Stephen and Jason are back to discuss the end of Cassini and Jim Bridenstine, who appears to be Trump’s pick for NASA Administrator. After that, they journey into orbit with John Glenn and Scott Carpenter.
My thanks to our sponsors this week:
A week ago, I announced that once again this year, I’d be taking the revenue from 512 Pixels and donating it to St. Jude, and would be encouraging you to donate to the hospital that has saved the lives of thousands and thousands of kids with cancer, including my son.
I’m humbled and blown away that in just a week, we’ve met our goal of $9,000.
I know there’s a lot of hurt in our world right now, and a lot of things that are worth donating money to, which makes your generosity all the sweeter to me.
In September 2007, the world was a very different place. The iPhone had been for sale in the United States just a few months, and not yet taken over the world.
For nearly a decade, Apple held a fall event focused on music. Most of the major iPods you’d recognize got their start at events like this.
Over time, these events — and the music players they featured — faded in importance. In 2007, however, they still mattered, and Jobs was there to prove it.
Loren Grush at The Verge, writing on how NASA KSC is preparing for the massive hurricane:
Fortunately, KSC is built to handle hurricanes. The large Vertical Assembly Building, once used to assemble the Space Shuttles prior to launch, is able to withstand winds of 125 miles per hour. And after KSC was hit by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, all new buildings constructed were built to withstand winds between 130 and 135 miles per hour. Irma is now a Category 4 storm, with 150 mph winds, but it’s expected to downgrade by the time it reaches Cape Canaveral.
It’s September, and the annual iPhone event is just around the corner.
There’s a lot known about the new phone’s hardware, but there are still a lot of questions concerning iOS 11 and how it will be adapted to the new device, not to mention Apple’s positioning of this and its siblings.
Rumors are also hot and heavy about an updated Apple Watch with LTE and a 4K Apple TV. Then there’s the HomePod and iMac Pro, products Apple has already said will ship “at the end of the year.”
This week on Query, Ren and I talk about a bunch of stuff with silly names:
What’s up with PRAM, NVRAM and SMC? What about the APFS migration? It’s alphabet soup!
Tim Cook, in a letter obtained by MacRumors:
Earlier today, the Justice Department announced that President Trump will cancel the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in six months if Congress does not act to make the program permanent.
I am deeply dismayed that 800,000 Americans – including more than 250 of our Apple coworkers – may soon find themselves cast out of the only country they’ve ever called home.
This week on Connected, everyone is back, and it’s a good thing, because there’s lots of news: Siri has moved in with Craig, Alexa and Cortana are hanging out and the Apple September event looms large on the horizon.
My thanks to our sponsors:
As noted by Joe Rossignol, Apple’s sixth-generation iPod nano has been marked obsolete by the company.
The first five generations of iPod nanos were all remixes of the original iPod. They all had the same basic building blocks: a screen and a clickwheel.
Introduced in September 2010, sixth-generation Nano got rid of the latter, the very thing that made the iPod great. In its place, a 1.54-inch square touchscreen that showed off software that was reminiscent of iOS.
Every September, I forgo running sponsorship on 512 Pixels and donate the month’s membership and YouTube revenue to highlight and raise money for a cause that is very close to my heart: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
It’s a month that is of vital importance to my family. As some of you may know, our oldest son was diagnosed in May 2009 with a malignant brain tumor. In the blink of an eye, we went from a young family with a seemingly-healthy six month old baby to a young family facing the reality that our son was gravely sick.
I filled in for Myke on this week’s Analog(ue) and spoke to Casey about Relay FM’s goals for 2018 and a new addition coming to the Liss family.