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The History of Early Computing Machines, from Ancient Times to 1981

From the abacus to the IBM personal computer, calculating devices have come a long way. Let’s take a look through the history of these machines and the remarkable progress that came with the 20th century. A picture above was taken at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio, 1951. The Chinese Abacus ‘Suan Pan’…

A Weather App That Suggests The Best Times To Do Things

If there are weather apps, calendar apps and to do list apps, there should be an app that spits out an optimal schedule for you to follow. What’s the point of jogging in the rain and then doing laundry when the sun comes out? Or maybe you like to run in the rain because it…

Wozniak on Jobs’ Biopic: ‘Young Steve Wasn’t a Saint’

The first trailer of the upcoming Steve Jobs’ biopic starring Ashton Kutcher is here. I asked Steve Wozniak—close friend of Steve Jobs and Apple co-founder—about it. Here’s what he said: About Jobs’ portrayal I have a little bug in me that says that this movie will portray Steve as a saint who was ignored, rather…

Exbel, Video for Instagram, and More

Instagram’s new video feature may have been the most hyped app to hit the market this week, but that doesn’t mean there’s not a whole world of awesome iOS just waiting to be downloaded. And this week’s set all do a little something to make your life easier—now doesn’t that sound nice? Exbel: Video for…

An iPad You’re Actually Supposed to Cover in Crumbs

If you’re discrete enough, this iPad cutting board will convince your friends and dinner guests that you’re absolutely flush with cash. Because instead of slicing cheeses, vegetables, and fruits on a traditional cutting board, you can afford to use an iPad for the task. In reality, this $30 glass cutting board is just styled to…

Here’s the First Ashton-Packed Trailer For jOBS

No, it’s not the first Steve Jobs movie to make it out, but it’s the first one to take it seriously. And so far, it doesn’t look half bad. We’ll have to wait and see how the whole thing holds up, but color us hopeful. If nothing else, Ashton Kutcher can be a total dead-ringer…

This Is Perhaps Possibly the New iPhone’s Rear End

MacRumors has laid its hands on a couple of images purporting to show the inside and rear shell of the next iPhone. The images seem to show the same logic board that appeared in a leak earlier this week. While the main chip isn’t conventionally branded with an Apple A-series prefix, the date stamp suggests…

A Tokyo court has ruled that Samsung infringed Apple’s patent for “bounce-back” at the ends of pages scrolling screens—which disagrees with the US Patent and Trademark office’s call that the patent is invalid.

The Mac Pro Recaptures the Spirit of Classic Workstations of Yore

Early computers were bland beige boxes—meant to blend in with whatever workspace they were placed on. But during the golden age of the super-powerful workstation, designers got wild with form factors and materials that oozed with confidence and no small amount of sass. In some ways, the new Mac Pro returns to that era—and here’s…

iPhone Versus Android Mapped Across the Entire World

iPhone versus Android is a battle for the ages, and it’ll never really be settled. But now you can see which camp is claiming what territory with this map the that shows the geographic use of both devices across the entire world. Oh and also there’s Blackberry. Now to be fair, this isn’t a comprehensive…

Is Your New MacBook Air’s Wi-Fi Crappy?

According to reports from Apple employees and the assorted hordes of the internet, we’re not the only ones having trouble with the Wi-Fi on the new MacBook Air. So, are we just holding it wrong, or have Ives and Co made a little whoopsie? https://gizmodo.com/apple-acknowledges-iphone-4-reception-issues-says-dont-5572279 A couple of thousand disenfranchised Apple customers seem to have…

Three for iOS: Never Dress Inappropriately for the Weather Ever Again

Ugh, you’ll say, another beautiful, gradient-hued, minimalist iOS weather app. Thanks—I’ve already got five. But Three is different, we promise. Sure you get just the basic weather info without tons of bells and whistles, but the one bell and/or whistle you do have is a phenomenal one. Three has made it so you’ll never be…

Lytro Enables Wi-Fi and Launches a GIF Making App For iOS

Since launching in 2011 Lytro, a miniaturized light field camera, has steadily rolled out a number of updates and new colors. After all, not everything needs to be updated with a new model every year! And today the company is unlocking a new feature that’s been hidden since day one: Wi-Fi. Oh, and they’re releasing…

Never-Before-Seen Steve Jobs On Video: History Will Forget Our Work

Steve Jobs gave one of his most illuminating interviews in 1994, when he was promoting the NeXT computer platform he would later sell to Apple and use as the basis for the new Macs that brought the company back to life. In this never-before-seen clip, Jobs humbly notes that his own contributions will be forgotten,…

Steve Jobs Explains How Every Tech Innovation Will Be Lost to History

It’s amazing the way a nice piece of tech can radically change the world over just a few years. Just decades ago, everything changed when we started putting computers in homes, and it changed again when we started putting them in pockets. But regardless of how revolutionary these innovations are, they’re gone incredibly fast. It’s…

How the Tech Industry Is Quietly Changing the Face of American Cities

When Steve Jobs presented the initial design for his donut-like headquarters to the Cupertino City Council, in 2011, he described the building as a reaction against suburban office parks. “We’ve come up with a design that puts 12,000 people in one building; which sounds a bit odd,” he said. “But we’ve seen these office parks…

This Awesome Credit Card-Sized iPhone Tripod Blew Me Away

Sometimes the simplest things are the most useful, but rarely something makes me shake my head at how clever and cool it is like the Pocket Tripod 360º has. I keep thinking “why didn’t someone do this before” and “what a great idea that I wish I’d thought of.” I’m still blown away that the…

Simple Now Lets iPhone Users Save More Money With Goals

While nearly everything is moving over to a mobile experience, banking remains one of the last vestiges of the old world. But even that is slowly changing with the likes of Simple, a bank-less mobile service that mashes up the best bits of your existing bank and services like Mint. One of Simple’s greatest features,…

This Could Maybe Possibly Be the Next iPhone’s Screen and Guts

It’s that time of the year again, where Apple’s next iPhone is probably being built in factories all over China, resulting in random parts being spat out onto the Internets. Today we have both a screen and logic board supposedly from the incoming iPhone 5S or whatever it ends up being called. If real, what…

Instapuzzle: Your Friends’ Boring Instagrams Are Better as Puzzles

Your endless stream of photos on Instagram is fun—for a while. But there’s only so many times you can see a sepia-toned sunset before even the mere thought starts to induce nausea. Instapuzzle for iOS, though, puts a fun new twist on how you interact with your friends’ filtered pics. What does it do? Lets…