Apple announced a slew of new things this week and if there’s one thing we can be sure of it’s that it’s all part of an insidious plot to keep you buying more. Writing for Mashable, Damon Beres says “The iPhone 8 will fuel Apple’s Upgrade Program, and that’s a bad thing.” (Tip o’ the antlers to Tibor Csapo and Patrick Sercel.) The image accompanying the article is an amalgam of the Apple logo and—and here the Macalope is required…
This is unfortunately not the dog in question.Image: mashable composite; shutterstock By Max Knoblauch2017-09-17 21:46:04 UTC Is the Boise State football dog an elite quarterback? No, but he could be, if someone just gave him a chance. Boise State’s dog (a good boy) is what’s called a kickoff specialist. By that, we mean that he runs onto the field like a happy idiot and gets the tee after kickoff. Take a look at the dog in action. Note his elegant…
For years the Emmys were the place that Modern Family went to pick up something pretty for the mantle. But that’s all changing thanks to the likes of Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. Now streaming services compete—and win—right alongside their big network counterparts. With more players in the game, television studios are starting to pony up for really creative shows to grab attention. All of this has lead to a lot of amazing TV. In anticipation of the Emmys, which air…
Apple Pencil Apple gets a lot of patents awarded, and while many will never see real use, a recent award may be one that hits the shelves. Patent #9,400,570 describes new functions for the Apple Pencil. The pencil first appeared for the iPad Pro with technology to make writing and drawing on the glass touchscreen more like working with pencil and paper. The new patent shows those features to be augmented, enabling the Pencil to work without touching the touchscreen,…
8Bitdo’s retro Bluetooth game controllers are among the greatest gifts you can get a gamer, since they’re so versatile and so well-designed (especially for those who remember fondly the early console days). The company’s latest controller is now up for pre-order, and it’s an homage to the SNES gamepad that can do a lot more in terms of connecting with modern devices, and offering more buttons for modern games. The controllers themselves aren’t out until December 10, which makes things…
For the last 12 years, YouTube’s logo has been a pair of anachronisms wrapped inside each other. “We have the word tube in a tube,” says Christopher Bettig, the head of YouTube’s art department. “This is weird. No one know what this is.” Tube is slang for a television set, which used to be powered by vacuum tubes. But neither tubes nor TVs are central to the world’s biggest video service, which now reaches over 1.5 billion people each month,…
Leasha Ali had been drunk for the last two days, but she didn’t want to be anymore. The 39-year-old math teacher and mother of two was in a spiral familiar to anyone who’s struggled with addiction. A difficult event — a hospitalization, thanks to lingering symptoms from a birth defect — had stressed her to the breaking point, and then she’d gotten home and found herself alone in her house, depressed and unable to sleep. After a few days without…
When Rutam Vora was growing up in Vadodara, a city of about 2 million people near the western coast of India, his parents kept cool each summer by drenching bedsheets in water and hanging them in the windows of their house. When the scorching westerly wind known as the loo swept in and hit the sheets, the evaporating water absorbed the brunt of the heat. White chalk spread on the roof reflected the sun and dropped the temperature further. They…
File photo: The new Amazon Fire TV is displayed during a media event introducing new Amazon products in San Francisco, California September 16, 2015. (REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach) “Cut the cord.” It sounds so freeing, doesn’t it? No more paying exorbitant fees for hundreds of channels you never watch. With streaming services, you can watch whatever, whenever, wherever. Pretty great, right? There’s just one roadblock: Streaming services are complicated, far more complicated than cable ever was. Different networks have different relationships with…
For years, the central processing units, or C.P.U.s, that ran PCs and similar devices were where the money was. And there had not been much need for change. In accordance with Moore’s Law, the oft-quoted maxim from Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, the number of transistors on a computer chip had doubled every two years or so, and that provided steadily improved performance for decades. As performance improved, chips consumed about the same amount of power, according to another, lesser-known law…
Story highlights “Int-Ball” will make astronauts’ work hours more efficient The drone facilitates more real-time communication with crew on Earth Functionally, the JEM Internal Ball, or “Int-Ball” for short, will optimize communication between astronauts in space and scientists on Earth. Aesthetically, it is the cutest little orb since Star Wars’ BB-8 droid. Int-Ball arrived in space at “Kibo,” which is the Japanese Experiment Module on the International Space Station, on June 4 this year. The photos were disclosed by JAXA…
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Where did it all go wrong for Xiaomi? Xiaomi has unveiled what’s perhaps the best attempt at a MacBook Pro ripoff. Looking at the specs and price of the Mi Notebook Pro, however, it’s clear Xiaomi didn’t merely copy Apple’s flagship laptop. ( Xiaomi | Twitter ) Xiaomi has just announced a new laptop to rival Apple’s MacBook Pro — only it looks every bit like its competitor, but with important exceptions. The new Mi Notebook Pro, the follow-up to Mi Notebook…
Watch 20-year Cassini mission end as Nasa probe plunges into Saturn Bose will release a new pair of smart wireless headphones. Several leaks suggest that the company’s new QuietComfort 35 II will be powered with Google Assistant, cost the same as its predecessor, and also have 20 hours of battery life. ( Bose ) It seems Bose will soon announce a new pair of wireless headphones that has Google Assistant built-in. Reportedly called the QuietComfort 35 II, this seems to…
I recently worked on a content project for Alooma, an ETL and data pipeline service on the cloud. ETL is “extract, transform, load,” a time-tested process for loading mission-critical events into a central data store, while making sure that the data is correct. A new take on ETL Alooma and its competitors like XPlenty and Stitch Data have a new take on ETL. They promise to move huge volumes of data into data warehouses or other data stores effortlessly, with…
The Eclipse IDE, popular with Java developers, has displaced Microsoft’s Visual Studio as the most popular desktop IDE in the PyPL Top IDE index of September. While Visual Studio was tops in the August version of the PyPL Top IDE index, it dropped to second place this month behind Eclipse, with Eclipse showing a 24.23 percent share and Visual Studio a 21.77 percent share. Similar to PyPL’s monthly language index, the Top IDE index is based on how often IDEs are…
