| Today's Top Stories | | #1 | BOSEbuild speaker cube kit teaches kids the power of DIY | | | By Konstatin Kakaes, MIT Technology Review | | | Just in time for summer, Bose is releasing a step-by-step build kit that breaks down the science of sound and shows kids how to build their own functioning Bluetooth speaker. More
Why This Matters: Summer project. - Cynthia Wisehart
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| | #2 | The All-American iPhone | | | By Konstatin Kakaes, MIT Technology Review | | | Political candidates say Apple should make phones in the United States. Lets see what that would look like. More
Why This Matters: Fascinating and must-read (its short). Made in America (or not, or partially) is a complicated conversation that any technology industry must confront. Including Apple. Including AV. This story is just one little fun way to change the dialogue up a bit. In my opinion, its important not to just keep knee-jerking into the either/or marketing we often hear from politicians and the media. Mostly likely there wont even be a single right answer. But as long as we simply circle around the same old binary conversation, we wont think of anything new. -Cynthia Wisehart |
| | #3 | The ultimate Apple I/O death chart | | | By Nilay Patel and Frank Bi, The Verge | | | One of the most strongly-held arguments about Apple removing the headphone jack is that Apple has historically been first to drop a legacy technology, sometimes even before the rest of the industry is ready. The floppy, SCSI, optical drives, VGA all killed by Apple years before vanishing from the rest of the industry. But how long does it really take Apple to kill legacy tech? More
Why This Matters: As we contemplate the fate of the headphone jack, heres an info-graphic history of lineage and death of Apple I/O. Very Game of Thrones. -Cynthia Wisehart |
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