An internal memo addressed to Walgreens employees designed to prepare them for the upcoming launch of Apple Pay suggests that Apple's new payments service might be going live on Saturday, October 18.
I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds The story of Tilde.Club Published in The Message · 14 min read · Oct 9, 2014 -- Stevie Nicks This is the story of an accidental network of hundreds o
Paul Buchheit on listening to users : I wrote the first version of Gmail in one day. It was not very impressive. All I did was stuff my own email into the Google Groups (Usenet) indexing engine. I sen
Facebook has failed repeatedly to get us to use complicated lists and privacy settings to share intimate moments with just our closest friends and family. It’s clumsy and confusing doing that with the
Building a nuclear fusion reactor that can generate more energy than is put in to make it work is one of the biggest challenges facing engineers today. Like quantum computing, decades of research have
Facebook has long attempted to be the place where, above all else, you try to be yourself. Soon, Facebook will allow you to be yourself, but under a different name. The company is working on a stand-a
The fundamentals of the economy are, well, okay. It's been slow and steady, but the recovery has chugged along enough to get us back to something close to normal. The economy has surpassed its pre-cri
Thinkstock For almost a year, a company called Titan has operated a network of advertising beacons, devices that are capable of identifying nearby smartphones and which are often used to push advertis
Hacker News API by Kevin Hale 10/7/2014 Today we’re excited to launch an official Hacker News API . We’ve partnered up with Firebase (YC S11) so that the data we’re making available will be near real
In June, Facebook announced that users who wanted to send private messages from their phones would have to download a separate app–Messenger–in order to do so. As I wrote at the time, it was an unusua
The result may at first glance seem a trifle, but I have a notebook filled with the genesis and evolution of the iPhone game DaisyPop . All those small, painstaking choices that now get "of course it
Suman Deb Roy: The web of 2014 is in the middle of a huge battle to force people to write the stuff in the same place people read it http://t.co/NXaVZc7qIS
Making your brand the first priority of development Published in UX Collective · 5 min read · Oct 7, 2014 -- Our friends at GameIndustry.biz asked for our thoughts on how we’re building out our game s
NJ-assembly-tony-kurdzuk-NSL.JPG The Assembly voted to end the Christie Administration's practice of suppressing property tax rebate data last week (Tony Kurdzuk/Star-Ledger) Gov. Chris Christie has e
Social science has traditionally considered education and religion to be somewhat opposing forces. As societies become more educated, the reasoning goes, they will become less religious -- a phenomeno
The Department of Homeland Security has ordered agents at airports and other ports to "observe" arrivals from Ebola-affected countries for potential signs of Ebola infection.
Reddit, the Internet’s favorite place to share links, has raised about $50 million in funding. This is the round we told you about earlier this month , and many of the details are in keeping with that
Yes, we were accepted into one of the nation’s most prestigious accelerator programs and turned them down. So are we crazy? I’m sure there are those of you out there that think we are nuts for turning
David Barnard: “The battleground for app discovery…has more to do with where an app ranks in the search results, than…charts.” Yup! http://t.co/kweESJVm28
In Debug 47 , former Apple managers Don Melton and Nitin Ganatra talk about, among many other things, work habits at Apple. Here’s a transcript of the relevant section, starting at the 23-minute mark
You know it’s a really good blog post when the engineers are sending it to the product managers instead of the other way around. PG’s Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule was one that rocketed around
Blend , a music collaboration platform used by major electronic producers like Moby and Prefuse 73 , has teamed up with independent distributor The Orchard to create a new kind of record label. The pa
I f Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s disparagement of atheists was just the ranting of a tinpot politician turned Fox News bloviator, it could be left without comment or fuss. Unfortunately, n
I’m very excited to share that I’m investing in reddit(personally, not via Y Combinator). I have been a daily reddit user for 9 years—longer thanpretty much any other service I still use besides Faceb
September 16, 2014 The Boring Designer Whenever I’m looking at a product designer’s work, I find myself continuously asking the same question: which solution is the boring one? Maybe it’s born out of seeing apps choose flash over function, or trying to understand just one too many indecipherable…
Dr. Matthew Schneps is one of the most respected scientists in the research of dyslexia. He heads up Laboratory for Visual Learning , a joint program of Harvard University and University of Massachuse
Posted on: September 28, 2014Posted in Mobile , Social When Tim Cook was interviewed by Charlie Rose after Apple’s mega launch event a few weeks ago, he scoffed at any mention of competitors, highligh
Sometimes it takes a stubbed toe to discover how far up Maslow’s hierarchy you really are. 4 min read · Sep 28, 2014 -- My exercise routine is a weekend yoga class, and an occasional walk around the n
A great, long-lived brand begins and ends with trust. Published in Silicon Guild · 4 min read · Sep 26, 2014 -- I was a big fan of the Uber service since I first saw one of the initial prototypes of t
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