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A Thank You Note to Steve Jobs Wikimedia Commons

A Thank You Note to Steve Jobs

A long-time Apple fan and customer expresses his deep gratitude to the big man in Cupertino, providing a brief history of the company's many products along the way

How to Make Your MacBook Air Loud Enough dan taylor/Flickr

How to Make Your MacBook Air Loud Enough

I love the new MacBook Air, but watch a lot of Hulu and Netflix and the volume never gets loud enough. Here's how to fix that.

My Favorite iPad Accessories Flickr

My Favorite iPad Accessories

Reviewing some of the iPad's most useful add-ons to help maximize its mobility and minimize its vulnerability

Total Surveillance, the Home Version David Shenk

Total Surveillance, the Home Version

Non-stop recording device, the Looxcie, demonstrates our society's growing obsession with surveillance

The iWrist  Engadget

The iWrist

Why the new iPod Nano may be much more revolutionary than it seems

Will Apple Fill in the Size Gaps?

Will Apple Fill in the Size Gaps?

If rumors are true, Mac will introduce your favorite products in better sizes

Reverse Engineering the Brain dierkschaefer/flickr

Reverse Engineering the Brain

Why renowned inventor Ray Kurzweil is wrong about the claim that we are roughly a decade away from being able to digitally simulate a human brain

The Rise of the Hand (Behold Apple's Forthcoming Gesture Language) D Sharon Pruitt/flickr

The Rise of the Hand (Behold Apple's Forthcoming Gesture Language)

The future could replace words with delicate hand movements.

The iPad Pianist in All of Us sciondriver/flickr

The iPad Pianist in All of Us

Performing "Flight of the Bumblebee" on an iPad.

The 32-Million Word Gap Random House

The 32-Million Word Gap

An excerpt from our correspondent's new book on where intelligence comes from -- and why exposure to words as a child matters

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