Via: The Verge
… Read the restLike sunscreen, it can be a hassle to apply, but it’s an easy way to stop yourself from getting burned.
The reasons are simple: you need strong, unique passwords for each of your online accounts, otherwise the
Who Needs Online Gaming When You Can Lug Your Kit Around Town to Shout Abuse at Complete Strangers? Online Gaming is Dead. LAN Parties Are Where It’s At.
In retrospect, online gaming was just getting … Read the rest
… Read the restFour decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half. This is how cremation actually works, and the story of what happens to a culture
… Read the restYesterday, Google announced that Gmail will use AMP to make emails dynamic, up-to-date and actionable. At first that sounds like a great idea. Last week’s news is stale. Last week’s special offer from your favourite
Apple Backs AV1: What Does This Mean for the Future of Video Codecs:
… Read the restEarlier this month, Apple joined the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), which is working on the next-generation AV1 video compression standard. It’s interesting that Apple is
I think I change my website CMS as frequently as I do my keyboards…
Anyway, this site is now running on WordPress. It’s still in an Azure-hosted VM, but now I’m just another WP drone. I think the last mainstream … Read the rest
… Read the restMicrosoft’s Corporate Vice President for Windows, Joe Belfiore, has today clarified the company’s stance with Windows 10 Mobile and what it’s currently doing in the mobile space. In a series of tweets on Twitter, Belfiore states
Ernie Smith has a great history of Eudora, one of the most important computer applications of the 1990s.
… Read the restIn early 1997, two applications were in the process of taking over the internet, and both had roots in the University
From his recent commencement address to the MIT Class of 2017:
… Read the restTechnology is capable of doing great things. But it doesn’t want to do great things. It doesn’t want anything. That part takes all of us. It takes our values
I started drafting this review a few weeks prior to the 2017 updates to the MacBook Pro line. Those updates (Kaby Lake, speed-bumped AMD graphics) are negligible improvements, so I’m not too worried about this review being outdated even … Read the rest