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Steve Jobs

December 2023

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    Steve Jobs’ $4 check written in 1976 auctioned off for more than $36,000

    Check written to Radio Shack joins a hot market for Jobs’ signature and memorabilia

November 2023

  • Kate Moss in pink vest top, leaning against a white wall with a string of coloured lights behind her
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    40 outrageous photos that changed fashion, from teenage Kate Moss to Twiggy in a mini and Lady Gaga’s meat dress

    Leigh Bowery provoked, Dior’s elegant New Look inspired, Katharine Hamnett’s slogan T-shirts challenged: these are the shots that made the world see clothes differently

October 2023

  • Joan Baez at the Alabama State Capitol in 1965, from JOAN BAEZ I AM A NOISE, a Magnolia Pictures release. © Stephen Sonnerstein. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

    Joan Baez: I Am a Noise review – intimate doc about the folk legend and activist

    Recovered memories of abuse are alluded to but not explored in this often painful look back at the sensational life and career of a true icon of counterculture

August 2023

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    What Apple did to Nokia, Tesla is now doing to the motor industry

    John Naughton
    People scoffed at the idea of electric vehicles for the masses. But now a Tesla hatchback has outsold the Toyota Corolla

November 2022

  • Steve Jobs's Birkenstock sandals

    Blazers out, Birkenstocks in: how smart casual work ‘uniforms’ can free up brain power

    From Steve Jobs’s turtlenecks and sandals to Hillary Clinton’s coloured suits, those in the public eye often adopt a simple signature look
  • Bidisha Mamata

    Notebook
    I too quit Twitter this week – and have never been more relieved

    Bidisha Mamata
    Elon Musk’s latest acquisition once turned an innocuous trip to the cinema into something more disturbing
  • In this photo provided by Julien's Auctions are Steve Jobs' Birkenstock sandals sold at their Idols & Icons Rock N' Roll auction at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York, Sunday Nov. 13, 2022. The California house where Steve Jobs co-founded Apple is a historical site, and now the sandals he wore while pacing its floors have been sold for nearly $220,000, according to an auction house. The "well used" brown suede Birkenstocks dating to the mid 1970s set a record for the highest price ever paid for a pair of sandals, according to Julien's Auctions. (Julien's Auctions via AP)

    Steve Jobs’ old Birkenstocks sell for nearly $220,000

    ‘Well-worn’ German sandals owned by Apple co-founder set record at auction

July 2022

  • Cindy Morgan and Bruce Boxleitner in Tron.

    ‘Frankly it blew my mind’: how Tron changed cinema – and predicted the future of tech

    From cyberspace to AI, Steven Lisberger’s 1982 sci-fi classic was way ahead of its time. The team behind it explain how they made a game-changer

March 2022

  • Aaron Sorkin at the Gielgud theatre, London, March 2022.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Aaron Sorkin: ‘Screenwriters write about people who are cooler than we are’

    The American writer known for The West Wing, Moneyball and The Social Network on adapting To Kill a Mockingbird for the stage in the 21st century

October 2021

  • Scrolling back the years … The original iPod, an iPod mini, and an iPod Touch.

    20 years of the iPod: how it shuffled music and tech into a new era

  • Facebook

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Was this the worst week in Facebook’s history?

March 2021

  • Sherry Turkle

    Sherry Turkle: 'The pandemic has shown us that people need relationships'

    The acclaimed writer on technology and its effect on our mental health talks about her memoir and the insights Covid has given her

August 2020

  • The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs is held up as an example of where being a jerk led to workplace success.

    Getting ahead isn't a nasty business, US study reveals

    Researchers found ‘nice, generous’ people advanced at work just as much as bullies

February 2020

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    Ten years after its launch, Apple’s iPad still has some way to go

    John Naughton
    Though Steve Jobs’s sleek tablet was a worldwide hit, it can still be naggingly awkward to use

January 2020

  • Twins Tommy and Henry, sons of Angela Cuming.

    My life with autistic twins: 'Your family is cracking, but through the cracks comes light'

    Angela Cuming
  • minimalist home interior

    The long read
    The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism

January 2019

  • 1990s USA Apple Magazine Advert featuring Muhammad Ali.

    Observer business agenda
    Apple became the greatest. But is its crown slipping?

    Simon Goodley
    The company is already warning its investors about this week’s results. Can it pull off one more comeback?

September 2018

  • Lisa Brennan-Jobs and Steve Jobs

    Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs – growing up as Steve Jobs’s daughter

    The Apple founder’s daughter has the last word in a memoir detailing years of neglect and controlling behaviour
  • 10th anniversary of first iPhone release<br>epa06054015 (FILE) - Apple Inc. CEO and co-founder, Steve Jobs poses with the new Apple iPhone after his keynote at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, California, 09 January 2007. The revolutionary mobile phone was introduced for the first time later same year in the United States, on 29 June 2007. The mobile device came with a quad-band GSM cellular connectivity and GPRS and EDGE support for data transfer. The phone was made available in various European countries in November 2009. According to media reports, more than 700 million iPhones, including second-hand devices, were in use around the globe in first quarter of 2017. EPA/JOHN G. MABANGLO *** Local Caption *** 00898967

    ‘Dysfunction’ and designer dads

    Letters: Trevor Jones ponders whether the drive of some male design geniuses might also be the thing that makes them such dysfunctional fathers
  • Steve Jobs with Lisa in 1989, when Lisa was 10

    The daughter Steve Jobs denied: ‘Clearly I was not compelling enough for my father'

    Lisa Brennan-Jobs talks about how she learned to love the co-founder of Apple, who claimed for years she wasn’t his child
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