In an interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the prestigious technology company will start making some of its computers entirely in the US in 2013. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured exclusively in the United States next year. Mac fans will have to [...]
Mat Honan: You have a secret that can ruin your life. It’s not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you’re careless, 16 if you’re cautious—that can reveal everything about you. Your email. Your bank account. Your address and credit card number. Photos of your kids or, worse, [...]
Google Fiber is being rolled out all over Kansas City right now and it’s finally gone live for some customers. The first question is how fast is it? Apparently, the $80 per month plan is crazy fast. People with Google Fiber can expect 700 Mbps down on ethernet and about 200 Mbps down on Wi-Fi, [...]
The Infinite Jukebox, by Paul Lamere, is a bit difficult to explain, but easy to grasp once you start listening to songs and get tangled in its infinite beat loop. The app works by sending your uploaded track over to The Echo Nest, where it is decomposed into individual beats. Each beat is then analyzed and [...]
Antivirus pioneer John McAfee, 67, is on the run from murder charges in Belize after “allegedly” gunning down American expatriate Gregory Faull at his home in San Pedro Town on the island of Ambergris Caye. It’s possible the crime might have something to do with McAfee’s love for bath salts. Anyway, incredibly, he spoke to [...]
Brother Electronics is coming out with the next generation of its printing line and to celebrate, the company put together this great advertisement of old printers playing a rendition of Bob Dylan’s classic Vietnam-era protest song. The behind-the-scenes video is a fantastic look at how the video was made. It’s worth noting this bears a [...]
Nick Bilton got the scoop: “In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce filters for photos that will allow people to share altered images on Twitter and bypass Instagram, the popular mobile-centric photo-sharing network, according to people who work at the company but asked not to be named as they [...]
I was at an event last night where the CEO of WiTricity demonstrated wireless electricity, a technology invented at MIT. It was astounding, mind-blowing, and you could feel — pardon the pun — the electric excitement flow throughout the room at the site of powering electrical devices wirelessly. Anyway, Boston Magazine examines the change underway [...]
Shaun McGill recounts his two decade experience and history with mobile computing devices, beginning with the Psion PDA and ending with the iPhone 5. His essay is both oddly specific to his personal relationship with devices and generically broad to the industry as a whole. It’s a long read, but worth it.
