How Steve Jobs Calls the Tunes
Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
Steve Jobs’ new partnership with EMI to sell music without copy protection is a lesson in how to wield power in the digital age.
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Archive for December, 1969
Wrightspeed’s X1 Electric Supercar Sparks Hybrid Dreams
Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
A year after introducing the X1 pure-electric race car prototype that blows away Ferraris in drag races, the startup company Wrightspeed is seeking investment for plans to morph its demonstration car into a super-fast production hybrid.
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Video Games Offer Fun New Violence
Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
Violence and video games go together like peas and carrots. It’s no surprise that the first video game involved two spaceships trying to blow each other up. By Chris Kohler and Lore Sjöberg.
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Mine Eyes Have Seen the Gory Realities of Nearsightedness
Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
Eyeball technology advances, but I’m as blind as a bat. Commentary by Lore Sjöberg.
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April 4, 1581: Francis Drake Knighted by His Grateful Queen
Wednesday, December 31st, 1969Muni Wi-Fi Powers Hope at San Francisco Housing Project
Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
SAN FRANCISCO — The Westside Courts is a bleak concrete housing project in the city’s Western Addition where violence is closer than a high-speed net connection, and one resident’s first steps online include plans to create a memorial for the people who’ve died here.
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Dr. Sha, a Healer With a Modern Spin: He Downloads New Organs
Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
It’s a typical Monday afternoon here in the city, but something very unusual is happening in Stacey’s Bookstore on Market Street. Zhi Gang Sha, a licensed medical doctor and acupuncturist from China, is downloading a new lung into a Sacramento lawyer’s body.
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Security Matters: Vigilantism Is a Poor Response to Cyber Attack
Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
Last month Marine General James Cartwright told the House Armed Services Committee that the best cyber defense is a good offense.
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MySpace Makes Nice With Music Widget-Makers
Wednesday, December 31st, 1969
It looks like the Fox-owned social networking giant will allow third-party music widgets after all. The catch? Developers will need to have their music catalog fingerprinted beforehand.
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