Apple’s VP of Apple Pay, Jennifer Bailey, announced new NFC tags that will let iPhone users make purchases simply by tapping their phones against the stickers, without the need to download a special app first. “The company is partnering with Bird scooters, Bonobos clothing store, and PayByPhone parking meters for the initial rollout,” reports 9to5Mac. From the report: Apple also announced…
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Asteroid strike simulation blasts New York City
It seems like play, but they’re serious. Every year, at the Planetary Defense Conference, asteroid experts from around the globe run days-long simulations of asteroids headed for major cities. In 2019, it was New York City’s turn. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/2019-planetary-defense-conference-simulates-asteroid-strike-nyc…
Is It Finally the Year of ‘Linux on the Desktop’ ?
“2019 is truly, finally shaping up to be the year of Linux on the desktop,” writes PC World’s senior editor, adding “Laptops, too!” But most people won’t know it. That’s because the bones of the open-source operating system kernel will soon be baked into Windows 10 and Chrome OS, as Microsoft and Google revealed at their respective developer conferences this week……
The Tinkerers Fighting Apple’s War on YouTube ‘Repair’ Videos
The Guardian profiles stay-at-home mom Jessa Jones, who taught herself how to fix her daughter’s iPhone with online tutorials, eventually leading to motherboard repair work that she found through eBay. “After recruiting other stay-at-home moms in her neighborhood and teaching them electronics repair, she launched a small business from her dining room called MommyFixits. ‘Suddenly our play dates became moms sitting…
Why Airpods Are An Environmental ‘Tragedy’
Vice’s “Future Relics” column asks what people 1,000 years from now will think when they keep discovering abandoned Airpods from 2019:
For roughly 18 months, AirPods play music, or podcasts, or make phone calls. Then the lithium-ion batteries will stop holding much of a charge, and the AirPods will slowly become unusable. They can’t be repaired because they’re glued together. They can’t…
‘I Don’t Think a Four-Year Degree is Necessary To Be Proficient at Coding’, Tim Cook Says
An anonymous reader shares a report: Earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook visited an Apple Store in Orlando, Florida to meet with 16-year-old Liam Rosenfeld, one of 350 scholarship winners who will be attending Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference next month. Echoing comments he shared with the Orlando Sentinel, Cook told TechCrunch’s Matthew Panzarino that it is “pretty impressive” what…
This Apple-1 Computer Cost $666 in 1976. Now It Could Sell for $650,000
Interested in spending your life savings on a nearly useless PC with 4 kilobytes of memory and a 1 MHz processor? You’re in luck. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65444-apple-for-sale-christies.html
Donald Trump spent Saturday retweeting far-right personalities. Then he told them they’re right.
Source: https://www.vox.com/2019/5/4/18529468/donald-trump-twitter-facebook-ban-far-right…
Anton Gudim’s comics play with perspective to make you question reality
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/3/18526812/anton-gudim-comic-artist-art-club…
Can You Build Your Own Mac?
“If you’re sick of MacBooks but love MacOS, be brave and convert a new laptop into a Hackintosh with our exhaustive guide,” writes Motherboard, in an article shared by eatmorekix: Perhaps it’s the fact that Apple solders on all of its main parts on its laptops. Perhaps it’s the inability for users to repair or upgrade their own machines. Maybe it’s…