In retrospect, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz realizes that all the hype was a big mistake. “I think we were arrogant,” he says. You don’t fucking say.
Wired Gets Hands-On With Magic Leap
Reuters’s Curious Sourcing on Doug Field Joining Project Titan
I don’t break a lot of news — it’s just not what Daring Fireball is about, or what I’m interested in. But, once in a while, I get my hands on a scoop, like last night’s piece about former Tesla engineering head Doug Field returning to Apple to work with Bob Mansfield in the Titan group.
All three leaked 2018 iPhones designs shown in side-by-side in new 4K video
Like every year, Apple’s next-generation iPhones have been floating around for weeks despite the fact that they haven’t yet been released. I mean the dummy units, of course, which almost anybody can order from China months before Apple actually unveils its new products.
Steelers fan in full uniform sneaks onto field with team
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Uber Drivers Take Riders the Long Way—at Uber’s Expense
When ferrying passengers to and from Phoenix’s airport, Uber driver Michelle Blandy had a decision to make: Go the short way or take the longer route. “If they were from out of town, I would take advantage of it by going the longer route,” said Ms.
See what Earth looked like from space when it was ruled by dinosaurs
Ever wonder what the Earth looked like before humans came along and added pollution and man-made destruction to the mix?The 3D interactive website called Ancient Earth Globe lets you glimpse the world from space during the age of the dinosaurs — and more.
Why Facebook’s Thinning Profit Margins Are a Secret Asset
Mark Zuckerberg & company surprised investors on two fronts last month, pushing Facebook shares down 20 percent and wiping out about $130 billion in market value. One was predictable, the other less so.
Move Over Millennials, It’s Gen Z’s Turn to Kill Industries
Millennials have been accused of killing so many products and industries—taxis, landlines, snail mail—that it’s become a media trope. But millennials are old news. Today, businesses and marketers are desperately anticipating the murderous whims of Gen Z, the demographic born after 1996.
Why you should use iOS 12’s Do Not Disturb at Bedtime all day long
iOS 12’s best new feature may be Do Not Disturb at Bedtime. That sounds boring, but ask anyone who has been using the beta and they’ll tell you that it rocks.
To See the Future of Competition, Look at Netflix
I’ve been following Netflix since 2005, when I first visited its headquarters in Silicon Valley and interviewed Reed Hastings, its founder and CEO. I don’t think I’ve learned more about strategy, technology, and culture from any other company I’ve studied.
The first company to ever reach $1 trillion in market value was in China and got crushed
Before Apple hit $1 trillion in market value Thursday, there was Chinese oil giant PetroChina, which reached the milestone more than a decade ago. It did not fare too well after that. PetroChina’s market cap hit $1 trillion in 2007 following a successful debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Nov.
Google street view captures man swearing at camera for the entire length of a street
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Swearing at a passing Google street view camera is nothing new — plenty of people have done it before, and chances are plenty of people will be doing it for as long as street view is still a thing.
That time in 1994 when Steve Jobs got to use a device like an iPhone
Part 1: It’s funny how some things that hardly seem significant in their day dramatically change our lives. Or, in Steve’s case, the world. For me, it was a phone call from a secretive little company of 22 people called General Magic.
The Bullshit Web
My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time.
SpaceX’s Secret Weapon Is Gwynne Shotwell
She launches spaceships, sells rockets, and deals with Elon Musk. If all went well, Musk’s cherry-red Tesla Roadster would be propelled toward Mars with a spacesuit-clad dummy behind the wheel and David Bowie’s Life on Mars? playing on the stereo.
Magic Leap offers a sneak peek at its mixed reality OS
Magic Leap has been peeling away one layer of secrecy after another now that it’s close to shipping its mixed reality headset. Just recently, it released an AR demo and revealed that it’s working with comics industry veteran Grant Morrison.
How a Bunch of Lava Lamps Protect Us From Hackers
Edward Craven Walker lived to see his greatest invention, the lava lamp, make its late-’90s cultural comeback. But the British tinkerer (and famed nudist, incidentally) died before he could witness the 21st-century digital potential of his analog creation.
Google promises to stop suggesting ‘my face’ when you type ‘sit on’ in Gboard
Applying machine learning to everything under the sun can be tricky. Case in point: Gboard’s text prediction has been suggesting people type “my face and” after the words “sit on,” resulting in a reference to a sexual act.
Now is the time for Walmart to strike at Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime has been an enormous influence on e-commerce, but this online juggernaut is beginning to show cracks.
How to beat LinkedIn: The Game
Since its founding in 2002, LinkedIn has quickly become one of the most popular video games of all time. It currently has roughly 530 million users, and was purchased by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.