Steve Jobs as Eustace Tilley
The cover of the inaugural issue of the New Yorker, published Feb. 17, 1925, featured a dandy peering through a monocle at a butterfly. Eustace Tilley, as the character was called, became the New...
View ArticleDid the China decision mark the beginning of the end for Eric Schmidt?
It seems that the move may not have only ended Google's presence in China, but also Schmidt's tenure. In a piece in the New Yorker, Googled Author Ken Auletta argues that the decision to pull Google...
View ArticleSurprise: 50% of iPad subscribers click "Allow"
Perhaps Apple's magazine subscription rules weren't as one-sided as publishers feared If you were subscribing to the online edition of, say, Wired, Vanity Fair or the New Yorker on the iTunes store,...
View ArticleToday in Tech: Facebook's new 1-million square-foot campus
Fortune's curated selection of the weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web. Sign up to get the newsletter delivered to you every day. * Facebook started moving the first bunch of...
View ArticleThe New Yorker's architecture critic pans Apple's new HQ
"When companies plan wildly ambitious, over-the-top headquarters, it is sometimes a sign of imperial hubris." Writing in the New Yorker's blog (but not, interestingly, in the magazine itself) Paul...
View ArticleThe 630-page Steve Jobs biography in 3,000 words
In the current New Yorker, Malcom Gladwell boils it down to this: Jobs was a "tweaker" I'm only 46% of the way through Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs, according to the Kindle app on my iPad, but I've...
View ArticleCourt approves Condé Nast intern pay settlement
(REUTERS) – Cond? Nast on Monday won a federal judge’s preliminary approval to pay $5.85 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by thousands of former interns who claimed the magazine publisher...
View ArticleFrom Princess Diana to Caitlyn Jenner: The most iconic magazine covers
On June 1, the online edition of Vanity Fair posted a preview of the cover of its July 2015 print edition. It was a photo of the athlete formerly known as Bruce Jenner, with the caption “Call me...
View ArticleMicrosoft has created an AI that can spot a joke … in a New Yorker cartoon
Move over Watson. Microsoft has trained an artificial intelligence program that can pick through the thousands of submissions to the New Yorker's cartoon caption contest to help find a winner....
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