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September 11, 2015
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September 10, 2015
Today in Tabs: The Left Tab of Darkness
Choire interviewing Ursula K. LeGuin on Lia's guest-tabbing day is the most Tabs thing that has ever happened.
Shifgrethor demands it.Good afternoon! Rusty is on his way to Other Portland to put a bird on it. Instead, here's your Guest Tabber Lia Bulaong:
Your Car May Soon Be Able To Alert You To Weather Conditions
If your car has 4G or a data connection, you could be one step closer to having a self-driving car.
Slowly but surely, we're inching closer to our visions of a Jetsonian future: An automotive giant is now using connected cars to crowdsource information on dangerous road conditions. Inrix, one of the world's leading providers of traffic data, has created a product called Road Weather, which aggregates data from a car's GPS location, brake sensors, fog lights, and thermometers inside Internet-connected cars, and combines them with publicly available weather and climate information.
Twitter Is Now Surfacing Analytics In The Notifications Tab
Cracked a joke you're particularly proud of? Twitter may flag you if your tweet starts taking off—provided you're a verified user.
If you rank among the Twitter elite—that is, your profile is branded with a blue checkmark—you may notice some changes to your notifications tab. The social networking platform is toying with flagging analytics details in the notifications tab for verified users.
AT&T's Quiet Connected-Car Revolution
Sure, it's building LTE into vehicles. But it's also providing car companies with software, services, and new ideas.
At the end of July, when AT&T announced its financial results, it reported that it had added 2.1 million new wireless lines to its total subscriber base in the previous quarter. The most intriguing thing about that figure is that it didn't represent 2.1 million more folks signing up for AT&T phone service. Instead, one million of those new lines—almost half—were automobiles using built-in cellular technology to connect to the network.
How Apps Are Still Serving The Refugees of the "Twitter Revolution"
Social media has raised awareness and organized support, but more practical efforts to help refugees have had an impact as well.
Pundits once called the Arab Spring the "Twitter Revolution." But now that tens of millions have been driven from their homes in the resulting turmoil, social media have taken on a grimmer though no less important role: helping those on the run alleviate the grueling hardships of life in exile.
Apple Is A Great Copycat: Did They Improve Anything?
Apple events are known as much for innovation as they are for copycatting. At yesterday's event, things looked awfully familiar.
It used to be that Apple was, without a doubt, considered the king of innovation. Steve Jobs delivered products that changed our lives. Think: iMac. Think: iPhone. Think Different–-you get the gist.
Here's How You Can Help The Refugees Flooding Into Europe
Donate, protest—or take a refugee into your home
The story of the world's refugee crisis is told in huge numbers and in single stories.
Can An Adaptive UI Improve Twitter's iOS Design Problems?
Ahead of today's iPad Pro announcement, the micro-blogging network unveils a new responsive design for its iPhone and iPad apps.
After years of having two very different apps for iPhone and iPad, Twitter consolidated the two into a single adaptive interface that can automatically adjust itself for different resolutions and aspect ratios.
Paper For iPhone Allows You To Text Digital Sticky Notes
The lauded sketching app has evolved to become an easy way to share doodles and digital lists on the go.
Paper, everyone's favorite iPad sketching app, is now available for the iPhone. The immediate response this bit of news is going elicit from people is: "Isn't it just Paper on a smaller screen?"
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