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Have you got 30 minutes to check out one of Apple’s biggest, riskiest, and most controversial product launches of the last several decades? The tech giant is still hosting demos for its Apple Vision Pro in stores across the U.S. If you’re like us, and you don’t have $3,500 lying around in a coat pocket–or else you don’t have any other ultra-wealthy friends to pal around with–this may your only chance to go hands-on with Apple’s hands-only “spatial computer.” Plus, you may be unable to book one of the 30-minute demos for…

Have you heard the story about crabs in a bucket? When one tries to escape, others claw it down, giving rise to the term “crab mentality”. I find the tale, often proffered with trite self-help nuggets, grating. Not only do we ascribe imagined motivations to crabs, we place them in a situation they would have never encountered without human intervention and then make generalizations about their “mentality”. Narratives that unfold parallelly even as they inform each other. (Little, Brown and Company) Beyond…

The newsletter Words for Worlds by Gautam Bhatia revealed a big lacuna in my bookshelf: science fiction. While I enjoy the genre, my acquaintance with it is woeful. So I tried to read more sci-fi this year. I’m glad I did because the two books I began with, The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin and The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh, were my most delectable reads of 2022.The novels are similar in some ways. They have plots so electrifying, I often sacrificed my sleep to gorge on the next reveal. The worlds they built…

After 23 years in prison, Adnan Syed is a free man. Baltimore prosecutors on Tuesday announced they were dropping charges against the 41-year-old and subject of the hit podcast Serial, reports The New York Times. Prior to his release in September, Syed had been serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of his former girlfriend Hae Min Lee. The decision comes after a judge last month overturned Syed’s prison sentence on the recommendation of prosecutors, who said the state was no longer confident of the conviction. At…

A Baltimore judge on Monday ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed’s conviction for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee — a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast Serial. At the behest of prosecutors, Circuit Court Judge Melissa Phinn ordered that Syed’s conviction be vacated and she approved the release of the now-41-year-old who has spent more than two decades behind bars. Phinn ruled that the state violated its legal obligation to share exculpatory evidence with Syed’s…

A Baltimore judge has overturned the conviction of Adnan Syed, reports . The 41-year-old had been serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of his former girlfriend Hae Min Lee. In 2014, his case attracted international interest after it was chronicled by former Baltimore Sun reporter Sarah Koenig in the first season of the hit podcast Serial. Koenig spent more than a year investigating the specifics of Syed’s case, focusing in particular on the conduct of his lawyer, Cristina Gutierrez. In 2019, Maryland’s highest…

Photo: Brian Witte (AP)A Baltimore judge on Monday overturned the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, the man whose murder conviction served as the subject for the popular Serial podcast. Syed has spent over two decades behind bars serving a life sentence after prosecutors accused him of strangling and murdering his ex-girlfriend when he was 17 years old.Serial’s massive viewership and influence were credited in part for casting doubt on the murder charges and for renewing legal efforts to overrule his conviction. Now, 23…

Officials escort Serial podcast subject Adnan Syed from the courthouse on Feb. 3rd, 2016, following the completion of the first day of hearings for a retrial in Baltimore. | Photo by Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun / Tribune News Service via Getty Images Adnan Syed was set free on Monday after more than 20 years in prison for being convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, in a case that spawned intense interest after it was documented in the podcast Serial. The New York…

Workers rally outside Google’s New York City office on Thursday, September 8th, 2022.Photo: Mack DeGeurin/Gizmodo“No justice, no peace, tech workers are in the streets!” Those words echoed through the air outside Google’s New York City office as workers left for the day on Thursday evening. Outside, they faced a street packed with dozens of Google and Amazon employees opposed to Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion cloud computing project funded by the the government of Israel.While government tech contracts are usually awarded…

Not many know about an Indian justice of the court who thwarted the colonial British government’s subjugation of Indians often with the tacit support of the judiciary. His legal acumen pierced through the inherent racism of the British judicial system of the period and paved the way for democratic adjudicatory governance. Syed Mahmood (1850-1903) served the Allahabad High Court as Justice between 1887 and 1893 and knocked down the colonial British judicial system’s hierarchy. He contextualized dissent within the cultural…