Apple’s 2020 iPhone plans are genuinely exciting with leak after leak pointing to some of the best upgrades in years. And now Apple has accidentally confirmed two of the biggest. 2020 iPhone 12 concept Ben Geskin Apple iPhone 12: Everything We Know So Far [Updated] Forbes Gordon Kelly In a pair of exclusives, the famously…
DetailsAccording to a new report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple could unveil new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models with scissor-switch keyboards. MacRumors first noticed the report; TechCrunch obtained the research note as well. Apple updated the big MacBook Pro in November. The company slightly increased the size of the display from 15” to 16”…
DetailsSome 100 million years ago in a seaside mangrove swamp in what we humans now call Myanmar, a truly bizarre dinosaur flitted about, stalking its insect prey. Its head was just a half-inch long, making it smaller than the smallest living bird, the bee hummingbird. Its mouth was packed with needle teeth, which hung over…
DetailsI. ObituaryThe legend of Gus Weiss, hero of the Cold War, ends 11 stories below the balcony of his condo at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC, on November 25, 2003. A broken corpse on the sidewalk.In life, Weiss had liquidy blue eyes and an aristocratic air. He stood 5’7″ and in later years developed…
Details“If you’re not going to give me information,” one of my students said during class, “I’m going to take what I have and run with it. Even if something is just a possibility, I’m still going to share it. I want people to know.”The class was discussing Covid-19, specifically how little we know about who’s…
DetailsGrowing up, some of my fondest listening experiences came from a silver Phillips boombox. I have vivid memories of popping in Moby’s Play—and what I honestly recall to be six D-sized batteries—and wandering around with the bald-headed maestro in tow.These days, it’s easy to take your favorite tunes with you anywhere. But decades after squeezing…
DetailsMidday light streams through the windows of the Stanford Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, California. In a bed too big for his child-sized body, David Sanchez sleeps among a tangle of tubes plugged into a port in his chest. A machine nearby draws blood out of his veins, exchanging his deformed red blood cells for…
DetailsThe novel coronavirus does not respect borders, but they loom large for heads of state and CEOs responding to the global health crisis. Geopolitics as much as public health will determine how the pandemic proceeds and its lasting effects on people and business. Ian Bremmer, president and founder of political risk consultancy Eurasia Group, says…
DetailsWhen my phone alerted me that my Arlo Q camera had detected a person, I was concerned. I had positioned the camera in my bedroom window facing a bird feeder—not a place you’d expect, or want, to see people passing by.Thankfully, the “person” was just a little bird enjoying its lunch. Security camera-maker Arlo offers…
DetailsFor the past nine years, Mandolin Noir has taken care of other people’s pets around Seattle, often working through companies like Rover and Wag. The work is steady; she visits the dogs when their owners are at work, and checks in on the cats when owners travel out of town. But in the past week,…
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