Apple Watch’s sapphire display undergoes rigorous scratch testing, comes out just fine | 9to5Mac

Apple Watch’s sapphire display undergoes rigorous scratch testing, comes out just fine | 9to5Mac: "UK-based electronics repair site iPhonefixed has gotten its hands on one of the sapphire crystal displays to be used in the mid-range and high-end Apple Watch models and put it through a bevy of quick scratch tests to see how it would fare."

It's from the future!

Video: 15 minutes of the new 12-inch MacBook being handled in Ukraine | 9to5Mac

Video: 15 minutes of the new 12-inch MacBook being handled in Ukraine | 9to5Mac
Ahead of its April 10th launch, the new 12-inch MacBook is continuing its world early hands-on tour. The computer already surfaced with detailed unboxing footage and hands-on photos in Vietnam, and now a Ukraine-based YouTube channel has posted a 15 minute long video of the new MacBook being handled.

Let's do our part to offset the foreign policy mistakes of the bankster vassals in Washington. Tune in to Ukraine!

Woz goes off-leash -- disses the $17K Apple Watch, says computers will make humans into pets | VentureBeat | Business | by Mark Sullivan

Woz goes off-leash -- disses the $17K Apple Watch, says computers will make humans into pets | VentureBeat | Business | by Mark Sullivan: "The cofounder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, says he has doubts about expensive Apple Watches, sees cars as a natural fit for Apple, and believes that machines will pose a serious threat to humans in the future."

The conspiracy theorist in me says the gold Apple watch is an excuse for Apple to buy physical gold as a hedge against the inmates running the asylum at the Fed. Janet Yellen just said that gold is a store of value and cash (which Apple has a lot of) is not.

Microsoft ditches ARM for Intel with new $499 Surface 3, its latest iPad competitor

Microsoft ditches ARM for Intel with new $499 Surface 3, its latest iPad competitor: "The Surface 3 also supports the same Microsoft-built Pen introduced with the Pro 3 model, allowing users to quickly take notes and gain additional features with the tablet-laptop hybrid.

The base $499 model will come with 64 gigabytes of storage when it launches on May 5, but the Type Cover and Pen are sold separately, priced at $130 and $50 respectively."

I think they could give away the razor (Surface) to sell the blades (Office). Given that they made Excel, can't someone at the company do the math?

Reviewers say Samsung's Galaxy S6 tops Android heap, but S6 Edge is solution in search of problem

Reviewers say Samsung's Galaxy S6 tops Android heap, but S6 Edge is solution in search of problem: "Performance from Samsung's octo-core Exynos 7420 was found to be 'wicked,' easily besting the multi-core benchmark scores of its competitors, though Apple's A8 did gain a slight advantage in single-core benchmarks. Segan believes this to be a bigger problem for Qualcomm than anyone else, as the company's Snapdragon 810 only 'looks like a good choice as long as Qualcomm doesn't have any real high-end competition.'"

Wicked is an interesting choice of words here. I remember visiting Microsoft in the early 90s and seeing the NCR 8-core machines that were running pre-release versions of Windows NT. They were the size of a standard refrigerator.

How-To: Decode Apple’s Tech Specs pages before buying a new Mac, Part 2 | 9to5Mac

How-To: Decode Apple’s Tech Specs pages before buying a new Mac, Part 2 | 9to5Mac: "All iMacs include FaceTime HD. Mac minis and Mac Pros don’t have built-in screens or cameras. If you’re looking for a camera to add to these Macs, I’m a big fan of Logitech models such as this one, which can deliver better-than-FaceTime HD quality."

As much as I like Logitech cameras, I've never found the picture quality to be on-par with Apple webcams. I believe it is due to hardware image processing that the Apple cameras do, either in the driver or in the ROM. By image processing I mean color correction, denoting, etc.

Rumor: Apple to launch three iPhone models in 2015 including new 4" handset

Rumor: Apple to launch three iPhone models in 2015 including new 4" handset
The latest out of East Asia claims Apple has plans to release a total of three new iPhone models during its annual refresh cycle in the second half of the year, one of which will incorporate a 4-inch display

You heard it here third!

Game of Thrones' George R. R. Martin doesn't need no stinking word processor to tell him how to spell 'Targaryen' | VentureBeat | Media | by Daniel Terdiman

Game of Thrones' George R. R. Martin doesn't need no stinking word processor to tell him how to spell 'Targaryen' | VentureBeat | Media | by Daniel Terdiman: "Last night, appearing at the red carpet premiere here of Season 5 of Game of Thrones, Martin enthusiastically doubled down on his love for the 1980s-era word processor.

‘Until they come up with something better, which they haven’t,’ Martin told VentureBeat, he’ll keep on using WordStar 4.0."

I'm sure someone will write an novel on an iPad. It will be filled with spelling and grammatical errors suggested by the system. Are we advancing?

Google News buries news of Google's FTC investigation under Daniel Lyons fluff [updated with response]

Google News buries news of Google's FTC investigation under Daniel Lyons fluff [updated with response]: "..the FTC accidentally leaked the never-released details of its staff investigation to journalists as part of an unrelated freedom of information request, it has erupted into an embarrassing spectacle for Google."

Let us not forget that the entire American media apparatus is essentially a propaganda machine aimed at disseminating the (dis)information that is most beneficial to a financial elite. That those "news" outlets are owned by essentially one corporate voice that selectively reports that which is in the corporation's self-interest.

And that many bloggers are corporate sycophants who would do anything to drive traffic and readership to their blogs or suck a big dick for free review hardware or for a ticket to an Apple PR event. A bastion of journalistic integrity you are not!

The 147 Companies That Control Everything - Forbes: "Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have taken a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide and analyzed all 43,060 transnational corporations and share ownerships linking them."

It's not like one sees Samsung advertisements displayed on the Apple home page. I mean, really. If you don't like Google, simply use another URL for your search. Now try using an alternative source of water for your home.

I don't know what all the fuss is about, I search with altavista.com and infoseek.com