Today, Nest announced their first new product since the Nest thermostat—Nest Protect. Nest Protect is a smoke and carbon monoxide alarm. For an excellent look at Nest Protect, and profile of why they made it and the design process, you should read Stephen Levy’s piece for Wired. …Wait,
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In an excellent interview with Business Week, Tim Cook explained their thinking for the iPhone 5C: We never had an objective to sell a low-cost phone. Our primary objective is to sell a great phone and provide a great experience, and we figured out a way to do it
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Today, Apple released iOS 7—the most substantial update to iOS 7 since the App Store was introduced in 2008. With it, I am introducing a new version of Basil that is, yes, re-designed for iOS 7, but more importantly is a re-thinking of how key parts of
From Shawn Blanc’s thoughts on Tuesday’s iPhone event: Alas, Apple still has issues with off-device photo storage, syncing, etc. It’d be great if Apple took that same energy for innovation they are putting on the iPhone’s camera (hardware and software side) and devote it to
Popular Science’s Tom Clynes has an excellent profile of Taylor Wilson (http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/boy-who-played-fusion), a high schooler who built a fusion reactor: Almost from the beginning, it was clear that the older of the Wilsons’ two sons would be a
Earlier this month, in a press conference where he stated that he supported “greater oversight, greater transparency, and constraints” on the government’s digital surveillance programs, President Obama stated that he doesn’t believe Snowden is a patriot (http://www.npr.org/2013/08/09/210574114/transcript-president-obamas-news-
After detaining David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald’s partner, at Heathrow airport for 9 hours under a law meant to allow police to question people that may be involved in planning terrorist attacks, the United Kingdom said this to justify it: A Home Office spokesman said Monday that the detention was
Today, Basil received a nice 1.6 update. This update brings a really obvious, simple feature that many other recipe applications include: ingredient scaling. It’s really convenient while in the kitchen to be able to adjust a recipe’s yield according to your needs (the amount of jambalaya you
I missed this, but last year, Jake Tapper captured exactly what’s so grating about The Newsroom in a critique of the show: But that prompts the question: protect it from what? This is where Sorkin’s high-minded critique falls flat. McAvoy sanctimoniously laments the deterioration of public discourse