"Strong Passwords Can't Save Us"
Mat Honan, responding to the New York Times: Yes, you are quite vulnerable to being hacked, and no matter what The New York Times tells you, passwords aren’t the solution; they are the very problem....
View Article"Pivot All Over the Place"
Following the latest Twitter controversy swirling around Tweetro and TweetLanes, Myke and I sat down to discuss the changing nature of Twitter, App.net, and the implications therein for developers. For...
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2013 Golden Headphones Awards
Speaking of 70Decibels, Myke Hurley has announced the second annual edition of the Golden Headphones Awards. Visit 70Decibels to cast your votes. The results will be recorded in a special episode...
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Dallas' Perot Museum
Alex Dent, writing for The Fox Is Black: How strange that Morphosis, a firm whose name signifies “the manner in which an organism or any of its parts changes form or undergoes development” has finished...
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"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything...
Speaking of aesthetics, the team at But Does It Float have been utterly outdoing themselves lately. From this past weekend's look at High Tauern National Park to their look at Benedict Redgrove's...
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The Daily's Death and Contribution
Peter Kafka, reporting for AllThingsD: The Daily, News Corp.’s attempt to create a newspaper for the iPad era, is shutting down after less than two years. The media giant, which also owns this Web...
View ArticleLandings at San Diego Airport
A thirty second video showing all landings at San Diego International Airport between 10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.
View Article"The Daily's Woes Proves Content, not Platform is King"
Charlie Warzel, reporting for AdWeek: Specifically, The Daily has shown that in an increasingly platform agnostic world, fast, accurate, and easily accessible information takes precedence over flashy,...
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'Pretty Sweet'
Pretty Sweet: This is an epic tale of two gangs, like The Jets and The Sharks. But Girl and Chocolate aren't even gangs. Some of them act tough and some of them act like babies. But they are even more...
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"Digital Dispatch"
Travis Kalanick, Uber CEO: Today is a really big day for Uber. REALLY BIG. One which will keep Uber rolling in the nation’s capital for years to come, with the full support of city officials. Today the...
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Longreads' Best of 2012 Series
Longreads has asked some of the year's most influential writers to select the best long-form pieces of journalism they've come across. As we head into a relatively quiet month of technology news and...
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"It's Time to Drop the Windows Name"
Tom Warren, writing for The Verge: Windows has a lot of paths forward, but it’s clear that spending trends are shifting towards an era where consumers are no longer interested in purchasing devices for...
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268-megapixel Telescope Photographs Deep Space
Massimo Capaccioli: A spectacular new image of the star-forming Carina Nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory and released on the occasion of the inauguration...
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"Gotta Get Your Google In"
On this week's episode of Bionic, Myke and I discussed Gmail 2.0 for iOS and its implications for the broader Google ecosystem. Then, as the news broke regarding Apple bringing a portion of Mac...
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"Grapefruit is Disgusting"
Katy Waldman, writing for Slate: No. Grapefruit is unwieldy, disgusting, and in some cases dangerous to eat. It is indisputably the worst fruit anyone has ever put on a plate. Because sometimes there's...
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"Apple Maps and Apps: Are They Killing Everyone?"
Ken Layne, writing for The Awl: Australian police are warning the people down there to stop using Apple's terrible maps program, because the app is so worthless that people could easily die if they...
View ArticleInternet Text-Ad Company's Email Service Goes Down
Ken Layne: For an hour or two today, Gmail was down. The entire world basically screeched to a halt. The economy crashed. A monkey in a coat wandered around an Ikea, in Toronto. And in offices...
View ArticleDell Urged Microsoft to Avoid Confusing Windows Branding
Tom Warren, reporting for The Verge:Dell executive Jeffrey Clarke has reportedly revealed that he urged Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to avoid using the Windows brand for the company's Windows RT...
View ArticleSelf-Doubt and Impatience
When relying solely upon yourself for success, stability, and happiness, there is a perennial sense of self-doubt and impatience that haunts you. Whether you're writing a short article, submitting a...
View Article"Instagram Testimony Doesn't Add Up"
Nick Bilton, reporting for The New York Times:Mr. Systrom, who previously worked on mergers and acquisitions at Google, was careful about his interactions with Twitter from the start. He asked to meet...
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