Tech, mostly Apple, from Lex Friedman.
22 pieces tagged “News”
The fourth part of the form, where the jury determines the damages it believes Taction is owed from Apple, advises that Apple owes $5,721,961,750. Apple says it will appeal. I think I probably would, too.
Today’s update of our personal timeline app, Tapestry, is the one you’ve been waiting for and pushes the app to a whole new level. Bring together your social media, RSS feeds, podcasts, YouTube and more in one chronological timeline—with no algorithm deciding…
Jason Snell: I can’t wait to try out the iPhone Duo. As someone who spends a lot of time using an iPad, I’m seriously intrigued if it might fit in my life as a primary device. But for most people, it will be not just too expensive, but too weird. That’s fine.…
The new starting prices for the three models now look like this: iPhone 16: $799 (+$100) iPhone 17e: $699 (+$100) iPhone 17: $899 (+$100) iPhone Air: $1099 (+$100) Via MacRumors. Fun!
Apple announced the cool things that they were expected to announce. You’ll read detailed analysis about it, but you probably watched the event Wednesday, and if not, you can go watch it now. The iPhone Duo certainly looks cool and makes some clever design…
Mark Gurman at Bloomberg: Ternus will now need to persuade consumers — beyond the most devoted Apple customers — to shell out more money for a device that introduces new complexity and some trade-offs. The phone has to be opened to take full advantage of it…
Amy Worrall’s new Mac app launches today. Its pitch: never open the SF Symbols app again.
If you build apps for Apple’s platforms, you likely use SF Symbols. Apple ships thousands of them, they’re very well designed, and most of the time the one you need already exists. Then there’s the time you can’t find the precise Apple-drawn symbol that your…
Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. This instance and others will be back up and running shortly. An announcement will be made within a week, once we’re able to reveal more information. X shut them down. They’re back. That’s a positive.…
I was going to link to this story. Then I wasn’t. Then I saw “Human Flatus Atlas,” and I thought that was pretty great, so linking won out. The smart underwear is the first wearable designed to measure human flatulence. The measuring device is a small disc…
How the mighty have fallen
I haven’t been able to use my TiVo for years, after my cable company stopped supporting cable cards. Today comes news that TiVo — the once-great company that made DVRing a standard — is removing its one button ad break skip functionality in favor of a…
I wish we could measure whether productivity today increases or plummets.
Nvidia said on Thursday that it is buying Hugging Face, a library of open artificial intelligence models, for $12.9 billion, as the chip maker goes on a spending spree amid an escalating global race to dominate the technology. That’s a lot of money. If we go…
Kudos to The Verge for explicitly calling out DHH’s obviously racist posts. No kudos to 1Password. This year, DHH has published rants that appear to call for ethnic cleansing in Europe. In his July 21st blog post titled “Wolves, sheep, and gypsies,” DHH…
A $500 toothbrush. Okay. With AI. Okay. Dyson’s new AI-powered flossing tech, Gap Optical Targeting, uses the camera to analyze 28 images per second, quickly finding gaps between your teeth. A water jet bursts out within 100ms to clean the area as you brush.
I very much appreciate Myke Hurley’s positive take on Ternus’s updated official bio. I wanted to note three narratives that I spotted in this profile that I think tell the story of the kind of CEO he wants to be, and how Apple wants to communicate this to us.…
TechCrunch: The 30-year-old company remarked that it received “hundreds of thousands” of new downloads since its decision to keep the name Lake Ontario in place, and saw its app’s usage climb to 50 times above its normal levels. MapQuest has two things going…
A shuffling of faces on Apple’s leadership page. Expected and not surprising, but still carrying its own weight when you see it plainly like this.
If we’re being honest — and why shouldn’t we? — Tim’s letter to Apple staff on his last day as CEO doesn’t really say much of anything. The truth is, whatever there is to say about my success, I know it is all because of you. You have brought out the best in…
I love that I live in a timeline where Dave Barry exists. He’s one of those writers who makes me want to be a better writer. He published a piece today on modern technology, with classic Dave Barry comedy: Modern dishwashers — you’ve probably noticed this…
We need more companies like Panic. I’m a huge fan. I use Nova constantly, and even the sunset Code Editor. Anyway, Panic passed through tariffs and got a refund. Now, they’re refunding customers. “When you ordered from us, we charged you for the tariff we…
The amazing part to me isn’t the massive settlement amount, though obviously $17.1B is a huge amount of money. It’s more than Meta made in profit in Q2 of 2026. It’s more than a quarter of the profit Meta made all of last year. (It’s worth noting that “only”…
On the one hand, sure, they were repurposing X’s content. On the other hand, Elon sucks. But I do love that this scrappy scrapey site scared X.
