Electronic cigarettes change everything for smokers. One day you’re a societal menace, a pariah forced out onto the street to get your fix—the next you’re dosing yourself with nicotine in the New York Public Library. More »
Backpacking gear was my original obsession with technology. For even the most minor update to my kit, I read dozens of reviews, talk to my expert comrades, and then finally try it out myself. More »
Think Microsoft Surface is the only one that gets to have fun with a keyboard hidden in the tablet’s cover? Hell naw, quoth Archos. The Gen10 XS Tablet is bringing some old-style clickity-clack to the tablet game. If only they’d made it, you know, work. More »
The arguments in the Apple vs. Samsung patent showdown jamboree finally ended yesterday. That means we’re finally coming to a resolution—or at least a breather until the appeals process begins. More »
AT&T has the following chart on their webpage which outlines roaming rates while outside the U.S. We’re going to concentrate on the text messages row, also known as SMS messages. More »
They’re romantic and inherently a bit melancholy. Black and white city portraits have a flare for the overdramatic, and for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you captured all of the simple charm and deep intensity of your city. More »
“The saying goes: Don’t fuck with the person that serves your food,” a former Apple Genius tells me over IM. “Don’t fuck with the person who repairs your computer.” He—we’ll call him Ronald—spent six years as a member of Apple’s Genius squad in a busy Southwestern store. It was a model store: shiny as the best of them, teeming, making money. But in back rooms and in plain sight, the employees ran wild: giving away computers, stealing phones, drunkenly destroying customer property. Ronald saw (and did) it all. More »
This is insane. I keep watching this video again and again, and my stupid grin doesn’t go away: a live demonstration of a real flying bike! Now we just need light sabers, golden robots with English accent, and hyperspace engines. More »
The web has been alight these past few weeks with the details of the Apple v. Samsung lawsuit. It’s been a unique opportunity to peer behind the curtain of how these two companies operate, as the trial seeks to answer the question: did Samsung copy Apple? More »
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