December 28, 2013 2:35 pm December 28, 2013 2:35 pm It’s always important, and always hard, to distinguish positive economics — how things work — from normative economics — how things should be. Indeed, on many of the macro issues I’ve written about it has been obvious that large numbers of economists can’t bring themselves to make that distinction; they dislike activist government on political gr
A few months ago, a mysterious account called “Magic Recs” appeared on Twitter. Magic Recs promises to deliver “instant, personalized recommendations for users and content via direct message.” Its premise is simple: Twitter users that follow it receive occasional direct messages that highlight new accounts that people in your Twitter network have recently started following. For example, Magic Recs
There will presumably be a lot of commentary about Margaret Thatcher over the next few days, although probably nothing like the “Reagasm” of 2004. And there will in particular be many assertions that Thatcher turned around a moribund British economy. So, is this right? OK, I don’t want to do a slash-and-burn here — the question mark in the title of this post is for real. But I think it is interest
By Nick Bilton April 4, 2012 12:00 pm April 4, 2012 12:00 pm Photos via Google Google showed off its first venture into wearable computing, called Project Glass. If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from “Star Trek,” don’t worry. It’s probably just a Google employee testing the company’s new augmented-reality
By David Streitfeld February 22, 2012 5:37 pm February 22, 2012 5:37 pm Amazon.com removed more than 4,000 e-books from its site this week after it tried and failed to get them more cheaply, a muscle-flexing move that is likely to have significant repercussions for the digital book market. Amazon is under pressure from Wall Street to improve its anemic margins. At the same time, it is committed to
By Quentin Hardy February 15, 2012 6:37 pm February 15, 2012 6:37 pm From left, Daniel Mihailescu/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Todd Heisler/The New York Times; Rich Pedroncelli/Associated PressSimilar algorithms can be used to analyze electric systems, traffic and the water supply. It’s not just about Big Data. For the big players in enterprise technology algorithms, it’s about finding big
7:19 p.m. | Updated The New Coke experiment lasted less than three months. Qwikster did not even make it out of the bottle. In a swift reversal, Netflix said Monday that it had decided to keep its DVD-by-mail and online streaming services together under one name and one Web site, abandoning the breakup it had announced three weeks earlier. The company, which will keep a recent 60 percent price inc
Japan reeled after an earthquake and a tsunami struck in deadly tandem.
By The Editors April 6, 2010 7:09 pm April 6, 2010 7:09 pm Apple said it sold more than 300,000 iPads on Saturday, the device’s first day on the market. Apple iPad users downloaded more than one million apps from the company’s App Store and more than 250,000 electronic books from the iBookstore. Some reviewers said the iPad could challenge the primacy of the laptop. But others said the device, tho
By Nick Bilton March 4, 2010 7:47 am March 4, 2010 7:47 am 3/5/10, 7:43 p.m. | Correction: As legal reporter Joe Mullin notes, Nokia’s lawsuits against Sharp, Hitachi, LG, Toshiba, and Samsung are not related to patent disputes, but instead to price-fixing of mobile phone screens. In addition, R.I.M. did not sue Sharp over patent infringement; Kodak was named in the suit. At first glance, it looks
By Matt Richtel May 27, 2009 7:20 pm May 27, 2009 7:20 pm Summer Of ’09 Phone War update: By year’s end, there will be at least 18 phones on the market worldwide based on the Android operating system, Google disclosed for the first time Wednesday. Andy Rubin, senior director for Mobile Platforms for Google and the spearhead of the Android operating system, said the number could be as high as 20. (
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By now, everybody, I hope, knows what LOL stands for. Most people probably recognize IMHO, BRB, and AFK. (If you don’t know these, you can always Google* them.) Online shorthand like this arose, of course, because it’s so hard to type full English words on a cellphone’s number keypad. And it’s tedious to type the same common phrases over and over again in chat rooms or instant messages. [Update: O
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