Apple, Microsoft and battery-related scandals
People on the internet (or at least the ones that only read headlines) were outraged these last few days to find out that recent iPhones have a feature…
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These mails from Twitter sound kind of desperate
The bad (or good) thing about these kind of notifications is that it reminds me of a book on how social media (and other) apps/platforms use the science…
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Reminder, you're always giving information to Facebook
In case you were wondering how much information you're providing to Facebook's advertisers, there is a page for that. To access the page, you need to bump into…
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YouTube adds Contacts and Private Chat features
Every app/platform in today's world should have every feature possible so since you already have contacts/friends/connections in Facebook/Twitter/Google+/etc, you might as well have them in YouTube as well.…
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Abundance is our future, some optimism required
If you're looking for some optimism for the future, look no further than Peter Diamandis. He runs the X Prize Foundation, which offers large cash incentive prizes to…
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Jukedeck: Royalty free music for your videos
Web app of the day: Jukedeck uses algorithms to create tunes (or even full songs if you allow a bit more flexibility on the definition of the word)…
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Journalists are slamming into scientific studies, exposing a key flaw in media
I was writing a few days ago about science reporting in media. Well here's a bit more on this. Just as Robert Scoble was writing yesterday about the…
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Flybys: Strava replays an entire race
Available for some time in test mode, Flybys is a (now more prominently displayed) feature from Strava that allows you to replay multiple runs of users of the…
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All the specifications of the Apple Watch in one spreadsheet
If you're looking for exact specifications in Apple's site for the Apple Watch, you're in bad luck if you also want to compare the actual numbers of the…
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Report from the reality distortion field
Steve Cook, presenting the Apple Watch (As Apple announced it's record quarterly net profit of $18 billion this week, I'm re-posting/translating an article I wrote for the leading…
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