An “Apple Engineer” Explains The 2015 MacBook
The new MacBook has been lets say, divisive. Even within TechCrunch, weve got one side suggesting its a betrayal while the other d…
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Apple’s Latest Betrayal
Seriously, fuck them, wrote one tweeter called M.J.The person was speaking about Apple and the new MacBook the company recently an…
Apple Just Canceled The Right Click
Years ago, when Steve Jobs decided that mice needed only one button, Apple had a problem. While Mac users were busy clicking on th…
This Guy Turned A Quadcopter Into A Star Wars Speeder Bike And It’s Amazing
Weve seen the Millenium Falcon quadcopter. Weve seen a TIE Interceptor quadcopter. But a Speeder Bike? WITH a Scout trooper on top…
Share The Journey
The firstbreast cancer ResearchKit app, called Share The Journey, is focused on studying post-treatment women to identify follow o…
ResearchKit An “Enormous Opportunity” For Science, Says Breast Cancer Charity
This week Apple bundleda big announcement inside its long awaited Apple Watch Spring Forward event. Namely the launch ofResearchKi…
The Third Place
Even with all the freedom and monetization options it offers, Place faces a bitter turf war. There are countless communication too…
Ning 2.0, But It Makes You Money
Plenty of DIY social platforms and micro-sharing tools have petered out, but that was a different time. Place is most obviously co…
Pivoting Into Places
With the burn rate cut in half and leadership squared away, it was time for Backplane to fulfill its destiny. In June 2014 the sta…
Narrowly Averting Disaster
With smoke filling the cockpit, by early 2014, Backplane and it CEO Michelsen knew the company had to change course.He opened a $1…
