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What happens when you want to get crosstown in Manhattan but only have a child’s toy? Will you go faster than the bus?

A Rolling Stone magazine cover featuring Boston bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has caused outrage online.

Thousands of people posted on social media networks calling it “tasteless” and “disgusting”.

Good article by Ash Furrow, the developer of the 500px app, on the importance of bringing your app to iOS 7 quickly.

Incredible.

A new iOS companion app that allows users that control Airfoil on their Mac.

Shawn Blanc:

If you think you’ve reached a point where you can create work that never makes you cringe again, then you’re saying that what you do today will be just as good as what you do next month, next year, and in 5 years from now.

Shawn is absolutely right. We grow everyday and our work becomes better the more we do it.

Jim and Dan talk about Logic Pro X, Apple TV and ad skipping, insta-deleting iOS apps, the coming public freak-out about iOS 7, releasing beta software as production-ready, Smoke on The Water, and more.

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This is definitely not safe for work or children, but I laughed all the way through.

Constraints expose compromises, and we can judge products (and their designers) by the apparent wisdom of those compromises. Some are barely noticeable, like a laptop that lacks the (bizarrely prevalent) hardware wi-fi toggle switch. Some are minor inconveniences, like a badly-placed USB port. But some are thwarting. There are some compromises that sabotage the promise of the device. The ultrabook with an awkward and RSI-exacerbating keyboard. The tablet with a narrow field of view. The smartphone with a poor touch-screen.

These aren’t compromises, but rather flaws.

Great article.

“Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey” is one of my all-time favorite Saturday Night Live skits. I can remember some of them by heart to this day. I’m ashamed to admit I didn’t know Jack Handey is a real person and … Continued

For more than a year, Apple has been seeking rights from cable companies and television networks for a service that would allow users to watch live and on-demand television over an Apple set-top box or TV.

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In recent discussions, Apple told media executives it wants to offer a “premium” version of the service that would allow users to skip ads and would compensate television networks for the lost revenue, according to people briefed on the conversations.

I would pay for that.

Get your apps ready for iOS 7 now—don’t become an insta-delete.

No, not The Police song. This is the way Canadians communicate.

If you’re a parent, you may find this YouTube series hilarious.

French artist Philippe Pasqua has installed a life-sized Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton made of chrome by the banks of the river Seine in Paris.

This was well done.

Amar Bose, the 83 year old founder of audio company Bose Corp., has passed away.

There’s something you should know about that lawyer who is suing Apple for his Internet porn addiction.

The U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington issued the import ban in May 2012 after deciding that Motorola Mobility devices infringed a Microsoft patent for a way mobile phones synchronize calendar events with other computers. Microsoft’s lawsuit, filed yesterday in Washington, says that order isn’t being enforced.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, after having secret meetings with Google, continued to let the Motorola Mobility mobile phones enter the country even though Google has done nothing to remove the feature at the heart of the ITC case, Microsoft said in the complaint.

I’d like to thank MoneyWell for sponsoring The Loop’s RSS feed this week. MoneyWell is personal finance software that increases your wealth while reducing your debt using the tried-and-true envelope-budgeting method.

Something to chew on from a master storyteller.

Uber is accused of hideously spiking prices on Torontonians recently stuck in bad weather, then backpedaling when they’re called out on social media.

A team of researchers at the University of Southampton have demonstrated a way to record and retrieve as much as 360 terabytes of digital data onto a single disk of quartz glass in a way that can withstand temperatures of up to 1000 C and should keep the data stable and readable for up to a million years.

Harry McCracken, ex-Editor in Chief of PCWorld, muses on IDG’s decision to kill the print magazine.

I’ve seen the new version in action and it’s really good.

James Stratford bought a Blu-ray movie and was met with advertisements when he put it in the machine. He brings up a good point—we pay for the damn movie, don’t advertise to us or at least let us skip it.