Unless you are above a certain age, the only time you may have seen a slide rule (or a slip stick, as we sometimes called them) is in the movies. You might have missed it, but slide rules show up in ...
A philosophical divide is tearing a rift between two liberal Supreme Court justices opposed to the right-wing slide of the ...
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With the second beta of iPadOS 26.1, Apple tweaked multitasking on the iPad to reintroduce the Slide Over feature. Slide Over was removed in iPadOS 26 because Apple replaced it with a new windowed ...
For years, both the iPhone and the iPad shared the same operating system — until the shift to a dedicated iPadOS experience brought about some meaningful additions that made good use of the device's ...
Well, that didn’t take long. In yesterday’s second developer beta of iPadOS 26.1, Apple restored the Slide Over functionality that was removed with the debut of the new windowing system in iPadOS 26.0 ...
For all of the ways I love the iPad, it’s had one major drawback—doing more than one thing has always been pretty clunky. I guess you could argue that’s more of a benefit if what you want is to use ...
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The Age of De-Skilling

First published in The Atlantic on October 26, 2025.
You don't need to be a physicist to know that Sir Isaac Newton's first law of motion is: "Objects at rest tend to stay at rest unless acted upon." This is Newton's description of inertia — and it's ...