The New York Times has a bewildering panoply of options for reading the paper digitally, including an almost-unknown but very awesome "Replica Edition" in which each page of the daily paper appears exactly as it does in print. (Hat tip to Dan Okrent for telling me about that, as I almost certainly ...
Amazon Fire Phone: Better than the iPhone?
Amazon just announced a mobile phone, which they are calling Fire Phone. Should you consider switching from your iPhone or Android? Here's the overview. What’s it cost? $199 with a 2-year contract from AT&T What’s cool about it? Here are the top 4 things that make it interesting: Point it ...
Women in Science and Tech: Stephanie Kwolek, Inventor of Kevlar
This week Stephanie Kwolek died at the age of 90. She was a chemist at DuPont and invented Kevlar, used in bulletproof vests as well as in firefighter gear, on bridges, in fiber-optic cables, and in building materials. Her work with Kevlar began in the 1960s, when there were not many women in ...
E-Waste Recycling Events This Summer
The Lower East Side Ecology Center just posted a list of new e-waste recycling events for the summer. Here's the list. Hours are 10 am to 4 pm. Brooklyn: Saturday June 14th: St Marks Ave between Underhill and Vanderbilt Ave; Prospect Heights, Brooklyn 11238 Saturday, June 21st: 5th Street, drop off ...
Heartbleed Guide for Apple Users
If you use a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, do you need to do anything special to protect yourself from the Heartbleed security flaw? Good news: The OSX operating system on the Mac, and the iOS operating system on the iPad and iPhone, are not specifically vulnerable to Heartbleed. If you’re running a Mac ...
Best Articles About Heartbleed
Here are the best articles I’ve read about Heartbleed – what it is and why it’s scary. From TidBITS: The Normal Person’s Guide to the Heartbleed Vulnerability From Mashable: The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now From The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Manage Your Passwords ...