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Looks like The Muppet’s character, Beaker.

When I was in high school, we just called these hickeys.

The short story – For the past year and a half I’ve collected wi-fi names that caught my attention all around Berlin. Click on the green markers on the map to read the wi-fi names exactly where I found them, along with my unrequested comments/interpretation/research on their meanings.

Some of these are funny—the comments certainly make a big difference in understand the names.

AT&T has settled with the FCC over a “cramming” investigation that found the carrier allowed scammers to place unauthorized charges onto customer bills, and collected a fee from the sham companies involved in the scheme.

And carriers wonder why we don’t trust them.

After a few weeks of exploration, the studio and I settled on a composition and I was tasked with painting the finished poster. I used the Procreate app on my iPad Pro to do the preliminary sketches and for blocking the basic colors of the poster. I then exported these layers into Adobe Photoshop and began detailing the artwork at a much higher resolution.

This is really impressive. The iPad Pro can be used for many things from creative endeavors to daily work—as technology continues to move forward, the possibilities are almost endless.

I’m always on people to be organ donors. This story is one of the reasons why you would do it.

Along with their excellent piece on Apple today, Fast Company also had an interview with Apple Music’s head of global consumer marketing, Bozoma Saint John, who has got to have the coolest name in technology right now.

Clickbait headlines are exactly why I support independent writers instead of organizations that lower themselves to using such tactics. Usually, clickbait offers nothing more than a tantalizing headline—nothing to backup the reason you clicked on it in the first place. It’s a frustrating practice, but when we become aware of what’s going on, we can support the people, and sites, that treat us, the readers, with respect.

Merger mania is all the rage in tech, where it’s beginning to feel like the late 1990s and early 2000 bust era all over again. But this time there’s a notable difference that speaks to the fundamental value being created in this second dot-com boom. Companies are being scooped up for billions instead of being shuttered.

It’s true, and stunning, when you consider how much companies are selling for these days.

Hulu is moving to an all-subscription model, eliminating the ad-supported service that has let users watch thousands of TV episodes in the nine years since it first launched.

I tried Hulu in the past and just didn’t find it compelling. Like many, I’m waiting to see what Apple can pull together.

Updated every Friday, Release Radar gives you up to two hours of the newest drops from the artists you follow and listen to the most, sprinkled in with some new discoveries based on your recent listening habits. Release Radar is the perfect complement to New Music Friday, which connects you with hot new artists you may not know about yet. You’ll soon find your personalized Release Radar playlist in the New Releases for You section within Discover on mobile and desktop.

Good idea—focus on your favorite artist’s new music instead of just a genre.

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission has raided the offices of Amazon.com Inc’s local unit on suspicion of pressuring retailers to offer products at lower prices than on rival sites, the Nikkei business daily said on Monday.

Isn’t this what Amazon does in every country it operates, including the U.S.?

The fervent Ronnie James Dio fans who gathered to watch a group of the late singer’s former bandmates close out Germany’s mega-sized heavy-metal festival Wacken Open Air Saturday night got a big surprise: a theatrical performance by Dio in hologram form.

I am a huge Dio fan, but I find this a bit creepy.

The Daily Telegraph: Extraordinary footage has emerged of the sophisticated sting that saw photographer Brett Costello robbed on the beach in Rio. The brazen thieves stole a carry-on luggage case full of expensive equipment on the busy cafe district on … Continued

These showers are always an incredible experience, especially if you can get away from city lights to see the maximum possible meteors.

This is an incredible visualization. Play around with the map and toggle the types of ships and shipping routes on and off.

This might be the funniest, most demented, yet sweetest PSA for organ donation you’ll ever watch.

This looks gorgeous but my patience for such things is very limited. I know I’d turn it into kindling before I got past the first page.

Wow. I’ve been doing a podcast for more than 22 years. I didn’t realize I had started so soon after the web went online.

This seems to indicate that despite all the negative rhetoric often seen written in forums and on social media about tuning software it seems 9 in 10 preferred a tuned vocal in this case.

I don’t think listeners mind pitch corrected vocals, I think they mind overuse of pitch correction.

Now that is a travel voucher.

Have you had to write a rent check lately? Or maybe fax some important documents? Despite things like Venmo and email that normal people use every day, these ancient bits of tech and culture just keep hanging on. There’s clearly better technology, it’s just that not everyone is using it.

I laughed a little reading this.

If the first rule of Pokémon Go is “Gotta catch ‘em all,” the second rule is you are going to need to bring an extra battery to do so.

One game driving the sales of another accessory—good for them.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band marked the Beatles’ cultural apex, effectively re-tuning the zeitgeist of Western society in 1967’s Summer of Love, but its predecessor – Revolver, released August 5th, 1966 – was the band’s biggest musical watershed. Never had the Beatles emerged with such a brace of high-quality songs.

Like many, Revolver is one of my favorites.

Now, 1.8 million miles of autonomous driving later, I’ve decided the time is right to step down and find my next adventure. Today will be my last day on the project as CTO. After leading our cars through the human equivalent of 150 years of driving and helping our project make the leap from pure research to developing a product that we hope someday anyone will be able to use, I am ready for a fresh challenge.

The history of Yellowstone Park is remarkably faceted with tales in various areas, not the least of which is transportation. From hiking to pack mule to stage coach to busses, the transportation story of Yellowstone is truly one for the books…

This is very cool.

I use ProCam in my beginner photography classes to show students in real time how making adjustments to shutter speed, exposure, white balance, ISO, etc., affects their images, whether they shoot with the iPhone or a DSLR. The app offers various in-app purchases and free tutorials on the web site.

Personally, this is sad news. Paul Griffin was responsible for me moving to Nashville many years ago and I know a lot of the people at Griffin. Hopefully, Incipio will leave Griffin Technology to its own devices but we all know that’s not very likely.

Amazon is shipping enough packages across the U.S. that it is starting to need its own planes. Now we know what they look like.

It’s truly amazing how many packages Amazon ships. They are a trusted brand for so many people.

Recorded during their stand at the Zenith in Munich in November 2015, this concert shows the band raging just before its final conclusion.

Miss you Lemmy.