Meet The Young YouTubers Changing The Way British Media Stars Are Born

Meet The Young YouTubers Changing The Way British Media Stars Are Born: "The 24-year-old Zoe is the original star in the family. With 5.7 million subscribers, she has been billed by The Telegraph as ‘arguably the biggest star on the British YouTube scene’."

YouTube killed the TV star.

Someone assembled their own iPhone 6 using leaked parts (Video) | 9to5Mac

Someone assembled their own iPhone 6 using leaked parts (Video) | 9to5Mac: "Following photos that surfaced this morning showing much more subtle antenna breaks on the back of a supposed production model iPhone 6, a video of a device based on the upcoming flagship has surfaced thanks to Feld & Volk, an association of designers and engineers who create luxury custom versions of Apple’s most popular handsets. But what’s interesting about this device is that it seems to actually be built from working parts, and can be seen booting and asking the user to connect to iTunes."

Secrecy ain't what it used to be!

Apple announces Sept. 9 event for expected 'iPhone 6' & 'iWatch' unveiling: 'Wish we could say more'

Apple announces Sept. 9 event for expected 'iPhone 6' & 'iWatch' unveiling: 'Wish we could say more': "In a change from years past, Apple's 2014 September event will be held at the Flint Center for the Performing Arts in Cupertino, Calif. Apple typically holds its annual iPhone event at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, but this year's venue is closer to the company's corporate headquarters and can also accommodate three times as many people."

Yay!

9to5Google: Beyond Good and Evil

9to5Google: Beyond Good and Evil: "Included with the lemonade stand image and ‘don’t copy’ caption is another Schmidt line on originality and competition. ‘Playing catch-up with the competition will never help you get ahead by creating something new,’ Schmidt says. Google would be the ‘hard’ boozy lemonade to the competitions’ fresh lemonade. In the case of Google Plus, the booze could be the hangouts or perhaps the photo editing features or integration with other Google products."

Some fireside musings from the chief Googly guy.

Amazon buys Twitch for $970M, pushes into video streaming market

Amazon buys Twitch for $970M, pushes into video streaming market: "Twitch started life in 2011 as an offshoot of former live Internet broadcast site Justin.tv, itself cofounded by Shear in 2007, and was recently rumored to be in acquisition talks with Google and Yahoo. Over the past three years, Twitch has amassed a huge following that the company recently pegged at 55 million active users. "

This is cool but it's relatively easy for YouTube to add this functionality.

TSMC expected to begin 16nm volume production for Apple’s A9 chip in early 2015 | 9to5Mac

TSMC expected to begin 16nm volume production for Apple’s A9 chip in early 2015 | 9to5Mac: "next generation iPhone rumors, Apple watchers, as a report from Chinese publication Economic Daily News (via Digitimes) shares that TSMC, or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, plans to ‘advance volume production on its 16nm process’ during the beginning of 2015 ‘with monthly output of 50,000 wafers’ to deliver Apple’s A9 system-on-a-chip."

It's only wafer-thin!

Android v. iOS Marketshare

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Having witnessed firsthand the trouncing of MacOS by Windows 95 in the early 90s, this is all looking mighty familiar.

FCC chairman slams Verizon's 'all the kids do it' defense to data throttling

FCC chairman slams Verizon's 'all the kids do it' defense to data throttling
Today's comments were made in response to a rebuttal letter from the telecom's SVP of Federal Regulatory Affairs Kathleen Grillo, who defended "network optimization" by saying the "practice has been widely accepted with little or no controversy."

Ultimately I think the free market will take care of this problem. Even if means that Google fiber is everywhere and free.

Apple details 'Siri for Mac' desktop virtual assistant in new patent application

Apple details 'Siri for Mac' desktop virtual assistant in new patent application: "While Apple's Siri has been an iOS staple since 2011, the tech has yet to make the jump to OS X. An exhaustive new patent filing, however, details a very similar desktop version of the virtual assistant that can perform dictation, high-level system commands and even act as a 'third hand' for Mac users. "

Here's one: Siri, why don't you stay on the iPhone so the Mac OS can reduce it's bloat and get back to basics.

Samsung and Apple agree to end all patent disputes outside of the United States | 9to5Mac

Samsung and Apple agree to end all patent disputes outside of the United States | 9to5Mac
Samsung and Apple just announced that they have agreed to drop all patent suits against each other in countries outside the United States, Bloomberg reports. The two companies will drop suits against each other in Australia, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Netherlands, the U.K., France and Italy.

Looks like some genius took the settlement amounts and deducted the cost of litigation and had an epiphany.

How to get the lowest prices on Apple's mid-2014 MacBook Pros with instant coupons

How to get the lowest prices on Apple's mid-2014 MacBook Pros with instant coupons: "Apple's much-anticipated 2014 family of MacBook Pros introduced Tuesday are on their way to the company's largest authorized resellers, and AI has teamed up with a pair of them to offer the lowest prices anywhere on not only the five standard retail configurations but over two dozen custom configurations, including those that come with 3-Years of AppleCare. "

If you're going to get the world's best personal computer, get it at the world's best price!