Jeff Bezos Bought The Washington Post For One Thing: Distribution
It’s not a coincidence that billionaires keep buying newspapers. Warren Buffett has been buying them up for the last year, and last week, Red Sox owner John Henry bought the Boston Globe.Jeff Bezos...
View ArticlePutting The Android Army To Good Use, One Crowd-Compute Project At A Time
Such a shame that we typically just let our phones laze around in our pockets a lot of the time, not doing much useful to anyone other than slowly burning up their battery power.It's easy to forget...
View ArticleSpeak Up, I Can Still Hear The Movie
This is a News Scrum, which is where we all read one of the morning’s top stories and add something to it--context, research, related links, data, explanation. Not opinion--although obviously our...
View ArticleAbout 9% Of You Would Have Sex With A Robot
Since I’ve started tracking the story of sexual computing I’ve received many emails and countless tweets stating that while developers and engineers may be working on sexbots and other sexual...
View ArticleSeven Rare Steve Jobs Videos That Show How To “Think Different”
Steve Jobs Thinks Different About Product-Making This video shows rare footage of Steve Jobs from 1980 giving a talk about starting Apple. What’s particularly striking is Jobs’s explanation of man’s...
View ArticleHard Questions For Email’s “Lost Generation”
I vividly remember scoffing at Instagram to my friends. People were happy with Facebook for posting photos, weren’t they? I now Instagram nearly once a day, just like everyone else. But it makes me...
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Saying Goodbye To The HTML Blink Tag
This text is not blinking. Neither is this, or this. Those words are rendered on your screen in straightforward text with standard HTML embellishments like underline, bold, and italic. Once it was...
View ArticleApp Builders Need To Remember That Obligation Isn’t A Real Use Case
Everyone who builds apps knows the axiom: If you can’t imagine yourself needing your imaginary software tool, chances are you won’t be able to create something that will attract other people, either....
View ArticleInception-Style Memory Experiment Performed On Mice Was Inspired By The Movie...
“The underlying grip of movies is that they program us to have experiences. They create events in our heads…” - Jeffrey Zacks, Flicker: Your Brain On Film. Forthcoming from Oxford University PressIf...
View ArticleWhy High-Profile Tech CEOs Get Into Trouble
This is a News Scrum, which is where we all read one of the morning’s top stories and add something to it--context, research, related links, data, explanation. Not opinion--although obviously our...
View ArticleWhy Is Google Highlighting Long-Form Articles?
People ask Google some deep questions, like “why am I here?” “should I have a third child?” and “why is my scab turning that color?” Apparently 10% of our time on Google is spent digging into broad...
View ArticleFive Amazing Hacks That Make Us Giddy For The New Kinect
Yes, yes, Kinect hacks are SO 2011--but the little camera that could continues to give us strange goodies like an ever-flowing digital pinata. And with rumors abound of the New Kinect’s capabilities,...
View ArticlePRISM Break! How This Developer Created His Own Cloud
In the wake of the PRISM Internet surveillance scandal, a site called PRISM break appeared containing a list of tools which could be used as alternatives to the proprietary services under surveillance....
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Microsoft Is Wasting Time With This Web-Based App Studio
Microsoft has decided to try web-based app development for non-developers. It’s called Windows Phone App Studio and the beta launched this week. The news may have passed you by, either because you...
View ArticleWhy We’re So Frustrated About The Massachusetts Software Tax
If you buy or sell software or computer services that are used by anyone in Massachusetts, your life just got a lot harder. The State of Massachusetts has recently increased taxes on gas, cigarettes......
View ArticleWhy Spike Jonze’s “Her” Might Be Trolling Us All
The trailer opens with a morose, milquetoast, mustachioed Joaquin Phoenix completing a questionnaire to determine the ideal characteristics for his new digital assistant. Out of the ether comes...
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Ten Companies With Serious Developer Cred
What gives a startup dev cred? Developer evangelist Phil Leggetter told me that you need a product which solves a hard problem for coders and shows that you understand how they want to use software,...
View ArticleJohn Gruber And Jeff Atwood Explain Why Markdown Is Still Growing Up
We want to know if you’re using Markdown. Tweet @fastcolabs with the hashtag #usemarkdown or #dontusemarkdown and let us know why.John Gruber’s Markdown, a lightweight, plain-text formatting language,...
View ArticleGood Story, Bro--Now Here's How To Make It Better
This is a News Scrum, which is where we all read one of the morning’s top stories and add something to it--context, research, related links, data, explanation. Not opinion--although obviously our...
View ArticleIs The Best Way To Kill Bitcoin To Make It Legit?
This week, a Texas judge may have initiated the beginning of the end of Bitcoin--by ruling it a legitimate currency under the protection of the U.S. government.The ruling came out of a case in which...
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