Flicker Fusion

There’s a popular belief that projects like this are going to be very advanced but there are things that mitigate against that. These designs were proposed in 2004, and you don’t get to propose one specification and then go off and develop something else. 2MP with 8GB of flash [memory] didn’t sound too bad in 2004. But it doesn’t compare well to what you get in an iPhone today.

There’s a popular belief that projects like this are going to be very advanced but there are things that mitigate against that. These designs were proposed in 2004, and you don’t get to propose one specification and then go off and develop something else. 2MP with 8GB of flash [memory] didn’t sound too bad in 2004. But it doesn’t compare well to what you get in an iPhone today.

—Mike Ravine, a project manager for the Mars Curiosity rover, explains one of the reasons why it only has a 2 megapixel camera.

In addition to the layoffs, The Daily will try to save money in other ways. For instance, it will no longer create digital pages that work in both vertical and horizontal layouts, and will only produce vertical pages from now on.

In addition to the layoffs, The Daily will try to save money in other ways. For instance, it will no longer create digital pages that work in both vertical and horizontal layouts, and will only produce vertical pages from now on.

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This is actually serious.

Evening Edition will work regardless of how you hold your phone.

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mrgan:

Ever since we shipped The Incident, Matt Comi and I have been working on a new game. We’ll be previewing it at XOXO Arcade, XOXO Festival’s indie-game showcase on September 14, 2012, right here in Portland. (Matt will be there too!) The event will be open to the public, so come check it out!

Trust me. This is gonna be awesome.

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Now that Twitter’s a media, not a technology, company, I’m picturing a bunch of ad sales guys in shiny shirts standing around a Thinkpad.

“The site’s down?”

“I guess.”

“Can’t we reboot it?”

“I think we have to get one of the nerds.”

“They don’t come in until noon.”

“You wanna get a Starbucks?”

He spends almost no time on politics. He entertains often because he must (i.e., for business reasons or on account of his wife) and, under much the same compulsion, he attends cultural events. He does little reading outside of newspapers, newsmagazines, reports, and trade papers. (For a notable exception, see “Texas Eastern’s Naff,” page 108.) He drinks, if he drinks at all, moderately and on a schedule. Alcoholism, it is clear, does not go with success and is to be found only among some executives’ bored wives. Extramarital relations in the top American business world are not important enough to discuss.

He spends almost no time on politics. He entertains often because he must (i.e., for business reasons or on account of his wife) and, under much the same compulsion, he attends cultural events. He does little reading outside of newspapers, newsmagazines, reports, and trade papers. (For a notable exception, see “Texas Eastern’s Naff,” page 108.) He drinks, if he drinks at all, moderately and on a schedule. Alcoholism, it is clear, does not go with success and is to be found only among some executives’ bored wives. Extramarital relations in the top American business world are not important enough to discuss.

—How top executives lived in 1955. Apparently.

Evening Edition from Mule Design

Evening Edition from Mule Design

Right now, there’s more “news” than ever before, but it comes in dribs and drabs disguised as news-like updates fed through the same channels as your friends’ baby photos and fart jokes.

So we built Evening Edition, a summary of the day’s news, written by a real live journalist, with links to the best reporting in the world. We optimized it for your phone and iPad. It’s perfect for your commute home or when you’re kicking back on the couch. It’s breaking news for the slow web and we really hope you like.

Follow along on Twitter for a daily update or just add it to your home screen and check in on the train ride home. And please let us know what you think.