The heat is on with Apple functionality, rocket landings, encryption, politics, and the global climate.
Be My Eyes is an app that connects blind people with volunteer helpers from around the world via live video chat.
I got a letter this week telling me, and all Glass Explorers, that…
As we look to the road ahead, we realize that we’ve outgrown the lab and so we’re officially “graduating” from Google[x] to be our own team here at Google. We’re thrilled to be moving even more from concept to reality.
John Gruber (Daring Fireball) snarkly asks:
What would they have had to do to flunk?
So, has the early use of Glass, and the glass program been successful?
Close, but no cigar. This time.
—Elon Musk
The year 2014 ranks as Earth’s warmest since 1880, according to two separate analyses by NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists.
During the show, we used loose language to describe ‘modern record’ implying that it was the warmest year on record since humans walked around upright. Correction: As it says in the quote from the article we drew from, 2014 was the warmest year since recording keeping began in 1880, not since the history of modern humans.
Along with Monument Valley’s numbers Marco Arment released his numbers for Overcast. Seeing some sales numbers on iOS is enlightening.
DNS in OS X might be currently kinda broken…
Resolving DNS names, resolving Bonjour machine names, resolving Bonjour service advertisement and discovery, and opening ports in NAT gateways to allow incoming network connections are all jobs that have been performed by the mDNSResponder daemon. This was introduced with Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar back in 2002. mDNSResponder is written in C and has been released as open source by Apple, and it has found its way to all kinds of non-Apple operating systems and hardware.
But it might be best to wait for apple to fix this problem weather then doing the suggestions in this comprehensive article.
Is it possible that using secure email services can be construed as an indicator of being a terrorist? Although it’s a ridiculous notion that using secure email implies criminal activities, a judge cited that reason to partially justify arrests in Spain.
Over the course of two days, President Obama proposed a cybersecurity bill that looks awfully similar to the now infamous CISPA (with respect to information sharing), a computer crime bill that is the opposite of our own proposed computer crime reform, and a data breach law weaker than the current status quo.
Musk said he will build a five-mile test track for the still-theoretical system for students and companies to use. A possible location would be Texas, he added, where presumably there is plenty of flat land to go around.
