When I sat down to review Apple’s new Retina-display MacBook Pro, I instinctively wanted to compare it with similar Windows laptops. I wanted to discuss how the specs stacked up and whether the price seemed fair. I hoped to …
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iPad App That Helps a Little Girl Speak Pulled from App Store
Earlier this year, I wrote a story about Maya, a four-year-old girl who used an app called Speak for Yourself to help her communicate with the outside world. Maya’s mother, Dana Nieder, preferred the app over more established …
Why E3 Will Continue to Disappoint
The blaring subwoofers and flashing lights of E3 just didn’t have the same pleasant ring this year.
All around the show floor, there was a sense of disappointment with E3 2012. Although the annual video game trade show had …
Why the Wii U Isn’t the Dinosaur Some Are Making It Out to Be
Hey look, it’s the Wii U. It rhymes with “Wii 2,” and that probably means a whole bunch of people are going to buy one, then shelf it, just like the Wii, right?
I have no idea how well the Wii U’s going to sell, but …
Ray Bradbury Didn’t Love All Tech, but He Loved What Mattered Most
In the 1940s, when a young Ray Bradbury began a series of stories that would eventually become The Martian Chronicles, man had yet to even send a satellite into space. Since then, six U.S.-launched landers have touched down on …
In Praise of Cartoon Violence: Borderlands 2 at E3 2012
If you watched any of the press conferences during E3 2012, you likely witnessed some gruesome displays of violence–faces stabbed, throats choked, bullets penetrating skin in explosions of flesh and bone.
As I sat in the …
Weibo Credit: Chinese Microblogging Site Tests Points-Based Censorship
iOS: Can We Declare a Moratorium On the Prison Metaphors, Please?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Micah Lee and Peter Eckersley have published a post about iOS titled “Apple’s Crystal Prison and the Future of Open Platforms.” In it, they do what you’d expect the EFF to do in an item with …
Should the FBI Be Allowed to Wiretap Facebook?
The crime-fighting agency seeks new powers to “listen in” on the Internet and social media.
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Why Google Should Be Worried About Facebook
I have written a few columns questioning Facebook’s long term value. And amidst all the recent news about the company’s IPO woes, it seems like investors may be skeptical as well.
Even though I may have a conviction that a …
WebOS: Dead? Oh, Sure, Almost Certainly — But Not Definitely
In January of 2009, Palm unveiled WebOS, its next-generation mobile operating system. A lot of us got really, really excited over it. It turned out, however, that WebOS’s launch day was its first and only moment of unalloyed …
Diablo III: So Far, So Rolling a Boulder Downhill
For the first 20 levels or so, Diablo III is like skiing down a gently sloping hill, one you’d label whatever comes before “green” at an actual resort. You can pretty well wade into any combat situation and wander back out by …