AllThingsD:
Tim Cook learned a lot from Steve Jobs, and one of the big takeaways seems to be: Don’t tip your hand. The Apple CEO was unwilling to tackle questions about any future product plans during his first appearance on the D10 stage Wednesday night.
Digital Trends:
It’s no secret that branding is powerful: Fonts, shapes, colors are all part of what we associate with certain brands. Without the words, we can tell the swoosh is part of the Nike franchise, and a yellow M is a straight sign to your local McDonald’s. But can you recognize these brands and objects if you take the colors and logos away? That’s the idea behind the project Brand Spirit by Andrew Miller.Every day for 100 days, Miller has taken a random object and paint it completely white to strip it of the branding we’ve come to know like the back of our hands. By removing the visual branding, Miller says this ”reduc[es] the object to its purest form.”
Many of these are utterly generic but it’s interesting to see how many you can identify simply by their shape.
Facebook’s stock value took another slide in Tuesday trading as investors bet on the stock’s future performance.
38 Studios’ failure continues to be a train wreck in progress, partly thanks to the loud mouthed hypocrisy of its founder, Curt Schilling.
24/7 Wall Street:
For the second year in a row, 24/7 Wall St. examined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s report on life satisfaction in the developed world. Economic prosperity, health and a strong social support network continue to correspond highly with happiness. Once again, the United States fails to make the top 10 happiest nations in the world, while countries like Australia, Israel and all of the Scandinavian nations do.These are the happiest countries in the world.
Before you read the article, take a guess where the US falls in the list.
CNET:
On May 27, 1937, a brand new bridge opened to the public for the first time. Connecting San Francisco to its northern neighbor, Marin County, the new bridge — controversial at the time — became one of the most photographed man-made projects in history. The Golden Gate Bridge is now a worldwide icon, and this Sunday, it turns 75.
We usually hate slideshows but there are some fantastic pictures of the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge included here.
Smithsonian:
Chicken is the ubiquitous food of our era, crossing multiple cultural boundaries with ease. With its mild taste and uniform texture, chicken presents an intriguingly blank canvas for the flavor palette of almost any cuisine. Long after the time when most families had a few hens running around the yard that could be grabbed and turned into dinner, chicken remains a nostalgic, evocative dish for most Americans. When author Jack Canfield was looking for a metaphor for psychological comfort, he didn’t call it “Clam Chowder for the Soul.”How did the chicken achieve such cultural and culinary dominance?
An interesting, if not very detailed, look at how the chicken became such a staple of our diets.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is refusing to take $75 million in dividend income to which he’s entitled, according to a new SEC filing.
Apple has posted two new iPhone 4s/Siri ads, these ones starring the actor John Malkovich.
Malkovich is an interesting choice, given that most people find him (wonderfully) creepy.
Facebook is getting ready for the release of Facebook Camera, a new photo sharing app for Facebook users, coming Thursday.
Peter is the guest on this week’s The Bro Show with iMyke and Terry Lucy.
The Flashed Face Distortion Effect will change the way you view celebrity images forever.
HP plans to cut up to 27,000 workers through early retirement and other means as part of a restructuring.
Lifehacker:
Nearly every modern phone has a camera attached to it and subsequently more and more people are taking photos in public places than ever before. The shot might be as simple as snapping a picture of a parade or as tricky as recording video of a riot. Regardless of the reasons, the rules for photographing in public places are the same.For the most part, your right to take photographs and video in public places in the United States is protected under the First Amendment under free speech. This includes snapping pictures of your favorite monument when you’re on vacation or taking part in a little citizen journalism. It’s not as cut and dried as you may think and it’s good to know your rights and the caveats that come with them.
Good article and subsequent discussion in the comment section about your rights to photograph.
Harry Marks has great advice for anyone looking to buy a gadget.
Oracle lost its patent infringement case against Google today; a ten-person jury found that Google didn’t infringe two key Java patents.
Seagate is set to acquire storage peripheral maker LaCie in a stock acquisition and cash buyout valued at $186 million.
Facebook’s IPO, already off to a rocky start, has been marred further by a lawsuit that claims that Facebook and its underwriters failed to disclose lower earning estimates.
Blizzard says that 3.5 million gamers bought Diablo III the first day it was available.
Mashable:
Steve Jobs may have built Apple into the world’s most valuable technology company in part by betting against the web. But global celebrities and some of the Internet’s brightest stars joined together to create a heartfelt tribute video honoring the legendary entrepreneur during Monday night’s Webby Awards in New York City.Barack Obama, Bono and Sarah Silverman were among roughly a dozen celebrities and political figures to appear in the video thanking Jobs for his company’s role in changing the technology world and everyday life for millions upon millions of digitally savvy consumers.
Let’s Sing is a new iOS game whose mechanics will be familiar to Draw Something fans, except with singing instead of drawing.
EVE Online: Inferno is now ready for download; the 17th consecutive free expansion for the MMO set in outer space.
Panic has announced Coda 2, a new version of their web editor for OS X, and Diet Coda, a companion app for the iPad.
Game Capture HD lets you capture your finest moments of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 gaming on your Mac or PC.
Lemkesoft has released GraphicConverter 8.0, a major new release for the graphic conversion and editing utility. This latest version adds support for 64-bit Intel-based Macs and new batch processing capabilities among many other additions.
GraphicConverter 8.0 is a free update for owners of GraphicConverter 7, but is a paid upgrade of $29.95 for users with versions 1 through 6. If you’ve never bought it before – and you should – it’s $39.95.
Reuters:
The chief executives of Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd are used to running the show at their global tech empires, but they will be in for a different experience when they arrive at a San Francisco federal courthouse on Monday.Apple’s Tim Cook and Samsung’s Choi Gee-sung, whose companies are embroiled in bitter patent litigation, have been instructed by a federal judge to appear for court-supervised mediation. A joint court filing in April said that “as directed by the Court, Apple and Samsung are both willing to participate” in the discussions. In other words, it was not exactly their idea.
I wonder if the judge will make them hug it out?
Space.com:
Solar eclipses such as annular eclipse on Sunday can be treacherous for the inexperienced. A ring (“annulus”) of the sun’s disk remains in view even at the moment of maximum coverage by the moon. Your eye’s iris will be fooled by the relative darkness of the moon’s silhouette. But dangerous direct sunlight appears around the edges and can hurt you badly without precautions.Experienced eclipse chasers watching a total solar eclipse will have a short time — during totality only — when they may view the eclipse directly. Don’t try this unless you are with someone who has done it before and can still see. But don’t try it at all under Sunday’s annular solar eclipse.If you’re planning to watch a solar eclipse or look for sunspots, what is the proper optical filter material for sun-watching?
Rolling Stone has a picture gallery of the best beards in rock. Is Jim’s beard included?
“Every man looks better with a beard. Here’s proof.”
Apple capitulated to Greenpeace and other environmental activists on Thursday, stating plans to build a massive solar farm to power its NC-based data center.