Tim Cook’s Apple Has Forced the Whole Tech World to Realign
The company’s long resurgence under Steve Jobs came from devices designed for mass appeal — tech for generalists, not the specialized worlds of work. But then a funny thing happened. Apple customers didn’t start demanding new devices for work. They adapted their work to the Apple devices they already had.
October 3, 2015 at 03:00PM
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Chill Moose Hangs Out With A Drone
Humans have a habit of annoying animals with drones, and the animals usually — and justifiably — attack the drones. But not this super chill moose.
October 3, 2015 at 12:54PM
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What Will Alphabet Be When It Grows Up?
To truly change the world, Google’s new holding company will need something that has eluded many previous industrial labs: an effective commercialization strategy.
October 3, 2015 at 12:35PM
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Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom: ‘We’re working on time travel’
It began just five years ago, with a photo of a dog and his girlfriend’s foot. Now Instagram has outstripped Twitter, with 400 million users. But is there life beyond selfies and sunsets?
October 3, 2015 at 10:37AM
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Researchers Say They Have Designed an ‘Unhackable’ Fiber Network
Quantum cryptology is a decades-old idea that photons can be used to distribute the keys used for protecting sensitive data, such as bank statements or health records. Now it’s being used on regular high-bandwidth networks, on a whopping 200Gbit/sec connection over a 100km line.
October 3, 2015 at 08:02AM
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Rise of the Synthesizer: How an Electronics Whiz Kid Gave the 1980s Its Signature Sound
How an electronics whiz kid gave the 1980s its signature sound.
October 3, 2015 at 08:02AM
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RFID chips in driver’s licenses. What could go wrong?
It’s a “dream come true” for identity thieves and a “civil liberties nightmare.”
October 3, 2015 at 01:09AM
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Robots with “eyes” in their hands may prove more dextrous than others
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a three-fingered robot hand that’s extremely sensitive to touch and pressure thanks to built-in optical sensors.
October 2, 2015 at 11:06PM
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Blackphone Is the Right Phone for the Paranoid Android User
The Blackphone 2 is an Android phone manufactured by Silent Circle, which decided to make a phone a couple of years ago, with the idea of creating a device running a heavily modified version of Android that was “private by design” — a tagline that’s actually on the back of the phone. In other words, they wanted to make an Android phone for paranoids.
October 2, 2015 at 02:11PM
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The US Can’t Keep Up With Europe In Hurricane Forecasting
Over the last few decades, faster computers, superior models and new data have allowed all weather forecasting to improve, by a lot. But the United States hasn’t quite matched that effort. It didn’t invest in computing power and models that kept up with the potential for better forecasts.
October 2, 2015 at 02:11PM
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