Day: February 13, 2013

Culture

You’d Be Arrested if You Tried to Take These Airplane Photos Today

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER View as gallery   Like wearing shoes through security before Richard Reid’s failed airplane bombing, setting up a telephoto lens at the end of an airport runway wasn’t a big deal before 9/11. Photographer John Schabel did just that between 1994 and 1996 for his intriguing portrait series Passengers, which is only now being released as a book. He staked out several airports and snapped away with a Nikon 35…

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Automotive

Going the distance: driving the Tesla Model S in the real world

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As reported on The Verge. By Chris Ziegler Elon Musk’s first sedan can take you on an adventure, for better and worse It’s difficult to get comfortable in the driver’s seat of a $100,000 car that isn’t yours. The particular Model S I flew to Los Angeles to sample last week was a Signature Performance model. That means that it was one of the first 1,000 to roll off the assembly line (indicated by the “Signature”…

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Story

Click Through This List To See If It Mentions You, To Feed Your Ego

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEXIA TSOTSIS Okay so maybe you and two million of your closest peers made “LinkedIn’s Top 1% most viewed profiles for 2012.” But are you on “Forbes 450 under 30″? Or “TIME’s 100 best randomly assorted names of people, with a few from Silicon Valley”? Well, you’re probably also not on this list of“People who have achieved incredible things in tech” either but you might want to check, just in case. I mean, you…

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Apple Business

Apple Doesn’t Care, That’s Why It’s Winning

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE Apple doesn’t care if competitors have cheaper products. It doesn’t care if its next big thing cannibalizes its last big thing. Not about buying big money-makers, and certainly not about how you think it should deal out stock. Today at Goldman Sach’s conference, Tim Cook played the defiant king of an empire too powerful to be distracted by the present or the past. All he sees is Apple’s future. The…

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Business

CEO Marissa Mayer Says Yahoo-Microsoft Search Deal Is Underperforming

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As reported on TechCrunch. by CATHERINE SHU Yahoo’s search deal with Microsoft is underperforming, CEO Marissa Mayer saidduring an appearance at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. The deal has not delivered the market share gains or revenue boost that was expected, Mayer said. Yahoo and Microsoft inked the 10-year search partnership in 2010 as part of an effort to challenge Google. But Google retained a 66.7 percent share of the U.S. market as…

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Microsoft Tablet

Microsoft starts shipping Surface Pros again, promises more to market ‘quickly’

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent Microsoft’s trying to address the recent shortfall of Surface Pro models, and has vowed via its Surface Pro blog to get more into the market “as quickly as we can.” As such, it’s begun dispatching 64GB SKUs to Best Buy, Staples and its own Microsoft Store in the US, with Canada to follow in a few days. 128GB SKUs will ship “later this week” to retailers, according to Redmond, “with some units available…

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Apple Business

Bloomberg: 100 people are working on the Apple watch

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As reported on Engadget .By Daniel Cooper Apple’s wearable computing project might not just be the fever-dream of analysts, ifBloomberg is to be believed. The news agency is claiming that Apple’s watch project is commanding considerable resources within Cupertino’s shadowy prototype labs. Two people who claim to be familiar with the company’s plans are saying that engineering chief James Foster and program manager Achim Pantfoerder are heading up a team of around 100 designers, programmers and engineers. Bloomberg goes on to say that…

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Android

Android 4.2.2 update reveals minor changes to Quick Settings and more Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos Android 4.2.2 began arriving on an assortment of Nexus devices yesterday with “performance and stability” improvements listed as the only changes, but Android Police dug into Google’s change logs and compiled a list of small tweaks. With the update on board, Play Store downloads now display the time left to their completion, and Android Debug Bridge security is shored-up with the addition of a whitelist. Now, WiFi and Bluetooth tiles can be toggled by…

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