av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 9, 2018 | Lästips

The dead books are on the top floor of Southern Methodist University’s law library.
“Antitrust Dilemma.” “The Antitrust Impulse.” “Antitrust in an Expanding Economy.” Shelf after shelf of volumes ignored for decades. There are a dozen fat tomes with transcripts of the congressional hearings on monopoly power in 1949, when the world was in ruins and the Soviets on the march. Lawmakers believed economic concentration would make America more vulnerable.
Källa: Amazon’s Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 7, 2018 | Lästips

I HAVE A confection to make. Ugh! No, I don’t want to bake a cake. Let me type that again. I have a confession to make. I worked for many years as a software developer at Apple and I invented touchscreen keyboard autocorrection for the original iPhone.
I’m proif if rhe wirl… ahem… I’m proud of the work I did to bring software-assisted typing to a smartphone near you. After all, if the iPhone keyboard wasn’t based in software, Apple couldn’t have delivered on Steve Jobs’ vision for a breakthrough touchscreen computer with as few fixed buttons as possible. The keyboard needed to get out of the way when it wasn’t needed so the rest of the apps on the phone could shine.
Källa: The iPhone’s autocorrect is a blessing and a curse. A longtime Apple designer explains why it’s so hard to teach software to read your mind.
av Mikael Winterkvist | sep 5, 2018 | Lästips

A year after the attack on Las Ramblas, the unfolding story of Abdelbaki Es Satty points more to a failure of the police than of the community he hid among.
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, who will testify alongside Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey, will acknowledge to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the company was too slow to respond to Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election and American society, but insist it is doing better.
“We’ve removed hundreds of pages and accounts involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior – meaning they misled others about who they were and what they were doing,” Sandberg said in written testimony released on Tuesday.
Källa: The Man Behind the Barcelona Attacks Was on Police Radar for Years. How Did They Let It Happen?
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 29, 2018 | Lästips

It’s been a decade since the British designer Imran Chaudhri first imagined a user interface that would introduce millions of people to the smartphone. Chaudhri joined Apple in 1995, soon rising to become the design director of the company’s human interfaces group–where he was one member of the six-person team that designed the iPhone.
Källa: The iPhone’s original UI designer on Apple’s greatest flaws
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 29, 2018 | Lästips
When it comes to pop culture, something that can define you, for better or worse, is your relationship to Star Wars. There are fans who love it, people who hate it and some who have never seen it. CNET’s former editorial intern Perla Shaheen falls into the last category.
Källa: Star Wars, explained by someone who’s (gasp) never seen it
av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 26, 2018 | Lästips
But today we’re three years into the era when the just-plain MacBook is the radically thin and light model, and the Air is the best-selling baseline model that isn’t really any thinner or lighter than the Pro models. Well, so what? We drive on parkways and park on driveways and no one is confused.
Källa: Let’s Really Think About This ‘New Low-Cost Laptop to Succeed MacBook Air’ Thing