The Future Is Nigh || Tesla Motors

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Four hundred miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to trust the machine by Lee Hutchinson (arstechnica.com)

OS X Yosemite || MacRumors

OS X 10.10 Yosemite - Review(s)

The Ars Technica Review:

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These new, shared triumphs run the gamut from traditional frameworks and APIs to cloud services to the very foundation of Apple’s software ecosystem, the programming language itself. Apple’s dramatic leadership restructuring in 2012 put Federighi in charge of both iOS and OS X—a unification of thought that has now, two years later, resulted in a clear unification of action. Even the most ardent Mac fan will admit that iOS 7 was a bigger update than Mavericks. This time around, it’s finally a fair fight.

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iOS 8 || Reviews

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Reviews:

arsTechnicaDOTcom :

"Huge for developers. Massive for everyone else."
That was Apple’s tagline for iOS 8 when the software was announced at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference back in June. Overuse of hyperbole is a pet peeve of mine, but after using iOS 8 for a couple of months, I have to say that they’re warranted in this case. iOS 7 was a comprehensive makeover for an operating system that needed to reclaim visual focus and consistency. iOS 7.1 improved stability and speed while addressing the new design’s worst shortcomings and most egregious excesses. And iOS 8 is the update that turns its attention from the way everything looks to the way it works.
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via theLoop:

Rene Ritchie’s iOS 8 review:

Last year Apple stripped iOS bare in order to redefine how we do things. This year they build atop everything that came before in order to redefine what we can do.

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Web Safety • ArsTechnica

ArsTechnica’s Andrew Cunningham: Understanding encryption is key to protecting yourself on the Web

iTunes through the ages • Arstechnica

via The Loop:

It’s interesting to see how much (and, in some ways, how little) iTunes has changed over the past 11+ years.

iTunes through the ages @ Arstechnica

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