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Every time I've written that the coffeemaker on your kitchen counter is terrible, I was only partly trolling you. It's true! Your cheap automatic coffee machine is ruining your coffee. But now there are a couple of new automagical machines you can easily buy in the US that are very, very good: Bonavita's Automatic Coffee Brewer and Bodum's Bistro Pourover Machine.

There's no shortage of Obama volunteers in politically deep blue California, where his support is higher than elsewhere. But not every volunteer is up for slogging into a local campaign office and banging out a couple hundred rah-rah calls at a phone bank or going door-to-door and talking to strangers.

We've been talking a lot about Path lately, thanks to a privacy issue that caused Congress to nastrygram Apple, and Apple to change policy. And just like Path rectified its privacy problem, it's got another impending fix I'm happy about. Earlier this year, I wrote a story about how much I've been...

The panel for this morning's House Oversight and Government Reform committee hearing on birth control access. This morning, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is holding a hearing titled "Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?"

Meanwhile was published three years ago as a mammoth choose-your-own-adventure comic, but it began life in 2005 on Jason Shiga’s wall. The cartoonist (and mathematician) plotted all 3856 possible stories in an elaborate flow-chart so he could keep track of them while producing the book. And then, last November, in collaboration with text-adventure writer Andrew Plotkin, he released Meanwhile as an app.

Someone found out that Path-and most probably other apps-was stealing your contacts' information from your iPhone and iPad without telling you about it. This happened because of Path's greediness, but also because Apple is not protecting your privacy as it should. And all that sucks, even according to what Steve Jobs himself says in this video.

There's been so much hate and self-righteous indignation in tech blog circles lately. Name calling. Ugly accusations. Petty bickering. It's even divided good friends, brother against brother. Can't we all just get along? I want to start with you, Nick Bilton, because it was your post that kicked all this off.

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San Francisco is a ridiculous place where no one will tell you when you have a bad idea. Like today, when its emergency broadcast system is going to belt out I Left My Heart in San Francisco instead of the standard weekly warning. The warning siren, which plays every Tuesday at noon in San...

You don't have a Valentine's Day date. It's ok, neither do I. But I am going to put myself out there for your benefit and figure out which social network will give you the best chance to beg a last minute Valentine's Day date. Starting... now.

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

iphone imessage apple privacy ispy exclusive Every single iMessage to and from this man's iPhone-his friends call him Wiz-has been sent to us by accident. We know about his job, sex life, and address. Apple, you might want to fix this. The story is simple: a friend's son had some trouble with his iPhone 4.

instagram apps feature exclusive The must-have app on the iPhone is not iMessage. It's not iTunes or Safari or even Find My iPhone. It's Instagram, the photo-sharing app that once described itself as "quirky." Cultish would be more appropriate these days.

Path, the mobile social network, has apologized for mining personal data, but it is yet one more public demonstration of Silicon Valley's lack of concern about the privacy of its customers and the protection of their personal data. Even more telling was the Valley's reaction to the apology.

Disgusting food advocate Matthew Yglesias has a story in Slate that makes the case that "in many ways, the Chipotle burrito is very similar to the iPhone." Which would be true, if iPhones were completely disgusting. Now, I will forgive Yglesias, because he does not live in San Francisco, and so...

I lost my bag on Halloween night. It had two laptops—one of which was a review unit—a bunch of notes, and all the rest of my life in it. It was one of the worst and most helpless things I've ever felt. Last night I did it again.