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Eugene Kim, Business Insider, May 14, 2015 Apple CEO Tim Cook stressed during its most recent earnings call that Apple is seeing a higher number of “switchers,” that is, people swapping their Android-powered smartphones for iPhones. In fact, he said...
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Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, April 14, 2015 Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl’s 1946 psychological memoir Man’s Search for Meaning is one of the most vital books ever written, and one of the most vitalizing one could ever...
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Timothy B. Lee, Vox, April 29, 2015 Today, Facebook is one of the biggest and most famous sites on the internet. But that wasn’t true 11 years ago, when a young Mark Zuckerberg made one of his first TV appearances to promote his new site, which was then...
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Jad Mouawad and Emma G. Fitzsimmons, The New York Times, May 13, 2015 An engineer jammed on the emergency brakes just seconds before Tuesday’s fatal Amtrak derailment, but the train — traveling at 106 miles an hour, more than twice the...
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Michael R. Sisak, The Boston Globe, May 13, 2015 The Associated Press reports that, according to officials, at least five people were killed in the crash of Amtrak Train 188 in Philadelphia and six people were criticially injured. Other passengers sustained...