The Hark! A Vagrant cartoonist is back with a new collection of comics, and it’s every bit as weird and hilarious as her first.
Kate Beaton is lost.
Steve Jobs, The Movie: 11 Things That Aren’t True About The Apple Cofounder
Not everything in Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle’s biopic about Apple cofounder Steve Jobs is true to life.
Steve Jobs, the new movie from screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director Danny Boyle, opens widely today. Its energetic, crackling direction showcases the kind of whiplash dialogue that Sorkin is famous for. Film critics have already started weighing in, with mostly positive reviews. Theatergoers will get their chance to watch the film today. The one thing they won’t get is a chance to see a movie that’s actually about Steve Jobs.
This Trippy Credenza Is An Optical Illusion For Your Living Room
How deep is it? You can only tell from the side.
Many shelves aren’t deep enough. These shelves are both deeper and shallower than they look, thanks to a clever optical illusion that gives each nook its own separate, misleading depth.
Why The Steve Jobs In Aaron Sorkin’s Movie Could Never Have Saved Apple
Steve Jobs biographer Rick Tetzeli argues the film doesn’t capture the Apple cofounder’s ability to learn and change.
As I left a recent screening of Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle‘s Steve Jobs, I overheard two women ahead of me on the escalator descending to the street talking about the movie. “I thought I knew a lot about him,” said one. “But I didn’t know all that!”
Apple Took Down An Ad Blocker For Apps Over Privacy Concerns
Been Choice, which allegedly blocks advertising within iOS apps, has been flagged by Apple due to customer security issues.
A new, turbocharged ad blocker for iPhones has been removed from the App Store over security concerns—and it may signal just how far is too far when it comes to iOS ad blockers. Been Choice, which just launched this week and blocks advertising even in native apps like Apple News, was removed from circulation due to concerns that the app was tracking user traffic.
China Allegedly Arrested Hackers To Comply With The U.S. Government’s Demands
If true, things just took an interesting turn: The U.S. has long struggled to coerce China to take action against its prolific hackers.
Every once in a while, the cold cyberwar between the U.S. and China takes an unexpected turn. The Washington Post reported on Friday that Chinese authorities recently arrested several hackers at the request of the U.S. government. The arrests were allegedly made a few weeks before Chinese president Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington last month.
California Enacts New Digital Privacy Laws
California governor Jerry Brown has signed into law the strongest digital privacy rules in the U.S.
A new set of laws is giving Californians the strongest digital privacy rights in the U.S. The Electronic Communication Privacy Act, signed by Governor Jerry Brown late Thursday, bars law enforcement agencies or investigative entities from handing over any sort of digital communications or metadata without a warrant. The law is by far the most public-friendly in the country.
How Artificial Intelligence Is Finding Gender Bias At Work
Several companies are now using language-and-image-processing tech to spot what we humans can’t—or won’t.
California recently enacted a strict gender-equality law, the Fair Pay Act, which puts the burden of proof on a company to show that it has not shortchanged an employee’s salary based on gender. It’s a powerful tool to address a wrong that has already happened. But can discrimination be prevented in the first place? Even managers who don’t think they are biased may be—and just their word choices can send a signal. A new wave of artificial intelligence companies aims to spot nuanced biases in workplace language and behavior in order to root them out.
Is Suffolk still the peanut capital of the world?
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Thirty years ago, a Suffolk mayor traveled to the Deep South to defend his city’s peanut honor.
During a visit timed around peanut festival season, Mayor Andrew Damiani rode down Main Street in Dothan, Ala., with a banner proclaiming that Suffolk was the peanut capital of the world, in a town that claimed the same.
Read More Thirty years ago, a Suffolk mayor traveled to the Deep South to defend his city’s peanut honor.
During a visit timed around peanut festival season, Mayor Andrew Damiani rode down Main Street in Dothan, Ala., with a banner proclaiming that Suffolk was the peanut capital of the world, in a town that claimed the same.
Trade groups forecast strong holiday season for retailers
Retailers are in for a strong, yet competitive holiday season, according to two forecasts out Thursday.
Sales in November and December are expected to rise 3.7 percent to $630.5 billion – a bigger jump than the 10-year average of 2.5 percent but less than last year’s 4.1 percent gain, the National…
