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Here is a non-mobile link: http://theverge.com/2014/7/18/5915415/google-adding-in-app-purchase-protections-european-commission
Wow! I just embarrassed myself at CES - I was about to speak for Samsung for this awesome Curved 105-inch UHD TV. I rarely lend my name to any products, but this one is just stellar. I got so excited to talk, that I skipped over the Exec VP's intro line and then the teleprompter got lost. Then the prompter went up and down - then I walked off. I guess live shows aren't my thing
http://theverge.com/2014/1/6/5281542/watch-michael-bay-melt-down-onstage-at-ces
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It's taken you this long? IMHO it's been a pretty trashy website for a while.
My new fav is (as bishopazrael pointed out) is The Verge. It was started by a whole bunch of senior editors from Engadget. I love their Their weekly podcast and monthly live show On The Verge. They tend to attract some pretty good guests, such as the lead Android designer from Google and Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Blogs I follow:
- The Brooks Review
- 9 to 5 Mac
- MacStories
- Delimiter (australian tech)
- The Verge
- The Loop
- Daring Fireball
- parislemon
This theory was debunked recently. That Google+ post where everyone was getting that info from -- the one by a former testing intern or something -- was chock full of misinformation. I'd link, but I'm on mobile
Edit: found it http://theverge.com/2012/1/14/2706760/the-mythical-ios-separate-high-priority-ui-thread
Here is a non-mobile link: http://theverge.com/2014/8/1/5959915/president-barack-obama-signing-phone-unlocking-bill
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http://theverge.com/2014/7/31/5954891/best-drone-you-can-buy
Mercedes did an ad with Mario in Japan, and they announced that there will be free DLC for Mario Kart 8 offering a Mercedes Benz as a drivable kart.
Here's an article on it (with screenshots): http://theverge.com/2014/5/29/5760538/drive-a-mercedes-in-mario-kart-8
I disagree. Many, many people block ads because of privacy concerns.
My biggest issue with ads is not the visual clutter they add to a page, nor the annoyance of autoplaying video/audio and obsucirng content (although these are issues). My biggest issue is the payload that most users never see - many dozens of pieces of analytics code that exists to do nothing more than track you across the web and build a profile of you to sell on.
An example is The Verge - without ad and script blockers, there are 269 http requests, with 64 individual js files loaded. When I reload the page with blockers running, there are 82 http requests, with only 8 js files. The difference is staggering.
Blocking these not only reduces how well I am tracked across the web but also reduces load times for sites making my experience better, and I'm downloading less shit which means I don't eat into my data caps as much with each pageload.
Here is the non-mobile version of this site.
Here is a non-mobile link: http://theverge.com/2014/7/18/5915415/google-adding-in-app-purchase-protections-european-commission
Apple releases their weekend sales numbers and they smash records each time. They sell faster than any other technology devices. They make as many as possible at great expense to their capital investment. Apple spent 24 billion in 3 years to secure its supply chain and invest in manufacturing just so they COULD meet launch day demand and they still can't.
Meanwhile google undersupplies to create hype like this? It's why I don't really trust googles sales or launch numbers. I mean, the nexus q was shut down for its lack of demand, and they boast about it selling out the first day. :/
"Leaks earlier today indicated that the NSA and GCHQ quietly pulled data from insecure smartphone apps to access address books, device IDs, user profiles, and other personal information, but this program — referred to as Squeaky Dolphin — is apparently an analytics system that could be used to give broader context to individual investigations or let agencies put out propaganda. "Not interested in individuals just broad trends!" reads one note."
"The exact context of the report isn't clear. A slide deck combines information about Squeaky Dolphin with a scattershot primer on psychology, including an image macro illustrating "Psychlolgy 101" and a guide to the personality types associated with web browsers. The deck then shows a dashboard that can sort out social media information by city or topic; an earlier slide from 2010 describes using information operations to "deliver messages and multimedia content across Web 2.0" and for "crafting messaging campaigns to go 'viral.'" References to "optimizing influence" and building influence webs hint at the program's applications: one document from 2010 talks about gathering unencrypted data from Twitter and using it to target propaganda."
Your protests will be infiltrated with propaganda networks seeding doubt and targeting the leaders. This is the ultimate goal of a mass surveillance programme which has been shown to be the case in the past. Suppression of opposition to the status quo.
It's great that you are making changes towards the life you want!
I have been in a very similar situation myself. I spent too much time on the internet. I felt I had too many gadgets. I decided to get rid of them all save for my iPhone.
In the beginning, this felt extremely liberating. I spent my time the way I had envisioned, listening to music and reading books and cooking and talking to my girlfriend. But as the novelty of the situation wore off I would slowly go back to old habits, spending more time on the internet, regardless of the small display size. The fact of only having one device was still very nice, but my habits weren't changed over time.
I'm sure you have heard of Paul Miller. In case you haven't, he left the internet for a year and wrote about it. When he came back and wrote his article looking back on his year (http://theverge.com/2013/5/1/4279674/im-still-here-back-online-after-a-year-without-the-internet), he basically said that although he did new things in the beginning, leaving the internet had no lasting impact as to how he spent his time. Many people criticized the experiment, and clearly saw it as a failure, but I loved his honesty. It resonated with my own experience and gave me a new perspective on it.
I don't want you to think of this as criticism, or thinking that I'm telling you it's not going to work. If you have even cared I read this far, I only want you to take one thing away from my comment: Changing outside things can be a great tool, but real chance must come from within. Be aware that significant additional effort and vigilance is needed to make a lasting change to your life.
You may already know this, but I know I didn't. So I hope this comment is of use to you, and I wish you the best of luck!
I'm biased because I produce the series, but Small Empires w/ Alexis Ohanian - we're on our second season and trying to tell a really diverse range of entrepreneurial stories this year. Hopefully it's entertaining, inspiring and informative
Fuck this area in particular
– US Drone Programme
And wait until they start using this on home soil. They already have shut down cell towers during protests.
http://theverge.com/2013/4/15/4228132/is-it-legal-to-shut-down-cellular-networks-in-an-emergency
We live in interesting times when there really is a product called Soylent, which is made by a euphoric Silicon Valley type that thinks eating food is for normies and is also trying to phase out water use (?) as well.
http://theverge.com/tldr/2014/10/27/7078837/the-creator-of-soylent-stopped-pooping-to-use-less-water
>My biggest gripe switching from my old android-based phone to my 5c was the lack of Swiftkey. It is the best damn thing ever! I really hope that Swiftkey Note (which has been out for quite some time) is the first step into a fully-functional iOS version of the greatest keyboard app ever!
Oh it will be, they are already working on it. :)
http://theverge.com/2014/6/2/5773504/developers-already-at-work-on-alternate-ios-8-keyboards
>Swiftkey, which is installed on more than 200 million devices worldwide, also says it's begun development on a keyboard for iOS 8, building off the one it introduced as part of a note-taking app for Evernote earlier this year.
>"We're delighted Apple has decided to embrace the importance of opening its platform to third-party keyboards," Swiftkey founders Jon Reynolds and Ben Medlock said in a statement. "Are we going to build SwiftKey Keyboard for iOS 8? Of course we are. We've already started."
The new paint app hasn't been released yet and the Win10 update they were talking about comes out next year. There was an early version leaked, but Microsoft were able to disable it.
edit:
According to this article, it appears that if you are using an insider (beta) build, you are able to download the new paint app from the store.
Happy Sunday, beautiful people!
What's for brunch?
so many birthdays this week! My nephew was born 2 days ago, grandma turned 83 yesterday and my sister is 30 tomorrow. So much celebrating to be done!
my cold has turned into a high fever mixed with periods of nausea. So much for being productive this weekend, I can't even get out of bed =\ all I want right now is some homemade chicken soup. Kicking myself for not freezing some :(
I had no idea marvel movie marathons were a thing? "Theaters offer 29-hour Marvel movie marathons ahead of Avengers: Age of Ultron". That actually seems kinda fun, haha.
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I don't know, one of these Yakuza Lamborghinis has a very similar wrap and it looks sweet as shit in a ridiculous way.
Here is a non-mobile link: http://theverge.com/2014/7/23/5932219/tetsuya-nomura-batman-final-fantasy
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The presence or absence of certain sex organs isn't the determining factor when deciding which animal of a species is female and which is male. In fact, biologists don't use sex chromosomes either. They actually rely on the size of an animal's gametes — sperm in males and oocytes in females. As the rule goes, females are the sex that contribute the largest gametes, whereas males are the sex that contribute the smallest gametes and therefore expend the least amount of energy on producing these cells.
EDIT: sauce: http://theverge.com/2014/4/17/5617766/scientists-discover-insect-with-female-penis
Actually it does, and if you listen to the seasoned Mac developers out there, some of these restrictions (particularly sandboxing) are a real difficulty to get around. If you want to sell your app on the App Store and use the newest OS X features like desktop notifications you have to sandbox, but then you can't have arbitrary access to the computer's filesystem.
In the vast majority of cases (particularly games) this shouldn't be a problem, but there are a lot of utilities out there that would have to kill important features to comply. A good example would be 1Password, which works best when you store your encrypted password data inside your Dropbox. Under the sandboxing rules this won't be possible (and naturally Apple would probably suggest you use iCloud for that instead).
Generally speaking the tone from third-party devs is one of frustration; they recognise that the App Store is a good thing for them in terms of sales and ease of use, but the new rules will potentially mean a few casualties along the way.
But there's always traditional non-app store installation to fall back on; a lot of the doomsaying both on the Mac and with Windows 8 comes from a fear that one day these app stores will be the only way to install software. This is never going to happen, else developers wouldn't be able to install the tools needed to do their jobs. I can't help but think this irrational fear is the basis for Notch's outburst, and so I have a hard time sympathising with him.
The button combo will be much faster and easier right now. I know Google has changed this feature in Marshmallow too so you could look forward to that in the future.
But if you are still stuck with wanting to use this method then it's going to take a little bit of practice. While a little hard to describe, just take your hand and lay your pinky side as flat as possible on the screen touching as much as possible all at the same exact time. Sort of as if you were going to shake someones hand. Then swipe to the right (if using your right hand, this hand may be easier or more natural).
Valenti says she supports "direct action" at around 31:00.
Of a known hoax threat Valenti said:
> “Hoax or no, it was still a threat.” > http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/top-10-feminist-failures-of-jessica-valenti-in-2014/
Who are the intended victims who are threatened by a hoax threat?
Valenti tweeted (links not allowed):
> 'Massacre' threat forces @femfreq to cancel university talk http://theverge.com/e/6742850 BUT SEXISM ISN'T A THING
where luckily, no on was hurt.
> Investigation into Sarkeesian death threats reveals no risk to USU students or staff—Officials cast doubt upon their validity > http://www.avoiceformen.com/allnews/anita-sarkeesian-feminism-online-harrassment-2/
But if the threat was not real, was it a "direct action"? If it was, who was the intended target?
And isn't using a terrorist threat to make a political point more appropriately called an act of terrorism?
Here is a non-mobile link: http://theverge.com/2014/9/1/6092769/creeps
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Here is a non-mobile link: http://theverge.com/2014/8/1/5958629/hp-michael-bastian-gilt-smartwatch-teaser
Check The keynote again. Tim Cook gives an example, say to Siri that you are going to sleep and it shutdown the garage door, dimmed light and lock your door.
Http://theverge.com/2014/6/2/5772158/iphone-homekit-smart-home-control-ios-8
It was mainly mentioned here: http://theverge.com/2013/12/17/5217800/cloudflare-pledges-to-double-ssl-usage-on-the-web-in-2014, they have also mentioned it on twitter several times earlier in the year.
Wrong. It was given away at IO, and was available for preorder shortly after. It "sold out" the first day of preorder according to Google.
Within a week it was retracted from the market and given away for free to those who preordered them. If you can't read that as abysmal sales and over priced and under featured, then what else could it mean?
It's almost like nobody at Google who had any say saw it before it launched. A failure of project management. I hope some management lost their jobs over it.
ThisIsMyNext aka TheVerge is a mass exodus of everyone from Engadget that was good. If you've felt like Engadget has gotten kind of weak lately, that is why. All the core staff left to escape AOL and build something good on their own terms. The replacement people at Engadget aren't bad per se, but they haven't hit their groove like the old team had.
In 2015 the car average per mile was 4700 BTUs.
Going from 4700 to 571 with an EV is an 88% reduction in operational energy. More broadly
>Lifetime emissions for an EV in Europe are between 66 and 69 percent lower compared to that of a gas-guzzling vehicle, the analysis found. In the US, an EV produces between 60 to 68 percent fewer emissions. In China, which uses more coal, an EV results in between 37 to 45 percent fewer emissions. In India, it’s between 19 to 34 percent lower.
>It’s important to note that the study assumes that the vehicle was registered in 2021 and will be on the road for around 18 years. Study authors ended up with a range of potential emissions reductions for each region by looking at the energy mix under existing policy, as well as projections from the International Energy Agency for what the future electricity mix will look like as climate policies develop. But it’s difficult to predict how much the world’s energy infrastructure will actually change. For example in the US, President Joe Biden has set a goal of getting 100 percent clean electricity by 2035 — but still needs to pass the policies to make that happen. The study also doesn’t take into account other non-climate related environmental effects that constructing the cars might have from things like mining and waste.
However small or large a role cars will play in future transportation, their future is mostly electric. Compared to combustion cars, both EV cars and rail have low energy usage per passenger mile or kilometer.
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nah thats a huge cop out. they really hyped it up and underdelivered, which is a trend with a lot of Musk's media engagement. >n any event, it’s definitely a tunnel. The colored lights put me in mind of the Chicago O’Hare tunnel, or a very budget Olafur Eliasson display. Besides the blue light, there isn’t much to see. It does seem strange, though, that we’re taking this ride in a Model X — because until this evening, there were going to be “autonomous electric skates” that zip passengers around at 120 to 150 miles per hour. These skates were supposed to carry eight to 16 people in a pod or a single car. Unlike with a more conventional subway, these skates don’t stop between where a person gets on and where they might get off; every skate runs express to one’s final destination.
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http://theverge.com/2018/12/19/18148061/boring-tunnel-test-drive-hawthorne-tesla-elon-musk
I'm sure anyone could put it together if they have lots of LEGO bricks (real ones...) it looks easy from that photo.
EDIT: This article has a picture of the stand: it's a start: and the model looks fairly simple
Idea: I'm thinking of starting up a new "workshop" like the first 2-3 episodes where I designed a site that looked like Square.com. Maybe designing a Squarespace website like http://theverge.com, http://twit.tv, or some other popular website?
just a couple that come to mind:
The verge does a good job of differing in appearance from a news site (ign does not). Here's another personal favorite of mine:
Thanks! Small Empires was a lot of fun. I hadn't directed a ton of documentary before they asked me to direct 10 tv-length episodes of it (I've edited a TON of them, though), so I was honored to be chosen. It was a great experience to undertake (writing the arcs, all those animations, directing post while traveling, tracking animation VO in the passenger seat of a Town & Country while eight floors underground, constant movement and upheaval, etc.) and I was lucky enough to work with some really awesome people. Plus, The Verge has some of the best videos on the internet and the fact that I've made some of them makes me happy.
When do you graduate? I can't find any of your work on reddit, what kind of stuff are you doing?
>coming this fall for $299.99. If you can't wait for those now, you'll be able to buy a metal band separately for $79.99 later on. Leather straps, meanwhile, will cost $29.99 by themselves.
From the Verge
That's an interesting thought. The iPod hasn't really been updated in 2 years, seemingly left for dead. What if Apple repurposes the iPod brand for this wearable wrist thing? Maybe the "iPod fit"?
Or maybe they just continue letting the iPod fade into history.
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They stated ebooks are only 1% of their revenue. Amazon is responsible for 65% of all online new book sales, print included. Amazon and Hachette's disagreement on ebook pricing shouldn't affect the sales of Hachette's print books available on the site, but Amazon is increasing ship times, removing the ability to pre-order books, raised the prices of existing books, and lowering the chances that Hachette's book show up in their "you might also like" section. (source)
I guess those changes might not add up to half of Hachette's revenue (I was mistakenly remembering when Amazon removed the "buy" button from Macmillon's books in 2010 because of a similar dispute over ebook pricing), but you can bet their attempts to decrease Hachette's print book's availability, accessibility, and visibility on their site is having a very significant effect on their income.
Again, Amazon is decreasing the availability of a publisher's print books because of a dispute over ebook pricing. That's nuts.
Here is a non-mobile link: http://theverge.com/2014/7/31/5954147/scientists-discover-the-moon-isnt-round-looks-like-lemon
Here is a non-mobile link: http://theverge.com/2014/7/29/5947987/playstation-4-adds-3d-blu-ray-support
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Here is a non-mobile link: http://theverge.com/2014/7/24/5933007/a-map-of-all-the-drone-no-fly-zones-in-america
Here is a non-mobile link: http://theverge.com/2014/7/18/5914727/starbucks-coffee-mobile-purchases
Here is a non-mobile link: http://theverge.com/2014/7/15/5901621/marvels-thor-is-now-a-woman
My post is not really directed at anyone but it was in response to something I read today about EDM. It has been used as a massive cash cow by corporations and I see it as a soulless vessel which misrepresents what Dance Music really is.
Here is the article I read so it's a response to that really for anyone who wants to get a good insight into how the music came about and the people and places that made it.
http://theverge.com/2014/7/1/5857152/shut-up-and-spend-inside-the-edm-electronic-music-money-machine
There's also a similar documentary here about Disco.
Here's where I read about it:
> "Pesticides are one of the toxicants that appear to have the strongest association with autism," says Dan Rossignol, an autism expert at Jeff Bradstreet's International Child Development Resource Center in Florida who did not participate in the study, published today in Environmental Health Perspectives. These latest results, he says, "strengthen that association."
Feel less sick. Everyone is misinterpreting the button. Buying from Amazon is ONE of the things you can do with that button once the phone identifies what you pointed it at.
It's also for just recognizing objects, pulling up food nutritional information, identifying brand and store logos, music, movies, and TV shows (it'll tell you the exact episode playing, and even the actor talking on the screen at the time) . It's like Shazam or Sound Hound for the entire analog world.
Does that sound more deserving of a dedicated button? http://theverge.com/2014/6/18/5821594/amazon-fire-phone-recognizes-everything-around-you
While its true Ara is still technically under Moto, its worth noting that Google is keeping Moto's advanced technology group (the group working on Ara). So that is to say it's not part of the Motorola that's being sold to Lenovo.
You mean Id Tech 5, right? The engine that was demoed by Carmack at Apple's WWDC 2007? Have you not been following Carmack on twitter for the past few years? He was heavily interested in mobile while still at id before the oculus circle jerk began.
> In 2005, Carmack's wife gave him a new cellphone to replace his old black-and-white device. And the color display got him thinking about the potential for games on mobile phones, a few years before Apple came and proved his theory right with the success of the iPhone. Carmack went on to build a small demo that was part Doom, part role playing game (it was even turn-based), and eventually the studio Fountainhead Entertainment built that demo out into a full-fledged game, with Carmack serving as producer. Doom RPG was latter followed by a sequel on iOS (above), a Wolfenstein spin-off, and other id mobile games like Rage HD.
http://theverge.com/2013/11/26/5144710/john-carmack-infulential-games-doom-quake
If you'd like your blood to boil slightly more vigorously, read this expose by The Verge.
Verizon cited Title II authority to get the grounds to install FiOS. Their argument is "some Title II phone customers will use these lines, so you have to let us dig to install them; however, any uses of these lines other than those handful of landlines don't count as Title II; therefore, we can do whatever the fuck we like with them."
I had the site pop up once when I was visiting http://theverge.com (which I visit often) and I haven't been able to get it to come up again. Had a bunch of extensions on, none of them were installed recently. I have shut most of them off, but I don't think they are the problem, the only extension I'm running that is on any of the lists above is Adblock.
I have added a line to my hosts file to block chrome-navigation-error.info. I have also switched just my computer to use the Google DNS (I'm moving soon and really don't want to bother with my router). Hopefully this will prevent something bad from happening, but I fear these measures only attack the symptom of the problem.
Running latest Mac OS X 10.9.1 and Chrome 32.0.1700.107. I'm on Verizon DSL in California, I was using Verizon's standard DNS.
Edit 1:
I don't have a Linksys router. I have the Actiontec GT704WG Rev. B, Verizon rents it to me with my crappy DSL service.
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>Their utility is of questionable convenience at best. I can get my phone out of my pocket almost as fast as lifting my arm up to look at my watch, and if the notification on the watch requires my phone to deal with, now it's actually more inconvenient than just taking my phone out of my pocket to begin with.
As a Pebble owner, my experience is nothing like this. Being able to receive notifications on my wrist is extremely convenient, especially when I'm sitting down or driving. Looking at my wrist is far easier than digging my phone out of my pocket.
More importantly, it's much easier to dismiss notifications that you don't care about, and go back to a clean slate. If you leave notifications on your lock screen, they start to accumulate and create a foreboding sense of unfinished work.
The Verge wrote an article about using Pebble in day-to-day work, which I thought was very agreeable. Give it a read if you have a chance.