A million hot takes have been posted about how the late-2016 MacBook Pro with USB-C is the undeniable proof that Apple doesn’t care about developers anymore. They took away all the ports! No Esc key! It’s just a more expensive MacBook Air! But in some ways, the new MacBook Pro is the most techy and…

I slide a piece of salmon into the June, one of the most advanced ovens ever built. Loaded with a camera, temperature probe, Wi-Fi, and algorithms, it’ll cost you $1,500. It required nearly $30 million in venture capital to create. It was the brainchild of the engineer who brought us the iPhone’s…

WOMEN are moody. By evolutionary design, we are hard-wired to be sensitive to our environments, empathic to our children’s needs and intuitive of our partners’ intentions. This is basic to our survival and that of our offspring. Some research suggests that women are often better at articulating…

20. September 2016 um 9:28 Uhr | Verantwortlich: Jens Berger „Die Schutzmechanismen der Demokratie haben versagt“ Veröffentlicht in: Audio-Podcast , Überwachung , Erosion der Demokratie , Interviews Seit Snowden wissen wir: Überwachung ist immer und überall. Doch was ist technisch möglich, wird…

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It was only a couple of decades ago, before WiFi or the static death shriek of dial-up modems, that fetishes were hard-won secrets. The porno most of us stumbled across in our formative pubescence – a Playboy left on a rural Greyhound bus, or a waterlogged bodice-ripper in a back-alley dumpster –…

Disclaimer: I do not build database engines. I build web applications. I run 4-6 different projects every year, so I build a lot of web applications. I see apps with different requirements and different data storage needs. I’ve deployed most of the data stores you’ve heard about, and a few that you…

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In this post I'll discuss how we approached building the Oddschecker app on both iOS and Android in parallel, and the benefits we've gained doing so. The similarities are more than skin-deep Introduction Novoda has always built amazing products for Android, and more recently decided to expand our…

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-we-learned-about-trumps-supporters-this-week

Getty Images Der Facebook-Campus in Kalifornien Wer sich früher im Job anpasste und anstrengte, stieg auf. Heute sind wir freier in unseren Entscheidungen - aber die Sicherheit ist weg. Ökonom Oliver Nachtwey warnt vor gefährlichen Konsequenzen. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Herr Nachtwey, die Zahl der…

http://www.zeit.de/2016/34/jacob-appelbaum-sexueller-missbrauch-vorwuerfe/komplettansicht

Silicon Valley. Photo by Vadim Kurland . You wake up at 6:30 a.m. after an Ambien-induced sleep. It’s Friday. Last night at the Rosewood was pretty intense — you had to check out Madera and see if there is any truth to the long-running Silicon Valley rumors . You were disappointed, but at least you…

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Refugees are rescued off the coast of Libya last May.Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty F or a year, digital technology has been hailed as the panacea for the refugee crisis. Media are brimming with reports about apps and hackathons, announcements of teach-them-how-to-code training sessions and…

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Hin und wieder stellt Tesla über die Schnittstelle mit dem Software-Update komplett neue Funktionen zur Verfügung. Vor ein paar Monaten war das zum Beispiel die Auto-Steering-Funktion. Davon haben Sie sicher in den Medien mitbekommen. In Teslas kann jetzt auf Autobahnen ab einer bestimmten…

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/06/the-management-myth/304883/?single_page=true

I remember AIDS. I’m older than you probably think I am, and I remember what AIDS in America meant in the eighties, when William F. Buckley suggested all “carriers” be tattooed, and the Wizard of Id got in trouble in Canada (fr) for a joke in which Robbing Hood’s “Merry Men” were rounded up into…

Kit Mills I t's eight in the morning and you can barely keep your eyes open, much less engage in the activities that constitute productive participation in the glorious neoliberal machinery of our economy. Maybe it’s because of the sleep you gave up to spend hours gazing through a rectangular portal…

Issara Willenskomer Apr 27, 2016 Or, “What I learned after taking a week off and watching thousands of micro-interaction animations until my eyeballs fell out.” First of all, let’s get synced up. What is a micro-interaction anyway? In doing my due diligence for this post, I came across this handy…

There were plenty of talks about building for the web at this year’s Google I/O event . That makes a nice change from previous years when the web barely got a look in and you’d be forgiven for thinking that Google I/O was an event for Android app developers. This year’s event showed just how big…

How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist Tristan Harris May 18, 2016 · 16 min read Estimated reading time: 15 minutes. “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.” — Unknown. I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our…

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