First 'Steve Jobs' teaser trailer shows Michael Fassbender as late tech guru
Universal Studios released the first teaser trailer for Danny Boyle's highly anticipated Steve Jobs biopic on Sunday, offering a glimpse at what to expect from the film and Michael Fassbender, who plays the late Apple cofounder.
These old Apple devices are about to become obsolete | Cult of Mac: "If you own and still use something on these lists, it doesn’t mean that you won’t be able to get one it repaired if you take it someplace that knows its way around an Apple product. But if the fixer doesn’t have the parts they need, they won’t be able to get them."One of my favorite Macs is on the list.
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell is still gaming's showman at 72 | GamesBeat | Games | by Dean Takahashi: "In 1972, Nolan Bushnell co-founded Atari with Ted Dabney. The company went on to launch seminal video games such as Pong and Breakout that defined a generation of gamers. Almost 43 years later, he’s still the spokesman and showman of video games."Inspiration!
Apple considering 'major' expansion of Ireland manufacturing - report
If Apple moves forward, the new expansion would build into a Cork County Council land bank which for 20 years has served as a Traveller halting site, according to Independent.ie. The company could be ready to almost double its factory space, although it's reportedly weighing that against a smaller expansion.
Apple cash reserves greater than those held by most US industries combined: "The $178 billion in cash reserves Apple held at the end of 2014 was more than aggregate of every other non-financial U.S. industry sector, excluding the technology and medical industries, according to a Moody's Investors Service study released on Thursday."You'd think with all those resources they could make the Mac dominant. Hmmm. Here's hoping! I'm ready with Xcode.
Apple details new 'AppleBot' web crawler used by Siri and Spotlight
One web developer spotted Apple's crawler last November, after seeing numerous hits from a crawler in the 17.0.0.0/8 block. That block is assigned to Apple, one of just a handful of companies that control an entire A block.
WSJ: Google was going to build Periscope/Meerkat years ago, but didn’t have the resources | 9to5Google: "Google-owned YouTube had a chance to beat Twitter’s Periscope and its biggest competitor, Meerkat, to market by somewhere in the ballpark of 8 years, but decided against the move due to the fact that a large portion of the company’s resources were engaged in fending off a Viacom lawsuit and creating the Content ID copyright detection system."VIACOM working overtime to eventually destroy VIACOM!
Microsoft brings Visual Studio Code, .NET Core preview to Mac: "The newly released software lets users develop code in .NET, JavaScript, and a number of other frameworks and languages. Microsoft described the app as 'incredibly lightweight,' but with features such as Git version tracking and full IntelliSense support. IntelliSense attempts to automatically detect problems like bad syntax or spelling mistakes."Would be interested to know if they dogfooded this or used Xamarin to port it.
Apple Watch found to be compliant with Qi wireless charging standard
AppleInsider reader Albert C. Lee reached out on Friday to share his video, where he shows the Apple Watch magnetic charger being used with the Moto 360. This would seem to confirm that Apple's charger is Qi-compatible, despite the fact that Apple has not been announced as a supporter of the Qi standard.
