MG Siegler:
There is a good argument to be made that it’s actually more beneficial to Google that Apple is no longer including the YouTube app (which Apple, not Google, built, by the way) as a standard part of iOS. For one thing, the app hasn’t really been touched in years, even as Google significantly upgraded the YouTube experience on other platforms (and the mobile web). More importantly, Google was not able to monetize those YouTube app views with ads. With its own app, it will be able to.
In short, oversights in Amazon’s and Apple’s security systems made hacking Mat Honan easier than it should have been. Yikes.
I’m happy to announce that I’ve joined Shawn in curating Tools & Toys, a link blog highlighting products and services for nerds with good taste. If you have suggestions, get in touch!
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Great, now I have to clean vomit out of my MacBook Pro.
Leslie Horn at Gizmodo:
Last night NASA landed on Mars. An amazing feat! But guess what? The Curiosity rover’s on-board computer is a pretty low-power system. In fact, the iPhone 4S is four times more powerful. Check out the specs below.
Specs aren’t everything, it seems.
Kenneth Chang for The New York Times:
In a flawless, triumphant technological tour de force, a plutonium-powered rover the size of a small car was lowered at the end of 25-foot-long cables from a hovering rocket stage onto Mars early on Monday morning.
We live in the future.
I think there are bigger, more important things in the world to hope and pray about that a smaller Dock Connector or updated iPad, but maybe I’m just old and cranky.
Holy Brett Terpstra, Batman.
Lots of good options, considering the probe will be in its “Seven Minutes of Terror.”
NASA’s new Mars rover is pretty sweet. The car-sized, 1-ton robot is set to land on the Red Planet today.