This weekend’s New York Times op-ed about the ageism people over 50 face in the workplace includes a charming anecdote via JK Scheinberg, the esteemed Apple engineer who got Mac OS running on Intel processors. Read more…
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Legendary Apple Engineer Gets Rejected For Genius Bar Job
There are more BitTorrent clients than we could possibly compare, but some of the most popular—and best—have been under the spotlight lately for sleazy ads and bad behavior. It’s time to check in on a few of our favorites to see how they fare, which deserves your downloads, and which you can trust. Read more…
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Torrenting Showdown: Transmission vs qBitorrent vs µTorrent
New Horizons is currently making its way to the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt en route to a distant destination beyond Pluto. Along the way, the intrepid spacecraft has captured unprecedented images of a distant object called Quaoar—a dwarf planet about half the size of Pluto. Read more…
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NASA Spacecraft Catches a Rare Glimpse Dwarf Planet Quaoar
For the past year YouTubers have been trying to navigate a deluge of false copyright claims and a changing algorithm that rewards needlessly-long videos. Now, allegedly, the platform is starting to withhold paychecks. Read more…
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YouTube Stars Are Blowing Up Over Not Getting Paid (Update)
At IFA in Berlin Lenovo announced a nice array of refreshed laptops and tablets, updating great devices like the Lenovo Yoga 900 series (now the Lenovo 910) with 7th generation Intel processors, but one device stood out among the rest. It’s the tiniest laptop Lenovo has on display, so tiny the company is classifying it as a tablet. The Lenovo Book is just 0.38-inches thick, which makes it the thinnest laptop currently available, and makes ultra slims like the half-inch thick Samsung Notebook 9 and Apple Macbook look positively chunky. Read more…
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The Thinnest Laptop in the World Needs a Touchscreen Keyboard
Your standard inkjet printer can mostly handle paper, occasionally transparencies, and maybe even blank DVDs while they were still a thing. But Xerox just revealed a towering machine it calls the Direct to Object Inkjet Printer because that’s exactly what it does—it prints on almost any 3D object. Read more…
For the second time in five months, the Transmission BitTorrent client for Mac has been infected with malware. Read more…
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Mac BitTorrent Client Transmission Gets Infected With Malware Again
If you grew up in the 90s, you probably saw one of the legendary ITT Technical Institute commercials in the wee hours of the morning. Now, you’ll probably never see one again. Read more…
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Rest In Peace ITT Tech, You Bastards
Kaby Lake, Intel’s latest processor family, wasn’t supposed to exist . Earlier this year Intel announced the end of its well-known tick-tock release schedule, whereby it trots out a new processor every September. The tick is the shrinking and improvements of the current microarchitecture, while the tock is a whole new architecture. Instead last year’s “tock, ” Skylake , was going to hang around a while, with no new “tick” in sight. Read more…
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Intel’s New Kaby Lake Processors: What You Need to Know
Apple just sent out press invites for its next major event. As expected, the event will take place on September 7. Like last year, the iPhone event will be at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Read more…
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Apple’s Big iPhone Event Is September 7