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December 2015
November 2015
Commentary
- Scientists use 'spooky action' to mail electron messages a mile
- Pioneering surgery gives man world's first 'bionic' penis
- Dead again: Another Apple Watch killer
- Give Your Christmas to Someone Who Needs It
- Ben Carson: Egyptian Pyramids Built For Grain Storage, Not By Aliens Or As Tombs
- Wishlist: Apple TV system-wide watchlist
- HTC’s New Ad for the One A9
October 2015
Commentary
September 2015
Quotes
Writing Perl code is a bit like writing Ruby code while on drugs – I start with Ru...
Commentary
- Fix iPhone 6s Bug: Wallet, Health iOS Apps Zoomed In / Crop
- Business Dry at Philly Restaurants During Papal Visit
- Hey, Apple, let us apply a movie's rental movie fee to its purchase price
- 16GB is a Bad User Experience
- Hide
- Hulu unlocks the albatross ↦
- Prosthetic hand restores a man's sense of touch
- The latest ROG laptop comes with a giant water cooler
- Why the ants in this video kept crawling around an iPhone
- How to End a Conversation
- ‘Final Fantasy VII’ for iOS
- The ethics of modern web ad-blocking
August 2015
Commentary
- Headline of the Day: MarketWatch: 'Don’t Expect iPhone 6S to Save Apple'
- YouTube and Android Stay With Google; Nest and Fiber go to Alphabet
- Daring Fireball: Defining 'Terrorism' Down
- It’s Our Duty To Support The Troops And The Second Amendment In Case We Ever Need To Kill Them All
- Goodbye, Android
- The Mullet Watch
July 2015
Posts
TIP: Dropbox --move-to-dropbox=False Jul 4
Stamps.com: Why you annoy me so. Jul 3
Quotes
NASA threw a camera millions of miles at Pluto. 9 years in advance, nailed it, too...
“Have you ever wanted to validate something that doesn’t exist?”...
The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
Willpower is like a muscle. When checking in Every Day becomes an everyday thing, ...
Today, we’re introducing a new iMac, a 4K display, and a remote. An iMac, a 4K dis...
Commentary
- Ice Cave Kayaking
- Vizio IPO Plan Shows How Its TVs Track Whatever You’re Watching
- Asking a Woman On a Date: Should You Call or Text?
- Elevate the Important
- Apple vs. the PC Industry
- Oracle increases the runtime of substring from O(1) to O(n) in a minor point release
- A rough ride for Apple Music
- Space junk collision scare forced ISS crew to evacuate
- The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle
- Fascinating thread on Twitter
- Who's Actually Buying iPods These Days?
- Nox — Sunrise
- New Horizons
- Automated test-taking monitor records your every move
- Interview Questions
- Russia starts a 'safe selfie' campaign to curb fatal photography
- Games with a Zen state of mind
- Stockholm: Sideboards That Combine Wood and Aluminum
- Magic Origins Policy Changes
- Artist
- Gene-modded mosquitoes will fight Dengue Fever in Brazil
- Why the Apple Watch is flopping
- In Love with Gov? Time to Break It Off.
- Safari is the new IE 2: Revenge of the Linkbait
- Ellen Pao out as Reddit CEO, co-founder Steve Huffman takes over
- HTTP Panties
- Chimps have feelings and thoughts. They should also have rights
- Netflix's 'Wet Hot American Summer' trailer: Fret not, this looks great
- MasterCard is testing a new way for you to pay with your face
- The new Bubble Wrap is losing its pop
- Hanging by the Neck
- Double Shot #1520
- The Problem With Putting All the World's Code in GitHub
- We use GitHub as if it were a public utility, but it isn't
- Bingeing makes TV more like books
- Should I use a Swift struct or a class?
- Using Siri
- Kindle Paperwhite review (2015): our favorite e-reader gets even better
- How I learned to love Alexa (and Amazon's Echo)
- Why the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment
- Windows 10 Editions Compared
- Utter Disregard for Git Commit History
- Disconnect
- Swift's Scripting Is Not Magical
- Experiment charges your Tesla with footsteps
- Face-tracking tech knows when you skip church services
- Crazy fast X-ray laser catches chemical reactions in the act
- Researchers have broken the capacity limits of fiber optic networks
- Man Shoots Down Neighbor's Drone, Has To Pay For Damages
- Women, LGBT least safe on Facebook, despite 'real name' policy
- How to AirPlay Beats 1 from iTunes on the Mac
- Lenovo wants you to decide if it should build this retro ThinkPad
- Most Exclusive Website
- Liberation Week
- Samsung PCs will unblock Windows Update 'in a few days'
- Apple Music will play on Sonos speakers by the end of the year
- Your BMW just downloaded a security patch
- In reality the history was never linear to begin with.
- Hooray for Obamacare
- Adobe Security Bulletin
- Copying Coordinates with Long Press in Compass
- Samsung computers quietly disable Windows Update
- This Guy Is Hilarious Im Glad Hes Making A
June 2015
Posts
Interstellar Jun 28
Quotes
It’s not ethical. / Uh, we’re selling crusty junk panties to perverts. / Yeah, but...
Patience is a virtue; bricking your machine is a pain in the a**.
Commentary
- Supreme Court Ruling Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Right Nationwide
- Photography Business Brilliantly Responds To An Anti LGBT Cancellation
- Nantero Exits Stealth: Using Carbon Nanotubes for Non-Volatile Memory with DRAM Performance & Unlimited Endurance
- A Sculptural Table Inspired by Space Exploration
- Sandcastle!
- Vantage Point: The aviation photography of Jon Pece
- Did Sony just do the impossible?
- Apple to Pay Rightsholders for Apple Music Free Trials
- • To Taylor, Love Dave
- IMAX’s absurd attempt to censor Ars
- Apple to replace broken 3TB hard drives in some older iMacs
- The State of iOS — Pixel Envy
- Soft kitty
- Move to iOS
- How to ask a question on the Internet
- The conflict within a nation
- A Partial List of Questions About the Native Apple Watch SDK - Speed of Light by Jason Brennan
- Worst Commercial Ever
May 2015
Quotes
Ask yourself if there’s any chance you’ll change your mind even a little based on ...
Rule number one of swimming with Apple Watch is not talking about swimming with Ap...
Commentary
- What would you do if you woke up one morning and there was no Internet?
- The web is not a storage medium
- Domino's to roll out tweet-a-pizza
- A Photoshoot In Russia. In The Snow. With A 650kg Grizzly Bear
- VR game 'SMS Racing' trivializes texting while driving
- Dear Canon and Nikon, I Have Some Suggestions
- OmniOutliner for Mac 4.2.1
- Programming, Motherfucker - Do you speak it?
- Facebook Instant Articles: A Slippery Slope For Google To Do The Same, Hurting The Web?
- Testing The 12-inch MacBook's Performance with Windows 10
- The Web and HTTP
- On mobile, responsive design is often anything but
- FTC airs support for Tesla's direct-to-consumer sales
- Tools don’t solve the web’s problems, they ARE the problem
- The homescreens of Basecamp (2015) by Jamie of Basecamp
- Apple Watch: The Future Is Now (or, at least, soon)
- Walmart is developing a $50 Amazon Prime-like service
- How to steal an Apple Watch
- Verizon Security Flaw Left Millions Of Home Internet Users Vulnerable To Attack
- Upon This Wrist
- I was an undercover Uber driver
- Whenever…
- Humoristic Infographic Shows How Digital Photography Changed the Way We Take Photos
- Humans v. self-driving cars v. the media
- The King of the Pizza Nerds Is Opening His Own Restaurant
- The first solar bike path is producing more energy than expected
- No way back
- Mario Time Watchface
- What I think of the Apple Watch after using it for one week
- To Teachers: Thank You
- Turn your home into a haunted house with AR game 'Night Terrors'
- Microsoft Shows Off Continuum For Windows 10 Phones
- Microsoft Acquires Pen Technology From N-Trig Ltd
- Holy Shit Watch It In 4k If You Have The
April 2015
Posts
Goodbye iPod. We won’t miss you. Apr 28
Apple Watch: It’s time to eat some chocolate. Apr 28
2 minute review of new Apple products Apr 24
Nest says: No usage. Apr 21
Quotes
Announcing things weeks before you can pre-order them is just dumb. Isn’t that wh...
And the new MacBook is absolutely amazing, revolutionary, and mind-blowing… until ...
Commentary
- Apple Watch weekend: My initial reactions
- Apple’s Antitrust Lord
- Conversation With a Tech Support Scammer
- 28 Apple Watch tips and tricks you should know
- 52 Aces
- Feds Warn Airlines to Look Out for Passengers Hacking Jets | WIRED
- Melting Ice Cream Never Looked As Good It Does In These Nostalgia Inducing Long Exposures
- Jaw Dropping Photos That Celebrate The Natural Beauty Of Breastfeeding Mothers
- US Marshal Appears To Attack Pedestrian Photographer; Knocks Phone From Hands, Smashes It With Foot
- My Camera DOES Take Great Pictures. Thank You For Noticing
- Eat Fruits and Veggies or Your Camera Will Cause Brain Tumors
- Bad software update kills many Wink smart home hubs
- SIVU: A Foldable Table Lamp
- The Hybrid, 3D Printed Bentley EXP 10 Speed 6 Concept Pushes Luxury Forward
- Wald Plug Lamp by Feltmark
- The 'world's smallest' 3D-printed drill is powered by a hearing aid
- T-Mobile found guilty of blocking employees from organizing
- A bookmarklet ends Netflix's annoying horizontal web scrolling
- Google created an 'Ebola-proof' tablet to help fight epidemics
- Suicide hoax lands Facebook user in psychiatric institution
- IKEA's wireless charging collection heads to the US this spring
- More battery outliers, please
- Quit playin' 'Candy Crush' or you'll hurt yourself
- Nevada: Email that's sent in Vegas should stay in Vegas
- Ashley Madison IPO proves Adultery is big business
- OS X Reviewed
- Flagpole
- Colorado proposes bill supporting photographers who record police
- France's anti-drone drone can spot malicious pilots in under a minute
- One Company’s New Minimum Wage: $70,000 a Year
- Apple announces WWDC 2015 details
- Island life: Samsung NX500 Shooting Experience
- DxO Mark Declares the Nikon D7200 the Best APS-C Camera Ever Tested - DIY Photography
- Sony Gave An Octopus At A New Zealand Aquarium A Camera; Trains It To Photograph Tourists
- Fishermen of Ghana
- Backup And Restore Procedures
- MacBook review: Apple reinvents the laptop again
- Digging Downward
- iRobot hasn't given up on developing Roomba's lawn mowing sibling
- Apple MacBook Review: The Laptop of the Future Isn’t Ready for the Present
- Apple Watch: the definitive review
- The ducks are always greener
- Replacing Photoshop With NSString
- Tiny geolocators track birds flying 1,600 miles across the Atlantic
- Exploiting the DRAM rowhammer bug to gain kernel privileges
- Those unintended consequences of usability improvements
- I Followed My Stolen iPhone Across The World, Became A Celebrity In China, And Found A Friend For Life
- Stanford's aluminum battery fully charges in just one minute
- Judge says you can serve divorce papers through Facebook
- Google, Our Patron Saint of the Closed Web
- Fraudster's phoney email tricked prison into releasing him
- Sling TV
- The Future of the Dumbwatch
- My Takeaway Unless Youre Taking Sand Paper To
- Youtube 5krcc Ly3jo
- Im Finding It Really Hard To Imagine A Samsung
March 2015
Posts
Switching from TextMate 2 to Sublime 3 Mar 31
15 What Ifs Mar 11
Commentary
- Tim Cook: Pro-discrimination ‘religious freedom’ laws are dangerous
- Amazon's not-so-subtle influence on IMDb
- The Terminal
- Butterick’s Practical Typography
- Many Senators Don’t Use E-mail. This Shouldn’t Bother You.
- The Escalating Scale of Drunkenness, Explained
- OWC unboxes, tears down the new MacBook Airs
- Quick reactions to the "Spring Forward" Apple event
- The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple’s Secrets
- Your Account Cancellation
- The stink of coins
February 2015
Posts
Ask Me Anything Feb 1
Quotes
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be bo...
Commentary
- Mac Pro tower + GTX 980 + 5K display = ;-)
- Native Support for iPad and Landscape
- GPG And Me
- The Apple Car: Destination unknown
- Snow Removal
- Lenovo Is Breaking HTTPS Security on Its Recent Laptops so They Can Inject Adware
- Motorola boss counters criticism from Apple's Jony Ive
- This Uncanny Valley of Voice Recognition
- Jeb Bush's email transparency experiment goes horribly wrong
- Polyphemus
- Microsoft's New App Strategy: Turning Google Into A Dumb Pipe
- Cold
- Jon Stewart says he’s leaving The Daily Show
- Gay Marriage in Alabama Begins, but Only in Parts
- Manifest — A 5K Periodical by Pictograms
- Woodieful: A Chair, Magazine Holder and Side Table in One
- LGI Sunset
- An Artist’s Retreat Built in a Rooftop Tower
- Textscapes: Words That Come Right Off the Page, Literally
- Friday Five with Nolen Niu
- Power up as you pedal with Ride-a-long
- Apple reveals Photos beta for developers: Connect
- Smart body panels will let you know when someone dents your car
- NASA wants to send an orbiter to Jupiter's moon Europa in a decade
- Facebook will urge every adult to vote in the General Election
- 'Braid' creator sacrifices his fortune to build his next game
- 'Canary Watch' legally reveals when sites get national security requests
- US Navy's firefighting robot finally appears
- Control your Mac by pointing your finger with ControlAir
- Test for HIV in just 15 minutes with this $34 smartphone dongle
- Uber launches in-app panic button in India
- SteelSeries 7H Fnatic Gaming Headset $44
- Schools ban watches from exams to keep cheats off your wrist
- MEEP Android 4.0 Tablet $20
- Awk in 20 Minutes
- UXKit Again
- The FAA lets companies stake a claim to landing spots on the moon
- Categorical
- DARPA's new tech lets robots learn from YouTube videos
- British thieves stole DVDs from a supermarket by mailing them home
- Aziz Ansari's new Netflix stand-up special debuts March 6th
- New Methods in Ruby 2.2
- 'Madden'-simulated Super Bowl match predicted the winner... and exact score
- 'Revenge porn' site operator convicted, faces 20 years in prison
- London has a real problem with thieves targeting keyless cars
- The UK inches closer toward making babies from three people's DNA
- IRL: Klipsch's KG-200 gaming headphones are a rare disappointment
- Selfies may have led to a deadly airplane crash
- GR1 (Black) | GORUCK
- Swift Resistance Explored
- FCC more than quintuples the legal definition of 'broadband'
- Shyp for Android is now shypping
- Valve paid $57 million to users who make and sell content on Steam
- SkyMall's savior might be one of the products that it used to sell
- SPACE Wall Clock by SUSANNA CONTOLI
- The Hub Desk From Fantoni
- Swift Resistance
- Your brain can be conned into believing you committed a crime
- World of Warcraft is getting a selfie camera
- The phone designed to protect your information had a big hole
- The Big Picture: 3D Paris apartment shows what Unreal Engine 4 can do
- Dropbox now reports when non-US governments want your data
- Moment's camera case gives your iPhone a two-stage shutter key
- Researchers can profile Facebook users to a 'T' with just their likes
- Tiffany Shlain wants us all to unplug our gadgets every now and again
- Carnival's floating IMAX theater is the cruise line's version of sunblock
- I Laughed So Hard Easily The Funniest Superbowl
- Youtube Jdkmhkf7baa
January 2015
Posts
Daily stand-up == Daily interruption Jan 8
Commentary
- Super-thin Kevlar layers promise safer, slimmer batteries
- Self-destructing chat app Wickr uses cat pics to hide photos in plain sight
- A drunk intelligence worker crashed that drone near the White House
- Have You Met the ONE?
- Cable giants don't like the FCC's push to redefine 'broadband'
- Photographer Builds An Entire City From Blocks In His Studio
- BBC Photographer Arrested While Operating Drone Mid-Flight; Police Land Drone Themselves
- Riveting Photos Of Retired Subway Cars Being Dropped Into The Ocean
- Album Cover Fee Story Followup - An Open Letter From The Photographer
- Gus on Microsoft and Apple
- Fewer Things. More Peace.
- Fear China
- BlackBerry CEO: iMessage is against net neutrality ↦
- Pirating the 2015 Oscars: HD Edition
- What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
- Appetite 'pacemaker' tells you when you're actually hungry
- Code your own climax with this customizable vibrator
- LastPass native app for Mac works just like the browser add-ons
- Obama pledges to 'protect a free and open internet,' tackle climate change
- White House releases State of The Union address online ahead of time
- Instant replay inventor Tony Verna dies at 81
- DARPA gives its Atlas robot a makeover, cuts the wires
- Solar Impulse 2 starts historic round-the-world flight in March
- Would you be a part of a crowdsourced environmental warning system?
- Los Angeles' subway is getting cellphone service and WiFi
- Marriott plans to bring Netflix to your hotel room TV
- Peoplekeeper judges your friends so you don't have to
- This transforming phone is all heart, no brains
- Teenage Engineering will put a synth in your pocket for $59
- Microsoft's surprise hit: an 84-inch pen display for the office
- A Modern Approach to the Mailbox
- The Cake: A New, Modern Pastry Shop in Kiev
- A Pause in the City that Never Sleeps by Sebastian Errazuriz
- Ruutu: Vases in Watercolor-Like Colors
- Ballo: A Stool for Active Sitting
- Cicret Bracelet Turns Skin Into a Touchscreen Display
- Microsoft Announces Free Windows 10 Update
- What 'MacKeeper' is and why you should avoid it
- Baron Fig ‘Time Travel’ Apprentice Notebooks
- Video Review of Due
- Apple Watch: With great intimacy comes great responsibility
- The Shape of the App Store
- I've Spent $1500 On Google's Now Dead Glass Project
- Infamous
- ParcSlope for MacBook - The MacBook stand you can type on.
- Comparing warning labels on gym equipment…
- Forgotten treasures: 31 undeveloped, 70-year-old rolls of film shot by WWII Soldier
- Your old laptop's battery will light homes in developing countries
- Net neutrality supporters launch 535 websites to get Congress on the record
- Sprint breaks ranks with other ISPs on net neutrality
- HMV overtakes Amazon to become the UK's biggest seller of physical music
- SpaceX's rocket landing test was a big success, despite the fiery explosion (update: video)
- Apple Help in 2015
- U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron Proposes Banning End-to-End Encryption
- The 2014 Panic Report
- SpaceX lands its rocket on a barge, but a reusable Falcon 9's still far off
- How NVIDIA plans to drive the adoption of autonomous cars
- Cuba rolls out public WiFi internet access, at a steep cost
- Chevy Bolt EV concept hints at the future of affordable electric cars
- 3D-printed music scores help the blind feel every note
- Local Motors' 3D-printed car meets the Detroit Auto Show
- DTS is making movie and TV dialogue even easier to hear
- Facebook will alert you when kids go missing in your area
- Hovercraft to Paris
- Opinion: The myth of the upgrade path
- The Adjustable Clampersand Limited Color Edition
- Introducing the 5x12
- Honeywell's smart Lyric security system lets you tell it what to do
- Windows 10 will reportedly come with a new, lighter web browser
- Withings launches a cheaper version of its analog fitness tracker
- Philips' latest UHD TV has great colors thanks to lasers
- D-Link's new routers look crazy, but they're seriously fast
- This power pack can charge your iPhone 6 in 15 minutes
- Feet-on with the Digitsole warming smart insoles
- The modern tape measure has instant metric conversions and a Bluetooth option
- SMS Audio is back with more 'Star Wars' special edition headphones
- Color-changing E Ink lets walls come alive
- Gogo's in-flight WiFi uses fake web security to keep you off YouTube
- Avegant's personal theater headset looks like a pair of premium headphones
- The next MacBook Air is reportedly so small it needs a new USB port
- Drones can now legally film real estate for the first time
- The Benefits of Selling Software outside the Mac App Store
- HP's next assault on Chrome OS is a pair of tiny Windows PCs
- LG built a baby washing machine to sit beneath its regular ones
- Dish goes after cord-cutters with Sling TV, a $20-per-month service
- Sony's new TVs are thin... very thin
- Skechers stitched the Simon memory game into its new kids' sneakers
- Would you pay $1,099 for a Bluetooth speaker that keeps your beer cold?
- 'Game of Thrones' will be the first TV series to hit IMAX theaters
- The new Nabi kid-friendly Android tablets are seriously huge
- Watch Bill Gates drink water made from human waste
- OneLess Desk
- Apple’s Software Quality, Continued
- The most beautiful tablet you'll ever own comes with an Audi Q7
- The Maserati of the future has cameras and displays instead of mirrors
- Samsung's 'Ring Radiator' speakers look strange, but sound pretty good
- The 2014 Panic Report
- The Future of Meat Is Plant-Based Burgers
- The Functional High Ground
- State of Apple
- Best
- Nextiva Drive (Sponsor)
- Remove United States District Attorney Carmen Ortiz from office for overreach in the case of Aaron Swartz.
- What it’s like to be way too popular for a day
- Apple has lost the functional high ground
- Strings is a messaging service that lets you delete those drunk texts
- Study claims over 80 percent of 'deep web' traffic relates to pedophile sites
- NASA wants to build airship cities in the Venus sky
- Really Solid Sound: Daniel Ballou’s Cinder Speakers
- Minimalist Nativity Set
- A Strangely Alarming Design: The Lento Smoke Alarm
- US Ranks #1 in A’ Design Award World Design Rankings
- 'Airbnb for Airbnb' lets you stay somewhere while you rent your place
- Gmail slowly coming back to life in China
- The Army may ditch fitness tests for unfit, 'ponytail-wearing' hackers
- How to be smart about Uber and Lyft's surge pricing
- Jasmine Thompson
- Tesla's next charger will automatically connect to your car, 'for realz'
- Docker Image Insecurity
- Canon Rumored to Dominate the Megapixel War Once Again.
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