Silk Road Trial Ends With Resounding Guilty Verdict
Kids, dont sell drugs online. If you do, youll make millions of dollars. OK, that sounds pretty good, but then then you could be convicted of criminal charges and face life in prison. Which is what happened to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht.
Predicting the Present, First Five Years of Wired - Kevin Kelly
We as a culture are deeply, hopelessly, insanely in love with gadgetry. And you cant fight. For a long time now, America has seemed like a country where most people watch television most of the time. But only recently are��.
NPRs Vivian Schiller: Reinventing Public Media - FORA.tv
Reinventing Public Media: How Digital Content Is Supercharging NPR featuring Vivian Schiller, President and CEO, NPR; with Steven Levy, Senior Writer, WIRED.Disru.. NPRs Vivian Schiller: Reinventing Public Media. Watch Full Video | previews. More from this conference:. and Shapes Our Lives. Other books include Insanely Great, on the history of Apples Macintosh computer, and Hackers, which was named the best tech book of the PC era by PC Magazine.
Even the Architects of the Next U.N. Climate Change Agreement Are Pessimistic
Now, this years negotiations probably wont be a total failure. The Paris climate talks (seriously, click that link, its a great explainer) are expected to produce the worlds first global agreement on climate change, with every member country.
The Apple Watchs Insanely Great Economics | zipwebsites.net
Apple is experimenting like no others have: simultaneously attacking low-end and high-end products with one design. The post The Apple Watchs Insanely Great Economics appeared first on WIRED.
A few Steve Jobs videos worth watching - Blog | all about.
The ���big reveal��� at the end where the 20th Anniversary Macintosh (designed by Jony Ive who was already a designer at Apple, it is a misconception that Steve Jobs hired him) is unveiled, is so pathetic its not funny. Such amateurism. from Apple. If you watch the video entirely, you will see the university dean making a joke about Steves arrival by helicopter, then explaining why computers are great tools for the mind (a metaphor Steve Jobs was certainly familiar with).
Syndromes Drive Coders Crazy - Business Insider
Being a software programmer is one of the best jobs these days for your pocketbook and your job security, but it can be incredibly bad for your mental health. Two things are going on that are literally driving programmers crazy��.
This Weeks East Coast Blizzard Could Be the Biggest on Record
The NWS warns that, in addition to the snow and wind, coastal storm surge could reach four feet in Western Long Island Sound and in Eastern Massachusetts���thats on top of 10- to 15-foot waves, which would be big enough to damage coastal properties.
Forget the Oil Industrys Methane. Obama Should Crack Down on Cows Instead.
In the latest climate change executive action, the White House unveiled a plan on Wednesday to regulate methane for the first time, aiming to reduce emissions from the oil and gas industry by 40-45 percent on 2012 levels by 2025. On its face, that.
How ���Good Enough��� Keeps Us From Solving Problems Like Climate Change
The recent launch of the iPhone 6 featured an exciting new technology���ApplePay���which, if widely adopted, will allow Apples discerning customers to make electronic payments from their phones in situations where they would have used credit cards or .
I, Cringely Edifice Complex - I, Cringely
This may sound a lot like Apples plan to redevelop the old Hewlett-Packard Cupertino campus about a mile from current Apple headquarters on Infinite Loop, but it isnt.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XD2kNopsUsandhd=1.. For the new Apple campus, I envisage insanely great design, ultra-smart individual security solutions, and fast individual people-movers that transport directly from one point to any other point (rather than A-to-B-only 50s SciFi styled��.
Apple Android Phone - Business Insider
In an interview with Wired, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak makes the seemingly counterintuitive case for Apple to design an Android phone. (Wozniak is an Apple co-founder alongside Steve Jobs and the often-forgotten��.
Exploring Shanghai With Sidecar Motorcyclists
You Can Get an Apple Watch for $349. or $17,000 · Self-Driving Cars Really Will Revolutionize the Economy. Heres How. Hey, John Kerry: Government Surveillance Isnt Something to Joke About · You Should Think of the New MacBook As a Tablet.
Apple is breaking all kinds of laws��� but in a good way
Jean-Louis Gass��e at Monday Note has written a tongue-in-cheek look at all the ���laws��� of economics Apple has broken with its record-crushing earnings report and he explains why some of these laws were highly questionable to begin with... the hanging of a 30-story Apple banner in this incredible time-lapse video �� Your Apple Watchs battery life could get a huge boost with this awesome charging strap �� The worst Apple analyst ever thinks Apple is doomed for a��.
This Man Is Growing an Ear on His Arm. Is It Art?
This article originally appeared in ���Open Art,��� a partnership of the Getty and Z��calo Public Square. In 2007 the Australian performance artist Stelarc started growing an extra ear on his left arm through a series of operations that are still ongoing.
Why New EarPods Could Help Apple Become The King Of.
Greeces economy is running on empty.. The Apple Watch will certainly help with that, since you can perform most iPhone functions from your wrist ��� but Id argue Apples wired headphones, the EarPods, are vastly more important to improve. Apple introduced the EarPods in September 2012 ��� theyve shipped with every iPhone since the. Apple doesnt just do good products, it does insanely great ones. So if Apple is serious about its headphones ��� and if its��.
12 Insanely Great Companies Founded By Former Apple.
If you need proof that Apple is full of insanely talented people, just consider some of the companies that employees went on to start after leaving the company. Ex-Apple employees have launched. It sounds like Apple has a brilliant approach to how notifications work on the Apple Watch.. Inkling, a digital textbook startup, was founded by a former Apple education marketer. Inkling, a digital textbook startup, was founded by a former Apple education marketer. Wired��.
The Shape of Things to Come
That day, a hundred assembly lines in Zhengzhou, China, were turning out still secret new iPhones at a reported rate of seventy-five hundred an hour, and rumors about new Apple products, including a watch, were being posted online at nearly the same.
Layoffs Hit XO | Telecom Ramblings
The good news is that despite the difficult job market overall, the telecommunications and internet infrastructure sectors are pretty steady, and there are companies out there hiring. The bad news is that there will.. miss their targets from time-to-time. But, when a company misses its quarterly Wall Street earnings (or internal budget targets if your are a smaller business or privately held) frequently in a short period of time, it is a sign of more than a bad economy.
What drives Apples Success? - Android Authority
Before we begin, to avoid being overrun by the Apple brigade, let me state this ��� does Apple make great products? Absolutely. Does Apple make transcendent products that blow everything else out of the water? Absolutely��.
Is It Possible to Find Unbiased Jurors in High-Profile Cases? (Is It Ever.
With attorneys for both the prosecution and the defense keeping close watch���and in some jurisdictions, asking their own questions���judges listen for any indication that a prospective juror might be incapable of rendering a fair verdict. When they.
Presidential Campaign Season Shouldnt Begin 644 Days Before Election Day
Its a quadrennial complaint, but Im going to make it anyway, and make it earlier than its been made before, because the problem has somehow managed to get even worse: It is simply insane how much weve pushed up our presidential campaigns.. Chris.
We Havent Been This Close to the Apocalypse Since 1984, Scientists Say
We may not know the precise effects of a warming planet, but we do know that its happening, and we have a pretty good idea of what will ensue if we dont change course soon: crop failures, extinctions, famines, water shortages, regional conflicts.
Jobs, Apple Co-Founder and Visionary, Is Dead - NYTimes.
Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder and former chief executive of Apple, has died.
The Real Reason Greece Cant Get a Debt Deal From Eurozone Leaders
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Sch��uble then blamed Greece���not Europe���for its economic woes. The unintentional lesson: The reason Europes austerity hasnt worked has as much to do with Greeces fiscal imprudence as it does with the cultural .
Expert Explains In Detail How The Next Shock Will Shatter.
Using complex systems analysis, he explains how within weeks of the next major economic shock, like a major bank failure or a country exiting the eurozone, contagion would quickly spread through global supply chains, causing an. Spain is a good example. The country bails out its banks, but in the process increases its own debt. This, in turn, causes concern over the fiscal health of the country, which causes its bonds to sell off. The banks it just bailed out, who��.
When Career Expectations Are Just About Getting Enough Money to Eat
Over the past few years, there has been a great deal of discussion about why women arent achieving as much in their careers as their male counterparts, even though women have been enrolling in and graduating from college in greater numbers than men.
The Truth About Sapphire, The Insanely Hard Material.
Ever since Apple started working with sapphire plant GT Advanced Technologies last year, many have speculated the company would use this scratch-resistant material to produce screens for its future iPhones. We have yet��.
You Say You Want a Devolution? - Vanity Fair
Since 1992, as the technological miracles and wonders have propagated and the political economy has transformed, the world has become radically and profoundly new.. This is the First Great Paradox of Contemporary Cultural History... so then, 245 screens now), Barnes and Noble (35 then, 717 now), and Starbucks (dozens then, more than 11,000 now) all expanding exponentially; and produced the new magazines Martha Stewart Living, InStyle, Wired (always as much about cool��.
SeaWorlds Whales Get a New Prison Warden
SeaWorld, which has seen its park attendance and stock price tumble amid backlash over the treatment of its killer whales, announced today that CEO Jim Atchison was stepping down and would be temporarily replaced by the companys chairman while it .
Net Neutrality: FCC Chairman Supports Strongest Ever Open Internet Rules
���The Internet must be fast, fair and open,��� Wheeler wrote in a Wired article today. ���That is the message Ive heard from consumers and innovators across this nation. That is the principle that has enabled the Internet to become an unprecedented.
The Apple Watchs Insanely Great Economics
These are high-ticket items, and thats why the most important thing the Apple Watch might do for Apple is get us used to the idea that Apple makes goods worth spending many thousands of dollars on. More to the point: goods which, like TVs and Cars.