FinTech, Design & Web Dev Reads Issue 11
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Out in the Open: The Code That Brings Siri-Like Voice Control to the Web Alex Washburn / WIRED You can now control your smartphone with your voice. Thanks to tools like Apple Siri and Google Now, you can search the web, grab answers to simple questions, and update your…
On gestures In just a few years, gestures have become one of the primary ways we interact with computers. They’ve migrated from research devices to smartphones, smartphones to tablets, tablets to PC…
A Sneak Peek at Adobe’s Smart New iPad App for Designers LayUp, a forthcoming app from Adobe, conceived by designer Khoi Vinh, is an iPad-native brainstorming tool. Adobe For designers, there’s a point early in the design process when you just need…
Flipboard Finally Ditches Its iPad Roots With a Smarter Phone App The new Flipboard home screen (left) and topics picker (right). Flipboard Flipboard is the archetype for digital media consumption, packaging stories from thousands of sources into a personalized…
An App To Redesign How We Vote The American voting system is broken. Less than two-thirds of voting-age citizens cast a ballot in most elections. Only 61.8% of eligible Americans voted in the 2012 election, and that’s…
How Flickr Is Learning To See What’s In Your Photos Smart as they are, computers are still as blind as a bat. It’s why search engines index the web using text and why you still have to fill out those annoying captchas. But with advances in machine…
From The Designers Of Fitbit, A Digital Tattoo Implanted Under Your Skin From the Jawbone Up to the Apple Watch, wrist-based designs have become the de facto form factor for wearable technology. But we’re already wrist-banded out. So what’s next? We asked…
Designing a Safe Place for Oblivious Millennials to Learn About Money A new venture called The Society of Grownups offers a glimpse of what personal finance could feel like if the woman who ran your quirky local coffee shop took an interest in demystifying…
Could Limits to Net Neutrality Hurt Wall Street? On Monday President Barack Obama began his lame-duck era with a flourish. With a jaunty “Hi, everyone,” the now Republican-encircled president took to the camera in shirtsleeves to declare…
Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter? Illustration: Mark Allen Miller Had Narrative Science — a company that trains computers to write news stories—created this piece, it probably would not mention that the company’s…
9 GIFs That Explain Responsive Design Brilliantly What is responsive design? Most people vaguely understand that it refers to websites that work just as well on desktops as they do on smartphones, but there’s a lot more to it than that, leading to…
HTML5 Offers ‘Scoped’ CSS for Precision Styling HTML5′s controversial “scoped” style attribute is now supported in the latest Canary builds of Google’s Chrome web browser and Mozilla may eventually add support to…
Browser-Based Deep Learning Will Make Your Tabs Way Smarter Deep learning is one of the buzziest topics in technology at the moment, and for good reason: This subset of machine learning can unearth all kinds of useful new insights in data and teach computers…
The Adobe Moleskine Can Beam Your Sketches To Photoshop Let me guess. You’ve learned how to make a living wielding a mouse in Photoshop or Illustrator all day, but you still dream of sitting casually in a coffee shop, sipping lattes and sketching…
Apple Releases Its Most Important Typeface In 20 Years Yesterday, Apple released a new bundle of developer tools called WatchKit to help make third-party Apple Watch apps a reality. But for type lovers, WatchKit contained a nice little surprise: a folder…
Fidelity Debuts Oculus Rift-Based Virtual Investment App Fidelity Labs, Fidelity Investments’ 75-person R&D think-tank, has launched StockCity, a virtual-reality view of an investor’s portfolio. StockCity uses Oculus Rift to simulate the investment…
11 things we just learned about how the Apple Watch works An iPhone is required — at (almost) all times. In Apple’s own words, Watch apps extend iOS apps. “You begin your Watch app development with your existing iOS app, which must support…
RelativeWave Gets Acquired By Google And Starts Giving Its $80 App Design Tool Away For Free RelativeWave, creators of an $80 “interaction design and prototyping” Mac app called Form, has been acquired by Google. As a result, Form is now free. In case you’ve never used…
| [Frontend SPOF | High Performance Web Sites](http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/06/01/frontend-spof/) My evangelism of high performance web sites started off in the context of quality code and development best practices. It’s easy for a style of coding to permeate throughout a company…. |
The Real Cost of Slow Time vs Downtime [SLIDES] Last week, I had the pleasure of being invited to speak at the CMG’s annual Performance & Capacity Conference. One of my sessions was a presentation of Radware’s research into…