Covered this week; Dolores O’Riordan dead at 46… Apple Campus 2 flyover for January 2018… Inside one of America’s last pencil factories… Photo format from Google and Mozilla could leave JPEG in the dust… A topography of Apple’s mountain of cash… Macworld reviews the new iMac Pro… Government shut down 2018… Netflix now has 118 million global streaming subscribers…
January 15, 2018
Dolores O’Riordan, lead singer of the Irish alternative band the Cranberries, died Monday in London. She was 46.
Most of the construction equipment now gone, the worlds largest office building in the form of Apple Campus 2 is an extraordinary feat of engineering and construction… the latest flyover footage.
January 16, 2018
‘Since 1889, the General Pencil Company has been converting huge quantities of raw materials (wax, paint, cedar planks, graphite) into products you can find, neatly boxed and labeled, in art and office-supply stores across the nation: watercolor pencils, editing pencils, sticks of charcoal, pastel chalks. Even as other factories have chased higher profit margins overseas, General Pencil has stayed put, cranking out thousands upon thousands of writing instruments in the middle of Jersey City.’
January 17, 2018
“It seems downright silly that we’re still relying on compression tech from 20 years ago,” said Kelly Thompson, general manager at 500px, a photo sharing and sales site. “The equipment we’re using to capture and display images is now exceeding JPEG’s upper limits.”
January 18, 2018
“As individuals we think that having lots of cash makes us rich. For companies it’s the opposite. Cash is a liability. If you come across a company that is cash rich and has nothing else, its enterprise value will be zero. Companies are valued on their future cash flows, meaning their ability to generate cash, not how much they managed to keep. In other words, cash is a measure of past success and investors are interested only in future value.”
January 19, 2018
“This is not a computer designed for the masses—a new iMac Pro starts at $5,000 and you can pay five figures for a high-end model. If you aren’t sure if you need the power of the iMac Pro, you almost certainly don’t. If, on the other hand, you are hungry for multi-core performance and a powerful GPU that will let you crank through intense tasks—in video editing, software development, photo and audio processing, science, graphics, and similar applications—this is the new Mac Pro you’ve been looking for, albeit in the shape of an iMac.”
January 20, 2018
The federal government partially shut down Saturday after the Senate blocked a short-term spending bill Friday night. Now, Congress is scrambling to come to an agreement while many federal agencies and departments have been forced to close on the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration.
January 21, 2018
“Netflix hit a record 117.6 million subscribers last quarter, thanks to an addition of 1.9 million domestic and 6.4 million international streaming subscribers. About 55 million of those are U.S. subscribers. For comparison, there are about 94 million pay TV subscribers in the U.S.”
