[MyAppleMenu] Apr 19, 2014

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*** How Greed Almost Sabotaged The Smartphone Kill Switch ***
<http://www.wired.com/2014/04/kill-switch/>
Issie Lapowsky, Wired


> So why has the industry at large remained so stubbornly resistant to what seems a relatively simple way to protect consumers and combat crime? The answer, as always, is money.




*** Apple iCloud Sparks Divorce Cases ***
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/10770335/Apple-iCloud-sparks-divorce-cases.html>
Sophie Curtis, The Telegraph


> Sam Hall, family law partner at JMW Solicitors, said he had received several enquiries in recent months after people found incriminating messages or photos on shared cloud-based software which sync with their mobile phones, tablets or computers.




*** How To Turn A Dead iPod Into An Upgraded Budget Music Player ***
<http://www.tuaw.com/2014/04/18/how-to-turn-a-dead-ipod-into-an-upgraded-budget-music-player/?ncid=rss_truncated&%3Fncid=tw>
John-Michael Bond, TUAW


> For just about $40 to $50 in parts you can resurrect your old machine into a brand new budget music/gaming device.




*** Nike Fires Majority Of FuelBand Team, Will Stop Making Wearable Hardware ***
<http://www.cnet.com/news/nike-fires-fuelband-engineers-will-stop-making-wearable-hardware/>
Nick Statt, CNET


> Nike is gearing up to shutter its wearable-hardware efforts, and the sportswear company this week fired the majority of the team responsible for the development of its FuelBand fitness tracker, a person familiar with the matter told CNET.

> "As a fast-paced, global business we continually align resources with business priorities," Nike spokesman Brian Strong said in an email. "As our Digital Sport priorities evolve, we expect to make changes within the team, and there will be a small number of layoffs. We do not comment on individual employment matters."


Also:
• <a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/04/18/nike-fuelband">John Gruber</a>: Interesting, particularly when you consider that Tim Cook sits on the Nike board.



*** Next-Generation Hearing Aids Tune In To The iPhone ***
<http://recode.net/2014/04/18/next-generation-hearing-aids-tune-in-to-the-iphone/>
Dawn Chmielewski, Re/code


> The “Made for iPhone” hearing aids are the culmination of an initiative Apple announced at its 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference. The Cupertino giant has positioned these devices as fitting with its emphasis on accessibility. (There are numerous settings to make its phones easier to use for those with visual, hearing and motor control issues.)




*** Lost Mode For iOS: How To Use It To Find Your iPad Or iPhone ***
<http://appletoolbox.com/2014/04/ios-lost-mode/>
Atb Levy, Apple Toolbox


> iOS 6 and later iOS versions offer a new iCloud feature called Lost Mode. If your iOS device (iPhone, iPad or iPod touch) gets lost or stolen, you may use Lost Mode to remotely lock it with a passcode, display a custom on-screen message, and keep track of its physical location. If your phone ends up in someone else’s possession, this feature will let whoever is keeping your iPhone (or iPad) know they should call a specified number that you have chosen. In fact, calling this number from the iPhone becomes the only option available on the phone in Lost Mode, other than unlocking by entering the passcode.




*** Apple Reaching Out To Developers Who Didn’t Win WWDC Lottery, Offering Chance To Buy Unclaimed Tickets ***
<http://9to5mac.com/2014/04/18/apple-reaching-out-to-developers-who-didnt-win-wwdc-lottery-offering-chance-to-buy-unclaimed-tickets/>
Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac



*** Facebook’s Paper For iOS Updated With Birthdays, Events, Photo Comments, Group Updates, And More ***
<http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2014/04/18/facebooks-paper-ios-updated-birthdays-events-photo-comments-group-updates/>
Emil Protalinski, The Next Web



*** Sketch 3 Makes A Great Design Tool Even Better ***
<http://www.tuaw.com/2014/04/18/sketch-3-makes-a-great-design-tool-even-better/>
Brett Terpstra, TUAW



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*** The Concrete Abyss ***
<http://aeon.co/magazine/being-human/why-solitary-confinement-degrades-us-all/>
Lisa Guenther, Aeon


> We know solitary confinement annihilates the minds of its victims — but what does it do to the rest of us?




*** Book Review: 'The Amoeba In The Room' By Nicholas P. Money & 'Missing Microbes' By Martin J. Blaser ***
<http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304117904579501444059499148>
Sam Kean, Wall Street Journal


> By every fair reckoning viruses, bacteria and other one-celled organisms dominate life on earth. Bacteria outnumber all plants and animals by several orders of magnitude, and viruses outnumber even bacteria. Microbes also outweigh us. Just the bacteria found in the ocean weigh more than all the elephants on earth—millions of times more. Yet we haven't even been able to grow the vast majority of microbes in the lab in order to study them. That fact often surprises people—what are petri dishes for, after all? Two new books force us to look more closely—much more closely—at the living world. The view isn't always comfortable or affirming.




*** The Women Behind The Bomb ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/books/review/the-wives-of-los-alamos-by-tarashea-nesbit.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
George Johnson, New York Times


> What was it like to be uprooted from your home in your first years of marriage and plunked down at a remote outpost in a far-off mountain land?

> In her first novel, “The Wives of Los Alamos,” TaraShea Nesbit conjures forth that lost time. Thousands of civilians, including young couples just out of the university, lived behind the secret project’s checkpoints. While their husbands worked a few miles away in the Tech ­Areas, the wives, some with advanced degrees of their own, lived in a makeshift suburb plagued, like any construction site, with blowing dust and mud.




*** Let’s Have A Dialogue ***
<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/books/review/plato-at-the-googleplex-by-rebecca-newberger-goldstein.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times


> In Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s new book, “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away,” Plato turns up not only at the search engine’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., but also with the obstreperous host of a cable news talk show, as a consultant to an advice columnist, and in several other places a long way from ancient Athens.




*** High Tech ***
<http://www.wired.com/2014/04/high-tech/>
Mat Honan, Wired


> How Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are rushing to cash in on cannabis.




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