On Episode 18 of the Edge of Innovation, we discuss recent news in technology and what it means for the future. We’re also talking about Ads!
Tag: Apple
My Kingdom for a Font!
Today on the Edge of Innovation, we look at the history of typography and the effect of changing technology on graphic design.
Show Notes
A One-Man Font Shop
The Coolest Font of the Year?
The Feds are Killing Off Clearview
A Font Made Exclusively for Coding
Transcript
Sections
The Subtleties of Metrics and Spacing
Automatic Correction
Comic Sans, Roman, Tekton, Caslon
Powerful Programs for Typography
The Helvetica Documentary
Fonts Send a Message
The Importance of Typography
Tim Cook Ripped Apart Google’s Business Model In Two Paragraphs
Justin Sullivan, Getty ImagesApple CEO Tim Cook. Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote an open letter to customers Wednesday detailing the company’s privacy policy. One portion of the letter sticks out in particular, and it’s a clear jab at the way Google does business. Cook writes that many internet services are free but use your personal data to market products to you. “You are the product,” Cook writes. That’s how Google operates. Its algorithms scan your email, web searches, etc. to show you relevant ads. Facebook has a similar model. Here’s the key part of the letter: A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you’re not the customer. You’re the product. But at Apple…
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Tim Cook Ripped Apart Google’s Business Model In Two Paragraphs
Guide Install Xcode 6 on Windows 7 or Windows 8, 8.1, For Testing Purpose
With the release of Xcode 6 by Apple, I’m sure most of us would be loving to install and test it on testing environment. How about installing Xcode 6 on Windows PC? There is no way available to install it on Windows directly since it doesn’t support Windows OS platform. This guide shows you how to install Xcode 6 on Windows 7 or Windows 8,8.1 with virtual machine using VMware workstation. So, you must have a working Mac OS X virtual machine already on your Windows computer to use this method. Xcode 6 introduces new way of designing and building Mac OS and iOS applications with innovative programming language Swift. As of now, only registered Apple App developers can download the latest release. Xcode 6 can coexist with earlier Xcode 5 version, so…
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Guide Install Xcode 6 on Windows 7 or Windows 8, 8.1, For Testing Purpose
The Most Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project In The World Has Been Operating In Near-Secrecy For 30 Years
Doug Lenat “We’ve been keeping a very low profile, mostly intentionally,” said Doug Lenat, President and CEO of Cycorp. “No outside investments, no debts. We don’t write very many articles or go to conferences, but for the first time, we’re close to having this be applicable enough that we want to talk to you.” IBM’s Watson and Apple’s Siri stirred up a hunger and awareness throughout the United States for something like a Star Trek computer that really worked – an artificially intelligent system that could receive instructions in plain, spoken language, make the appropriate inferences, and carry out its instructions without needing to have millions and millions of subroutines hard-coded into it. As we’ve established, that stuff is very hard. But Cycorp’s goal…
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