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Totally off topic, but wasn't that shot in Pittsburgh?

That shot is misleading because the air slopes down so much. the max thickness of each device is likely pretty similar, but the Air has a much slimmer average thickness.

Are they really profiting at this point? I haven't seen any ads on the sites, and funding shouldn't be considered profit.

Is there an actual list of only 30 names? Trying to read through this, I see 30 in each category. I guess "450 under 30" doesn't have the same ring.

Why would Apple Maps have anything to do with a review of new hardware? Just over a week later, though, he did write at length about the maps situation [1]. How does this show a lack of integrity?

[1] http://daringfireball.net/2012/09/timing_of_apples_map_switc...

Some require cookies to be enabled (Facebook I know does), so they networks won't let you log in in a private mode.

Microsoft could take the lead and put kinect in their phones, and use their photosynth tech to automatically build 3d immersive photos. Would certainly one-up panoramas in iOS and whatever the Android clone of that is called.

Project Glass is definitely interesting, as another commenter mentioned.

That's usually how Square handles retail of the reader, and it includes a $10 credit on your account.

Apple, for example:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/H8332LL/A/square-credit-ca...

Link to actual project on indiegogo:

http://www.indiegogo.com/popslate

With a city of 80,000 people on Mars, you can sure bet someone would start building/selling rovers for people to cruise around in. And there will definitely be contractors willing to build up your bubble-house to mansion standards.

Not so well on iOS

With all the talk of engineered intelligence and huge biotech advancements, I think there will be a massive space expansion, and I'm surprised to see it doubted.

First off, a human settlement on Mars, while technologically challenging, would need a relatively small initial population to get started sustainably (say, 2000 people). All of the advancements in food and energy production mentioned in the article could be used to provide for a colony there.

The OP talks about genetically engineered animals for food production, but they could also be engineered to better work and thrive in space-based industries; collecting raw materials, zero-gravity manufacturing, energy collecting, etc. Sophisticated, autonomous machines could do all that as well, so that actual humans have very little need to spend much time out in space, other than traveling between planets and settlements. Or perhaps all travel is virtual, using telepresence to see the solar system.

Machines built in space don't have the costs to get up there in the first place, other than the initial factories and material harvesting equipment.

Great thought-exercise, though. I love thinking about this stuff, and I think our generation has to start anticipating these changes. Some other commenters pointed out this all may happen far sooner than 500 years, so we just might need to be ready.

Siri already talks to Open Table, and fandango can't be far behind with all the movie stuff you can do with Siri already.

Very interesting look at Siri's potential (via everyone's favorite Gruber): http://counternotions.com/2012/11/12/siri-future/

NBC News confirming they've removed this particular machine because of this:

http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/11/06/machine-turns-vote-for-obama-...

Further confirmation that search is completely broken in the App Store. Read about this app on my work computer, fire up the App Store on my phone, search 'Letterpress', Apple's Cards app, and a Letterpress Handbook about actual letterpresses.

I'd rather see these panels in the Oculus Rift than a 'Phablet'. As mentioned in the article, these screens can be held much closer to the eye, so why not put them as close as possible?

It's not necessarily $1 million each, but total for however many they find. If it's coming out of a $4 million investment, they can't recruit that many teams.

Bombed. Cached anywhere?

Since all the YC partners are using boosted boards to longboard to the office, I bet this comes in handy. I know I wouldn't want a giant key chain in my pocket while riding.

Unikey[1] on Shark Tank last season blew me away, I couldn't wait to see it in action, and be available. This looks like an easier installation process than that, but Unikey has some big names attached to it (Black & Decker). Can't wait to see this tech take off, good luck guys!

[1] http://www.unikeytech.com/

I primarily use Tweetbot and Flipboard, both of which give you articles in a browser window. People are so acclimated to the way the web (currently) works, I think they prefer this dynamic. Reading an online article is more ingrained in us than arbitrary apps that come up with fancy interfaces for the content, when all we want is the content in a standard wrapper. Apps are still young, maybe some patterns will start to emerge in the interfaces that will change the OP numbers, but I have a feeling the pattern will be apps that point to browsers.

Ironic that as I tested out that address example, I noticed an Apple story across the street from the actual address.

Seattle! Metro, Light Rail, and SLUT lines would be amazing!

My AT&T rep was very considerate of my strong desire to get my hands on my new device. He also mentioned a survey to review his performance, and how likely I would recommend AT&T strictly on how he handled me. OP should use that survey. My guy was delightful.

While that's probably the only way to get an NFC launch really going, there is no way Apple will announce a hardware update like that three months before the rest of the hardware is announced. And there's no way they will announce hardware several months ahead of a launch (anymore), and it seems unlikely they switch back to July hardware launches. So there doesn't seem to be a good way for them to announce NFC months ahead. They might spill it to key partners like Visa et al, but not the developer peons.

With the rumored iPad Mini, they just might continue making the 3GS instead of the 4. A non-retina cheapo iPhone option makes sense for prepaid and free phones, and it's supposedly the same display PPI as the iPad Mini, so it could share a lot of components.

I was thinking it could (also) be an allusion to 5 complete years of the iPhone.

Thanks for sharing this, and thanks to the OP for these great resources. After taking a few Udacity courses, this will help me retain/expand on my Python skills!

Can anyone actually get into this? It keeps dying when I try to 'get started'

40 extra minutes in a martian day definitely make things interesting. Going further, how will time work when we're stationed around Saturn's moons? We will probably need some universal units of time that work regardless of how long it takes you to rotate around the sun. (Stardates?)