Apple has announced its traditional fall iPhone launch, sending out invitations to the press for an event on September 9th at 10AM PST, at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium... that's a massive venue with a 7,000-person seating capacity, so expect a lot of news!
The original problem with the company's embed code was that it blocked out rendering of a page while fonts were being loaded. This in turn caused a negative impact on site performance since it also meant the browser had to pause until all fonts loaded before completing the page rendering. Typekit is changing this process with async loading.
Today, Android Wear for iOS (iPhone 5, 5c, 5s, 6, or 6 Plus running iOS 8.2+) works with the LG Watch Urbane. All future Android Wear watches, including those from Huawei, Asus, and Motorola will also support iOS.
Bootstrap 4 has moved from LESS to SASS. Support for Flexbox has also been added. Support for Internet Explorer 8 has been dropped. And now available on GitHub.
Black holes don't actually swallow and destroy physical information, according to an idea proposed today by Stephen Hawking at the Hawking Radiation conference being held at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Instead, they store it in a two-dimensional hologram.
Flinto for Mac is a comprehensive app prototyping tool that allows you to create anything from simple tap-through prototypes, to comprehensive prototypes with impressive interactions.
One of the features that made Firefox and won it so much geek cred in its early days was its rich extension model, allowing a wealth of customizations and extra functionality. Extensions were given fairly free and unfettered access to Firefox internals, including the HTML on the rendered page. This provided extension developers great power, but it also made Firefox brittle and hard to maintain.
A client shared a link with us to a the tool they're using to preview their website at different device sizes. Not exactly the same as viewing on the device in question, but a pretty good tool to have handy.
Banksy’s new show and biggest project to date, Dismaland, opened on Thursday on the Weston-super-Mare seafront, and is a “family theme park unsuitable for small children”.
I'm pretty sure that if the justification for this is "a distraction to other drivers" then there are a LOT of other things on the road about to get a $543 fine.
Google made a Wi-Fi router. "OnHub" is a $200 cylinder that promises a "new way to Wi-Fi" with control via an app, frequent software updates, and additional radios for smart home functionality. This is Google's smart home hub.
I remember being a kid and watching 80s TV evangelists with my brothers and laughing at how ludicrous their sermons where. I really can't believe this is still going on.
New York Times article by Jodi Kantor and David Streitfeld describe a frightful corporate culture. "At Amazon, workers are encouraged to tear apart one another's ideas in meetings, toil long and late (emails arrive past midnight, followed by text messages asking why they were not answered), and held to standards that the company boasts are 'unreasonably high.' The internal phone directory instructs colleagues on how to send secret feedback to one another's bosses. Employees say it is frequently used to sabotage others."
Amazon CEO and president Jeff Bezos sent an all-hands e-mail refuting the above NYTimes’ claims. "The article doesn’t describe the Amazon I know or the caring Amazonians I work with every day," said Bezos. "But if you know of any stories like those reported, I want you to escalate to HR. You can also email me directly at jeff@amazon.com. Even if it’s rare or isolated, our tolerance for any such lack of empathy needs to be zero."
Larry Page announced that he is now the CEO of "Alphabet," a brand-new company of which Google is just one part. Fellow Google co-founder Sergey Brin will be helping him run Alphabet in some capacity. Sundar Pichai is now the CEO of the subsidiary known as Google.
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The next ALA: On Air event will be on Tuesday, August 25. Eileen Webb, Karen McGrane, Jeff Eaton, and Ryan Irelan will discuss what they love about working in CMSes (administrative UX!), what drives them to frustration (decoupling!), and what meaty problems (integration with design systems!) they hope to dive into next.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with companies including Medium and DuckDuckGo, have introduced a new Do Not Track standard that they claim to be "stronger" than those currently going around.
"It was clear if you looked at the per user metrics, people weren’t posting, weren't returning and weren’t really engaging with the product," says one former employee. "Six months in, there started to be a feeling that this isn’t really working."
As Ars Technica reported last week, the privilege-escalation bug stems from new error-logging features that Apple added to OS X 10.10. Developers didn't use standard safeguards involving additions to the OS X dynamic linker dyld, a failure that lets attackers open or create files with root privileges that can reside anywhere in the OS X file system. It was disclosed last week by security researcher Stefan Esser.