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  • Remembering Om Malik

    I just saw the news, where else, come across my RSS feed, that Om Malik has passed away. There are very few bloggers, reporters, and consummate insiders in Silicon Valley. On all those fronts, Om was an OG. His posts, reports, and photography were among a few constants on my RSS feed for more than…

  • The Gong Was the Easy Part

    The Gong Was the Easy Part

    There was a Zenith console television in our family room, the kind built into a slab of wood furniture that weighed more than the couch, and a good part of my childhood happened in front of it. That’s where I met Charles Nelson Reilly and Jamie Farr and Jaye P. Morgan, though I couldn’t have…

  • Still Flying: Voyager 1 at the Edge of Everything

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    Still Flying: Voyager 1 at the Edge of Everything

    Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth. It launched in 1977, before the personal computer, before the internet, before we decided anything older than eighteen months was legacy debt. It was built by people using slide rules. It is still on. Late last week, NASA turned off one of its last active…