Daily Links
Microsoft introduces their first all-in-one PC
The Microsoft Surface Studio looks very nice. If I was doing more drawing and had the money to drop, this would be at the top of my list.
The Microsoft Surface Studio looks very nice. If I was doing more drawing and had the money to drop, this would be at the top of my list.
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macOS Sierra 10.12.1 features few outward-facing changes, instead focusing on bug fixes and improvements to address issues that have surfaced since the release of the operating system.
The New York Times is buying The Wirecutter, a five-year-old online consumer guide. The Times will pay more than $30 million, including retention bonuses and other payouts, for the startup, according to people familiar with the transaction.
Bartonfalls is a shell company formed in the patent hotspot of East Texas, and it sued 14 big media companies on October 11 over US Patent No. 7,917,922.
For nearly a decade, Google kept DoubleClick’s massive database of web-browsing records separate by default from the names and other personally identifiable information Google has collected from Gmail and its other login accounts. But this summer, Google quietly erased that last privacy line in the sand – literally crossing out the lines in its privacy policy that promised to keep the two pots of data separate by default.
"Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, organizers announced early Thursday — marking the first time the prestigious award has gone to someone known primarily as a musician."
Really Bad Chess is an iOS game by Zach Gage that randomizes the distribution of pieces when the board is set up, so that you might start a game with 4 queens, 3 knights, and only 2 pawns in the back row. The result is that you get a completely new strategic game each time, but you still play with the familiar tactical rules of chess.
Let’s all live in a Yellow Submarine with The Beatles! After spending months submerged the Yellow Submarine has re-surfaced and it has brought along the first official images of the LEGO® Ideas 21306 Yellow Submarine.
I'm still working on the commonly known ones, but for those of you that want to extend you git-ness, go.
This is pretty cool: Google now displays a color picker in its results when you search for a hexadecimal color.
By Jose Aguinaga. "This piece is just an opinion, and like any JavaScript framework, it shouldn’t be taken too seriously. No JavaScript frameworks were created during the writing of this article."
Sort of like Kijiji, baked into Facebook. Initially available to everyone over 18 years old in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, on the Facebook app for iPhone and Android.