"Leander Kahney" is a technology writer and author. He is a former managing editor, and previously a senior reporter, at Wired News, the online sister publication of Wired (magazine)/Wired. He is also the author of four books centered on the subculture surrounding Apple Inc./Apple products, as well as the company itself: The Cult of Mac, Cult of iPod (ISBN 1-886411-83-2) Inside Steve's Brain and Jony Ive.

Kahney is currently best known for his role as editor and publisher of a popular Apple-centric blog, also titled Cult of Mac (blog)/Cult of Mac. As a prominent writer on Apple Inc./Apple- and Macintosh/Mac-related topics, Kahney was once theorized (incorrectly) to be the identity of Daniel Lyons/Fake Steve Jobs.

Leander has worked for many other publications, including: MacWeek as a senior reporter, Scientific American, The Observer and The Guardian in London. Working as a newspaper reporter in the UK, he covered amongst other things, the Yugoslav wars/war in former Yugoslavia.

He is currently living in San Francisco, California and is a father of four.

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In New York, researchers have created a working prototype of an amazing touch-screen interface for a computer that, unlike most touch screens, supports multiple touch points -- or multiple people. Running on OS X, the interface is reminiscent of Steven Spielberg's fictional, gesture-based UI in Minority Report -- but much cooler.

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It's huge news for the Mac community. It's a real bombshell. Hell has frozen over, black is white, two plus two equals five, the whole fabric of the universe has been ripped open.

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The same is true of Windows and other platforms—there are dozens of potential ways in, according to the SANS Institute, but a vulnerability does not an exploit make. These Mac security holes are a storm in a teacup. They've inspired hundreds of stories in the press and even the national network news, but if they were Windows holes, no one would have blinked.

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To them it's a rational choice. It's just the best computer around.

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