Tristan Perich’s new album, Noise Patterns, is a dumb machine that turns data into noise into hypnotic music
Tristan Perich’s new album, Noise Patterns, is a dumb machine that turns data into noise into hypnotic music
You don’t need an MP3 player, a turntable, or a CD player to listen to Tristan Perich’s new album, Noise Patterns. All you need is a pair of headphones—”not earbuds,” says the composer—and a willingness to hear music in noise.
A combination of complex legacy computer systems and strict uptime requirements make more of these disruptions almost inevitable.
A combination of complex legacy computer systems and strict uptime requirements make more of these disruptions almost inevitable.
After a data center outage caused Delta Air Lines to cancel more than 2,100 flights this week, Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the company’s doing everything it can to make sure such an event never happens again.
iPhone sales have slumped, stock is down, and pundits insist Apple is a tech laggard. But the company may be stronger than ever.
iPhone sales have slumped, stock is down, and pundits insist Apple is a tech laggard. But the company may be stronger than ever.
Eddy Cue doesn’t look like a man in the midst of his toughest year in decades. Sporting an untucked apricot camp shirt and blue jeans over camouflage socks and a pair of blue leather racing shoes from Germany, Apple’s SVP of Internet software and services pulls up a chair at one of the marble-topped tables outside Caffé Macs, the employee restaurant at the heart of Apple’s 23-year-old Cupertino campus. (The company will begin to move into its new “spaceship” HQ next year.) Cue dives right into telling me about his latest horror story:
You have a tenth of a second to make the right impact, but nailing that moment is all about behaviors you can practice beforehand.
You have a tenth of a second to make the right impact, but nailing that moment is all about behaviors you can practice beforehand.
We’ve all been told ad nauseam how how important first impressions are—how it takes just a fraction of a second for others to form opinions about us. Not only have Princeton psychologists estimated that we form impressions of strangers based on their faces within just a tenth of a second, they discovered that longer exposures don’t significantly alter those initial assessments (even though our confidence in those judgments may strengthen when we’re given more time). And we also know that negative first impressions are difficult to overcome.
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