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Apple pulls back the curtain: All of Quartz’s coverage from Apple’s Q1 2013 earnings 24 Jan 2013 | 06:00 pm
Apple’s $54.5 billion quarter, in charts Why Apple doesn’t care that iPads are cannibalizing sales of Macs Apple CEO Tim Cook on rumors of slackening iPhone demand: They’re meaningless No phablet for ...
Longform science mag Matter has no women in leadership roles. Is that a problem? 22 Mar 2012 | 07:14 am
All startups require founders who are persistent as well as passionate, and the fact that any two people can bring the required sustained intensity to a shared enterprise is a minor miracle. That said...
How longform science magazine Matter will become a sustainable business 25 Feb 2012 | 02:33 am
Update: Chris Unitt of Made Media has just posted an interesting — and orthogonal — take on this story. A couple of days ago a Kickstarter to launch the new longform-only science magazine Matter popp...
Training Bacteria To Grow Consumer Goods 2 Nov 2011 | 07:50 am
The promise of 3-D printing is that we can generate any arbitrary shape at the push of a button, which sounds pretty impressive until you realize that auto-generating any arbitrary 3-D shape is exactl...
Chatbot Wears Down Proponents of Anti-Science Nonsense 3 Nov 2010 | 07:03 am
When he tired of arguing with climate change skeptics, one programmer wrote a chatbot to do it for him.
The Death of the Book has Been Greatly Exaggerated 3 Oct 2010 | 09:26 am
Books have a kind of usability that, for most people, isn’t about to be trumped by bourgeois concerns about portability: They are the only auto-playing, backwards-compatible to the dawn of the English...
Here’s how we stop population growth 21 Aug 2010 | 04:12 am
The United Nations projects that we’re on track to increase global population by about one-third by 2050. Most of that growth will happen in the poorest countries on Earth. Despite their poverty, tho...
Why The Diamond Age Nanotech Future Never Materialized 6 Aug 2010 | 11:15 am
…But biology happens for the precise reason that utopian nanotech can’t: The world of the ultrasmall is astonishingly violent. The surfaces of objects turn out to be seething frenzies of motion — atom...
Choosing the Right Electric Bicycle 5 May 2010 | 10:53 am
Electric bikes are not for the tiny-hatted bike geeks leaning over racks of $400 carbon fiber wheels at your local bike shop. They’re not even for people who are happily biking to work already. Electr...
SpotRank, CitySense and the Smartphone Panopticon 22 Apr 2010 | 09:26 am
If you have a smartphone, you are being watched 24/7 by an all-seeing eye. Good thing the data is anonymized. Technology Review
