One of the first Articles on Stratechery, written on the occasion of Intel appointing a new CEO, was, in retrospect, overly optimistic. Just look at the title:
Intel Problems
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Who Invented the Alphabet?
Centuries before Moses wandered in the “great and terrible wilderness” of the Sinai Peninsula, this triangle of desert wedged between Africa and Asia attracted speculators, drawn by rich mineral deposits hidden in the rocks.
What is Social Cooling?
1. Your data is collected and scored. Then databrokers use algorithms to reveal thousands of private details about you—friends and acquintances, religious and political beliefs, educational background, sexual orientation, reading habits, personality traits and flaws, economic stability, etc.
Learn X by doing Y : A project-based learning search engine
Project Based Learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex question, problem, or challenge.
Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide
The Mac has always been very different from its close relative, iOS, especially when it comes to what a user is or is not allowed to run on their system.
37 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Ran Apple’s Most Amazing Ad. Here’s the Story (It’s Almost Been Forgotten)
Intel unveiles new ‘Alder Lake’ chips that emulate Apple’s ARM designs
Intel during CES 2021 showed off its next-generation Alder Lake family of chips, which it says offers a “significant breakthrough” for the x86 architecture.
Synchronized violin players reveal uniqueness of human networks
There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science story that fell through the cracks in 2020, each day from December 25 through January 5.
The Lab-Leak Hypothesis
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URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies
This Christmas, a family member sent me a URL to a family Zoom call. However, they didn’t send me a direct link to Zoom. Instead, they sent me a “tinyurl.com” link. When I clicked on the link, my URL bar flashed an intermediate domain that was neither Zoom nor TinyURL.
Apple Watch leak offers rare glimpse inside ‘Ultra security program’
New images and video purporting to show an Apple Watch prototype, concealed by a security case that resembles a tiny iPod, offer a rare look behind the product-development curtain of the notoriously secretive company built by Steve Jobs.
Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you already own
Is your internet service provider charging you every month for the cable modem or router that you purchased with your own money? Or, perhaps, have you never bothered to buy those items because you couldn’t escape the fee? That fee will be illegal starting Sunday, December 20th, and you should tell
No cookie for you
Good news: we removed all cookie banners from GitHub! 🎉 No one likes cookie banners. But cookie banners are everywhere. So how did we pull this off?
A New Satellite Can Peer Inside Buildings, Day or Night
And unlike most of the huge array of surveillance and observational satellites orbiting the Earth, its satellite Capella 2 can snap a clear picture during night or day, rain or shine.
The Games People Play With Cash Flow
In my last post I examined how first principles thinking fails. This post is going to be about a single, concrete example — about an argument that started me down this path in the first place. But I also thought it was wrong. I told my friend as much.
NVIDIA found a way to train AI with very little data
NVIDIA has developed a new approach for training generative adversarial networks (GAN) that could one day make them suitable for a greater variety of tasks. Before getting into NVIDIA’s work, it helps to know a bit about how GANs work.
Innovative universal flu vaccine shows promise in first clinical test
For epidemiologists, the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly intensified their long-standing nightmare about another virus: the emergence of a new and deadly strain of flu.
How to Escape a Sinking Ship (Like, Say, the Titanic)
Let’s say you traveled to London, England, in 1912, and bought a ticket on the RMS Titanic for its maiden voyage. But you’re a frugal time traveler, so you elect to travel third class (only £8!).