Новости за 12.07.2013

[...] it's our turn, thanks to a cool app called Saga, a not-so-secret agent that helps smartphone users build a digital diary of their everyday activities. Available free for Apple Inc.'s iPhone- and devices running Google Inc.'s Android software, Saga offers a painless introduction to "life-logging," an up-and-coming tech trend in which people use digital gadgets to record everything they do. Using the phone's GPS, Wi-Fi wireless networking and motion-detection features, Saga figures out your location by itself... Читать дальше...

A week earlier in Kashgar, western China's historic Silk-Road trading town, I had met two other independent travelers who wanted to traverse the Karakoram Himalayas and enter Pakistan. [...] casually over breakfast at my prosaic hotel, a woman I had just met gave me the most depressing warning I've ever received over toast. The only female I had seen on Gilgit's unpaved main street was covered in a full, black chador that hid even her eyes, but the woman with the disheartening tip said I wouldn't need a chador. Читать дальше...

Blair Henley talks ESPN's Body Issue, World Team Tennis, Andy Murray's tweets, and Maria Sharapova's coaching change. Plus, check out video of Rafael Nadal's meeting with his impersonator.

In her first two novels, "Purple Hibiscus" and "Half of a Yellow Sun," the award-winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explored the history and contemporary life of her home country. The story follows Ifemelu, a young Nigerian woman who moves to America and finds some fame writing a candid blog about issues of race and nationality. In a recent email interview, Adichie discussed the state of American fiction, her approach to writing about race and more. The character was talking about African-American... Читать дальше...

Follow a robot as it works its day job—transforming the world of e-commerce by hustling packages around the giant warehouses that propel the modern economy. New robot minions: Welcome to the team.

Follow a robot as it works its day job—transforming the world of e-commerce by hustling packages around the giant warehouses that propel the modern economy. New robot minions: Welcome to the team.