This is the second post in my ongoing series pondering the Intel Macs of the future. In part one , I considered the professional line. Today I've got something on my mind that's a bit harder to pin do
Polaroid co-founder Edwin Land with an SX-70 and an SX-70 snapshot in his Cambridge, Massachusetts office on November 1st, 1972. Photo: Joyce Dopkeen/Getty Images What makes a gadget great? You might
Today’s Astrobite was contributed by Amandeep Gill , a graduate student in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. If you would like to contribut
After complaining last week about things that weren’t funny , this week brought a turnaround. RIM apparently decided it needed to get funny again or risk its status as the laughing stock of mobile tec
HP’s TouchPad. I spent half an hour in a meeting, using HP’s new TouchPad tablet, before someone realized I wasn’t using an iPad. That says a lot about this product—due to be released Friday—and not j
— Title: Radial Velocity Confirmation of a Binary Detected from Pulse Timings — Authors: Brad N. Barlow, Bart H. Dunlap, J. Christopher Clemens — Institution: University of North Carolina To find a binary There are a number of methods to detect a binary system and calculate its orbital parameters.…
Title: A Deep Insight into the Mg-Al-Si nucleosynthesis in massive AGB and SAGB stars Authors: P. Ventura, R. Carini, F. D’Antona First Author’s Institution: INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Ita
We’re now in the calm, cozy eye of the iCloud storm. The anticipation and speculation period was followed by the day of the announcement and the Getting of the Facts, which was followed by the analysi
1. Nothing wrecks your living room decor quite like a giant, rented hospital bed. The one my Dad laid in for a couple months in the fall of 1974 was an alarmingly stiff and sturdy affair, the frame of
I get to be a guest again tomorrow on my favorite podcast , to talk with Grubes and DanBenj about Timothy Dalton’s Bond and Final Cut Pro X. So I’ve taken the time to prepare some of my thoughts on wh
[ Editors’ Note: Each week the Macalope skewers the worst of the week’s coverage of Apple and other technology companies. In addition to being a mythical beast, the Macalope is not an employee of Macw
In part one of our epic history of video game sims, we dug deep into the social, political, and personal. But sims have always excelled at something else: putting people behind the controls of multimi
In the process of completing his first game, Raid on Bungeling Bay , Will Wright developed a level editor that he found more entertaining than the game itself. Digging deeper into theories of urban pl
Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 818-393-9011 agle@jpl.nasa.gov June 23, 2011 RELEASE : 11-199 NASA Missio
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“ Copland 2010 ” refers to a series of articles, written in 2005, and a recent episode of Hypercritical , in which John Siracusa argues that at some point down the line Objective-C and the Cocoa APIs are going to have to be replaced with more modern technologies. Failing to address this sooner…
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