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Category Archives: technology
Apple is a luxury brand
Scott Galloway knows what’s up.
The SIGGRAPH 2017 Technical Papers Preview Trailer is crazy
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre recommends password managers. I love mine.
Stop making crap
the world in which any of us give a shit about how thin the new iPhone is is over This is a great piece in FastCoDesign about what design could or should be in 2017.
Facebook is so creepy it buys credit reports on its users
The short version: Facebook uses the data you give it to request offline information about you from information brokerage firms. There’s a lot of information that FB can gather about you that way, often related to your credit history. While it’s in theory possible to opt-out of that sort of information gathering, Facebook requires that you […]
Mo-Cap of how people type
This is a great video abstract for a CHI’16 paper on how people type by Anna Maria Feit, Daryl Weir and Antti Oulasvirta from Aalto University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhYFRr2gUaw Great way to open-access the full paper, too.
Ode to the Apple 12” Powerbook
The article argues that the 12” Powerbook was Apple’s finest laptop. I had one and I’d have to agree. The new 12” MacBook, my current rig, is pretty sweet, too.
