Author: Jack Slater
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Will Smith Departing Tested
Will Smith (one half of the awesome duo behind Tested.com, not the actor): About six years ago, I pitched my idea for Tested to the folks at Whiskey Media. My pitch was simple, let’s make a technology site that’s about having fun with technology instead of showing people how snarky and cool we could be.…
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Devouring Essence
There’s this terrific podcast called Reconcilable Differences. The hosts are Merlin Mann (who you may recognize from past podcast recommendations) and more pertinent to this site is John Siracusa. Siracusa is this uniquely expert individual in the science of breaking down and explaining almost any topic in a way that nobody else does. Even with…
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Game Releases are Broken
Daniel West has this enormous and insightful article about the perils of releasing a good game when nobody buys it: There seems to be a prevalent attitude that if you just do everything right, you’re sure to find success. This idea abounds when we talk about games that failed to meet expectations. Much of the time,…
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Attack code exploiting Android’s critical Stagefright bugs is now public
Dan Goodin: Attack code that allows hackers to take control of vulnerable Android phones finally went public on Wednesday, as developers at Google, carriers, and handset manufacturers still scrambled to distribute patches to hundreds of millions of end users. The critical flaws, which reside in an Android media library known as libstagefright, give attackers a…