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Video publishing at The Times is growing For the past 10 years, the video publishing lifecycle at The New York Times has relied on vendors and in-house hardware solutions. With our growing investment in video journalism over the past couple of years, we’ve found ourselves producing more video content every month, along with supporting new…
It’s looking increasingly likely that there will never be another Mac Pro. Here’s why that would be a shame. Pro buyers depend on Apple to make the hardware that satisfies our needs. And we’re flexible. We’ve adapted over the years to new CPU architectures, port changes, capability changes, price increases, and a slower update pace….
A while back, hackers linked to the Russian government stole a cache of emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta and furnished them to WikiLeaks. One of those emails has generated a lot of interest in conservative circles because — conservatives say — it shows that polls are being systematically biased in Clinton’s favor….
Ad blockers, which Apple first allowed on the iPhone in September, promise to conserve data and make websites load faster. But how much of your mobile data comes from advertising? We measured the mix of advertising and editorial on the mobile home pages of the top 50 news websites – including ours – and found…
With only a few days before what’s perhaps the most acrimonious election in modern American history, an FBI Twitter account started posting a series of links to documents from its archives. Among them, there were documents on Donald Trump’s father Fred, and files about the Clinton Foundation that had come from an FBI investigation…
Video has taken over social media, and now it’s coming for your lock screen. Today Mic is launching a revamped version of its MicCheck iPhone app (now called simply Mic) that primarily focuses on push alerts, taking advantage of the rich notification capabilities in iOS 10 to offer video, photos, and text alerts accessible on…
Vine Dries Up. Black Humor Loses a Home – NYTimes.com. Source: Vine Dries Up. Black Humor Loses a Home – NYTimes.com
King Bach, Amanda Cerny, Marcus Johns and more walked away when Vine refused to fix its bugs and compensate them for their work. Most of us learned just last week that Vine’s mobile app will be shutting down. But some of the platform’s biggest stars have suspected for months that the end was near — because they…
Donald Trump gives a fist-pump to the ground crew as he arrives on his plane in St. Augustine, Florida, on Oct. 24.Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The greatest miracle of the internet is that it exists—the second greatest is that it persists. Every so often we’re reminded that bad actors wield great skill and have little conscience…
“We are the company that stands for the builders, the makers, the creators.” Sounds like a thing Apple might say, no? But those are the words of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella — the guy who just ate Apple’s lunch. I’m not saying the new Microsoft Surface Studio and Surface Book will be incredibly popular computers….