Apple launches new 12" MacBooks with Intel Skylake CPUs, rose gold color & longer battery life

Apple launches new 12" MacBooks with Intel Skylake CPUs, rose gold color & longer battery lifeThe new MacBook also comes in a rose gold color option, mimicking Apple's iPhone and iPad product lineups. Like the first-generation MacBook, the ultraportable notebook has a 12-inch Retina display, full-size keyboard, Force Touch trackpad, and a single USB-C port for charging and syncing, all packed into a 2-pound frame that is just 13.1 millimeters thin.

O Daeng!

Apple runs secret car lab in Berlin with 15-20 employees, report says

Apple runs secret car lab in Berlin with 15-20 employees, report saysAdding to rampant rumor and speculation surrounding Apple's "Project Titan" automotive initiative, a new report claims the company is operating a secret car lab out of Germany's capital city tasked with imagining, and realizing, vehicles of the future.

Das is gut. AAPL ist International.

Apple taps Surface Pro hinge maker for super-thin MacBooks

Apple taps Surface Pro hinge maker for super-thin MacBooks: "Apple has hit up the makers of the ultra-tiny hinges used for the Microsoft Surface Pro to come and work on its next-gen MacBooks, which will launch in the second half of 2016."

Competition is usually good for everyone.

Rumor: Ultrathin MacBook update coming in second half of 2016, will feature redesigned hinge

Rumor: Ultrathin MacBook update coming in second half of 2016, will feature redesigned hinge: "Apple is allegedly planning to update its ultraportable MacBook with Retina display in the second half of 2016, featuring a new screen hing design made from metal injection molding, according to a new supply chain report."

My hing is better than your hing.

UK soccer star Raheem Sterling close to signing six-figure Apple endorsement deal

UK soccer star Raheem Sterling close to signing six-figure Apple endorsement deal: "A winger with U.K. soccer club Manchester City, Raheem Sterling, is nearing a lucrative deal to endorse Apple devices, a report said on Thursday."

Now that app developers are working for free, let's be sure and pay the people who are important to the survival of a platform.

Lytro's first pro movie camera is designed for visual effects magic

Lytro's first pro movie camera is designed for visual effects magicWhile there are plenty of advanced digital movie cameras, most of them aren't really designed for the modern realities of movie making, where computer-generated effects are seemingly ubiquitous.

Game changer. It's the new Panavision.

Apple grows to 7.4% of worldwide PC market as Windows continues to cede share to the Mac

Apple grows to 7.4% of worldwide PC market as Windows continues to cede share to the MacApple continued to grow overall Mac marketshare during the March quarter as most leading Windows PC makers suffered significant setbacks, according to the latest research data from Gartner and IDC.

One day, all this will be yours!

Ex-EPA scientist publishes Wyoming fracking study that agency abandoned | Ars Technica

Ex-EPA scientist publishes Wyoming fracking study that agency abandoned | Ars TechnicaControversy ensued, and the EPA withdrew from the investigation before the report was ever finalized, giving the state of Wyoming control.

HOW THE EPA LINKED “FRACKING” TO CONTAMINATED WELL WATER
An investigation by the US Environmental Protection Agency at a site in … One of the EPA scientists leading the investigation, Dominic DiGiulio, subsequently took a job at Stanford University. Along with Stanford colleague Rob Jackson, DiGiulio has tabulated all the EPA data that was sitting in scientific limbo—DiGiulio even went as far as using a Freedom of Information Act request to access EPA data from a couple of water samples that weren’t published.

All that data now has a home in the form of a paper published in Environmental Science & Technology. The end result? The researchers stand by the EPA team’s original conclusions.

It's that ostrich head-in-the-sand thing, literally.

Facebook doubles down on live streaming with new features for groups, events, and interactivity

Facebook doubles down on live streaming with new features for groups, events, and interactivityIt seems as if the revolution will be streamed, as social networking behemoth Facebook has chosen to drastically expand its live streaming features to make streams more interactive, easier to share, and more discoverable.

I stream, you stream, we all stream for live stream.