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Apple's biggest mistakes, from the Newton to maps

Steve Jobs, at a press conference regarding the Apple iPhone 4 reception problems – AKA "Antennagate" – in July 2010. Photograph: David Paul Morris/Getty Images Apple's new maps offering has drawn…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1790 words)

The true fathers of computing

Once upon a time, a "computer" was a human being, usually female, who did calculations set for her by men in suits. Then, in the 1940s, something happened: computers became machines based on…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2815 words)
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