Zoned out to Figure for the bulk of my subway ride this morning.
I do wish there was a way to save songs every now and then, but clearly, the magic is in the performance.
YO DAWG, I HEARD YOU LIKE SLIDING TO UNLOCK
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“I wish Google would leave the Social Network thing to others. When Google does what it does, and does it well, it changes the world. When it rides bandwagons, it’s irritating.” — Neil Gaiman (source)
Google Engineer Told Others of Data Collection, F.C.C. Report Reveals - NYTimes.com -
Google’s harvesting of e-mails, passwords and other sensitive personal information from unsuspecting households in the United States and around the world was neither a mistake nor the work of a rogue engineer, as the company long maintained, but a program that supervisors knew about, according to new details from the full text of a regulatory report.
Are you as surprised as I am?
But we *totally* take privacy seriously today. Like, totally.
Thank God they didn’t take the CAPS LOCK and the Times New Roman Bold.
Technology making us insensitive, indeed. #wthdude
See many more here.
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German Garbage Men Turn Dumpsters Into Giant Pinhole Cameras (ht @mastadre)
Does this actually work for Samsung?
Figuring out the differences between Flagship and Premium and High-tier is something only a salesman or an “Android enthusiast” can do.
I’d expect that consumers, at a distance, want those three to all be the same thing.
(And to a certain extent, mid-tier and entry level to be the same too.)