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Profile 黃仁勳 出生：1963年 現職：輝達執行長 經歷：超微（AMD）、巨積（LSI logic）工程師 學歷：史丹佛大學電子工程碩士、奧勒岡州立大學電機工程學士 家庭：妻Lori Huang，育有2子女 他用一份財報，瞬間炸開這個世界對人工智慧（AI）的進度想像！ 美東時間五月二十四日，輝達（NVIDIA）公布今年第一季財報及第二季財測。首先讓一眾分析師跌破眼鏡的，是第一季的「成績單」。 根據輝達公告，第一季（二月至四月底）公司營收七十一．九億美元，高於市場預期的六十五．二億美元；其中，來自「資料中心」的營收達到四十二．八億美元，年增十四％，不僅高於預期的三十九億美元，亦超越了晶片龍頭英特爾同季的三十七．二億美元。獲利部分不遑多讓，第一季調整後（Non-GAAP）的EPS為一．○九美元，儘管年減二○％，仍高於市場預期的○．九二美元。 更讓分析師跌破眼鏡的，是第二季的營收與獲利預測。…

If you’ve ever learned a new language — or tried to — you know how difficult it can be. Native languages seem almost built-in. We soak them up naturally when we’re very young. But learning a new language, especially after early childhood, can be a huge task, burdened by long vocabulary lists and genders to memorize, complex cases and troublesome tenses to master. Of course, it’s worth the effort. In today’s interconnected world, learning a new language can change your life. It will certainly change your brain. ALTERNATE ROUTES Learning anything changes your brain, at least a little bit. But learning a language does it in high gear. John Grundy, a neuroscientist at Iowa State University who specializes in bilingualism and the brain, explains that learning a new language causes extensive neuroplasticity in…

How can I fix a small area of peeling paint in my bathroom? IF YOU HAVE leftover paint in the original color, check to see if it’s still usable, says Rich Handel, who oversees paint ratings at CR. You’ll know the paint is too old to use if you find a thick, rubberlike layer sitting on top of the paint, or the paint doesn’t mix well when stirred. (Paint that’s still usable should stay blended for 10 to 15 minutes after mixing.) To test it, try painting a small area on a piece of cardboard: The paint should go onto the surface smoothly, and the color should be uniform. If you determine that the paint isn’t usable, take the can to a paint or home improvement store and ask whether it…

EVEN BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, HOPIN WAS A good idea. The British startup, founded by first-time entrepreneur Johnny Boufarhat in 2019, offered an online venue for virtual talks, breakout rooms, and one-on-one networking – an engaging alternative to expensive, large-scale conferences. Hopin began 2020 with a 10,000-strong waitlist of conference organisers seeking early access. But, in February that year, when coronavirus swept in-person events off the table, potential customers got impatient. “We had a ton of people that were upset with us for not letting them through, so we decided we need to expand as fast as we can and to hire as quickly as possible,” Boufarhat recalls. “I was on Twitter looking for people who had just been furloughed, because I knew they’d be able to start tomorrow; I had people…

THE PREVAILING NARRATIVE in business today is one of ever faster change and creative destruction: Big Tech companies are taking over, the number of unicorns (start-ups worth $1 billion) keeps growing, the average tenure of old-economy companies on the S&P 500 is plummeting, and incumbency has never been worth less. The message to established firms—play catch-up or die—is bleak. But let’s look at the bigger picture. Yes, there’s no denying the exponential growth of the large tech companies or the cautionary tales of disruption’s famous victims (think Nokia, Kodak, and Blockbuster). However, over the past three decades many large sectors of the economy have not been disrupted—that is, taken over by tech-enabled competitors that serve customers more efficiently and cheaply than incumbents do—to any significant degree. Indeed, most established firms are…

WATCH THE MASTERS ESPN and CBS, April 8–11 Tony Finau should be one of the biggest stars in golf. Everything about his game is outsize, from his height (6' 4") to his power off the tee (he has said he is chasing Bryson DeChambeau, and he is one of the few who can catch him) to his smile. He has a memorable name, a fun backstory, he is perpetually in contention and he might be the nicest player on the PGA Tour. There is just one small problem: He never wins. From October 2017 through the beginning of March, Finau finished in second place eight times. He didn’t win once. His run of near-greatness is maddening; it seems so statistically unlikely that one wonders whether Finau was born with a severe trophy allergy, or…

The winds this April morning were giving Wayne Boone’s massive 2007 semitrailer a good lashing. A driver for a paper recycling company in Virginia, US, Boone steered the empty 18-wheeler up a stretch of the highway, to pick up his first load of the day. The 53-year-old driver pulled into the eastbound left lane of the G.A. Treakle Memorial Bridge, known to locals as the I-64 High Rise, a four-lane drawbridge traversing the Elizabeth River. On the span, the storm let loose its full force, finding no obstacles in its path but vehicles, which it pummelled. Boone slowed as wind and rain hammered his windshield. At the bridge’s crest, 21 metres above the rushing estuary, the concrete road gave way to steel decking. Boone’s front wheels met the slick steel just as…

ESSENTIALS GETTING THERE Zakopane – the base for exploring the area – is a two-hour drive from Kraków Balice airport. It’s served by BA and others including Ryanair, easyJet, Wizz and Jet2 (from £70; wizzair.com). You could travel by train from London to Kraków in 22 hours, or make the most of it with some great city stop-offs en route. One such option would be going via Brussels, Copenhagen and Berlin (trainline.com). GETTING AROUND The trip is possible without a car. Take a bus or airport transfer to Zakopane and go by foot and city buses, private mini-buses and taxis. A car gives more freedom, and you you shouldn’t need snow chains or a 4WD on main roads (all major outlets operate from the airport, from £16 per day; arguscarhire.com). FURTHER INFO See Lonely Planet’s…

Nobody needs to convince me that Apple is at the top of its game when it comes to designing iPad hardware. The 2018 iPad Pro was so fast that more than two years later, it can still handle more or less anything that you can throw at it. The 2020 iPad Pro essentially operated at the same speed—and that was so fast it didn’t matter. So here comes the 2021 iPad Pro (see page 39), which is an even more extreme dunk in terms of features. Adding an M1 processor isn’t going to add the same boost as it did on the Mac side, because the iPad Pro was always powered by an energy-efficient Apple processor. But it’s still an upgrade of two processor generations, and that matters. A revamped display…

If you’ve looked into how much storage space to keep unused on an SSD, you likely came across recommendations ranging from 0 to 50 percent and may be frustrated about how to sort out the right number. When you have a 1TB or 2TB drive, keeping even 20 percent (200GB or 400GB) unused might seem both wasteful and costly. For most consumer uses and even many professional ones, you can err on the low side of empty storage, down to even filling a drive up to what you might have thought was 100 percent full, depending on how you use the SSD now and plan to in the future. You may decide after reading this column not to worry about free space at all or opt to keep empty nearly 30…

China’s bookstores — once largely drab, state-run and pragmatic spaces — are slowly evolving to attract a new generation of social media–savvy clientele through daring design. Escher-inspired staircases and towering shelves are the country’s flavour du jour, an arrangement that plays well on camera but can feel as hollow as the fake books that sometimes adorn the shelves. Shanghai’s Wutopia Lab, however, is striving to return the bliss of reading to the heart of bookstore design. Marking the design studio’s 10th book-related project since 2013, Satori Harbor in China’s sprawling southern port city of Guangzhou is Wutopia’s most explicit spatial response to a typology in existential flux. Drawing from zha oche, the Taoist concept of enlightenment (known as “satori” in Japanese), the space is crisp and meditative. Yet, as this is…

Like most forgers, I try to build a stockpile of damascus and differentsized blades in the winter months when the temperature is below 50 degrees F. Sometimes, because of where you live, it might not drop below 70 degrees F. Hot is hot no matter where you forge, and there will be a time when you have to forge no matter how high the temperature is. Here are some helpful hints to get you through the hot times. HYDRATE “Pre-hydrate” the day before you are going to forge. Also, drink plenty of water during forging and aft erward. I use a squirt bottle to spray myself during forging to add extra cooling. Staying hydrated should keep those nasty headaches away. LIMIT HEAT EXPOSURE If you are lucky enough to have a second person that knows…

一隻看不見、摸不到的病毒，顛覆全球七十八億人口的生活。 空蕩蕩的街道、渺無人煙的海灘，猶如電影《二十八週毀滅倒數：全球封閉》。對台灣而言，這些曾經虛幻的場景，如今卻全部都化為真實的日常。 二○○八年的金融海嘯，世界各國體認到過去追求經濟發展，忽視分配而出現反省聲浪；二○二○年的新冠病毒，卻讓狂飆下的高風險社會現了形。 「後疫情時代，中產階級充分感受到生活一夕之間逆轉，」台大社工系教授古允文說，當政府或社會沒有妥善的安全制度，人民只好透過搶保單來抵禦風險。 然而，世上沒有任何一張保單，可以保障我們所有幸福安康。病毒再強大，台灣終需從眼前的挫敗中再起，此時需要的是趁機重新省思過去經濟發展模式，以及在新生疫病和氣候變遷的催化下，打造給予人民美好生活、創造永續幸福的新模式。 為檢視台灣在各面向的發展狀況，《天下雜誌》依據OECD（經濟合作暨發展組織）從二○一一年起公布的「美好生活指數」（Better Life Index），進行二○二一「天下幸福生活指數」調查，以攸關人們生活和福祉的十一項領域，涵括二十四個主、客觀指標，全方位評比，並比照OECD四十個主要會員國和伙伴國家排名。（表1）…

Bikes have always been a form of freedom for Petor Georgallou. From exploring the outdoors as a boy – when his parents would have preferred him to be inside playing video games – to building any bike he could dream up as Dear Susan. Now he’s setting himself free from the workshop to take on a new challenge: running the Bespoked Handmade Bicycle Show. ‘I went to a weird all-boys boarding school in the woods. It was basically hell and incredibly dehumanising. I don’t think I was even a person until I left school,’ he says. ‘Then I had the freedom to do what I wanted and I was like, “What do people do?” So I just rode my bike a lot.’ That encompassed commuting on his fixie 20 miles each way…

Tacked on the wall of Anna Ewers’s childhood bedroom is an old black-and-white Calvin Klein ad featuring Kate Moss in a pair of faded jeans and little else. Ewers says she was “probably around 12” when she found the image, flipping through one of her father’s music magazines from 1993. The date on the cover was what initially caught Ewers’s eye—she was born that same year in Freiburg, Germany, a college town on the edge of the Black Forest mountains, not far from the French/Swiss border. “It was a very different time, but an amazing time for the industry,” says the now-29-year-old model, who bears more than a passing resemblance to another fashion icon of that era (and a fellow German), Claudia Schiffer. A decade after swiping the ad from her…

For many of our gardens, autumn signals a slowing down, a gradual slide into lazy senescence. Not so for Sussex Prairie Garden. Come September and October, this unique West Sussex garden is reaching its wonderfully dizzying peak. For nearly 30 years, Paul and Pauline McBride have been designing and making gardens all over the world. Sussex Prairies, conceived with their own British twist on the Dutch Wave New Perennial movement, is their signature creation. The eight-acre garden sits in a wider landscape of 32 acres of farmland, formerly owned and farmed by Pauline’s parents. On entering, visitors are greeted – perhaps surprisingly given the garden’s moniker – by tropical planting including towering bananas, cannas and tetrapanax. So far, so unexpected. Then, you step out from the canopy into the open and…

The Mac’s FaceTime camera sucks—720p or 1080p, it doesn’t matter. But Apple does make great cameras, like those in the iPhone, and with macOS Ventura and iOS 16, Apple is leveraging its iPhone cameras so they can be used as a webcam through a new enhancement to macOS’s Continuity Camera feature. If you’re sick of being embarrassed by your Mac camera’s image quality during videoconferences, or you demand better quality for video recordings of yourself that you want to use, Continuity Camera is a godsend. And fortunately, it’s so easy to set up and use, that you’ll come to rely on it and only use the Mac’s built-in camera in emergencies. Here’s how to set up and use Continuity Camera. But first, here are the requirements: > A Mac running macOS Ventura > An…

The Mac operating system that we use today was introduced 21 years ago. Whether you’ve been using the Mac longer than that or just bought your first M1 MacBook, macOS is a vast operating system and there are tons of tucked-away features that you can take advantage of to help you get stuff done. Here are ten macOS tips and features that you may not know or have forgotten about that can help you get more out of your Mac. Some of these are old, some just arrived in the past year, but all of them are incredibly handy to have in your arsenal. 1. REARRANGE MENU BAR ICONS The menu bar is a good way to quickly access frequently-used settings and other functions. To get the most out of it, you can…

MY JOURNEY to loving running was a tortuous one. It began at my small high school in Portland, Oregon, where the cross-country coach, often too short on athletes to field a competitive team, would poach members of the soccer team for important races. During my junior year, I was one of those reluctant recruits, and over the course of a half-dozen races I learned two lessons. The first was that I was reasonably fast but would never be a podium threat. The second? That running sucks. I realize that statement doesn’t exactly square with the headline of this essay, but bear with me. After 25 years of lacing up my foam-cushioned shoes and heading out the door nearly every morning, I think I’ve collected a decent amount of wisdom about the…

As the pandemic has evolved and most Americans have sought vaccines for protection, and as those who chose to forgo vaccination became infected (often more than once), the risk that COVID-19 poses for most Americans has declined. It’s estimated that more than 90% of Americans have some level of immunity to COVID-19 through vaccination or prior infection. Along with this wall of immunity, approaches adopted when we had few tools to prevent spread are no longer providing benefits that always justify their costs of social disruption, diminished classroom experiences, and economic drag. But we’ve been slow to adapt our strategies to the evolving notions of risk. The CDC is soon expected to update its policies, moving away from national recommendations and instead tying to measures of local prevalence its guidance for the…

Rating Windows 11’s latest feature update, officially known as the Windows 11 2022 Update (22H2), means acknowledging that many of its most useful features are somewhat hidden. Dig in and you’ll be rewarded, but most of the 2022 update’s more obvious new features won’t blow you away initially. Windows 11 2022 Update is not a return to the glory days of Windows 10. Then, splashy product launches heralded new, important additions to the operating system, like Disney teasing new Marvel characters into its cinematic universe. Windows 11 22H2 takes a subtler approach, updating the File Explorer, and adding a new Snap Layouts bar, Start menu folders, Live Captions, Voice Access, and more. There are now thousands of Android apps from Amazon, as well as something called Smart App Control. Microsoft is also…

「這次，『它』真的變得不一樣了……。」時間往前推，今年三月，全球最大的上市避險基金集團英仕曼（ManGroup），在官網發布了一篇分析報告，報告核心，圍繞在一個已開發國家近年推行的資本市場改革。報告的結論是這麼下的：「它付出的努力，曾經收效甚微，但，這一切很可能即將改變。」 「轉型」、「不一樣」……，這些象徵著自我革新與重生的語彙，指向的，是一個經濟發展停滯逾三十年的國度——日本。 「過去十年，是這個國家的盤整期，」談到日本的未來展望時，元大金控策略長吳杰用篤定與樂觀的語氣提出定調：「現在，它即將全面邁入復興的階段。」 時間回到五月十七日，當天，代表日本大型股表現的日經二二五指數升破了三萬點關卡，不僅創下二○二一年九月以來新高，更逼近一九九○年八月以來的最高水平；同期間，反映日本整體企業表現的東證指數（Topix）也突破了二一二七點，來到三十三年高位。 帶動日股創新高的一大功臣，是外資。 根據日本財務省日前公布的統計資料顯示，今年四月，外資在日本股市總計買超四．九八兆日圓，這個單月買超金額，創下自○五年一月日本開始統計外資動向以來的歷史最高紀錄。 另一邊，…

President Trump and his allies nearly succeeded in consigning the Mueller report to oblivion. William Barr, Trump’s compliant Attorney General, got a jump on the process when he preëmpted the public release of the report by providing a misleading summary, which minimized the special counsel’s findings on Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. Trump compounded Barr’s distortions by falsely and endlessly repeating that the report found “no collusion, no obstruction.” Congressional Democrats did little for the cause of clarity by using the report as an occasion to debate the semantics of what constitutes an impeachment investigation. And Robert Mueller himself invited a certain measure of confusion by telling his story in dense, legalistic prose. Barely six months after he delivered the report, it had already faded into the mists of…

Slowly and deliberately, I searched shallow, underwater outcrops covered in colors. Weightless amidst the invisible push and pull of the current, pink coralline algae hung closely to rock surfaces or branched skyward against sporadic patches of neon green and glimmering iridescence. Shades of yellow, brown, white and orange flora began to appear as I drifted past micro-environments dictated by sunlight and structure. I allowed my scientific brain to go to work underwater, relying on one of my first developed senses: observation. I had come to this underwater world to seek out a nudibranch. I had heard of this elusive marine organism, but until recently, knew almost nothing about it. My goal at the moment was just to find one, to examine it with my own eyes. I’ve always been drawn to scuba…

AUTHORS WHEN WE FIRST traveled to China, in the early 1990s, it was very different from what we see today. Even in Beijing many people wore Mao suits and cycled everywhere; only senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials used cars. In the countryside life retained many of its traditional elements. But over the next 30 years, thanks to policies aimed at developing the economy and increasing capital investment, China emerged as a global power, with the second-largest economy in the world and a burgeoning middle class eager to spend. One thing hasn’t changed, though: Many Western politicians and business executives still don’t get China. Believing, for example, that political freedom would follow the new economic freedoms, they wrongly assumed that China’s internet would be similar to the freewheeling and often politically disruptive…

We all survey the vastness of space with a certain amount of wonder and awe. Exploring and understanding the cosmos requires units to express its size — including volume. But because of that vastness, we often revert to nonstandard metaphors to help convey it. To express the volume of something big, like the Sun for example, writers commonly say that a million planet Earths would fit inside it. Tiny objects demand similarly creative analogies. The universe contains mostly hydrogen atoms, whose mass is concentrated in the nucleus, usually as a single proton. That proton is 1,836 times heavier than the electron buzzing around it. But a true picture requires us to also visualize its structure, which is mostly empty space. We’d succeed by representing that proton as a raisin in the…

Since ancient times, I, the esteemed pomegranate (Punica granatum), have been regarded with reverence as a symbol of your human central beliefs. In many cultures and virtually every religion, I have come to represent life and death, fertility and marriage, beauty and abundance. Why, you may ask? It all has to do with my seeds (my name means ‘apple with many seeds’), while my orb shape and crown of sepals take on a different meaning all together. Buddhists revere me as one of the three blessed fruit (the other two are peach and citrus); in some Hindu traditions I’m a symbol of prosperity and fertility, while for Muslims I’m a symbol of beauty. As a romantic symbol I have featured in sonnets and literature, as well as Renaissance paintings. Sandro Botticelli and…

Every time Apple holds an event, we pretty much know exactly what it’s going to release. If you’ve been keeping up with the rumor mill for the weeks and months prior to the big day, the actual keynote is like watching a show you’ve already seen and waiting for your favorite scenes to come along. But that wasn’t the case with the “California Streaming” event. While the rumor mill got many things right, it also whiffed on major predictions, more than with any other recent event. For every correct guess—such as the iPhone 13’s bigger battery and the Apple Watch’s larger screen—there was a big miss. Here’s what the rumormongers got wrong. AIRPODS DIDN’T MAKE AN APPEARANCE Perhaps the biggest miss of the day was the lack of an AirPods announcement. It feels…

So you’re ready to buy a new laptop. What do you need it for? What do you really need it for? It’s tempting to look at a top-of-the-line model, but most of us aren’t doing complex professional video edits on 4K video, heavy-duty scientific work, or really big coding projects every day. Most of us spend our time with some browser tabs open, a handful of apps for email and messaging, editing photos or maybe some simple videos, watching streaming video, that sort of thing. If you’re a gamer that wants to play the latest games, our sister site, PCWorld, can point you in the direction of a Windows laptop, but for everyone else—everyone who doesn’t use their laptop for very intensive tasks all day long—the MacBook Air is exactly what…

四月二十六日，星宇航空創辦人張國煒親自執飛，台北洛杉磯的首航。 這是重要性不亞於三年前開航的飛行任務。 飛向北美天空，意味著星宇從區域走向國際。猶如四十年前，張國煒的父親張榮發獨排眾議，大膽開出橫跨太平洋與大西洋的雙向環球航線，讓長榮海運由亞洲船公司變成世界第一。 「他們（父子）DNA是一樣的，都很有魄力、很有魅力，」長榮集團出身、前中菲行執行長林天送評論。 北美首航，轉動了星宇最關鍵的中轉客商模。這位台灣唯一、世界少數同時擁有機師和維修證照的航空公司董事長，要驗證自己「從王子變成King（國王）」，只能贏不能輸的不可能任務。 首航倒數前兩天，星宇航空的營運大腦，張國煒與執行長翟健華所在的內湖總部十六樓，透明辦公室一目了然，從主管房內到開放空間的討論區，沒有一張會議桌是空的，都處於作戰模式。就連秘書遞送文件也都急如風、甚至小跑步。 競爭對手不是兩位老大哥 當年， 看好亞洲成為世界工廠，張榮發大膽擴張海運版圖，捉住趨勢破浪。而張國煒眼中的航空市場，「台灣的地理位置這麼好，如果你善用它，台灣市場無限大，真的太大了，」張國煒左右手，翟健華提高音調分析。…

Arguably the most sophisticated of all front-engined grand prix cars Gianni Lancia must have followed the 1956 Formula 1 World Championship with a certain level of bemusement. His rivals of old, Scuderia Ferrari, won five of the seven grands prix in which the team competed, and Ferrari driver, Juan Manuel Fangio, was crowned World Champion at the end of the year. What made this particularly poignant for Lancia, though, was the fact the cars used by Scuderia Ferrari had started life late in 1954 and early in 1955 as Lancia D50s. Designed under the technical leadership of the legendary Vittorio Jano, the cutting-edge Lancia grand prix car was the culmination of a vast competition programme that also included a full range of sports racers. In addition to indulging in motorsport for the…

No hay nada mejor que tener un remanso de paz y tranquilidad en el que desconectar y descansar del ajetreo del día a día. Y quienes bien lo saben (y lo practican a conciencia) son los empresarios, artistas y deportistas que tienen sus refugios exclusivos en lugares recónditos en los que huir de la ciudad (o de la fama) y sentirse un vecino más. Una de las zonas de moda entre la alta sociedad en España es la comarca de La Vera, un rincón idílico entre Cáceres, Ávila y Toledo. En Jarandilla de la Vera cuentan con finca Alejandro Sanz (arregló varios secaderos de tabaco para convertirlos en El Sueño de los Parrales); Ana Rosa Quintana 7, que tiene una casita en Cuacos de Yuste; el empresario Florentino Pérez; y…

I GREW UP PLAYING ON A Par-3 course at Fargo Country Club in North Dakota. It didn’t take much more than 30 minutes to play its nine holes, and my buddies and I would often get in four loops before the sun set. I miss that course because it was such great practice for my wedges. It’s where I learned how to subtract speed and vary the distance I hit each club and how to control the launch, spin and trajectory of the ball. It’s also where I developed my bread-and-butter, low-cut shot for accuracy. If there is one place amateurs can pick up strokes, it’s inside 100 yards where the majority of shots take place. Improve your wedge game and you will lower your scores in a hurry. Here…

From the moment she first set eyes on her gorgeous baby girl, Travel Guides Australia’s lovable, laugh-a-minute, sweary country cowgirl star Mel Wilburn knew her life would never be the same again. Gazing down at her chubby-cheeked, button-nosed beauty, the 32-year-old self-confessed chatterbox – who along with her twin sister Stacey, aka Stack, has won the hearts of viewers with their round-the-world TV adventures – is quite simply lost for words. “I can’t get over how tiny she is,” the proud mum tells Woman’s Day. “She’s so delicate and beautiful. Perfect, actually.” Mel and her partner, Victorian farmer and stock agent Tim Donald, 32, are thrilled to be parents to Savannah Lynne Donald, born on the 24th of February. “It’s crazy – I’d never even held a newborn in my life and now here…

Apple’s at the top of the world—and from this standpoint, it’s hard to see how the company could be anything other than the market leader and taste maker it’s been in recent memories. I’m not about to suggest that its decline and fall are imminent, but those who (like me) remember the dark days of the 1990s know that success is never guaranteed. In any case, it’s unlikely that a company as massive and dominant as Apple would simply vanish into the ether—poof. But as the company’s grown and matured, it’s undeniable that its nature is changing. Those changes aren’t without precedent. Over the last several decades, there’s been a pattern among dominant tech companies. Where once they might have ruled the world by producing the thing that everybody needed to have—whether…

Let’s go back to the fall of 2020. Remember that thundering boom that shook up the tech industry? That was Apple’s M1 making its debut. It exploded on the scene and amazed the Mac and PC world with its astounding performance. After the M1’s debut, the question was, how can Apple follow up such a successful launch? A year later, Apple has delivered another thundering boom that is shaking up the tech industry, this one possibly even bigger. This time it’s two systems on chips, the M1 Pro and M1 Max, and they blow away the M1. After spending some time with the 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro, it’s clear that Apple is on a roll with its silicon. The M1 Pro is simply an incredible chip. If this were…

WHICH GRIDDLE PAN SHOULD I BUY? First, choose a pan that’s the right size for the number of people you usually feed. If you can’t find one large enough to feed a family of five in one go, remember that meat needs resting – you can cook in batches and rest it as you go. Weight is more or less a personal preference, but heavy-duty griddle pans tend to be more durable than those with a thinner base, as repeated use can cause metal to buckle. Plus, big cast iron pans will usually withstand more knocks, bumps and scrapes. TOP TIPS FOR GRIDDLING The golden rule of griddling is to oil the food, not the pan. If you oil the pan, it will simply drain away between the ridges. To clean a non-stick griddle…

Curiosity, anticipation, confusion, skepticism. The launch of the Flare Moustache created quite a stir in the free flying community. What is it? Who needs it? And how does it fly? We found out from the designers and then took the Moustache to the test. Flare is a new brand from the same company as Skywalk. In March they released their one and only new wing, the Moustache. They call it a parakite, and it’s designed for having fun in strong winds on the dunes or at soaring sites. It looks like a paraglider but Flare don't call it that, and it’s not made for thermal flying. Beni Kälin, paragliding and speedflying instructor and part of the Flare development team says: "It’s a kite made to fly." Who is it for? The target group…

Learn an instrument fender.com, gibson.com 1 Fancy being a guitar hero? Guitar makers Fender and Gibson both offer apps that’ll teach you to play like legends, and both have free trials – 7 days in the case of Fender and 14 for Gibson. They’re both brilliant apps for teaching guitar (and in the case of Fender, ukulele and bass too), but before you hand over your card details make sure you check out GarageBand first. GarageBand’s Smart Instruments enable you to mess around with guitars, basses, pianos and synths, and if you go over to your Mac you can download free guitar and piano lessons too. If there’s a specific song you’d like to learn, head over to ultimate-guitar.com where you’ll find guitar, ukulele and piano tabs and often video too. Learn to DJ algoriddim.com/djay-ios 2…

A room with a view is nice while on vacation, but research has increasingly shown that it can be downright critical during a hospital visit. In an often-cited 1984 analysis of gallbladder surgery patients, those who had a view of a natural environment had shorter stays and took fewer painkillers compared to those who had to contemplate the side of a brick building. Drawing upon this and other studies, the new Stanford Hospital places a particular emphasis on restorative views of greenery and physical access to gardens. Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, the hospital has landscape design that is not only on the ground plane, but on two acres of rooftop, and aims to promote patient and staff health alike. “This project had huge potential from the beginning:…

EVEN IF IT’S BEEN a while since health class, you likely know how estrogen impacts reproductive health. Its levels rise as we reach puberty; then each month it surges, causing the uterine lining to prep for a potential fertilized egg, and drops, kick-starting menstruation. As the years go on, levels ricochet up and down in perimenopause and drop at menopause. And along the way, estrogen gets blamed for breakouts and breakups, mood dips and weight gains. But what else does the hormone do? The better question may be “What doesn’t it do?” “Estrogen touches basically every cell,” says Jen Gunter, MD, a gynecologist and author of The Menopause Manifesto (Citadel, 2021). “Until recently, we didn’t recognize its importance beyond reproduction,” adds Elizabeth Poynor, MD, a gynecologic surgeon and founder of the…

In the grillroom of McArthur Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Fla., this winter, two retired pitchers were talking baseball. Jim Kaat pitched 25 seasons in the big leagues, in four decades, for six teams, while one-time Phillies prospect Bill Parcells topped out as a teenager in New Jersey, only to become a football coach of some renown. Still, both men fondly recalled the oversize sweats—some were feed bags fashioned into baseball pants—they wore to practice sliding in the 1950s should they ever have to leg out a double. “We wanted to be baseball players, not pitchers,” says Kaat, 82. “We wanted to learn to bunt, slide, run the bases and help ourselves out with the bat.” BASEBALL PREVIEW Major league pitchers have been batting for 150 years now. Their walk-up music, in…

AUTHORS To stay competitive, today’s business leaders are investing millions in digital tools, agile methodologies, and lean strategies. Too often, however, those efforts produce neither the breakthrough operational processes nor the blockbuster business models companies need—at least not before their competitors introduce their own advances. And a key culprit is the inability to make quick and effective innovation decisions. The discovery-driven innovation processes companies now rely on involve an unprecedented number of choices, from big go/no-go gates that govern which ideas are pursued to countless decisions about how to conduct experiments, what data to collect, how to interpret findings, and how to act on them. But in companies that are just learning to experiment, too many decisions are made inefficiently or informed by past experience and narrow perspectives. As a result, critical risks…

1 Soundboard “In very general terms, the top is the ‘speaker cone’ of the guitar,” explains Eggle. “It’s the thing that responds to the vibration of the strings and beats in and out, which starts the air moving. “When we’re selecting a top, one of the first things that we do is check the stiffness. I’m after tops that are stiff across the grain. With a weaker piece of wood, you’d have to leave it thicker to give it sufficient strength. But that extra thickness would also make it less responsive, meaning it would take longer to react to vibration from the strings. “By contrast, a stiffer, stronger piece of wood can be made into a thinner top, so the response is more immediate and dynamic. What you’re looking for is a’board that’s…

選股會是你的困擾嗎？獲利成長的好公司，當你發現時，股價是不是都已經漲到買不下手了？你是不是在想，如果能找到獲利成長，股價又很便宜的公司該有多好？《投資家日報》總監孫慶龍表示，投資大師喬伊．葛林布雷（Joel Greenblt）有一個平均年賺40%的神奇公式，套用在台股也可以讓你找到，平均年賺40%的標的。 葛林布雷是誰？他是美國哥倫比亞商學院的教授，同時也是戈坦資本投資（GothamCapital）的創辦人，該公司成立於1985年，之後的20年間，每年平均報酬率達40%，竟然比股神巴菲特（WarrenBuffett）的績效還高！ 孫慶龍 出生：1977年 學歷： 成功大學中國文學系、英國艾克斯特（Exeter）大學財務管理研究所 經歷：致理科技大學財金系講師 現職：《投資家日報》總監 以稅前淨利為計算基礎更能貼近公司營運狀況 葛林布雷著作有3本暢銷書籍，《你也可以成為股市天才（You Can Be a Stock MarketGenius）》、《超越大盤的獲利公式（The Little Book That Beats the Market）》，以及《不買飆股，年均獲利40%（The…

Some of the materials use are considered irreplaceable in terms of the building process. Concrete, iron, and aluminium are such cases, used over a long time because of the ease of their production and construction. However, lots of carbon is emitted in the mining and manufacture of raw materials to obtain these materials and to transport them to construction sites. According to data released in 2020 by Architecture 2030, a nonprofit architectural organisation established to cope with the climate crisis, the amount of carbon emitted by concrete, iron, and aluminium accounts for about 23% of the annual carbon emissions on earth. With a growing social consensus that this fact should be taken more seriously, the number of materials that consider carbon reduction is on the rise, with performance comparable to…

“DOES THIS REMIND YOU of your childhood?” I ask my mom. I had already posed the question a half dozen times on our journey to find remnants of the summers she spent in New York’s Catskill Mountains in the 1950s. So far, the answer had always been no. Now we are in Ellenville at Cohen’s Bakery, established circa 1920, buying pumpernickel bread and chocolate rugelach. She shrugs. “Maybe if there was a man speaking Yiddish behind the counter.” The Catskills region sprawls across four counties north of New York City, dotted with lakes and crowned with around a hundred mountain peaks. Once it was the sparkling center of Jewish summers, replete with glamorous hotels and thriving small towns. But by the time I moved to New York, in 2011, the glory of…

When Total Film meets Cate Blanchett in a Venetian hotel suite to discuss her awardsy new film, she’s wearing a white, impeccablycut trouser suit very much in the style of her character, Lydia Tár, striding round the room exuding alpha presence. Having just watched Tár as it premiered at the Venice Film Festival, the prospect of Blanchett embodying the uncompromising, voracious Lydia is a little intimidating. But the genial Aussie proffers a plate of freshly baked chocolate brownies, which she’s munching on with little care for her pristine tailoring. This, Tár would never do. The character is a DGAF conducting maestro for the Berlin Philharmonic whose glittering career teeters as she becomes obsessed with her cellist (newcomer Sophie Kauer), skittering along the edges of #MeToo and cancel culture. As her director,…

In 2021, the iMac got a major refresh with a new design and an M1 processor. At the time, it was a much-needed update to Apple’s iconic line of computers, but now that it’s about a year and a half later, it’s about time for a new model—possibly an even better one. After putting some thought into a new iMac, I concluded that most of the features I’d like to see don’t fit with the current iMac. Instead, I’d like to see a return of the iMac Pro, which was discontinued last year. When it launched in 2017, it was largely seen as a stopgap between Mac Pro models, but it was an important machine that helped separate the iMac into distinct lines—the 21.5-inch model for budget-minded consumers, the 27-inch model…

Apple’s latest Mac operating system is macOS 12 Monterey, the first major update to macOS since the big shift in macOS 11 Big Sur. There are a bunch of new features and we’ll cover everything you need to know about the update: the top features, system requirements, availability, and more. Let’s start with the key features. UNIVERSAL CONTROL macOS Monterey launched on October 25 without one of its most interesting new additions, Universal Control. Apple says that feature will be coming later this fall in a Monterey update. Here’s a preview of what Universal Control will do for you. Apple users often switch between devices, and with Universal Control, you can use a single mouse and keyboard between your Mac and iPad. If you’re using a MacBook, you can use its keyboard and…

IN BRIEF What Small, private, urban garden. Where London. Size A long rectangle of roughly 90 square metres (15m x 6m). Soil London clay, improved by the addition of sandy topsoil. Climate Temperate and northfacing but partly shaded by surrounding buildings. Hardiness zone USDA 9. People living in towns and cities often dream of their own patch of green, but the typical urban plot can be so much more than just a rectangle of lawn. When the owners of this west London garden approached landscape architect Stefano Marinaz, they had just such a space; some grass, a shed and a couple of shrubs. They've lived in this Edwardian terrace for 14 years and raised two children here but, having recently added a kitchen-dining extension, with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the garden, they were finding the view less than…

IF A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT BREAKS INSIDE CAPTAIN Kaz “Dexter” Moffett’s underground command center at the Alpha-01 Missile Alert Facility, it’s marked with a paper tag that reads either WARNING or DANGER. A few of those are hanging in this cramped capsule buried about 70 ft. below the high plains of eastern Wyoming. One is stuck to the shut-off valves that control water flow in the event of an emergency. There’s another one on a ventilation hatch. The entire command capsule itself is jury-rigged on top of steel stilts because the shock-absorber system, which was first installed in 1963 to survive a thermonuclear blast, is now inoperative. So there’s a tag for Air Force maintenance teams to fix that too. Then there are malfunctions that aren’t marked. Moffett’s computer monitor—the one…

iPads and iPhones don’t have expandable storage – but you can use external USB sticks and memory cards to transfer files or store things you don’t need to keep on your device. Things are easier if you own an iPad Air or iPad Pro equipped with USB-C, since you can connect USB-C sticks directly. However, often you’ll need an adapter, especially when using a memory card, or an iPad or iPhone equipped with Lightning. In that case, to connect USB sticks, you’ll need the Lightning to USB Camera Adapter or the Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter; to connect memory cards, the Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader or the USB-C to SD Card Camera Reader. While USB sticks don’t use as much power as external hard drives, they still need a…

I hate my job. I can't even deny that. It has got to be the most boring thing I've ever had to do in my entire life; sit behind a desk all and stare at a god-forsaken desktop. Sometimes I stare so hard it makes me see a desktop when I'm looking at the TV at home. I hate my boss, and the way he orders me around like I'm a child. I hate the way he makes me feel like this boring job is some sort of privilege I should be proud of. And that's the reason why I decided to take this vacation. Ibiza. Beautiful city. Beautiful women. It is the summer of 2019, and there is no other place I'd love to be than in this beautiful, crazy…

“ Seeing the fans wear them, that’s one of the best feelings ever.” Twenty years ago when Allen Iverson entered the NBA, no one really knew what to expect. He was supremely talented, but he was undersized. He was gifted, but some said he had a bad attitude. No one really knew what to expect—except Reebok. It’s hard to call signing the No. 1 pick in the Draft a risky or bold move, but given the media stigma still attached to a young, brash AI, Reebok had to make sure they packaged his first sneaker just right. And oh did they succeed. The Reebok Question, designed by Scott Hewett, was built to be flashy, to look fast, and to be recognizable all the way up in the rafters. Sure, Iverson could have played…

In February, Microsoft released Windows Insider Build 22557 for the Dev Channel, a massive update that fixed several things users didn’t like about Windows 11 while introducing new experiences, apps, and features to try out. The new build adds folders back to the Start menu, along with folder preview images to File Explorer, and reintroduces drag-and-drop functionality to the neutered Windows 11 taskbar—all criticisms levied at the original release of Windows 11. According to a Microsoft blog post, the new build also adds live captions for recorded video, adds new touch gestures, tweaks Snap functionality, Sleep settings, and applies the Windows 11 UI to Task Manager, as well. Since the release rolled out inside the Windows 11 Dev Channel as part of the Insider preview program, there’s no guarantee that the new…