Friday, April 24, 2015

Technology

If Tidal is doomed, is Spotify?

The obituaries are already being written for Tidal. But if it fails, will everything?

Google has a plan to lower your cellphone bill, and Verizon and AT&T; should be scared

Google hopes to lower the cost of wireless plans by relying heavily on the free wifi connections most of us already have in our homes and offices.

Computers used to be so rare that they got their own retirement parties

A good mainframe could last for decades. This party video shows how its users said goodbye.

Unfriended takes place on a single computer screen — and it works

Unfriended is far smarter and meaner than it looks.

If the EU wins its case against Google, it could change the search engine forever

European regulators say it's illegal to promote Google Shopping in search results, but Google does the same thing for maps, images, and news.

Here's Karl Lagerfeld wearing a custom Apple Watch with a secret gold bracelet

He hasn't even bothered to set it up yet.

7 charts that show what Obamacare critics are getting wrong

Plus a bonus chart to show what they're getting right.

Clean energy is growing fast — but it's not yet winning the race against fossil fuels

There's reason to be optimistic about wind and solar, but don't go overboard.

Scientists created a self-powered camera

It powers itself with the light that hits its lens.

23 maps and charts on language

The eerie, haunting Ex Machina is the robot love story you didn’t know you wanted

It's part of a boom in great low-budget science fiction movies.

How Vox aggregates

A look into how we aggregate, why we aggregate, and what we're trying to achieve.

This is the rarest shipping Apple product

Meet the a1622.

You can now use black princess and Asian Santa emoji

There's progress being made in the world of emoji.

The Apple Watch has “complications” — a weird centuries-old watchmakers’ obsession

Those widgets on the side of the watch are called "complications." It's a term with a long history.

Why the US Navy once wanted to turn Wisconsin into the world's largest antenna

Project Sanguine: the crazy plan to bury electric cables under 41 percent of Wisconsin.

There's great news for Apple in the negative Apple Watch reviews

Computers get faster.

Vox talks Mad Men: Imagine Don Draper selling microtargeted internet ads

We don't know how the show ends. But we do know how this kind of advertising ends.

What happens when a man named Jim Socks tries to cheer up a girl named Beyoncé

Parents: be careful what you name your children.

Why in-flight wifi is so painfully slow — except on JetBlue and Southwest

It's as if you're splitting a single cellphone connection with dozens of people.

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