Apple News: Now That The iPhones Are Here, What’s Next For Apple?
The dazzling debut of the new iPhones last weekend, with 9 million sold, proves the Apple Apple faithful still come out in force for pretty much anything new from Cupertino. That serves the company well when there is something new but has a downside. Consider 2012, when Apple rolled out a bevy of products between the launch of the iPhone 5 in September and the significantly redesigned iMacs in December only to go quiet through most of 2013. Apple management gave some indication it wasn’t entirely happy with the scenario, but it seems to be playing out almost precisely the same in 2013. Is it deja vu all over again for Apple?
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Technology News: How Technology Changes The Skills We Need To Learn
A while back, Bill Keller of The New York Times stirred up a hornet’s nest when he wrote a column worrying that joining Facebook would have a debilitating effect on his 13 year-old daughter’s intellectual faculties. Technology advocates, including me, pounced. Now there are new studies out that seem to support his argument. One shows that using search engines decreases our memory and another suggests that GPS may atrophy our brains. Discovery magazine has collected a half-dozen similar examples on its site. I think the question itself is misplaced. Clearly, we use technology to do things for us that we no longer are doing for ourselves and that means certain abilities degenerate. Yet, it also means we are freeing up cognitive energy for other things. So what’s really important is not the skills we are losing but those that we need to develop.
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Programming News: The history of programming languages (infographic)
If you think Python is a snake and ruby is a gemstone, you’re right but not quite when it comes to identifying programming languages. A new infographic provides an encyclopaedic look at various programming languages and their functions. The infographic published by Veracode on Visual.ly begins with an introduction to programming languages and then takes the reader through the most popular programming languages, the security of programming languages, what companies are fixing when vulnerabilities are found, and tips for secure programming. The meatiest part of the infographic is the comparison of programming languages, which charts the creator of a particular language, its primary uses, and who uses the language.
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Photography News: 25 Amazing Collection Of Macro Photography
Macro photography is the art of capturing extreme close-up subjects and transforming them into breathtaking images. The details and colors that macro photography shows us are amazing and totally inspiring. And that is why today, to close the week with something to please your eyes, we decided to gather examples of beautiful macro photos to show. From frogs to butterflies and other nature elements, these photographs are stunning. This is the collection of beautiful macro photography Alistair Campbell.
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