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Apple Wanted Her Fired. It Settled On an Absurd Excuse
It wasn’t very hard to tell which way the wind was blowing. Ashley Gjøvik had even been warned. Somewhere inside Apple, friends and coworkers assured her, higher-ups were having a conservation about how to force her out of her job. There was even consensus among these allies about the route they would take, that she’d…
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I Miss Apple’s Best iPod
Of all the portable music players Apple has released over the past 20 years, the original iPod shuffle remains my favourite. It wasn’t my first iPod, and 16 years after its debut I’ve owned countless iterations of the iPhone, but I loved the shuffle for its basic design and functionality, not in spite of them.
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RIP Windows 95 Icons
Bits and pieces of Microsoft’s sweeping aesthetic changes to Windows 10, codenamed Sun Valley, have dropped over the last few months. The OS is getting support for the Advanced Audio Codec (AAC) codec over Bluetooth, new folder icons, and reportedly a much-needed overhaul to its Microsoft Store user interface. (There may even be a new…
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League Was Incredibly Complicated to Complete
Zack Snyder’s Justice League is fascinating on almost every level. The history, the controversy, the fans, the result. Without exaggeration, that it exists is a landmark in film history. One of the aspects that gets a little lost in that fascinating narrative, though, is the actual nuts and bolts of making it.