SgrA* stars via disk fragmentation: parent cloud properties and thermodynamics • Authors: M. Mapelli, T. Hayfield, L. Mayer, J. Wadsley • First Author’s Institution: INAF-Osservatorio astronomico di Padova, Vicolo dell’Osservatorio The Galactic Center The Center of our…
A Bridge Built to Sway When the Earth Shakes The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. The existing eastern bridge, far left, will be torn down after the new bridge is complete. Credit.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, regarding this week’s news about Windows for ARM : And this is why Apple should be worried. So far I’ve beenconcerned that WOA would offer a cut-down, Fisher Price sort ofWindo
A reader writes: I know that when you look up at a clear sky, the dark things you see floating around inside your eyeballs are called... " floaters ". Someone worked hard on that name, huh. But what a
A reader writes: When I was visiting my mother the other day, I dropped her glass casserole baking dish... thing... (I'm not much of a cook), and it broke, and so of course I said I'd get her a new on
Following yesterday’s release of Tweetbot 2.0 for iPhone and Tweetbot for iPad (our reviews here and here , more coverage here ), I was able to chat with Tapbots’ co-founder Paul Haddad (@tapbot_paul)
Wolfram Alpha Pro 1024 On Wednesday, February 8th, Wolfram Alpha will be adding a new, "Pro" option to its already existing services. Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students), th
Title: Line profiles of cores within clusters: I. The anatomy of a filament Authors: Rowan J. Smith, Rahul Shetty, Amelia M. Stutz, Ralf S. Klessen First Author’s Institution: Centre for Astronomy at the University of Heidelberg, Germany Stars are a fundamental component of the universe, building…
In Praise of Cheap Labor Bad jobs at bad wages are better than no jobs at all. (1,669 words;posted Thursday, March 20; to be composted Thursday, March 27) For many years ahuge Manila garbage dump know
Most Recent Today’s Picks COME IN PEACE What OpenAI Really Wants The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT. But that was just the start. The ultimate goal: Change ev
Last week, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich made a bold claim: “By the end of my second term [2020], we will have the first permanent base on the Moon and it will be American.” On the sur
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Google dominated search and online ads with a lot of great engineering and hard work, then they leveraged their search dominance and more great work to build a strong presence in webmail, maps, and ma
Authors: Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Jonathan C. McKinney Institutions: Princeton, Stanford Time-averaged flow pattern of material around retrograde (left) and prograde (right) black holes (black dots) sp
The iEconomy In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad An explosion last May at a Foxconn factory in Chengdu, China, killed four people and injured 18. It built iPads. Credit... Color China Photo,
Tyson spreads himself so wide for two reasons. One is that there’s so much in the sky to talk about. The other reason is down here on earth. For all the spectacular advances American science has made over the past century—not just in astrophysics but in biology, engineering, and other…
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This is how the designers and engineers at Apple roll: They roll . They take something small, simple, and painstakingly well considered. They ruthlessly cut features to derive the absolute minimum core product they can start with. They polish those features to a shiny intensity. At an anticipated…
The Russian Soyuz program is the longest-running spaceflight program — variations of the spacecraft have flown consistently since 1966. It isn’t perfect; big technologies like spacecraft rarely are. T
So everyone's excited about the frickin' Wii . That's how I find myself saying the name of Nintendo's upcoming game console most of the time: with an expletive as a prefix. Yes, I'm sure we're all slo
By Bob Parks
(Corrects in the second paragraph the tension used to find the sneaker's right balance, and in the fourth paragraph the year the sneaker was patented.)
Late one night in August 1997, 54-year-old inventor Lenn Rockford Hann placed two bottles of Gatorade near Concourse F of Chicago…
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