Replacing analog headphone jacks with digital audio paves a path to stricter DRM. But it’s not a given it will be enforced.
Here’s the nightmare scenario if Apple removes the headphone jack on the next iPhone, as rumored:
Six Things To Know About Potential U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson
The pro-Brexit former mayor of London was once considered a joke candidate.
Just last week, very few people outside of Britain had heard of Boris Johnson. But in the wake of the Brexit vote, the politico has become one of the most visible faces of the Leave campaign and a potential successor to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron. He’s also been likened, on account of his conservative politics and unique haircut, to presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
These Are The Best Cities For People Of Color In Tech
Analysis of census data ranks the best cities for underrepresented minorities working in tech.
“If the American economy was the Titanic and the iceberg that sank the Titanic was the financial crisis, then STEM jobs would be the few available lifeboats rescuing passengers.” That’s according to SmartAsset‘s research team.
AthenaHealth’s Plan To Fix Health Care Hinges On Tiny Hospitals
“We are taking a bottoms-up approach,” says CEO Jonathan Bush.
Edmund Billings spends about three weeks out of the month living out of a suitcase. He racked up 20,000 miles on the road in the past nine months, while driving to some of the most rural and remote parts of the country.
How Emailing “I Love You” Translated Into $1 Million In Data Analysis Revenue
CB Insights added personality to its newsletter, and it’s become a real way to attract customers.
“I love you.”
Four Techniques To Stop Worrying So Much
Tricks for calming your worries and turning them into productive action.
“Worry is universal,” says behavioral psychologist Simon Rego, coauthor of the Worry Less Report: A White Paper on the Prevalence of Worrying & Coping Mechanisms for Americans At Home Or On the Road for Liberty Mutual Insurance. “The most telling statistic in our entire review was that about 40% of population worried daily. There’s got to be a usefulness to it; it wouldn’t be so prevalent if there wasn’t a function to worry.”
5 Leadership Lessons From Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
With Obama leaving office and “Elbowgate” behind him, all eyes are on Canada’s top leader and the skills he brings to the job.
This week, just two months after the much-debated elbowing incident in the Canadian Parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau landed on the cover of a Marvel comic book. Clearly, and despite his detractors, Trudeau is having a moment.
Facebook’s News Feed Update Isn’t Good News For Publishers—But It May Be For You
Would you rather get your news directly from publishers or from your Facebook friends?
If you’ve been feeling like Facebook is clogging up your News Feed with too many dispiriting news stories and not enough cute baby pictures, this one’s for you: The social network is tweaking its algorithm yet again, much to the dismay of publishers. After receiving user feedback that people were missing updates from friends and family, Facebook is pushing those types of posts—be it links, photos, or videos—to the top of your News Feed. It’s an expansion of a similar change the social network made last year.
“The Final End Game”: What’s In Store For Us When “Game Of Thrones” Returns?
The fantasy series has 15 episodes left at most. Here, our predictions for its next season.
Our watch is (nearly) ended.
Are Branding Agencies Still Relevant?
The old way of designing brands is in desperate need of a rethink, writes Edenspiekermann’s Paul Woods.
A couple years ago, I was interviewing for a job as digital design director at a (well-known) branding agency. After the usual pleasantries, we landed on the details of what the role would entail. To my dismay, the agency’s interpretation of “digital” was simply putting a new logo onto website mockups at the tail end of an extensive guidelines document. It was clear that digital was very much an afterthought in their branding process and that the position was not for me.
