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Image: Getty A lot of people, including some of the world’s best known commentators on Apple, are saying that the company is facing serious challenges in its Mac business—unsurprisingly, Apple is clapping back at those reports and says everything is just fine. It’s no secret that inside of Apple, the iPhone is the favored child….
In high school, I was assigned to read the classic Jean-Paul Sartre play, “No Exit,” about three lost souls doomed to spend eternity driving each other nuts over the petty and ugly details of their previous lives. It’s a slog to read as a teenager, but it did yield one phrase that went on to…
Overwatch’s latest comic, “Reflections,” went live today on the game’s website. Focused on speedy, pixie-like hero Tracer, it tells a warm holiday story featuring several of the Overwatch cast. But more exciting than just an expansion of the Overwatch universe’s lore is a reveal that fans have waited a long, long time for. Tracer, as…
THE NEW PYRO MINI – Less bulk. More fire. Shoot balls of fire from your empty hands for under $150 The viral smash-hit of 2014 has been transformed into a smaller, sleeker and sexier MUST-HAVE. Based on the original Pyro, we’ve refined the mini to make it easier to use, while packing…
Do you know what “frontend” really does? Or “ops”? How about “leadgen”? Well, this comic should clear things up. It’s totally accurate, too: This comic was created by the Toggl Goon Squad – the developers behind the world’s no. 1 time tracking app (certified, probably). We do these comics to give the squad a quick mental break…
Hide CM floating unit The past year was almost certainly not the worst one ever, but 2016 does seem to have earned some sort of special designation. Barrier Status: ‘none’ A meme is currently circulating on Twitter in which people post two contrasting photos: one is “me at the beginning of 2016”; the other is…
The Washington Post’s Libby Casey and Danielle Paquette sit down, Dec. 8, with Chuck Jones, the Indianapolis union leader who President-elect Donald Trump attacked on Twitter. (The Washington Post) I’m a union leader in Indianapolis. I represent the Carrier workers whose jobs Donald Trump has pledged to save. And I’m tired of being lied to. In…
2017 will be the year that news organizations start approaching headlines with the importance they deserve. A few years ago, around the time that a scary-exciting new thing called “social” started becoming more important than search engine optimization, digital media organizations discovered that nothing mattered more than headlines, at least when it came to getting…
Information literacy, wrote Dr. Carol Kulthau in her 1987 paper “Information Skills for an Information Society,” is “the ability to read and to use information essential for everyday life”—that is, to effectively navigate a world built on “complex masses of information generated by computers and mass media.” Nearly thirty years later, those “complex masses of…
Members of the public in European states including France, Belgium, Germany and the UK greatly overestimate their country’s Muslim population and the rate at which it is growing. An Ipsos Mori survey that measured the gap between public perception and reality in 40 countries in 2016 found French respondents were by far the most likely…