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Tugging on the thread of digital bricolage brought me to a wonderful paper by Seymour Papert & Sherry Turkle called "Epistemological Plur...

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Breakfast, it turns out. The answer is breakfast.

Asking for pronouns has become a social standard. Who is it serving?

In our November cover story, Taylor Swift talks to Chuck Klosterman about whether or not she really hates Katy Perry

Not an artistic judgement. Just a technical one.

From 2019: How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.

Legendary tech journalist Kara Swisher reveals that even she is not immune to having her old work removed from the internet by short-sighted content management.

Benchmark results for an iPhone 12 Pro Max with an Apple A14 Bionic processor.

Customization is back, and Apple’s having fun again.

A complete redesign of The Verge that marries the best of old-school blogging with a modern news feed experience.

The notch is gone.

I swear some people out there be building their note-taking system like NASA engineers building the next rocket to send us to the next habitable Earth. Note-...

"I believe we’re far from reaching our full potential."

Some of the iPhone’s new features are already in Android.

Few apps have made a more valiant effort to rescue us from indolence than Things, the to-do list app for Mac and iOS from German software developer Cultured Code. When it debuted as one of the...

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A list of executable file formats that we don’t really use anymore. That said, if you want to load up an Adobe AIR application, we can’t stop you.

Our podcast goes through all the products announced.

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An education in “juice,” how to protect your shins, and keeping 12,000 daily tons of garbage at bay.

Developers can now use 1Password to set up and use SSH keys to sign Git commits, building on 1Password’s already robust support for SSH keys.

Chromebooks are mainstream but many people don’t grok Chromeboxes. Some wonder what’s the point of Chromeboxes and what to use them for,...

programming, language design, and human factors

Luckily, I don’t have to use this kind of title often. But when I do, there’s a good reason: this year’s beta release cycle for all of Apple’s operating systems has been a mess. The months since WWDC in June have been a terrible experience for both customers and developers alike and the literal center […]

Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability

The gripping inside story of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy—by a leading tech journalist Across the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video...

It’s all about the iPhone.