Apple Maps: 4 ways to improve the disastrous new app

THE APPLE UNIVERSE Apple Maps: 4 ways to improve the disastrous new app The latest update to iOS 6 replaces the longstanding Google Maps app with a Cupertino-bred product still in its infancy, and directionless users are crying foul 2012 ELECTIONS Are Republicans in danger of losing the House? The GOP effort to seize control of the Senate is losing steam, and some Democrats are boasting that even the GOP's House majority is imperiled SCIENCE + TECH Coming soon: A leather jacket grown in a lab? Growing cowhide without the cow will soon be a possibility, as a new biotech company aims to become the world's first purveyor of in vitro leather goods 2012 PRESIDENTIAL RACE The 47 percenters, the 6 percenters, and more numerical political factions The political press likes gaffes. But it loves numbers. Here, a handful of key figures that have entered the political lexicon this year FLIPBOOKS The gadget that turns food into vapors A French gadget that transforms food flavors into inhalable vapors — and more in our collection of bizarrely elite consumer products STARBUCKS Starbucks' new one-cup coffee machine: Will customers buy it? The ubiquitous coffee chain hopes to expand into your kitchen, offering a new home brewer that can re-create the company's signature lattes and espressos FROM OUR PARTNERS AT SLATE How repealing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' strengthened the military Despite years of anxious hand-wringing over allowing soldiers to be open about their sexuality, a new study finds that scrapping DADT didn't hurt one bit SEE ALL CARTOONS SLATE Romney vs. Obama: Who will deport more? NEWSER America's richest, poorest cities NEW YORK MAGAZINE Bill Clinton explains secret to his DNC speech on The Daily Show TECCA Boeing adding cell phone compatibility to some of its airliners by 2013 SALON Top Dem: Romney will give us the House         Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | privacy policy  Copyright © 2012 The Week, All rights reserved.