April 10, 2013
Why Did Apple Ban a Comic From the App Store for Depicting Gay Sex? Since it debuted in March 2012, the popular comic book Saga has illustrated the following: robot sex, a giant with five-story-tall sagging testicles, a child prostitution ring on a brothel planet called Sextillion, blow jobs, fisting, interspecies erotica, and enough bloody viscera to make a butcher squirm. But none of these are why Apple banned the most recent issue of the comic book from its App Store this week. No, Saga #12 won’t be available for purchase because of “two postage stamp-sized images of gay sex,” according to writer Brian K. Vaughn. Read more. [Image: Image Comics] Update: Comixology CEO David Steinberger put out a statement this afternoon, claiming that the issue will be made available for purchase through the App Store soon. He also denied that Apple banned the issue, writing, “As a partner of Apple, we have an obligation to respect its policies for apps and the books offered in apps. Based on our understanding of those policies, we believed that Saga #12 could not be made available in our app, and so we did not release it today. […] Given this, it should be clear that Apple did not reject Saga #12.”

Why Did Apple Ban a Comic From the App Store for Depicting Gay Sex?

Since it debuted in March 2012, the popular comic book Saga has illustrated the following: robot sex, a giant with five-story-tall sagging testicles, a child prostitution ring on a brothel planet called Sextillion, blow jobs, fisting, interspecies erotica, and enough bloody viscera to make a butcher squirm.

But none of these are why Apple banned the most recent issue of the comic book from its App Store this week. No, Saga #12 won’t be available for purchase because of “two postage stamp-sized images of gay sex,” according to writer Brian K. Vaughn.

Read more. [Image: Image Comics]

Update: Comixology CEO David Steinberger put out a statement this afternoon, claiming that the issue will be made available for purchase through the App Store soon. He also denied that Apple banned the issue, writing, “As a partner of Apple, we have an obligation to respect its policies for apps and the books offered in apps. Based on our understanding of those policies, we believed that Saga #12 could not be made available in our app, and so we did not release it today. […] Given this, it should be clear that Apple did not reject Saga #12.”

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Filed under: Comics Comic books Saga Brian K. Vaughn Apple Tech App Store News 
December 28, 2012

The Lost Apple ‘MacPhone’

This thing is basically the centaur of gadgets.

Read more. [Images: Helmut Esslinger via Design Boom]


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Filed under: Apple Phone Technology Computer 
November 29, 2012
Mr. China Comes to America For decades, every trend in manufacturing favored the developing world and worked against the United States. But new tools that greatly speed up development from idea to finished product encourage start-up companies to locate here, not in Asia. Could global trade winds finally be blowing toward America again? Read more. [Image: David Hogsholt]

Mr. China Comes to America

For decades, every trend in manufacturing favored the developing world and worked against the United States. But new tools that greatly speed up development from idea to finished product encourage start-up companies to locate here, not in Asia. Could global trade winds finally be blowing toward America again?

Read more. [Image: David Hogsholt]

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Filed under: China Manufacturing Foxconn Apple U.S. Economy Trade 
October 9, 2012

Here Are Some Very Convincing Photos of the iPad Mini

[Images: Sonny Dickson]

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Filed under: Tech Technology News Apple iPad iPad mini 
October 5, 2012
Steve Jobs Memorials, One Year Later It has been one year since the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs, and once again the Internet has taken time to remember its favorite tech icon. Though this year the remembrances don’t match the outpouring of emotion from fans, luminaries, and pundits following Jobs’ death, that doesn’t mean they have forgotten either. Read more. [Image: Apple]

Steve Jobs Memorials, One Year Later

It has been one year since the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs, and once again the Internet has taken time to remember its favorite tech icon. Though this year the remembrances don’t match the outpouring of emotion from fans, luminaries, and pundits following Jobs’ death, that doesn’t mean they have forgotten either.

Read more. [Image: Apple]

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Filed under: Technology Steve Jobs Apple 
September 20, 2012

America the Grotesque: An iOS 6 Tour of National Landmarks

While there is a lot to complain about vis-a-vis Apple Maps, we, as Americans, should really be upset with the new iOS 6 app for what it has done to many of our nation’s most notable landmarks. When Apple showed off its new 3D functionality coming to its iPhones in June, people oohed and ahhed at being able to virtually fly through city scapes. But now that people are downloading the company’s replacement for Google Maps, which people are not happy about at all, the reality is not living up to the hype. To see what this new technology is like like, we went on a roadtrip to some of America’s most famous landmarks in iOS 6. The results are not pretty.

Read more. [Images: iPhone]

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Filed under: Apple iOS 6 Apple Maps Maps WTF iPhone Tech 
August 10, 2012
thedailyfeed:  Who will rule your mobile phone? The world’s top tech juggernauts — Apple and Google — are in an intense arms race to decide.  A major offensive to get the edge takes place today: An auction of 1,100 patents owned by photography giant Eastman Kodak Co. Whichever company gets the goods will keep the other from integrating cameras into smartphones and tablets — a big deal since Google’s Android operating system accounts for half of the smartphone market and Apple’s iPhone makes up a third.

thedailyfeed:

 Who will rule your mobile phone? The world’s top tech juggernauts — Apple and Google — are in an intense arms race to decide. 

A major offensive to get the edge takes place today: An auction of 1,100 patents owned by photography giant Eastman Kodak Co. Whichever company gets the goods will keep the other from integrating cameras into smartphones and tablets — a big deal since Google’s Android operating system accounts for half of the smartphone market and Apple’s iPhone makes up a third.

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Filed under: Technology News Google Apple 
July 30, 2012

Steve Jobs Would Be Appalled by Apple’s Terrible New Ads

If you’ve been watching the Olympics, chances are that by now, you’ve caught at least one of Apple’s new TV ads for its Macbook laptops. If not, consider yourself spared. 

The spots themselves aren’t exactly nauseating, just strangely disappointing when compared to Apple’s classic back catalog of commercials — the marketing equivalent of Michael Phelps’ fourth-place finish in the 400 IM.

Read more.

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Filed under: Apple Ads Advertising Steve Jobs 
July 18, 2012

The Earliest Known iPad Prototype Was Thick, White, and Perched on Paper Cups

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Filed under: Tech Apple iPad 
June 20, 2012
LeVar Burton on Bringing Reading Rainbow to the Tech of Today What was it like moving from public television straight into app development, a medium with an entirely different set of technical and design constraints? BURTON: It’s very liberating, and incredibly frightening [chuckles]. Because we had to raise the money ourselves — and, obviously, working for myself is a real joy, having spent 30 years working for other people. Every ounce of what we have all put into this is going to benefit on some level us and our families. I really look at this project as what I’m gonna leave behind, and — and it’s good. It’s really, really good. Read more. [Image: Benjamin Jackson] Awesome: Reading Rainbow now has an iPad app.

LeVar Burton on Bringing Reading Rainbow to the Tech of Today

What was it like moving from public television straight into app development, a medium with an entirely different set of technical and design constraints?

BURTON: It’s very liberating, and incredibly frightening [chuckles]. Because we had to raise the money ourselves — and, obviously, working for myself is a real joy, having spent 30 years working for other people. Every ounce of what we have all put into this is going to benefit on some level us and our families. I really look at this project as what I’m gonna leave behind, and — and it’s good. It’s really, really good.

Read more. [Image: Benjamin Jackson]

Awesome: Reading Rainbow now has an iPad app.

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Filed under: Lit Books Levar Burton Reading Rainbow Reading Tech iPad Apple 
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