An email has been going around the internet as a part of a release of documents related to Apple’s App Store-based suit brought by Epic Games. I love this email for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that you can extrapolate from it the very reasons Apple has remained such a […]

‘We are working on a product that has not found product market fit,” says an exec in a leaked memo.

The notion that capitalism metabolizes dissent is no longer theoretical but embodied in the architecture of its most profitable corporate technologies.

It’s still reportedly developing AR and VR hardware.

The first half of this chapter provides details on the assumptions and results of each of the four main scenarios. These are not predictions for the

Some people have ditched dating apps—and opted to bare their souls via a public, view-only link instead.

The country’s “most serious pests” can be traced to one shipment from England in 1859, study shows

Why are young New Yorkers claiming to convert?

As much an aesthetic experience as it is an auditory one, Poolsuite FM is the ideal internet radio app for work or play.

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Another reason not to play 1989's Rhythm Nation – it messes with some hard disk drives

Not an artistic judgement. Just a technical one.

The maverick driver talks bluntly about the shocker that cost him a championship, and his plans for fashion, movies, and more.

Transsion, a China-based smartphone manufacturer, is outpacing Apple and Samsung in Africa. It sells devices that take better selfies of dark skin and have features like a keyboard in Swahili.

On this special episode of the AppleInsider podcast, YouTube creator Christopher Lawley shares his journey from editing video on a 2007 Mac Pro, to going all-in on iPad as his main computer.

I guess I’ll stop doing this, too.

Much has changed over the past decade.

Buying a burrito but with more taxes

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Once, it sparked dreams of community and counterculture. What’s gained—and lost—when flower power is electrified?

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Silicon Valley is the latest player in a history of Western appropriation of Buddhism

Real Life is a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis is more on living. We publish one piece a day—essays, features, uncategorizable—four or five days a week. We launched with funding from Snapchat, but we operate with editorial independence and without ads.

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Self-improvement? In this economy?