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Enrique Dans

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What the Apps Ukrainians Are Downloading Tell Us About Their Situation

Staying connected to make sure the truth doesn’t stop at the border — At the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the country’s Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, asked Elon Musk to send Starlink satellite transmission equipment, which Musk agreed to, later sending more and opening up the satellite coverage over the country. …

War

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What the Apps Ukrainians Are Downloading Tell Us About Their Situation
What the Apps Ukrainians Are Downloading Tell Us About Their Situation
War

3 min read


Will J Murphy

Will J Murphy

·Apr 19, 2022

The New Apple Watch Probably Won’t Measure Blood Pressure, and That’s a Good Thing

Just because you can (sort of) do something doesn’t mean you should — The health of your heart is important, and Apple wants to help. According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), cardiovascular disease, not cancer, is the leading cause of avoidable death among Americans. That’s around 800,000 people annually. And it’s not just older adults. Heart attacks are on the rise…

Health

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The New Apple Watch Probably Won’t Measure Blood Pressure, and That’s a Good Thing
The New Apple Watch Probably Won’t Measure Blood Pressure, and That’s a Good Thing
Health

4 min read


Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson

·Apr 18, 2022

It’s Time For ‘Maximum Viable Product’

Stop adding new features before you ruin your app — “Feature creep” messes up a lot of good software. We’ve all seen it happen to our favorite apps. We get an early version, we thrill to it; it does exactly what we want. We’re in love. But then, over the years, the developers and product folks start cramming in more…

Software Development

6 min read

It’s Time For ‘Maximum Viable Product’
It’s Time For ‘Maximum Viable Product’
Software Development

6 min read


Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson

·Apr 14, 2022

The Sidekick Was the Best Smartphone Ever

Phones have become boring slabs of glass. The Sidekick pointed another way. — Last weekend, I cleaned out one of my Messed Up Old Tech drawers, with help from my 14 year old son. …

Design

6 min read

The Sidekick Was the Best Smartphone Ever
The Sidekick Was the Best Smartphone Ever
Design

6 min read


Maya Kosoff

Maya Kosoff

·Apr 9, 2022

My Frivolous Apple Wish: Let Me and My Friends Leave Better Voice Messages

If only there were a way for a trillion-dollar tech company to improve this experience — I have group chats with different groups of friends (brag!). There’s one with my two best friends; another with two friends I introduced to each other right before the pandemic, thereby unintentionally creating a triad bonded to each other through whatever happened in 2020 and everything after; one with my…

Apple

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My Frivolous Apple Wish: Let Me and My Friends Leave Better Voice Messages
My Frivolous Apple Wish: Let Me and My Friends Leave Better Voice Messages
Apple

5 min read


Erik P.M. Vermeulen

Erik P.M. Vermeulen

·Apr 8, 2022

Why Doesn’t New Technology Feel Comfortable Anymore?

An ode to the senses — What, if anything, do you remember about 1999? Endless discussions about the Millennium bug and our computers not being able to work. Or the dot-com bubble? When I think of 1999, I think of music. Napster — the peer-to-peer file-sharing network — changed everything. Suddenly it wasn’t necessary to buy…

Life

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Why Doesn’t New Technology Feel Comfortable Anymore?
Why Doesn’t New Technology Feel Comfortable Anymore?
Life

5 min read


Lance Ulanoff

Lance Ulanoff

·Apr 3, 2022

You’ll Never Have a Robot Best Friend

Stuck between the expensive toys we don’t want and companions they’re still not — I gently pulled the decaying Pleo down off a top shelf in my office. The once energetic robot toy hadn’t been touched in years. Its battery depleted and rubber skin frayed and split. Still a cute simulacrum of what might be best described as an almost Disney Camarasaurus, its face…

Technology

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You’ll Never Have a Robot Best Friend
You’ll Never Have a Robot Best Friend
Technology

4 min read


Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson

·Mar 31, 2022

The Real Reason To ‘Learn To Code’? Automating Your Life

On the joys of writing scripts that do scut work — Last night I automated the tip of my index finger. I was getting super annoyed by an infinite-scrolling site. I generally hate those: I’m a journalist, and every so often I’m a) doing research that b) requires me to go back several weeks, months or years on c) an infinite-scrolling…

Programming

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The Real Reason To ‘Learn To Code’? Automating Your Life
The Real Reason To ‘Learn To Code’? Automating Your Life
Programming

9 min read


Lance Ulanoff

Lance Ulanoff

·Mar 20, 2022

I May Be 15 Percent Twitter

Why I’m still tweeting — How many things do you do consistently for 15 years? For me, it’s not a lot, and if you would’ve told me on March 19, 2007, that my first inconsequential tweet would be the beginning of 15 years of pithy Twitter missives, I know I would’ve laughed in your face.

Twitter

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I May Be 15 Percent Twitter
I May Be 15 Percent Twitter
Twitter

5 min read


Clive Thompson

Clive Thompson

·Mar 18, 2022

What AI Thinks an Emily Dickinson Poem Looks Like

I used a GAN to illustrate ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ — How would an AI illustrate a famous poem? In my Linkfest earlier this week, I wrote about the new crop of AI “generative” models, in which you provide a few words and see it translated it into an image. Often, these AIs create pictures that are fascinatingly alien. You get…

Poetry

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What AI Thinks an Emily Dickinson Poem Looks Like
What AI Thinks an Emily Dickinson Poem Looks Like
Poetry

9 min read

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