Category: technology
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Microsoft’s Surface Go is Almost An iPad Cheap
Dan Seifert for The Verge: Microsoft is getting back into the cheaper tablet game today with the new Surface Go, a smaller, less powerful take on the popular Surface Pro device. The Go features a 10-inch screen, integrated kickstand, Windows 10, and a similar design to the Surface Pro, and starts at $399. It is…
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Casey Johnston: Apple admits its computers are broken
The “winner?” of the ongoing Apple portable keyboard saga, Casey Johnston, writes about the new repair program for Macbook keyboards: While the repair and replacement program covers costs and notes that Apple will repair both single keys as well as whole keyboards when necessary, it doesn’t note whether the replacements will be a different, improved…
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GitHub Getting Acquired by Microsoft
Microsoft, today: Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform where more than 28 million developers learn, share and collaborate to create the future. Together, the two companies will empower developers to achieve more at every stage of the development lifecycle, accelerate enterprise use…
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Apple’s “Fuck You” to Mac Game Developers & Players
This wasn’t in the keynote, but Apple had some bad news buried in the “What’s New in macOS” section of their developer site for anyone who makes games or other software with the OpenGL graphics API : Deprecations and Removed APIs Periodically, Apple adds deprecation macros to APIs to indicate that those APIs should no longer be…