Articles tagged "steve jobs"

Now we know the alternate reality that is "The World Of The Mobi."

It's been exactly a year since California Governor Jerry Brown declared "October 16 to be Steve Jobs Day":http://mashable.com/2011/10/15/steve-jobs-day-california-october-16-stanford/. It apparently was a one year-only holiday, but it still stands as…

In the ongoing legal frenzy over "who copied who":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/3/apple-s-patent-war-on-the-galaxy, it’s now Samsung’s turn to fight back, with the alleged iPhone copier arguing over the last couple days that "Apple didn’t invent…

"Ones and Zeros":http://motherboard.tv/profiles/ones_and_zeros/posts is Motherboard's weekly investigation into the strange particle accelerator that is the internet.

Apple's long portrayed itself as the feel-good alternative to Microsoft's nameless, utilitarian machines, and as far back as 1995 the company was whipping together six minute videos explaining how Apple envisioned a computer-savvy future for all the

Look at the devoted lining up to get their new iPhones lately. Go ahead and laugh. I remember chuckling, rolling eyes at the people who had iPods — the people who, single-handedly but by the millions, by the thousands of songs, were fracturing the…

When he ran NeXT Computer, Steve Jobs decided that his machines were too precious to be handled by slow, accident-prone, whiny humans. Only the machines really knew how to handle the machines. To assemble one of his sleek $9,995 NeXT workstations…

His passing almost certainly won't generate as much media attention or "turtlenecks sales":http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394343,00.asp as Steve Jobs. But Steve, Apple, Microsoft and every single other member of the modern computing industry o…

In all the elegiac coverage of Steve Jobs, there hasn't been much discussion about dogs. Perhaps this is because dogs don't use Apple computers. They do spreadsheets in their heads. More likely, the dearth of canine-related Steve Jobs'…

At risk of sounding like an insensitive fanboy in light our good friend Steve Jobs' passing, I'm going to begin this by expounding upon something I've always liked about Apple's fiercest competitor in the mobile market, Android. It has nothing to do

_By Abe Riesman_ A persistent refrain has emerged in the Internet’s collective toast to the late Steve Jobs: proudly celebrating just how ubiquitous his handiwork has become. _I’m typing this on an Apple product right now!_ people declare on Twitt…

Steve Jobs didn't just rule over computers and phones and operating systems and computer-generated movies and combinations of all of them: he ruled over minds. Earlier this year, digital legal scholar "Tim Wu":http://motherboard.tv/2011/3/14/cmd-c…

My iPhone is mostly destroyed. In fact, the glass on it is so mangled and shattered that I've cut myself on it three times. Obviously I need a new phone, but do I give a shit about the iPhone 4S? Only sort of. Here's the thing: I have the 4. A fi…

h3. One: "Supercomputer predicts revolution":http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14841018 (BBC) h3. Zero: "Steve Jobs death Tweet":http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392770,00.asp kills "What's Trending" (PC Mag) h3. One: 'Culturomics' pred…

h3. One: Engineers of China's record breaking submersible have "never even seen a submersible before":http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/mass-transit/chinas-research-sub-to-attempt-record-dive/0 (IEEE Spectrum) h3. Zero: The New York Times' "smar…

h3. One: The reasons why "you suck at online dating has finally been discovered":http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/08/24/online.dating.messages.netiquette/ (CNN) h3. Zero: One of the world's "most feared":http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookou…

_Trekkies may actually get some sun this summer._ h3. ONE: How the brain bounces back from trauma ("Scientific American":http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-brains-bounce-back) h3. ZERO: YouTube extends plans for ads before vid…

"A recent article":http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-28/tech/iphone.6.rumors_1_iphone-android-phones-apple-insider?_s=PM:TECH by CNN Tech blogger John Sutter makes the claim that, despite Apple's recent release of a white iPhone 4 (and kudos to Apple,

The race toward speed and elegance, exemplified by nearly every technology, from the wheel to the bizarre but soon-to-be-normal Google Instant, has met the iPad in the form of the Smart Cover.