Category: technology
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Planet of the Apps
The Outline has got this video picking apart Apple’s incredibly shitty Planet of the Apps. Like most things from The Outline, it’s not that great because it mixes useless cheap shots poking fun at Eddie Cue and the way will.i.am excitedly describes things, with legitimate issues the show has. The Outline also pokes fun at…
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Variety’s Janko Roettgers Interviews the Latest Hollywood Studio That Got Hacked
Some time last year the audio post-production studio, Larson, got hacked and the attackers leaked Netflix’s latest season of Orange is the New Black. Variety’s Janko Roettgers has an interview with Larson’s folks to talk about the attack. It’s not an incredibly technical overview, but it is fascinating to read. After reading the article I…
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Apple’s WWDC 2017 Press Event Notes
Every year Apple has at least two big events, their iPhone event in the second half of the year and their developers conference event in the first half of the year. Each event has it’s own press briefing, here are my notes from today’s WWDC 2017 press briefing. It is long as hell. The show…
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Toio Papercraft Robots
Sony has a new line of papercraft robot toys coming out in Japan that look extremely inventive in the way they blend a robotic core with handmade paper accessories to build machines. Check out these videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6j2cLEwRsY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SphUHrlj1Tk
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Poor Google Can’t Afford to Figure Out How Much It’s Underpaying Women
Sam Levin at The Guardian: Google argued that it was too financially burdensome and logistically challenging to compile and hand over salary records that the government has requested, sparking a strong rebuke from the US Department of Labor (DoL), which has accused the Silicon Valley firm of underpaying women. Google officials testified in federal court…