Sometimes I truly have excellent timing with my stories. As you may recall, a couple of months ago in the lead-up to WWDC, I published an article on my experience with using the M1 Max MacBook Pro for six months. That story was born out of a desire to get to know macOS again after
With the release of the macOS Ventura public beta today, macOS takes another step down the path to syncing up its platforms that began four years ago. Where once the Mac hung out doing its own thing with scant regard for where iOS, and later, iPadOS was heading, today the Mac feels like part of
After watching this year’s WWDC keynote in June, my initial impression of the watchOS 9 announcement was that Apple had prepared one of the largest Apple Watch updates in years. While writing my watchOS 9 overview later that day though, it felt like the scope of the changes were less than I originally thought. I
Twitter sues Elon Musk to hold him to $44 billion deal
Twitter Inc sued Elon Musk on Tuesday for violating his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform and asked a Delaware court to order the world's richest person to complete the merger at the agreed $54.20 per Twitter share.
Why Digital News Outlets Haven’t Nailed Alt-Story-Form Journalism
Alt-form storytelling, a key magazine-and-newspaper design trend, and hasn’t truly flourished on the modern internet. Axios could go way further than it does.
My Poison Snake: Erika Kobayashi on Growing Up in a Household of Sherlock Translators
Caution! Poison Snake On Premises! So read a handwritten sign posted at the entrance of our house. Our house was in the outskirts of Tokyo, in a town called Ōizumi in a district called Nerima. The …
Should You Really Delete Your Period Tracking App?
Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision depriving people of the right to abortion leaked last month, some have advised deleting period tracking apps to prevent that data from being used to target people seeking abortion care. But it’s useful to distinguish between the security and privacy threats that abortion seekers are actively experiencing now versus threats that may come in the future.
Microsoft rolls back decision to block Office macros by default
While Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would block VBA macros on downloaded documents by default, Redmond said on Thursday that it will roll back this change based on "feedback" until further notice.
In this essay from Protean's third print issue, now online, Kimberly Bain reflects on grief and memory: on the still-resonating echoes of Emmett Till's death and his mother's cry, on Nina Simone, on Black mourning across historical time.
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Holograms, light-leaks and how to build CSS-only shaders - Robb Owen
Get a shiny WebGL look without actually using WebGL. In this article we take a look at how CSS blend modes unleash the potential of cool compositing effects without the need for JavaScript