The stranger and more complex story of change in my computing life is the decision to move from an iPad Pro and a Macbook to a Chromebook. My computing is complicated and I wear too many hats but what I’m talking about here is my day-to-day main portable computing device. In late 2015, I decided to…
I was sitting in the nearly empty restaurant of the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, getting ready for a showdown with the federal government that I had been trying to avoid for more than seven y
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. On March 15, Instagram posted a note on its blog that sent the internet into a frenzy: “To improve your experience, your feed will soon be ordered
Smartwatche mają być w założeniu jeszcze bardziej personalnymi minikomputerami osobistymi niż telefon komórkowy. Czy to działające niezależnie, czy na stałe połączone niewidzialną nicią za pośrednictw
February 25, 2015 ‹ Previous 4 minute READ Next › In the summer of 2014, we started dabbling with the Android SDK to get a feeling of what it would mean to develop an Android adaptation of iA Writer.
One keyboard bug three decades in the making Published inMedium Engineering · 10 min read· Feb 2, 2015 -- A few weeks ago, someone reported this to us at Medium: “I just started an article in Polish.
I haven’t been so excited about watches since the last time I wore a watch about 15 years ago was when all the cool kids in school had one. Since then I have found it hard to justify a small obstructi
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Science Exploring the monstrous creatures at the edges of the dark matter map What if the most popular hypothesis is wrong? Plenty of fringier theories exist. Matthew Francis – Sep 30, 2014 9:00 am |
People want access to everything, anytime, and there is little to stop them from having it. “Even if you added Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, Sony Crackle and everything else combined, that is still less content available legally than illegally,”
Time reports: Bono, Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr believe so strongly that artists should be compensated for their work that they have embarked on a secret project with Apple to try to make t
Twitter’s CFO made some headlines recently by suggesting that Twitter was going to tweak the reverse chronology of the feed and introduce algorithmic curation: Twitter’s timeline is organized in rever
Be sure to read our latest SSD article: The SSD Relapse for an updated look at the SSD market. The Prelude I spent about three weeks working on my review of Intel’s X25-M SSD. Most of that was researc
Tech The state of Android updates: Who’s fast, who’s slow, and why Naming and shaming (sometimes praising) the update efforts of OEMs and carriers. Ron Amadeo – Aug 20, 2014 8:00 am | 127 Credit: Auri
Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. It begins: What we wanted to do was spill boi
Science What’s behind your blood type? After over a century of study, we're still not entirely sure. Carl Zimmer/Mosaic – Jul 15, 2014 8:00 am | 181 When it comes to blood types, what do we know beyon
Examining Poland's game development scene by looking at the country's history. For 5 zloty, a little less than $2, you can climb an observation platform along the banks of the Vistula River. In the di
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Are they really as good as people say? Are you really tied down to a constant internet connection? Most importantly of all; is a Chromebook really worth your money? 10 min read· Apr 25, 2014 -- Chrome
Published inThe Message · 17 min read· May 20, 2014 -- Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started
It starts out simply. One day, you're scrolling through the Naval Criminal Investigative Service database, identifying a perp's body when an alert flashes red on your monitor. "INTRUSION DETECTED," it
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Głównymi czynnikami są webmaile i interfejsy, aplikacje, domeny, brak powiązania z ekosystemami usług. Są jednak jeszcze dwa inne ważne czynniki pokazujące słabość rodzimych największych dostawców poc
Photos by Dan O’Neil Teenagers know a lot more about privacy than we think, so what are they trying to tell us when they post? I know which of my teenage students smokes weed in the park after class on Fridays, and which other students are with him. I know which ones are struggling with making…
I was annoyed when Hitman Go was announced. As a fan of the series, I wanted more of what I had always gotten from it, except, you know, better. More third-person stealth and contract assassination pu
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NOTE: Wow! Microsoft is thinking about bringing back the Start Menu and Modern apps on the Desktop. This is perfect timing! Here you’ll see why it’s a good idea and how they should do it. DISCLAMER: T
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Believe it or not, but Monday marked my first hands-on experience with the Pebble Smartwatch. I’ve striven to avoid the product all of these months, because I figured that Apple would eventually get a
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