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Apple launched HomeKit in 2014, and for many users it remains a bit of a mystery—an outlier in the smart home space that is wound up with the iPhone, Siri, and an unintuitive corner of the smart home universe. What is HomeKit, and is it appropriate for your home? Let’s dig in and break down what it is and how it works today. WHAT IS HOMEKIT? While HomeKit is exclusive to Apple and its licensees, it is really just a communications protocol, a framework of technologies that lets your iOS device work with any number of smart home products. Apple currently claims that more than 100 brands of products are now included in the HomeKit universe, including all the usual smart home suspects, such as smart plugs and switches, light bulbs, thermostats,…

Apple might not always be first to the party, but there’s no denying the company goes above and beyond with hardware and software to deliver cutting-edge consumer experiences. But Apple’s slow and steady approach needs to change. With Siri lagging behind rivals and AI changing everything, WWDC 2023 will determine the future success of the company. SIRI IS LAGGING BEHIND Apple’s digital assistant Siri was once the market leader in voice-based AI assistants, but in recent years, it has fallen behind the competition, particularly Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant. However, with the rise of large language models that drive groundbreaking AI tools like ChatGPT, Apple is struggling to keep up with AI innovation. In a new behind-the-scenes report in The Information, Apple’s efforts to catch up with competitors are explored, as well…

I’ll admit, I was pretty skeptical before unboxing the first smartwatch from OnePlus, aptly named the OnePlus Watch. At $159, it’s less than half the price of our Editors’ Choice winner, the Apple Watch Series 6 (which starts at $399). And while it doesn’t work with iPhones, it offers many of the same features as Apple’s market-leading wearable. So far, my skepticism appears to have been unfounded. The OnePlus Watch offers a large color touch screen, built-in GPS, 2GB of storage, a 402mAh battery that promises two weeks of power, and the ability to make and receive calls. It also has plenty of health and fitness features, including support for more than 110 workout types, automatic workout detection for jogging and running, rapid-heart-rate alerts, guided breathing exercises, stress detection, and the…

In the past year, our homes have become our sanctuaries – and, yet, while many are reliant, both emotionally and physically, on bricks and mortar as their safe spaces, I am in my third year as a housesitter, and don’t have a home at all. Even through the pandemic, I was needed: To care for an old cat so her owner could flee locked-down Paris. To tend a friend’s bonsai trees near the Eiffel Tower. Tropical plants in the Gers were left in my care while people made essential travel to Kenya. Rootlessness has long been part of my life. My family moved from Stockport to Canada when I was nine, and while I spent my 20s back in the UK, I went on to teach in South Korea, Thailand and Saudi…

Your hard drive hasn’t been acting the same lately. It’s starting to make clicking or screeching noises, it can’t seem to find your files, and it’s moving really slowly. Every hard drive dies eventually, and when it’s near death, you’ll see the signs: Strange noises, corrupted files, crashes during boot, and glacial transfer speeds all point to the inevitable end. This is normal, especially if your drive is more than a few years old. On older spinning drives, moving parts such as the motor can degrade over time, and a drive’s magnetic sectors can go bad. “Your computer can notify you before data loss occurs, and the drive can be replaced while it still remains functional.” Newer solid-state drives (SSDs) don’t have moving parts, but their storage cells degrade a little every…

The Virtual Physiological Human Project is led by Peter Coveney, a professor at UCL and head researcher at the CompBioMed Centre of Excellence, a consortium of researchers using biomedical modelling to personalise medicine. Funded by the EU and powered by some of the world’s most advanced super computers, such as the MareNostrum 4 at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), the Virtual Human is an avatar combining X-rays, MRIs, CAT scans and other medical imaging to digitally recreate the physiology of a person’s body – including the skeleton, genetic code and complex organic mechanisms that bring it to life. Coveney says that one way to think of the Virtual Human is as a more advanced personal health record. In 2001, the Human Genome Project released a rough draft of our genetic blueprint,…

You’ll get plenty of sound career advice during your lifetime. Much of it will be valuable, but some of it will come at the wrong time or be the opposite of what you need to hear at that moment. Depending on your immediate needs and long-term desires, good career advice can turn out to be wrong for you. Curious to hear other people’s experiences, I asked around and collected ten pieces of career advice that don’t always hold up. 1. GO WHERE THE MONEY IS There are high-paying jobs, and then there are jobs that come with lower base pay but generous compensation packages that lead to more guaranteed money in the long term—and sometimes a happier life. The classic example: any job with a pension. If you collect a full pension for…

Whether we’re working on an exciting project, travelling to a new place or reading an engrossing book, we need sharp brains to appreciate all life has to offer. Yet most of us devote more time to looking after our teeth than we do our brains. And, considering dementia is the most feared disease in over 55s, according to Alzheimer’s Research UK, it’s worth prioritising our brain health. ‘Your brain is the most precious part of the body and defines who you are,’ says Gill Livingston, professor of psychiatry at University College London. ‘Looking after your brain is not just about remembering things, it’s about your feelings, reactions and simply enjoying life more.’ It’s true that our brains change with age, starting from as young as when we’re in our 20s. As we…

It was, as it were, a match meant to be. The Paris-based interior designer Isabelle Stanislas still clearly recalls being interviewed by the owner of this majestic apartment close to the Place du Trocadéro. The meeting took place in his office, located just a stone’s throw away. “After we’d been talking for a while, I looked down and suddenly noticed the rug was a prototype I’d designed,” she recounts. “He was not aware it was by me, and I had no idea who had bought it.” Serendipity aside, for her client—a dynamic entrepreneur who set up his company in his early 20s—the acquisition of the 4,800-square-foot flat represents the fulfilment of a long-held dream. At the age of 13, he jumped onto the Paris Métro and alighted on a whim at…

THERE IS A MUSIC-TECH controversy that rivals Bob Dylan’s choice to plug in his guitar at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. A year earlier, on April 10, 1964, the pianist Glenn Gould made a radical exit from live concerts. Gould played seven pieces to a packed house at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, including four fugues. He gave no indication that the program was his swan song. Then he strolled—he never stormed—away from his Steinway CD 318 and out the door of the concert hall, into the mild California air. A year later, he boarded a train for the desolate Northwest Territories of his native Canada. He never played another concert. When Arthur Rubinstein bet him in 1971 that he’d be back, Gould took the bet; when he…

ABOUT SEVEN minutes into my second conversation with the actor, writer, and director Taika Waititi, he confessed, somewhat abruptly, that he doesn’t like being around people. There was “absolutely nothing loaded” about the remark, he assured me—but he also seemed to mean it. “It’s just really draining,” he said. “With whoever—it doesn’t matter who. Even my family. But definitely people I’ve never met before.” It was a hard claim to believe. Outwardly, Waititi can seem extroverted in the extreme. He’s goofy and antic, with an easygoing familiarity and a seemingly bottomless amount of energy. While filming, he’s known for keeping his sets lively: playing music, launching into bits of oddball comedy, and sometimes doing directorial “costume changes” where he vanishes and then reappears in a different outfit. Cate Blanchett once described…

The Leonids, arguably history’s most important annual meteor shower, may have a treat in store for us this November. Classically, the shower peaks each year in mid-November. But the 2022 show may captivate those at key locations across the globe with multiple encore performances, one of which could be a dazzler. What’s more, with a waning Moon setting before the best viewing opportunities begin, this year offers observers great opportunities to capture the most of any activity. Meteor showers are curious phenomena. While astronomers are becoming ever more precise in their predictions of when maximum shower activity will occur, the number of meteors one will see with the unaided eyes at any given location is less certain. Researchers are also exploring ways to determine the brightness of expected meteors, but surprises…

Cars have always been my passion, and I am rediscovering that joy by building scale models of them. One of the automobiles that grabbed my attention is the Renault 4, so I was happy to build Heller’s 1/24 scale TL/GTL variant (No. 80759). The kit is simple and builds quickly. I added a few details but focused on finishing. I wanted to represent a slightly worn but not destroyed car. FINAL THOUGHTS I PAINTED THE INSIDE of the headlights with chrome circles highlighted with white in the center. The taillights and turn signals were painted with Mr. Hobby Clear Red (No. H90) and Clear Orange (No. H92). These lenses and other small details, including the bumpers, wing mirrors, and door handles were attached with Revell Contacta clear-part cement. I added the few…

Every self-respecting modeler, especially those who like cars, has to build a Volkswagen Beetle at some point. This charming vehicle is undoubtedly one of the icons of motoring. You still see these cars on the road despite that most production ended decades ago. I built my first Beetle a long time ago as one of the first models after returning to modeling. Inspired by photos of a VW finished in a rusty patina, I set about to build another using Aoshima’s 1/24 scale VW 1303S (No. 055526). I washed all of the parts with a little dish soap in warm water and stripped the chrome from the plated parts with caustic drain cleaner. FINAL THOUGHTS I AM SATISFIED WITH THE FINAL EFFECT. For sure, this VW 1303 is different, distinctive, and attracts attention.…

Italeri’s 1/32 scale Tornado GR4, the final service version of the husky striker, has been getting a lot of attention from modelers. Build options abound, including posable flaps and slats, airbrakes and thrust reversers, and optional vinyl tires. Other nice additions are a boarding ladder and a trolley to display one of the Turbo-Union RB.199 engines. The kit provides a selection of weapons, although some don’t apply to Royal Air Force Tornados. Among those that do are laser-targeted GBU-12s; 2,250-liter fuel tanks; AIM-9 missiles; BOZ-107 countermeasures; and Sky Shadow ECM pods. A nice inclusion would have been Brimstone air-to-ground missiles carried by the GR4 on numerous deployments late in its career. The airframe parts feature pronounced panel lines — some might call them overdone — and other surface details. A separate, detailed painting…

OH, WOW, MAN —it’s Jeff Bridges. Alive and well, at 72. Like, really well, from the looks of things. He’s walking around a photo studio in Santa Barbara on a hot, still Tuesday. When he walks, he leads with his rib cage, his weight in his heels, his whole posture telegraphing a wide-openness to the world. He’s been telling me where that posture comes from—it’s thanks in large part to these isometric exercises he learned from a trainer named Eric Goodman, which are designed to get the muscles in the backside of your body to work together to support you better, so that the burden of carrying your weight around the planet doesn’t fall solely on your poor, embattled joints, and which have freed Bridges from some hellacious back pain—but he’d rather…

DISTRIBUTION OF POWER Bring the comforts of home on your next weekend getaway or extended off-grid adventure with REDARC’s new Manager30R with RedVision Display Screen and mobile app. The REDARC Manager30 combines a multi-stage 30-amp DC to DC charger, a multi-stage 30-amp AC to DC charger, solar regulator, dual battery isolator, load disconnect controller, and remote battery monitor all into a small and simple system. The Manager30R is a state-of-the-art battery management system designed to maintain and charge auxiliary batteries using the DC output from your starting battery/alternator, 110V AC shore power, or your solar panel array. The Manager30R is compatible with all vehicle alternator systems and battery types, including lithium batteries. The Manager30R features a color LCD screen that displays live system data and transmits live to the company’s mobile…

The legendary Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX, to my mind, counts as one of the most elegant World War II fighter designs. How could it not, with its smooth aerodynamic lines, elliptical wing, and thin profile? Being Czech, I wanted to model the Spitfire DU-L MJ931 flown by Flying Officer Ladislav Světlík, a member of No. 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF, during the first half of 1944. In this aircraft, he shot down Lt. Georg Kiefner of I./JG 26 who piloted an Fw 190A. After the war, Světlík became a Czechoslovak Airlines captain. In 1950, he helped plan and execute the famous coordinated escape flight of three Douglas DC-3s from then-communist Czechoslovakia to U.S.-controlled Erding Air Base near Munich, Germany. FINAL THOUGHTS AT LAST, it was time to assemble the whole from the many subassemblies. For the…

Mathematics has never been my strong point and I blame my lack of numeracy to assess depths for secondary ports on my Secondary Modern education. But there is another way, of course, even on a boat without an echo-sounder. Even on a boat without an echo-sounder, heading for a short-cut over a sandbank on a falling tide, in a rising wind while sailing solo. It is the sapling. Mine is a very strong… twig. Sycamore, I think, picked up in woodland after a coppicing exercise and taken back to my shed where I measured and marked a depth gauge in feet along its length. At each mark I cut around the young bark with a knife, peeled it away and used white undercoat to paint a ring. Now, armed with my blind…

Welcome back! This month, we’re going to dip back into theory. Learning bass is a constant rotation of the three aspects of how we understand and execute any musical idea—what it sounds like, what it looks like on the fingerboard, and how we explain it via music theory. Technical exercises are a combination of all three, as are composition and improvisation. These three ways into any piece of music can help us out if we get stuck with any one approach. If we can hear it but don’t understand what’s happening theoretically, we might have more chance once we’ve worked out the pattern on the fingerboard. Alternatively, if we know that a piece is in the key of D, that might give us a starting-point for working out the notes available…

Late one night in 1982, a Yale University medical student named Martin Yarmush witnessed a harrowing scene at a local hospital. A toddler was admitted, and several nurses attempted to insert an IV needle into one of the child’s tiny veins. Each time they missed the vessel, the child screamed more shrilly, and the mother grew more worried. There has to be a better way, thought Yarmush, now a professor of biomedical engineering at Rutgers University. The incident changed his outlook on medicine. Thoroughly unnerved by the anguish he’d witnessed, Yarmush started to imagine what would happen if the process of drawing blood could be automated. At the time, automation was found primarily on assembly lines for cars, where robots were so powerful and dangerous that they were bolted to the ground…

To be a positive and productive person, Barbara Hepworth believed one should sustain ‘proper coordination between hand and spirit on our daily life’. Throughout her 50-year career, the artist infused her sculptures and drawings with this philosophy, approaching the organic materials she used with a clear vision of what possibilities lay beneath their surface. ‘She was always pushing the boundaries of what sculpture could be,’ says Eleanor Clayton, who has curated a tribute to this 20th-century visionary to celebrate 10 years of the Hepworth Wakefield – a gallery that, since its opening, has become a cultural jewel in the crown of the artist’s hometown. Growing up in West Yorkshire, Hepworth was surrounded by dramatic landscapes of time-worn cliffs and nature-hewn hills, which were catalysts for the moulded monoliths that came to…

→ Rezept Seite 90 Neue Serie € 1,90 Euro pro Person Foto Seite 88/89 Zitronen-Pasta mit Zucchini VEGETARISCH FETTARM ZUTATEN für 2 Portionen 200 g Spaghetti Salz 1 grüne Zucchini (ca. 300 g) 1 gelbe Zucchini (ca. 300 g) 1 Bio-Zitrone 3 Stiele Basilikum 40 g Parmesan 1 El Olivenöl 80 g Ricotta Pfeffer 1. Nudeln in reichlich kochendem Salzwasser nach Packungsanweisung bissfest garen. Inzwischen Zucchini putzen, längs halbieren und in Scheiben schneiden. Zitrone heiß waschen, trocken tupfen, Schale fein abreiben und den Saft auspressen. Basilikumblätter abzupfen. Parmesan fein hobeln. 2. Öl in einer großen Pfanne erhitzen und die Zucchini darin anbraten. Nudeln abgießen, dabei eine Tasse Nudelwasser auffangen. Zitronenschale,-saft, Nudelwasser und Ricotta verrühren und in die Pfanne geben. Mit Salz und Pfeffer abschmecken. Nudeln in die Sauce geben und durchschwenken. In tiefen Tellern anrichten und mit etwas Parmesan und…

Apple’s latest smart device is the AirTag, a small, puck-shaped tracker that can help you locate misplaced or stolen items with the Find My app. AirTags costs $29 for one or $99 for a pack of four and can be engraved with letters or an image of your choosing for free. Accessories such as keychains, luggage tags, and loops, which hold the device, are sold separately. AirTags use ultra-wideband technology (UWB) and take advantage of Apple’s existing network of devices, which work as crowdsourced beacons to ping one another and determine a missing item’s location. Here’s what to know before you slap an AirTag on everything you own. WHICH iPHONES AND OSeS WORK WITH AIRTAGS? Compatible iPhones and iPads can use the Find My app to identify the approximate location of a missing…

The Apple Watch Series 8 looks exactly like its predecessor, but it offers some notable health and safety improvements that weren’t available on last year’s model. Its biggest upgrade is the ability to measure and track changes in your body temperature while you sleep, with a dual-sensor design for more accurate readings. If you have a menstrual cycle, the Series 8 can use your body-temperature data to estimate the date of your last ovulation. And on the safety front, the watch can detect whether you’ve been in a car crash and automatically call for help. With these upgrades, plus an already unrivaled user experience and app selection that’s further enhanced by watchOS 9, the Apple Watch Series 8 is still the best iPhone-compatible smartwatch for most buyers and remains our…

OLIVIER ROUSTEING, BALMAIN I first met Karl in 2011. “You’re the new Balmain boy?” he asked me. I said yes. “I used to be the Balmain boy – welcome to fashion.” A couple of months later, we sat together at a dinner and chatted. I didn’t want to speak with him about his job, so I asked, “How is life outside work, Karl – you know, outside of Chanel?” And he said: “We don’t ask that question, because work is my life, work is my love.” He has always been my biggest inspiration in life. He didn’t follow trends – he created fashion, and connected it to pop culture. Karl was the pioneer – the king – of all that we’re trying to do today. And he never stopped being curious…

First, a caveat. Anyone hoping to find an array of caricatured, Goop-arific novelty features in the Montecito home that Gwyneth Paltrow shares with her husband, writer-producer Brad Falchuk, is sure to be disappointed. There’s no plant-based, toxin-leaching, zero-gravity pod, no fermenting cabana, no crystal-powered sweat lodge. There are, to be sure, myriad elements specifically designed to nurture mind, body, and soul; they just happen to be far more discreet—things like Vitruvian proportions, sacred geometries, and a host of finely crafted architectural details that together represent a nuanced interpretation of wellness by design. “The strength of the house is in the subtleties of light and space,” Paltrow says. “We spent a lot of time assessing family patterns, how we really live, what makes us most comfortable. The focus was on the experience,…

With a constant stream of new entertainment projects, jointly produced product lines, and two small kids at home, interior designers Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent enjoy a lot of, shall we say, quantity time. But when it comes to private commissions, the duo tends to stick to their independent design studios. “We only work together for special clients,” Brent explains succinctly. Happily, Brian Robbins, the CEO and president of Kids & Family Entertainment at ViacomCBS, and his wife, Tracy James, a wardrobe stylist and clothing designer, more than meet the criterion of special. The two couples met when Berkus and Brent designed a Los Angeles home in Hancock Park for Robbins, James, their young daughter, Stella, and Robbins’s sons from a previous marriage, Justin and Miles. They’ve been thick as…

Amid all the sleepless hours that Todd Leetham spent hunting ghosts inside his company’s network in early 2011, the experience that sticks with him most vividly a decade later is the moment he caught up with them. Or almost did. It was a spring evening, he says, three days—maybe four, time had become a blur—after he had first begun tracking the hackers who were rummaging through the computer systems of RSA, the corporate security giant where he worked. Leetham—a bald, bearded, and curmudgeonly analyst one coworker described to me as a “carbonbased hacker-finding machine”—had been glued to his laptop along with the rest of the company’s incident response team. They were assembled around RSA’s glass-encased operations center in a nonstop, 24-hours-a-day hunt, all of them feeling a growing sense of dread.…

Stephen is a globetrotting observer who is always looking for the next great celestial event. In 1643, Antonius Maria Schyrleus de Rheita, an astronomer and friar of the Catholic Church’s Capuchin Order, detected through his binocular telescope a stellar grouping resembling the sacred Sudarium Veronicae, or the Veil of St. Veronica. According to the Christian Stations of the Cross, when Veronica used this cloth to wipe the face of Jesus on his way to Calvary, it took on the impression of his face. But the knowledge of which stars formed this asterism has been lost to time. Since de Rheita’s original observation, there have been no other recorded sightings — until, perhaps, now. A problematic portrait Before we share the solution, let’s look first at the problem. To search for the Veil, many…

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) blasted off from French Guiana Dec. 25, 2021, astronomers anticipated it would deliver breathtaking images of distant galaxies and star-forming regions, as well as analyze the chemical makeups of exoplanet atmospheres. And NASA’s flagship space telescope has not disappointed. JWST has already captured images of galaxies so far from Earth that cosmic expansion has shifted their light well into the infrared part of the spectrum, which the telescope is built to detect. And the observatory’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) has even discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of exoplanet WASP-39 b — the first definitive detection of this gas in a world beyond our solar system. But JWST has set its sights closer to home, too. On July 27, astronomers targeted Jupiter with the telescope’s powerful…

IT ISN’T A SECRET THAT humanity and everything around us is made of star stuff. But not all stars create elements equally. Sure, regular stars can create the basic elements: helium, carbon, neon, oxygen, silicon, and iron. But it takes the collision of two neutron stars — incredibly dense stellar corpses — to create the heavier elements like silver, gold, and platinum. Neutron stars aren’t just notable for the valuable elements they create, though. They’re also a dream come true for physicists. From their crushing gravity to the universe’s strongest magnetic fields, extremes of physics are the norm for neutron stars. And, unlike black holes, these exotic objects are observable. “It’s hard to study black holes,” says Samar Safi-Harb, the Canada research chair in supernova remanent astrophysics at the University of…

With 3D printing, you can easily design, produce, and tweak custom-made parts, producing as many exact copies as you need. I wanted to depict an obsolete armored fighting suit from the Maschinen Krieger (Ma.K) universe modified and repurposed to work in a nuclear waste-disposal facility. In Ma.K, the combatants are fighting over an Earth recovering from the devastation of a nuclear war, so I figured war-weary equipment would be redeployed for cleanup duty. As the basis of my conversion, I used Nitto’s 1/20 scale Panzer Kampf Anzug Ausf H1 Heinrich kit from the mid-1980s. The basics of 3D printing CONSTANTLY BEING REFINED, 3D printers reproduce complex shapes quickly and accurately. They vary widely in size from small tabletop machines to industrial models and use several materials, including resin, plastic, and metal to…

Italy’s C1 Ariete tank has been in service for more than 20 years and has seen peace-keeping operations in Kosovo along with deployment to Iraq. But only one 1/35 scale injection-molded plastic kit of the Ariete (Italian for ram) has been produced. Trumpeter has released two versions of the tank: one in standard configuration, the other up-armored with explosive reactive armor on the hull and turret. Looking to build something unusual, I picked up the up-armored version (No. 00394). To improve on the basic kit, I grabbed Friulmodel metal tracks (No. ATL-152), an RB Models turned-metal gun barrel (No. 35B117), and Voyager’s photo-etched metal (PE) details (No. 35566). FINAL THOUGHTS TO REPRESENT A TANK IN SERVICE, I added chains front and rear and placed several boxes in the turret bustle basket. Trumpeter’s Ariete…

For modelers, the Soviet designed BMP infantry fighting vehicles are attractive subjects. They look aggressive and cool, and, given how widely they have been used, can be finished in an endless variety of camouflage and markings. Plus, they are often fitted with weird, improvised armor and non-standard armament. Several years ago, I considered building a BMP in overall white United Nations markings. Then I found a profile by Ukrainian artist Volodymyr Booth — his work has graced model box tops from MiniArt, Ammo by Mig Jimenez, Rye Field, and ICM — of a Ukrainian BMP-2 from the fighting in the Donbas region in 2014. Based on photos, it showed a vehicle emblazoned with patriotic slogans and the road wheels painted in Ukrainian colors. Unable to get a BMP-2 quickly, I opted…

Driving winds blew blinding snow across the deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Oriskany on November 18, 1952. Inside the cockpit of his Grumman F9F-5 Panther, Lt. Royce Williams watched the blizzard while waiting for the signal to take off from the Essex-class carrier as it plowed through the Sea of Japan. Snow was not uncommon at that time of year along the upper coast of North Korea, not far from the Soviet Union’s easternmost seaport of Vladivostok. Williams was preparing to fly a combat air patrol to cover the naval task force to which the carrier belonged. This mission turned out to be different than he expected, though. Instead of flying a routine patrol, Williams made history by tangling with seven Soviet Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15s and, according to his account,…

Some file optimization and application removal programs on the Mac reach for the stars, trying to perform every possible task of optimization, file cleanup, operating system customization, and malware removal the developers can think of as part of an overarching package. Other apps have been more streamlined, seeking to perform fewer functions and executing them well. DaisyDisk, the brainchild of developers Taras Brizitsky (who programmed the original idea, interaction, and graphic design) and Oleg Krupnov (who now handles the code and technical support), as well as a large group of translators and contributors, belongs to the latter group. The application (version 4.20.3 reviewed here) focuses on locating file clusters, groups them by size, and offers a quick and easy means of dragging them to a delete icon and getting rid of…

MICHAEL C. HALL can guess what you’re thinking, Dexter fans: Eight years later, you’re probably still mad about that final episode—the one that ended up on countless “worst series finales of all time” lists. And he’s mindful of how devoted you are, especially those who’ve asked him to autograph their kitchen knives. So yes, he feels your pain. “It was so confounding for people,” Hall, 50, says of the series ender, in which Dexter Morgan—forensic-blood-splatter analyst by day, vigilante serial killer, um, also by day—threw his dead sister, Deb (Jennifer Carpenter), into the angry waters off Miami. “I can appreciate how it was pretty dissatisfying for anyone who was hoping for something definitive or some sense of closure,” the actor adds of Dexter faking his own death and moving to a…

Sitting in an isolated room at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Frank Nielsen steeled himself for the first injection. Doctors were about to take a needle filled with herpes simplex virus, the strain responsible for cold sores, and plunge it directly into his scalp. If all went well, it would likely save his life. Nielsen was a cancer survivor and, once again, a cancer patient. His melanoma, which had responded to conventional treatments the first time around, had returned with a frightening aggressiveness. Within weeks, a lump on his scalp had swelled into an ugly mass. Unlike the first time, options like surgery weren’t viable — it was growing too quickly. As a last resort, his doctors turned to a cutting-edge drug known as T-VEC, approved in 2015 in the…

Nine years ago, I found myself in the hospital, lying on a table in a darkened room. I’d been finding it hard to catch my breath, and my dad, a retired GP, insisted I go to A&E to get checked out. I expected to go in, have a chat with the doctor, roll our eyes collectively at my father’s over-protectiveness and be back in the office by lunch. But instead of dashing into Pret, I was about to have an echocardiogram. Apparently, I had a hole in my heart that I’d had since birth, and I’d been unaware because somehow my body had managed to chug along until it got to the point where it simply couldn’t. I have spent a lifetime listening to music but when my heart spoke to me…

LIFE LESSONS Tilda Swinton, the star of the film Orlando, sings the praises of her heroes For those among us dedicated to living a self-determined life, to a vibrant, engaged, inspired and convivial existence, to an allegiance to reason, friendship and beauty above all other ties, the beacon lit by the spirit of Bloomsbury flashes and glitters ahead, fresh as the day, more relevant and urgent than ever. Leonard Woolf simply described Bloomsbury as ‘a fortuitous aggregation of friends who happened to live together’. A century later, their example still leads onward: pacifist in the face of all wars, in painstaking revolt against the social assumptions of their ancestors, inclusively sensualist, intellectually liberationist, in worship of the enchantment of nature – human and otherwise – the passions of the gypsy heart, the reforming zeal…

Rudolf Nureyev couldn’t stand calm waters. He liked rough seas. I first saw him when he came to do a class with the Royal Ballet in London in 1961. We girls, members of the company, peered through the studio door to see this beautiful new person, and could tell something special had landed in our midst. We later learnt his story, that of a boy who grew up in the middle of nowhere, fell in love with dance and won a place at the Kirov Ballet in St Petersburg. He then defected to the West to be free from restriction – politically, as a dancer, and of course because he was gay, which was not acceptable in Moscow. He wasn’t willing to live a double life to hide it. Rudolf was fascinated…

Für Gäste Foto Seite 28/29 Crispy Chicken mit Chinakohl LAKTOSEFREI ZUTATEN für 2 Portionen 2 Hähnchenbrustfilets (́ ca. 160 g) Salz Pfeffer 2 Eier (Kl. M) 50 g Mehl 100 g Pankobrösel (ersatzweise Semmelbrösel) 200 g Chinakohl 200 g Möhren 2 El Butterschmalz 2 El Olivenöl 100 g Mungobohnensprossen 50 ml Sojasauce 100 ml Reisessig 2 Stiele Koriandergrün 1. Hähnchenbrustfilets in je 3 Stücke schneiden, mit Salz und Pfeffer würzen. Eier in einer Schale mit einer Gabel kräftig verquirlen und salzen. Mehl und Panko getrennt in zwei Schalen oder tiefe Teller geben. Chinakohl putzen, in dünne Streifen schneiden, Möhren putzen, schälen und grob raspeln. 2. Hähnchenstücke nacheinander erst im Mehl wenden, überschüssiges Mehl abklopfen, durch die Eier ziehen, dann in den Pankobröseln panieren. Panierung leicht andrücken. Butterschmalz in einer Pfanne erhitzen. Fleisch darin 12-15 Min. goldbraun…

Fifteen years ago, on January 9, 2007, I sat on the floor of a Las Vegas Convention Center entryway and pondered the iPhone. While I was running around the Consumer Electronics Show looking at the latest LG Chocolate, Steve Jobs was over at Macworld changing the world. I’d been covering smartphones for three years by then, and they were complex gadgets for road warriors. With the iPhone, Apple simplified the smartphone and made it a must-have for everyone. This wasn’t solely about Steve Jobs’ brilliance. He struck when several other technologies were becoming available—3G for the mobile web and capacitive touch screens for finger-friendly interfaces. And he worked without the legacy-software hangovers that Microsoft, Nokia, and Palm all struggled through from the first generation of proto-smartphones. The iPhone has made a huge number…

Like many internet users, I love schadenfreude. And few things have given me more pleasure to read than August’s Twitter whistleblower story. It’s a veritable feast of terrible things. The company allegedly has half its 500,000 server fleet running an insecure operating system that’s no longer supported by vendors. And the site has allegedly experienced one security incident per week. Delicious! As thrilling as that is, there are other parts of the story that are a lot less entertaining. An internal report says in no uncertain terms that Twitter is completely unequipped to cope with misinformation and disinformation on its platform. That’s more than a little worrying, especially with the US midterm elections coming up. (In the company’s defense, Twitter says it’s working hard in advance of the midterms, which is good…

Alexandra Tolstoy, founder of antiques brand The Tolstoy Edit, lives in a Victorian terraced house in south London with her three children and their dog. The property has four bedrooms and three bathrooms arranged over three floors. When I first saw this house, it was in a terrible state but that was what made it affordable! The layout was fantastic, though, and I told the landlord I would rent if it could be done up with my choice of new bathroom fittings, flooring and paint colours – show that you are going to treat the house with respect and it can make a huge difference with flexibility. Our sitting room is painted in Pimlico Green by Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler. The photos of my children were taken by Edward Mapplethorpe…

Darren Clark lives in Michigan, where he used to receive dismal internet speeds ranging from 2.5Mbps to 3.5Mbps. The DSL internet was so bad that he’d have to drive his family elsewhere to find faster broadband and finish software and game downloads. “Many times, we ended up going to McDonald’s or out to the local Meijer grocery store for internet access,” he told PCMag. But in recent days, Clark’s home internet is getting speeds between 10Mbps and 100Mbps. The reason? He’s among the first people to try out Starlink’s Best Effort tier, the latest offering from SpaceX’s satellite internet service. “I have to say, Starlink Best Effort is a lifesaver for me and my family,” he said. “My kids are amazed that a 1GB download can finish in a couple of minutes instead…

“East Hampton is our escape,” says the client. “It’s where we go to breathe and relax.” in one family’s Long Island compound, two hallmarks of Hamptons architecture stand side by side—a 19th-century Shingle Style saltbox festooned with hydrangeas (they call it the farmhouse) and its supermodern foil, heavy on the glass, by New York City firm Architecture Outfit. “East Hampton is our escape; it’s where we go to breathe and relax,” explains the client, who lives here with her husband and two sons. They acquired the tumbledown farmhouse in 2018 and knew they wanted a more contemporary counterpoint. “We needed to find an interior designer who could tie together these two very different structures.” Luckily, the clients have a family member in the design world—tastemaking shop owner Kate Rheinstein Brodsky (AD featured her…

Timothy was 10 years old when his personality changed overnight. A concussion during a family ski trip in December 2016 left him unsteady on his feet, but that was just the first sign something was wrong. The strawberry-blond boy who played on the chess team and looked forward to Mandarin lessons became withdrawn, obsessive, and suicidal. Back home in Marin County, California, he said “bad men” had surrounded his family’s house and were trying to get him. Timothy’s parents, Rita and John, took him out of school while doctors tried to decipher what was going on inside his head. (The family members’ names have been changed to protect their privacy.) Rita suggested that her son take up knitting to fill the time. Once he started, he couldn’t stop. Compulsive thoughts haunted…

ANOTHER DAY, another deadline: To limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, greenhouse gas emissions must peak “at the latest before 2025,” according to the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. This is how we live now—not in the Biblical end times but in a permanent “time of the end,” in the words of 20th-century philosopher Günther Anders. Just take a look around: The mega-droughts, wild-fires, and category-busting hurricanes we see today are the result of emissions past—a hauntological quirk of the carbon cycle. The acute stress of the pandemic slowed time for some and sped things up for others. Dispatches from the war in Ukraine, which once might have arrived on the nightly news, are transmitted through our screens 24/7. And trends move at the speed of TikTok,…

One appeal of astro-observing is that we’re inspecting a vast realm where nothing is sloppily arranged or in need of vacuuming — though the Moon’s southern highlands are admittedly a crowded mess, with many craters piled partially atop others. Then there’s Mars, whose dry and dusty landscape has terminated numerous martian missions, albeit long past their expected use-by date. Dust caked on the solar panels of the InSight lander recently brought that mission to an end, and while the Spirit and Opportunity rovers were lucky enough to have dust devils give their solar panels quick and timely scours, dust eventually did them both in. But rather than sloppiness imposed by nature, let’s talk about whether it matters if you’re a Class 3 slob after you spent your savings on a telescope. It’s…

TIME AND ASTRONOMY ARE INSEPARABLE. Humans have been using the motions of the stars, Sun, and Moon for thousands of years to regulate their hunting, crops, religion, and lives in every way. And as astronomy developed, so did the need for more precise timekeeping. There are many ways to ask, “What is the time?” Astronomers can use solar standard time, mean solar time, sidereal time, Universal Time, or Julian Date and its many modified forms. Astronomers describe three different types of twilight, the equation of time, 24 time zones, and an astronomical day. Understanding these different “times” gives us a better idea of our relationship with the sky above, and the spinning Earth on which we live. The beginning of time Early civilizations developed two types of calendars. The oldest is lunar in…

Stephen is a globetrotting observer who is always looking for the next great celestial event. Up for an extreme challenge? One with your unaided eyes? If so, buckle up for this one: splitting Theta1 (θ1) Orionis and Theta2 (θ2) Orionis without optical aid. For some, this challenge may be “out of sight,” but there’s only one way to find out. First, some background Theta1 and Theta2 Orionis are two multiple-star systems within the Orion Nebula (M42). Theta1 includes several stars; the four brightest comprise the Trapezium star cluster at the heart of M42. To the unaided eye, these four stars shine roughly as a solitary 5th-magnitude star. The magnitude is not exact, because the Trapezium’s two brightest components (Theta1 Orionis A and B) are eclipsing binary stars. Theta1 Orionis A dips in brightness…

Chevrolet’s fifth generation (2010 – 2015) of the Camaro name-plate mixed throwback styling with modern amenities, and you can definitely see the 1969 Camaro in there, peeking out. The 2010 Camaro could be had as an LS or SS model with the RS package available on both. The image on the box is of an RS/SS coupe powered by a 6.2-liter V8 producing 426 horsepower mated to GM’s six-speed manual transmission. AMT’s 2010 Chevrolet Camaro has seen a bunch of variations, like a stock RS/SS coupe, police car, and Indy pace car. However, a version based on a 1/64 scale Hot Wheels car styling is a first. As you might expect, the parts inside the box are bright and colorful, including metallic blue, black, silver, and orange chrome five-spoke wheels that absolutely…

I’ve always liked the look of an F-35B Lightning II as it comes in to land vertically on an aircraft carrier. After reading FSM’s review of Italeri’s 1/72 scale kit, I decided to take a break from building sci-fi and try my hand at getting an F-35B to hover. Along the way, I resolved to add as much extra detail as I could find from aftermarket parts and online research. I started a list of what I needed and where I needed to buy it, made a copy of the kit instructions, and noted paint colors and potential construction challenges. Scouring the internet, I collected photos of actual F-35s hovering and landing. I also found a few build reviews which provided me with more ideas. The kit instructions call for main colors…

BY AIR THE GRAVITY PROBLEM The National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, has funded Explorer Davide Monteleone’s work about how transportation affects the environment. A FACT AND A FIGURE KEEP POPPING to mind as I talk with aviation experts about whether commercial flight can ever go green. The fact is this: Everything you can think of that’s spurring a green revolution on the ground will be of little help in the sky anytime soon. Solar panels, wind turbines, electric engines, high-storage batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, magnetic levitation—they are all, bluntly put, useless at present when it comes to the technological challenge of launching a few hundred people into the stratosphere and carrying them thousands of miles. Here’s the figure: More than 80 percent of humanity has…