Uber drivers waiting in villages near Heathrow cause 'huge distress' | Technology | The Guardian

Uber drivers waiting in villages near Heathrow cause 'huge distress' | Technology | The Guardian: "Instead, Heathrow has announced it is planning to build a waiting area capable of holding about 800 private hire vehicles on the airport’s northern perimeter road."

As the world turns.

Lower MacBook sales push Apple down to sixth place in laptop marketshare

Lower MacBook sales push Apple down to sixth place in laptop marketshare: "A drop in MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air shipments year-over-year likewise resulted in Apple losing share in the world's declining laptop market, according to March-quarter research data."

Maybe it's time to rethink that strategy of making jewelry and go back to making computers. I like that new rose gold model, it'll make a great gift for a Silicon Valley trophy wife. That's a market of at least 100. Hmmm, add the oligopolists. Now we're up to 500. Let's call it a Facebook appliance and be done with it.

Star pupil finds lost Mayan city by studying ancient charts of the night sky from his bedroom

Star pupil finds lost Mayan city by studying ancient charts of the night sky from his bedroom: "‘I was really surprised and excited when I realised that the most brilliant stars of the constellations matched the largest Maya cities,’ he told the Journal de Montréal."

A more interesting question is how a "primitive culture" could lay out geometrically precise arrangements of buildings (mapping star positions) across uneven terrain. Maybe they had help with an aerial view.

Amazon makes jump into self-published videos with Amazon Video Direct

Amazon makes jump into self-published videos with Amazon Video Direct: "Some of the partners already enrolled in Video Direct include Conde Nast, HowStuffWorks, The Guardian, Mattel, Machinima, Samuel Goldwyn Films, and Journeyman Pictures."

The advantage that YouTube has is that it's everywhere. Prime Video isn't even in Canada.

Apple remains no. 1 PC maker, despite falling Mac sales

Apple remains no. 1 PC maker, despite falling Mac sales: "Apple has once again been named the No. 1 seller of PCs, based on shipments of just over 14 million units in the first three months of 2016."

If only there weren't so many vendors.

Atom Text Editor, Hackable and Portable

Atom: " Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core—a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file."

The intro video is hilarious.

A Cult of Mac exclusive deal on an amazing light field camera.

A Cult of Mac exclusive deal on an amazing light field camera.
Thanks to the Illum, we may need to reconsider what the word “picture” means. Lytro’s game-changing camera takes “living images” that can be refocused and explored in 3-D, like some kind of precursor to a hologram.

Hot Deal.

Snopes declares Apple Music deletion fears 'mostly false'

Snopes declares Apple Music deletion fears 'mostly false': "According to Snopes, the rumors we’ve heard are ‘Mostly False.’ But here’s what that means."

Unfortunately, "mostly false" is a self-contradictory statement. It only needs to be true once to suck. And if it's true under some conditions, it's probably true for a lot of people. Because a small percentage of a very large number is still a large number.

I, Cringely Equity crowdfunding finally arrives May 15th: curb your enthusiasm - I, Cringely

I, Cringely Equity crowdfunding finally arrives May 15th: curb your enthusiasm - I, Cringely: "But equity crowd funding under Title III of the Act — crowd funding for regular investors — was controversial from the start, which may help explain why it has taken so long to happen. Once the Act was signed into law in April, 2012 the issue of potential fraud took center stage. Equity crowd funding with its necessarily relaxed reporting and investor qualification requirements looked to some people like a scam in the making. Having barely survived the financial crisis of 2008 promulgated by huge financial institutions, were we ready to do it all over again but this time at the mercy of Internet-based scam artists? "

It's imperative that Wall Street continues to dominate the market for securities fraud.