At a time when computers were more like glorified typewriters, Apple introduced the Macintosh – and changed how people interacted with them. In exclusive interviews, Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, and Andy Hertzfeld, one of the developers, recall how it happened.
Daniel Tammet: “Our world is generating more information with more resources and technology now than at any time in history: through TV and radio programs, cell phones, magazines, email, websites, blogs, and other media… Being overwhelmed by a continuous maelstrom of information can be just as damaging to our minds as having too little of it…”
This week, thanks to an ingenious hoax that took in the Times of London, the soccer press has been engrossed by Moldova. Specifically by one Moldovan teenager, who is not, as it happens, a real person.
Imitation is the highest form of flattery: Starting tomorrow, the Encyclopedia Britannica will be adding user-submitted content to its website in a bid to give Wikipedia a run for its money.
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said in an interview Wednesday that his rehabilitation from season-ending knee surgery was “going really well,” but he did not offer any timetable for a return to the football field.
The last thing that aging Japan can afford to lose is young people. Yet as the global economic crisis flattens demand for Japanese cars and electronic goods, thousands of youthful, foreign-born factory workers are getting fired, pulling their children out of school and flying back to where they came from. Alarmed, new programs are in place to help.
A new generation of postfeminist sexologists is trying to discover what ignites female desire.
ICELANDIC Prime Minister Geir Haarde, under growing pressure from a financial collapse that has led to violent protests, has announced he is stepping down and wanted an early election to be held on May 9.
WASHINGTON — Troubled financial institutions and the Detroit auto makers continue to spend heavily on lobbying Congress while accepting billions of dollars in U.S. government money
