Wired:
Let’s say you’re out drinking with your buddies, things get out of hand, you pull out your smartphone, you take a selfie in the middle of all this drunken revelry, then you take 30 or 40 more, and, without hesitation, you start uploading them to Facebook.
Facebook is exploring AI to detect and respond to this behavior.
Terrific article, partnered with the video below. Clearly, the culture of free is at the soul of many new business models. As you craft your business plan, you must consider the possibility that someone out there will do the same thing for free.
CNET:
Some of the last video footage taken of the late Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs shown in antitrust court last week may see the light of day after lawyers representing the Associated Press, Bloomberg and CNN filed a motion with the court to have it released.
Wired brings a fascinating look inside the Google Maps operation.
Andy Ihnatko had the chance to visit the war room at NASA Goddard’s space weather lab. Take a look at this picture he snapped of what he calls “the single greatest browser tab ever rendered”. Then read on.
An excellent, curated list of gifts for the iPhone photographer, put together by one of the best.
On the emerging disruption of YouTube’s dominant hold on video content. What’s coming next?
Jean-Louis Gassée, writing for Monday Note:
At the medium to low end, the impact of Moore’s law was nearly lethal. Smartphone cameras have become both so good and so convenient…that they have displaced almost all other consumer picture taking devices.
How will Moore’s Law affect the Apple Watch?
Ever hear of Bill Fernandez? Maybe not, but his importance to Apple’s early success is undeniable. And it makes for a great Sunday read.
This is for math geeks and musicians. What really happens if you use a circle of fourths or fifths to tune an instrument?
Have you ever walked by a restaurant and seen various dishes in the window, designed to give you a visual sense of the menu? Now imagine that hyper-realistic fake food as a necklace, earrings, hair clip, etc. Awesome!
This is a thoughtful, non-judgmental analysis of the design of Apple Maps and Google Maps, running on iOS and Android respectively. Fantastic read.
I am a fan of autocorrect. And I hate it, too.
I love autocorrect when it helps me properly spell a difficult or mis-typed word or when it speeds up my typing by properly predicting the next word I’d like to type.
Here’s a proposal to make autocorrect a bit better.
Time’s Lev Grossman, writes about Mark Zuckerberg’s relentless quest to get every human on the planet online and on Facebook.
Kirk McElhearn put up a page with a single question survey. If you would, please take a minute to click over to this page and answer the question. Once the results are known, Kirk will post them and so will we. Thanks.
Nice!
BBC:
Lawyers for Apple have raised a last-minute challenge saying new evidence suggested that the two women named as plaintiffs may not have purchased iPod models covered by the lawsuit.
Wall Street Journal:
Barnes & Noble Inc. has terminated its commercial agreement for its Nook e-reader with Microsoft Corp. , a move it said provides a clearer path toward the impending split of its business.
New York Times:
As some in Europe call for multinational companies to pay more taxes, Britain on Wednesday proposed a new 25 percent tax on the local profits of international companies, including tech giants like Google that use complicated structures to reduce their tax burden.
Google is building what it hopes is a much less annoying replacement for CAPCHA, the mechanism that tests to see whether you are a bot or a human.
The iTunes antitrust trial started on Tuesday and the mud is definitely slinging.
Bond is back. More importantly, Daniel Craig is back. The new Bond movie has been announced, and I am excited!
Speech synthesis has come a long way since 1974, but I am still amazed at just how good it was in this video. More interesting is the question, is there a pizza place out there with the patience to fulfill this order? Great video.
All this time and I never knew that there was a MacPaint-like program hidden inside Preview.
What a mess.
Before Lemieux, before Gretzky, there was Jean Béliveau. A sad day for hockey, a sad day for Canada.
Bono was recuperating from his bike accident, so he got Chris Martin, Carrie Underwood, Kanye West, Bruce Springsteen, and Bill Clinton to fill in. Not too shabby. The band was brilliant.
EE Times:
When he was diagnosed, Hawking had not even finished his doctorate in physics. He was given two years to live. However, with the help of technology from the self-proclaimed “rocket scientist” Walt Waltosz, who personally wrote the software that allowed him to get his life back, Hawking was able not only to speak to others but also to write the book A Brief History of Time…
Reuters:
Opening statements are scheduled to begin on Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court in the long-running class action, brought by a group of individuals and businesses who purchased iPods between 2006 and 2009. They say a 2006 iTunes update dictated that iTunes music could only be played on iPods, unfairly blocking competing device makers.
Tom’s hardware puts a number of solid-state-drives through their paces, lays it all out for you.