Month: June 2017

Patrick Lucas Austin: Participants with phones in another room greatly outperformed those with phones in pockets or on desks in all tasks. Wow.

Tracy Chou : It worries me that so many of the builders of technology today are people like me; people haven’t spent anywhere near enough time thinking about these larger questions of what it is that we are building, and what the implications are for the world. And maybe just visit an area which isn’t […]

Cory Bohon on the 10.5” iPad Pro: Nearly every task I do with the iPad and the attached Smart Keyboard feels magical and natural — this is clearly the future of personal computing.

This knife turned out to be so good, it’s the only other knife I use with my Small Sebenza.

The Surface line has taken off like gangbusters in the past because it was the middle choice — it’s not really a tablet, but it’s not really a laptop. It’s for that very reason the device sucks. As this article points out, Windows is the problem with Surface devices. But, Windows is also the only […]

Kai-Fu Lee: So if most countries will not be able to tax ultra-profitable A.I. companies to subsidize their workers, what options will they have? I foresee only one: Unless they wish to plunge their people into poverty, they will be forced to negotiate with whichever country supplies most of their A.I. software — China or […]

Matt Gemmell writing about iPads and the notion of replacing a laptop: I’m not sure what they’re afraid of. Fantastic post, especially for people who get real mad at the idea that iPads work well for people.

Justin Searls: I’ve found that virtually any painful-to-accomplish task can be automated away to some extent with the excellent (and recently Apple-acquired) Workflow app, so I’ve been pretty aggressive in creating an automated workflow as soon as I recognize a certain action is more awkward than necessary Love that description, and I think for most […]

What if someone took a normal notebook, and made something which works well with a computer on your desk?

It will cost you, but you can print high end photos at home with only an iPad.

We’ve got our analogies all wrong.

Brian Renshaw: The text is larger enough to read easily and the writing window is plenty sufficient. This is a similar feeling I’ve had with the keyboard. Its just big enough, which, at the end of the day, makes a massive difference. Apt description of the keyboard size.

What you see, is not what you get.

Three of the very best things I have ever done a deep dive on.

DHH: But let’s not kid ourselves. Kalanick didn’t get the boot because Uber’s board had some ethical epiphany. They presided over his misdeeds for years. Fat, golden years steered by toxic leadership and fueled by depraved acts.

It’s great to see Apple going to this length to remove the bullshit.

Matthew Panzarino: So now here we are, with the ability for just about anyone to spin up an AR window inside their app. I predict that we’re going to see some real crap over the next few weeks and months as people just “put an AR on it.” But aside from that, we’re going to […]

John Naughton linked to this in his post, but this site is worth bookmarking. It’s often annoying (on a good day) to try and explain privacy implications to “normals”, instead send them this site and ask them to take a look.

John Naughton: The idea that being watched on this scale isn’t affecting our behaviour is implausible, to put it mildly. Throughout history, surveillance has invariably had a chilling effect on freedom of thought and expression. It affects, for example, what you search for. After the Snowden revelations, traffic to Wikipedia articles on topics that raise […]

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