Burberry has announced its arrival on Apple TV and will mark the occasion with the app’s first ever fashion show livestream.
The fashion brand, winner of The Drum’s most creative brand in the New Year’s honours list, will livestream its menswear show at London’s Kensington Gardens on 11 January on Apple TV.
The event will also include a live performance by Mercury Prize winner, Benjamin Clementine as part of Burberry’s Acoustic films- an initiative to support emerging British musicians.
The Burberry app will offer access to a collection of the Burberry Acoustic films, , highlights from the brand’s previous shows and Burberry beauty tutorials by the brands make-up Artistic Consultant, Wendy Rowe. Throughout the year Burberry has promised to update the app with additional live moments and exclusive content.
Apple’s Senior VP of Retail and Online Stores, Angela Ahrendts, is a former CEO of Burberry.
A new commercial for the 2016 Chevy Malibu features a short mention of Apple CarPlay that starts at about 1:01 into the video shown below. This video is a longer version than the one that aired this weekend, but the Apple CarPlay mention here is exactly the same as the one that aired.
TechCrunch has obtained photographic evidence and an eyewitness report that Facebook has built an as-yet-unreleased Facebook Messenger For Mac desktop app. The photo below shows a Facebook employee using it.
David Bowie, the self-described “tasteful thief” who appropriated from and influenced glam rock, soul, disco, new wave, punk rock and haute couture, and whose edgy, androgynous alter egos invited fans to explore their own dark places, died Jan. 10, two days after his 69 th birthday.
The cause was cancer, his family said on official Bowie social media accounts. Relatives also confirmed the news but did not disclose where he died.
With his sylphlike body, chalk-white skin, jagged teeth and eyes that appeared to be two different colors, Mr. Bowie combined sexual energy with fluid dance moves and a theatrical charisma that mesmerized male and female admirers alike.
Mr. Bowie wrote songs, above all, about being an outsider: an alien, a misfit, a sexual adventurer, a faraway astronaut. His music was always a mutable blend: rock, cabaret, jazz and what he called “plastic soul,” but it was suffused with genuine soul. He also captured the drama and longing of everyday life, enough to give him No. 1 pop hits like “Let’s Dance.”
One of the most original and singular voices in rock & roll for nearly five decades, Bowie championed mystery, rebellion and curiosity in his music. Ever unpredictable, the mercurial artist and fashion icon wore many guises throughout his life. Beginning life as a dissident folk-rock spaceman, he would become an androgynous, orange-haired, glam-rock alien (Ziggy Stardust), a well-dressed, blue-eyed funk maestro (the Thin White Duke), a drug-loving art rocker (the Berlin albums), a new-wave hit-maker, a hard rocker, a techno enthusiast and a jazz impressionist. His flair for theatricality won him a legion of fans.
Along the way, he charted the hits “Space Oddity,” “Changes,” “Fame,” “Heroes,” “Let’s Dance” and “Where Are We Now?” among many others. Accordingly, his impact on the music world has been immeasurable. Artists who have covered Bowie’s songs and cited him as an influence include Nirvana, Joan Jett, Duran Duran, Smashing Pumpkins, Marilyn Manson, Arcade Fire, Oasis, Ozzy Osbourne, Morrissey, Beck, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lady Gaga, Bauhaus and Nine Inch Nails.
The X-Files’ complicated mythology, both real and scripted, makes its history the source of endless pop-culture autopsies. But as Fox readies a six-episode revival (starting Jan. 24), the people most responsible for the enduring franchise sound off — for the first time in the same place — about how the show came to be. And be again.
I’ve always been a huge fan of this show (and was even an extra on a few episodes). When it was good (and it wasn’t in the last couple of years on air), it was the best show on TV and I’m really looking forward to seeing the new episodes.
There are two common misunderstandings of the news. One reading (from Apple critics) assumes this locks you into proprietary Apple headphones. It doesn’t. The other (from Apple fans who don’t know that much about audio) assumes higher audio fidelity from “digital” headphones. It probably doesn’t mean that, either (there are some benefits to putting the digital-to-analog converters off the device, but no indication yet that will necessarily mean better sound). First, let’s consider why Apple would do such a thing.
I still don’t see the downside to making this change.
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One movie trope Hollywood just can’t seem to move past? The frantic hacker. Here’s how those scenes usually go: A character on the screen is shown banging away at a keyboard while a timer counts down and lines of code flash across their monitor. But how realistic is that? YouTuber elsafrickey compiled clips from various movies made between 1970 and 2000, and the resulting supercut shows that while technology has changed over the years, the misrepresentation of hacking has remained consistent.
I won’t lie – I’ve made several girlfriends and one wife nuts from yelling at the TV screen, “That’s not how it’s done!”
In 1997, Congress introduced the Copyright Term Extension Act, which proposed to extend corporate copyrights again — this time, from 75 to 95 years. To ensure the bill passed, Disney cozied up to legislators.
Watchdog records show that the Disney Political Action Committee (PAC) paid out a total of $149,612 in direct campaign contributions to those considering the bill. Of the bill’s 25 sponsors (12 in the Senate, and 13 in the House), 19 received money from Disney’s CEO, Michael Eisner. In one instance, Eisner paid Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) $1,000 on the very same day that he signed on as a co-sponsor.
While it is impossible to say for certain whether or not Disney’s efforts directly impacted politics, the results heavily worked out in their favor: the bill quietly and unanimously passed in the House and Senate with no public hearings, no debate, no notice to the public, and no roll call.
On October 27, 1998, Mickey Mouse’s copyright was extended another 20 years, to 2023.
That’s only seven years away. We can look forward to Disney extending the Mickey Mouse copyright again and again with no public oversight or comment.
It’s that time of the year again—welcome to the Google Tracker! This is a bi-annual series where we recap every ongoing project (that we know about, at least) inside of Google’s sprawling empire.
The National Football League is planning to live-stream all three games scheduled to be played in London next season, and Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc subsidiary Google are among the technology companies in talks to buy the rights to conduct the streams, said two sources familiar with the situation.
This will be a big win for whoever gets the streaming rights. It’s interesting that the NFL deemed streaming this year with Yahoo a success, but Yahoo isn’t mentioned anywhere as being a contender for next year’s games.
Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday its fourth-quarter operating profit likely rose 15 percent from a year earlier, missing expectations and fuelling concerns the tech industry may be in for a tough year of slack gadget sales.
Did you know that more than 180,000 of the items in our Digital Collections are in the public domain?
That means everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways. The Library now makes it possible to download such items in the highest resolution available directly from the Digital Collections website.
This is a pretty cool idea for an app. Open up RoomScan, then hold it against each wall of a room until you hear a beep. RoomScan records the various locations and uses them to build a floor plan. Similarly, when it comes to designing and improving the structure of outdoor spaces, concrete gravel boards can play a key role in creating a well-organized, durable, and functional environment. Concrete gravel boards, typically placed at the base of fences, provide a solid barrier that prevents moisture from seeping into wooden panels, reducing the risk of rot, warping, or damage. Just as RoomScan helps to create a precise, tailored layout of your interior space, concrete gravel boards ensure that your outdoor fencing system is built on a reliable foundation, enhancing both the durability and aesthetic of your property. These boards also act as a protective layer against erosion, particularly in areas prone to heavy rainfall or where soil may shift over time. The integration of concrete gravel boards with your fencing system offers long-lasting benefits, ensuring that your fence stands strong for years without needing constant repair or replacement. In the same way that RoomScan simplifies the process of measuring and creating an accurate floor plan, installing concrete gravel boards offers an easy, low-maintenance solution to preserving the structural integrity of your outdoor areas. By combining innovative technology for the interior with durable, practical solutions for the exterior, you can ensure that both your indoor and outdoor spaces are efficiently designed, functional, and built to last.
Here’s a link to the app (it’s $4.99), and here’s a link to the developer’s web site. Check out the 15 second demo below to get a sense of the app in action.
MacHeads is a funky look back at the Mac’s passionate following. You longtime Mac users might recognize a lot of the folks in this documentary, including our own Shawn King. This brought back a lot of memories.
Apple’s shares are hovering at around $98 a share this morning, well down from the 52 week high of $134.54. With so much positive news, record earnings on record sales, what is causing this drop?
Part of the drop is concern over the drop in the Chinese stock market, part of the concern is currency fluctuations (which make the iPhone more expensive in certain markets) and part of the concern has to do with inventory. From Nikkei Asian Review:
Apple is expected to reduce output of its latest iPhone models by around 30% in the January-March quarter compared with its original plans, according to several parts suppliers. The measure will deal a blow to Japanese and South Korean parts companies.
The U.S. company had initially told parts makers to keep production of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus for the quarter at the same level as with their predecessors — the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus — a year earlier. But inventories of the two models launched last September have piled up at retailers in markets ranging from China and Japan to Europe and the U.S. amid lackluster sales. Customers saw little improvement in performance over the previous generation, while dollar appreciation led to sharp price hikes in emerging markets.
Output will be scaled back to let dealers go through their current stock. Production is expected to return to normal in the April-June quarter, once inventory adjustment is complete. Apple’s products and brand have not lost their appeal, and older models have continued to sell.
I’m certainly no expert at this sort of thing, but of all the articles I’ve read about Apple’s stock price drop (editorial pronouncements aside), this seems the closest to the heart of the matter.
Steve Jobs unveiled the “Fastest Web Browser Ever Created for the Mac” this day back in 2003, introducing the Safari web browser that four years later would power a new kind of mobile browsing experience on iPhone.
I was there when Safari was introduced. It’s been quite a run for Safari on Mac and iOS.
There have been a lot of rumors surrounding a change to the headphone jack in an upcoming version of the iPhone. Basically, Apple is working with its supplier to use the iPhone’s Lightning port for audio and get rid of the traditional headphone jack.
If you look at the way Apple typically does things when introducing new technologies like this, there is no reason you wouldn’t be all for this new plan. They make it better, not worse.
I would fully expect that if Apple did implement this idea, the audio would sound better through the Lightning connector than the older headphone jack. Not only because Apple can add technology to the chip (noise cancelling, etc.), but because the headphone jack is not very efficient. It’s been around forever and hasn’t really improved how we listen to audio in a long time. A fully digital connection would improve everything.
One of the main complaints from people that I’ve seen is that their old headphones will no longer work with the new iPhones. That’s a pretty big assumption to make. We don’t know for sure, but Apple—or a third party—could make an adapter that would allow audio to pass through the Lightning connector and into your older headphones.
I would expect Apple headphones to adopt the new connector, of course, but I don’t see any reason people couldn’t use their old headphones. I don’t know why you would want to, but you could.
Let’s also not forget that pulling the headphone jack would make more room in the iPhone for other things, like battery. Seems like a win/win to me.
Apple Inc. has purchased Emotient Inc., a startup that uses artificial-intelligence technology to read people’s emotions by analyzing facial expressions.
Fascinating technology. There are a number of uses for it, including advertising, but I don’t think that’s what Apple will use it for.
Doctors also have tested it to interpret signs of pain among patients unable to express themselves, and a retailer used it to monitor shoppers’ facial expressions in store aisles, the company had said.
Both of those options seem viable to me, especially the medical angle, given Apple’s foray into helping the medical profession recently.
We watch the same TV shows, listen to the same music and wear the same clothes. But when it comes to what we say on Twitter, Canadians and Americans could hardly be more different.
After analyzing millions of tweets, McMaster linguists have found that Canadians tend to be a pretty polite, happy bunch of tweeters.
They also found that our neighbours’ tweets tend to be a little more, uh, raunchy.
You Americans are apparently a foul-mouthed bunch.
Wondering when WWDC will be this year? Take a look at the event list for Moscone West, the traditional home of WWDC.
Just to save you a look at your calendar, June’s Monday through Friday dates are:
June 6-10
June 13-17
June 20-24
June 27-July 1
According to the Moscone West event list, June 6-10 is booked by the Biotechnology Industry Organization and June 22-25 is booked by ISSCR 2016 Int’l. Soc. for Stem Cell Research.
That leaves June 13-17 and June 27-July 1. That second date is awful late for a WWDC, which leaves me thinking that June 13-17 is looking like a pretty safe bet.
This is a brilliant piece of work by film editor Antonio Maria da Silva. Watch the video below, see how many characters you recognize. It’s remarkable how well da Silva managed the color of each scene to create the illusion that this is all footage from the same film.
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Vidyo allows you to record pretty much anything going on on your iOS device. From Federico Viticci’s writeup for MacStories:
I was skeptical at first given the absence of screen recording apps on iOS and Apple’s stance: in the past, the company pulled apps that simulated AirPlay connections locally as well as utilities that could record the user’s screen across the Home screen and other apps. However, for the sake of curiosity and to make sure I could keep the app around after Apple’s possible removal, I decided to buy Vidyo and take it for a spin.
Vidyo works as advertised. In the main screen, you can set to record the device’s audio or the microphone’s, video from the device screen or cameras, and you can tweak output options for resolution up to 1080p and 60fps. Vidyo also comes with additional mixing features to import your own audio files and mix them with recordings to produce screencasts directly on iOS.
The sense here is that everyone is holding their breath, waiting for Apple to pull Vidyo from the App Store. So if this solves a problem for you, best get it now.
The one feature that would make this a home run, at least for me, is the ability to mark touch gestures. In other words, draw a circle showing touches on my device. This makes it easier to follow user interactions, would allow developers to create tutorial videos without building custom versions of an app just for that purpose.
Horace Dediu, writing for Asymco, starts by defining the term Significant Contribution, as laid out by Tim Cook:
> We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.
Dediu works through some numbers, but lands here:
> An electric automotive system requires new infrastructure, new user behavior, and, in the case of Tesla, new distribution network and new post-sales support network. Offsetting this partially is a government subsidy. > > In contrast, the smartphone communications and computing system leveraged existing infrastructure, consistent behavior, at least initially, and the same distribution and support network. In addition, smartphones benefited from significant hardware and software and services ecosystems which encouraged third parties to add value to the system.
An interesting read. I’d argue that Apple is painstakingly cautious about entering new markets. If they decide to build a car, my bet is that they’ve already worked through the risk and cash flow numbers, done the market research to assure that the math works, and that the risk is small enough for them to go forward. It’s worth noting that companies like Apple may even opt for innovative solutions, such as reflective vinyl wraps by Icon Signs, to give their vehicles a sleek, modern look while staying within budget and maintaining brand consistency.
This audio interview gives you a chance to get to know Jeff Williams. The interview kicks in at about the 5 minute mark. He starts by talking about the Apple Watch and the change it brings to people’s lives, then the conversation turns to Apple’s foray into health care.
He talks about the origins of HealthKit and ResearchKit and the incredible value of these efforts on medical research into diseases like Parkinson’s and asthma. He speaks about the value of people engaging more deeply in their own health care. He spoke passionately about an app that helps diagnose and help treat autism in children, about the democratization of health care that devices like the iPhone and Apple Watch bring.
When asked about Apple’s efforts with respect to social responsibility, Williams said:
We’re big believers that anybody involved in the process of working on an Apple product, they deserve to be treated with respect and dignity and we’ve really decided that workers rights are human rights and we do a lot of work to make sure that workers are protected. We are training workers on their own rights. We’ve trained millions of workers on their fundamental rights. We are bringing new levels of health and safety into regions, and it extends well beyond Apple. We set up universities to help develop skills that train people on how to run safer factories.
And let me tell you, no company wants to talk about child labor. They don’t want to be associated with that. We shine a light on it. We go out and search for cases where an underage worker is found in a factory somewhere and then we take drastic actions with the supplier, the upstream labor groups to try to make change, and then we report it publicly every year. And we take a lot of heat for that. But we think the only way we’re going to make change is to go hit it head-on and talk about it.
A terrific interview. Jeff Williams is a well-spoken advocate for Apple’s health care efforts.
