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RT @freddavis: The foreign language copycat catcher

RT @pkedrosky: Crying wolf: when emergency alerts stop being effective

RT @dtapscott: Rethinking the Schools. NYT Feature. …hm. wished they'd talked to us. $4 million research project results.

RT @dalmaer: "The code wasn’t broken, the design was outdated"

Intel is about to do something that would have seemed crazy under previous CEOs: the company will start competing at the lowest end of the microprocessor market. This is a company that built its reputation, and its manufacturing infrastructure—hugely expensive and unique among makers of microprocessors—on the back of high margins built into costly microchips intended for powerful PCs and servers. Now the shrinking PC market has forced Intel to attempt to create small, power-efficient, and relatively inexpensive chips to power the mobile phones and tablets that are directly cannibalizing the market for PCs.

Here’s what the Forbes 400 list looks like when just the members who made their money in technology are included. (Number 10, Michael Bloomberg, is often counted as a “media” maven, but it’s arguably his company’s pioneering use and deployment of technology to distribute that media which made his fortune.) The fortunes of Microsoft and Google have each minted three of the richest Americans.

But there is another reason American tech firms flock to Ireland: light-touch regulation. Since the same rules that govern taxes also apply to regulation, companies can seek adjudication under laxer Irish standards even when the complainant is from another country in Europe. The Irish Data Protection Commissioner has a habit of issuing findings in favor of American tech firms—notably in two audits (pdf) of Facebook triggered by a campaign by Max Schrems, an Austrian law student. Most recently it found nothing wrong with the transfer of data by Apple and Facebook from Europe to the United States, despite worries that law-enforcement agencies might more easily get their hands on the data there.

Once upon a time, typographical practice was anarchy. Printers put in all sizes of spaces in haphazard ways, including after periods. Then, a standard emerged: the single space after a period. Unfortunately, the evil typewriter came along, and for some unknown reason (usually blamed on monospace fonts), people began to put wider double spaces after periods. Typographers railed against the practice, but they could do nothing. Actual printed work used the single space, but the morons with their typewriters could not be stopped. Early computers and printers used similar monospace typefaces, and the evil persisted. Then, in the past couple decades, it became possible to use proportional fonts easily, and finally typographers could step in and save the day again with their single sentence spaces! The only people today who continue to use double spaces are stodgy old typing teachers and ignorant fools, who dare to think that their practice is okay in the face of the verdict of the experts in typography.

Look at those big ass tablets.

Track Data Used By Each App & Cut Them Off

analyst firm Canaccord Genuity. The iPhone 5s is outselling the older Samsung Galaxy S4 at all four major U.S. retailers according to the firm’s findings, but the surprising twist is that the iPhone 5c is outselling the Samsung flagship rival at both AT&T and Sprint, too.

People familiar with Apple’s plans tell AllThingsD that the company will hold its next invitation-only event on Tuesday, October 22. The focal point of the gathering will be the latest updates to the company’s iPad line, but the new Mac Pro and OS X Mavericks will likely get some stage time as well, I’m told.

Dutta, meanwhile, is cooling his heels. He recently had lunch with Chromecast engineers—and says he even fielded a job offer from them. (He turned them down.) But he walked away with some insight: "To give them a little credit—from the engineering side of things—Google is very, very much about having open platforms and allowing other people to build on top of their platforms," he explained. "And I feel like this is not an engineering decision."

Yahoo is updating its Mail app across all platforms with a fresh design that includes syncing themes, a new compose experience, collapsible toolbar and better handling of threaded conversations. The new app is rolling out across the web, Android, iOS and Windows 8 devices beginning today, with nearly complete feature parity between all versions.

After he was stripped of his power at Twitter, Dorsey went on a media campaign to promote the idea that he and Williams had switched roles. He also began telling a more elaborate story about the founding of Twitter. In dozens of interviews, Dorsey completely erased Glass from any involvement in the genesis of the company. He changed his biography on Twitter to “inventor”; before long, he started to exclude Williams and Stone too. At an event, Dorsey complained to Barbara Walters that he had founded Twitter, a point she raised the next day on “The View” with Stone and Williams. Dorsey told The Los Angeles Times that “Twitter has been my life’s work in many senses.” He also failed to credit Glass for the company’s unusual name. “We wanted to capture that feeling: the physical sensation that you’re buzzing your friend’s pocket,” he told the paper.

Android Police has scored a set of screenshots from the next version of Google Hangouts, and it looks like Google is finally ready to integrate SMS messaging into the product. One screenshot shows messages displaying in the Hangouts app, marked as "xx mins via SMS." Another shows the settings screen with an option to "Turn on SMS," which will "send and receive SMS with Hangouts." The report says the screenshots are from version 1.3 of Hangouts (the current version is 1.2) and that SMS delivery reports, MMS, and video sharing support are also included.

RT @Techmeme: Google updates ToS allowing inclusion of users' names, photos and comments in web ads

RT @Techmeme: Google updates ToS allowing inclusion of users' names, photos and comments in web ads

RT @Techmeme: Apple iWatch is actually a home automation play, not a smartphone companion (analyst)

RT @Techmeme: Apple iWatch is actually a home automation play, not a smartphone companion (analyst)

RT @Techmeme: Judge: Google's Tracking Not Harmful (Digits)

RT @Techmeme: Judge: Google's Tracking Not Harmful (Digits)

RT @Techmeme: Google to sunset Google TV brand as its smart TV platform merges with Android (@jank0)

RT @Techmeme: Google to sunset Google TV brand as its smart TV platform merges with Android (@jank0)

Unlock and jailbreak company SafeRa1n has released an updated version of its iOS 7 jailbreak software with improved boot times. Some users are complaining that the boot times in jailbreaking their phone takes longer than usual. However, this update fixes that issue.

In 2012, John Gruber said that Newsstand is a place where apps go to be forgotten. Today the Newsstand app is much worse. The folder-like design in iOS 5 and iOS 6 has been replaced with an opaque app icon. The end result is so horrible that it’s hard to avoid thinking it was done maliciously: if someone was tasked with hiding away a set of unwanted apps, they would be likely to come back with a design that was something very much like the iOS 7 Newsstand.

Those peculiar conventions, which make Twitter both irresistible and confounding today, were invented by its users. After a while, the company picked up on each trend and adopted it as an official part of the service. Now, the @ and # symbols are among the most crucial elements of Twitter’s identity. Here are the stories of how replies, hashtags, and retweets came to be.

Apple today announced that it has finally filled the role of Senior Vice President of Retail: the Cupertino tech giant has hired Angela Ahrendts. Ahrendts is leaving her role as CEO of fashion retailer Burberry to take the top Apple retail job. Ahrendts will also lead Apple’s online stores. She will officially begin her role in Spring 2014.

A study of more than 200 billion ads on Facebook says that mobile ads on iPhone generate 1,790 percent more return on investment than ads on Android. Even worse, advertising on Android actually costs more than it returns. The study is by Nanigans, one of the biggest buyers of Facebook ads, and it focuses on retailers, saying that in the past year on Facebook’s desktop ads, clickthroughs are up 375 percent and overall return on investment is 152 percent.

The fundamental problem with Windows 8 hasn’t changed: you’re still working in two operating systems at once. You’re still leaping from one universe into another — the color schemes, fonts and layouts all change abruptly — and it still feels jarring. There are still too many duplicate programs and settings, one in each environment. And you still can never live entirely in one world or the other. The more you work with Windows 8, the more screamingly obvious the solution becomes: Split it up. Offer regular Windows on regular computers, offer TileWorld on tablets. That way, everyone has to learn only one operating system, and each operating system is suited to its task.