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Monday, September 1, 2014 in Labor Day in The United States. It had been quite a long weekend but there’s no shortage of news.
Image courtesy of U.S. Department of Labor.
The most talked about news from this Labor Day Weekend is:
As expected, speculations abound on how these photos were obtained. We should not jump to conclusion and spread misinformation.
I was at Los Cerritos Shopping Center on Sunday, August 31, 2014. My colleague told me that Microsoft is opening a store in that shopping center. After a quick investigation, I found the probable location for the upcoming Microsoft Store.
This store is located just a few hundreds yard from Apple Store which opened on June 24th, 2010 coinciding with the release of iPhone 4.
I stopped by Apple Store and asked some of the employees if they would jumped to Microsoft’s ship. They laughed.
I often judge an article by the way its headline was written. Compare the following headlines:
SURVEY CONFIRMS: MOST TROLLS WOULD SHUT UP IF FORCED TO USE THEIR REAL IDENTITIES
The first headline sounds intelligent and interesting.
The second headline sounds sensationalistic and negative. The ALL CAPS on headline does not look appealing either.
The first headline is from a post at GigaOM and the second is from Fast Company.
From my observations, sites like Fast Company, VentureBeat, RedWrite, The Next Web and Mashable are in the same league; with link-baity headlines, logic-impaired and often non-factual.
Another examples of headlines:
One of these headlines is unlike the other.
The lesson learned here is not to leave a bowl of SpaghettiOs unattended when Tabascus is around.
Tabascus is the name of this red-headed kitten, given by a six-year-old boy.
From Time’s article:
The bill will head next to Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. If enacted, it would make colleges adopt a student conduct policy requiring “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity,” as a condition for state funding. The bill defines consent to sex as the presence of a “yes” rather than the absence of a “no,” a cultural shift that victim’s groups have long advocated.
How do you proof the presence of a “yes” when it could easily become “his words against her words” case.
I guess we need a notarized love contract.
Save the date. Apple has sent the invites to September 9, 2014 special event, subtitled: “We wish we could say more.”
The Bearded One, a.k.a. Jim Dalrymple posted the graphics of the invitation on The Loop.
Apple is expected to unveil the next iPhones and some other things. As always, anything that John Gruber blurted out also becomes news.
I asked firstnameatappledotcom regarding the event; and I paraphrase:
“We’re sending the usual employees to China again, and they will be back on September 8, 2014.”
Starting in February 2014, key Apple employees in charge with productions spent about two weeks out of every month overseeing production in Foxconn China factory. Sometimes between April and May, a critical design issue of a new product was found. Apple engineers were tasked to tackle this high priority issue.
Sometimes in July, 2014, Apple was reportedly created a new division that works exclusively with iOS device. It is unclear what iOS device this division is responsible for.
Comes September 9, 2014, we all will see the new products from Apple.
Apple seeds OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 build 13F24.
It is likely that OS X 10.9.5 would be released sometimes in mid September, 2014.