Apple's Early Days: Massive Oral History Shares Stories About Young Wozniak and Jobs Apple's 50th anniversary is this week — and Fast Company's Harry McCracken just published an 11,000-word oral history with some fun stories from Apple's earliest days and the long and winding road to its very first home computers: Steve Wozniak, cofounder, Apple: I told my dad when I was in high school, "I'm going to own a computer someday." My dad said, "It costs as much as a house." And I sat there at the table — I remember right where we were sitting — and I said, "I'll live in an apartment.… Apple's Early Days: Massive Oral History Shares Stories About Young Wozniak and Jobs Apple's 50th anniversary is this week — and Fast Company's Harry McCracken just published an 11,000-word oral history with some fun stories from Apple's earliest days and the long and winding road to its very first home computers: Steve Wozniak, cofounder, Apple: I told my dad when I was in high school, "I'm going to own a computer someday." My dad said, "It costs as much as a house." And I sat there at the table — I remember right where we were sitting — and I said, "I'll live in an apartment.… Introducing Apple Business — a new all-in-one platform for businesses of all sizes Apple today announced Apple Business, a new all-in-one platform that allows companies to manage devices and reach more customers. This Forgotten Plymouth Muscle Car Was The Smallest Powerhouse Of The '70s Plymouth is best known for muscle cars like the Barracuda, but the American automaker also offered a tiny bruiser during the first half of the 1970s. Network and storage patterns for AI workloads: The overlooked bottleneck I used to think AI performance was mostly a GPU problem. Then I watched a “healthy” GPU fleet crawl. Not because we ran out of compute, but because we ran out of movement. Tokens waiting on data. GPUs waiting on batches. Services waiting on east-to-west traffic. Storage queues quietly turning into tail latency. Today, I do not even call this a storage problem. It is an information supply chain pr… Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones No more YouTube or video games on school laptops. Textbooks and pencils are back. Some seventh graders say they prefer learning offline. Upgrade your PC with MS Office 2021 for just $33 TL;DR: Get the full Microsoft Office Pro 2021 suite for Windows with a one-time payment of $32.97. Microsoft Office remains the standard for document creation, data analysis, and presentations in both professional and everyday use. With this Microsoft Office Professional 2021 lifetime license for Windows, you get permanent access to the core apps without ongoing subscription costs. The suite incl… L.A. social media addiction verdict set to unleash more lawsuits — and force changes Civil juries in Los Angeles County and Santa Fe, N.M., recently found that social media companies were responsible for harms their products caused to children. The bellwether cases could now open the floodgates for a deluge of similar lawsuits. |
How to build an enterprise-grade MCP registry Just as integration catalogs were must-haves at the peak of SaaS, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers are now becoming all the rage for connecting AI agents and enterprise systems. In this paradigm, developers aren’t hand-coding API calls to external systems, nor are users clicking “click to integrate” and entering credentials into GUIs. Instead, agentic systems are looking up available MCP serv… Two in five Australian GPs use AI scribes to record patient notes – but do they trade care for convenience? Some doctors argue it allows them to better connect with patients, but advocates warn the AI technology risks the opposite Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast When a patient walks into a GP’s office in Australia today, the doctor may begin with a question: “Do you give consent to use an AI scribe to record our conversation?” That’s what is supposed to happen, at least. Co… Why OpenAI really shut down Sora OpenAI's decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces — so was this some kind of elaborate data grab? The IRS Wants Smarter Audits. Palantir Could Help Decide Who Gets Flagged Documents show the tax agency is testing a Palantir tool to surface “highest-value” audit and investigation targets from a maze of legacy systems. EU targets Snapchat over child safety and accuses porn sites of failing to block minors EU regulators are investigating Snapchat over fears it's not doing enough to protect children from online harm Meta faces backlash for response to social media trial verdict Mark Lanier, lead attorney for plaintiff KGM, responds to Meta's Chief Legal Officer C.J. Mahoney's plan to appeal the landmark verdict that found Meta and YouTube liable in a social media addiction case. A practical guide to controlling AI agent costs before they spiral How to control AI agent costs across tokens, infrastructure and ops before unpredictable workflows push spending past the value they deliver. The Site-Search Paradox: Why The Big Box Always Wins Success in modern UX isn’t about having the most content. It’s about having the most findable content. Yet even with more data and better tools than ever, internal search often fails, leaving users to rely on global search engines to find a single page on a local site. Why does the “Big Box” still win, and how can we bring users back? Samsung reportedly shifts Xi'an plant to 236-layer NAND Samsung Electronics has reportedly begun mass production of 236-layer NAND flash at its Xi'an plant in China, marking a key step in its transition to higher-layer memory as demand from artificial intelligence applications accelerates. All the latest in AI 'music' AI has touched every part of the music industry, from sample sourcing and demo recording, to serving up digital liner notes and building playlists. There are technical and legal challenges, fierce ethical debates, and fears that the slop will simply crush working musicians through sheer volume. Is it art or just an output? What exactly […] |
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