From Mark Bowden’s excellent profile of Larry Smarr, a researcher at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology who has quantified his own health to a huge degree: “And at that point,” says Larry, in a typically bold pronouncement that would startle generations of white-coated researchers, “you
Patrick Rhone has assembled Minimal Mac’s best pieces into a book called What We Believe In: Now, I wish to be very clear about what this is. Every single item in this book exists on the site as it stands — right now — for free. I have simply done the
The New York Times now allows subscribers to read all of their material through Flipboard: Starting this Thursday, the Times will provide all its content—articles, videos, photo slideshows, and blog posts—to subscribers who use Flipboard, while nonsubscribers will get a free sample of certain articles. Denise Warren, who
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Bloomberg reports that Apple is planning to revamp iTunes with further iCloud integration. It’s sparse on details, and while I’m glad they’re moving in this direction, it creates a serious issue for users. When Apple introduced the iPod, using iTunes—their jukebox application—to manage the device’
Today, the Supreme Court upheld ACA and the mandate as constitutional in a 5-4 decision, with Chief Justice John Roberts providing the swing vote. If you are unfamiliar with the case, Democrats passed a health care reform bill in 2010 that requires nearly all Americans to purchase health insurance
Chris Bowler: If Apple wants an environmentally conscious person like me to take their green efforts seriously, they would encourage users to use the same device for years, rather than simply make recyclable, chemical-free computers. In my utopian vision, Apple still has plenty of market share remaining to keep
Danny Sullivan: No, what you do if you’re Apple is what you’re already doing. You keep growing Siri to work with other search partners, to keep Google contained, to win away areas of search where you feel confident Google won’t be missed. Eventually, maybe you launch an
From NPR’s interview with Ray Bradbury earlier this month: Gross: “Wait, you don’t want to come back and find out if we’ve landed on Mars or not? You want to come back and see how the grade schools are doing?” Bradbury: “It’s not going to do
Shawn Blanc reviews Reeder 3. By this point, it should be in your Instapaper account, ready to read. Shawn reminds us he’s the best at these sort of reviews. Just terrific.
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From Karen Olsson wrote a great profile of Mike Judge for the New York Times last October: Even though I was sitting a few feet away, I found it hard to grasp. In the sound booth with his back turned to the room was a grown person, a medium-size