Founder, Publisher and Editorial Director of the 9to5/Electrek/DroneDJ sites.
Seth Weintraub is an award-winning journalist and blogger who won back to back Neal Awards during his three plus years covering Apple and Google at IDG’s Computerworld from 2007–2010. Weintraub next covered all things Google for Fortune Magazine from 2010-2011 amassing a thick rolodex of Google contacts and love for Silicon Valley tech culture.
It turns out that his hobby 9to5Mac blog was always his favorite and in 2011 he went full time adding his Fortune Google followers to 9to5Google and adding the style and commerce component 9to5Toys gear and deals site. In 2013, Weintraub bought one of the Tesla’s first Model S EVs off the assembly line and so began his love affair with the Electric Vehicle and green energy which in 2014 turned into electrek.
In 2018, DroneDJ was born to cover the burgeoning world of drones and UAV’s led by China’s DJI.
From 1997-2007, Weintraub was a Global IT director and Web Developer for a number of companies with stints at multimedia and branding agencies in Paris, Los Angeles, New York, Sydney, Hong Kong, Madrid and London before becoming a publisher/blogger.
Seth received a bachelors degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California with a minor in Multimedia and Creative Technology in 1997. In 2004, he received a Masters from NYU’s Tisch School of the Art’s ITP program.
Hobbies: Weintraub is a licensed single engine private pilot, certified open water scuba diver and spent over a year traveling to 60 cities in 23 countries. Whatever free time exists is now guaranteed to his lovely wife and two amazing sons.
More at About.me. BI 2014 profile.
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MacStories reports that Facebook is now showing its videos for the Flash Player-less in HTML5 format. Yes, that means iPhone, iPod and iPad users can now watch Facebook’s own video channel without embedding a Youtube.
According to PC Authority.au, the new MacBook Pro design isn’t as good as dissipating CPU heat as other laptops that run similar hardware. The Core i7 MacBook Pro ran up to 100 degrees on Cinebench testing while a similarly-equipped Fujitsu notebook ran 20 degrees cooler. Tests were done on the MacBook running both Windows and MacOS.
A similar situation occurred in OS X. We’ve included the graph showing the heat output from the MacBook Pro’s sensors below. In it the CPU peaks at 101 degrees, but worryingly the heat buildup in the CPU doesn’t register on the enclosure sensors. This is despite the chassis getting hot to the touch, and the heat buildup being registered on all the hardware-based sensors in the Macbook Pro.
We haven’t had heat issues on our MacBook Pros since the original releases, but we also aren’t running Cinebench over and over again on them either.
Following those exciting ARM/Apple takeover rumours, ARM chief exec, Warren East, has cast some cooling balm upon the party.
Sorry everyone, this one was fake. The headers were copied from here. Shame on us for publishing it.
A reader sfilesends this email from Steve Jobs in:
Hey, Steve.
This leak has gone mainstream…kinda slow until #1.
http://www.cbs.com/e/G_C6sbvmPtEt_mIiDPNUaqkAI7AM_bSC/cbs/2/
Feel free to post a non-Flash/Youtube version in the comments for iProduct users.
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Update: Here’s a video (thanks commenter)
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Steam for Mac went into Beta today. MacStories found some interesting screenshots:
The Mac version of the hugely popular gaming application is very similar to the Windows counterpart, with the same overall colours and look and feel as Valve. Games are accessed in the Library and you can browse the Store.
In early March the company said Portal 2 will be Valve’s first simultaneous release for Mac and Windows when it ships this Holiday season.
“Checking in code produces a PC build and Mac build at the same time, automatically, so the two platforms are perfectly in lock-step,” said Josh Weier, Portal 2 Project Lead.
“We’re always playing a native version on the Mac right alongside the PC. This makes it very easy for us and for anyone using Source to do game development for the Mac.
Adobe is basically saying they’ve given up on Apple’s iPhoneOS products. Principal Product Manager for developer relations for the Flash Platform at Adobe, Mike Chambers lays out the bad news for Flash developers who’d want an easy way to port their apps to iPhone.
While CS5 will still export for the current iPhone, they are warning developers that Apple will probably pull their “100+ apps already built in Flash”from the App Store at some point in the future and, most importantly, Adobe have suspended all investments in Flash CS5’s iPhone App export functionality.
What’s interesting is Chambers says they are going to learn from their experience on the iPhone and put their energy behind Android phones and tablets. He’s excited about Android. But Is Google excited about Flash? Remember, it was Youtube that went to H.264-encoded MP4s (and made lack of Flash on the iPhone that much more bearable). That wasn’t because Google was head over heals for depending on Flash and their technology.
At this point in time, with Google being the underdog in the field, the Android folk are probably looking for differentiators to Apple’s dominant iPhone platform. Flash is definitely different and brings with it hundreds of thousands of ready-built apps. Plus, it is better to have friends in the industry rather than enemies. Speaking of which, no recent Adobe blog post would be complete without a jab at Apple:
To be clear, during the entire development cycle of Flash CS5, the feature complied with Apple
Before they gave it back to Apple, Gizmodo had their way with took apart the iPhone 4 that they bought for $5000. They sure got their money’s worth out of it
Apple beat the street estimates pretty soundly (as well as reported confident guidance), evidenced by after hours trading. AAPL is up 15 points (6%) to 260 in after hours trading. (Update: The price has since fallen back to near closing. Interesting)
Apple today reported record earnings for Q2. Mac and iPhone sales led the way. Apple more than doubled its iPhone sales over the year ago quarter with Mac sales up 33%.
CUPERTINO, California
Apple’s earnings call will begin at 5:00 and will be webcast here. We’ll follow along and report the bigger highlights.
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Honestly, $5000 for the biggest leak in the Steve Jobs era? Also, the bargain of the era.
Interesting that when Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt were having that lunch on March 26th
Today the tech world was hit with arguably the biggest tech leak in history, Gizmodo’s Hands-on with the ‘Next iPhone.’
Looking back at some recent Apple news, we remembered Steve Jobs little chat with Google’s Eric Schmidt. Nobody’s really sure what they were meeting about, but the meeting was hot off the Google vs. Apple feuds. From an eye-witness report, Jobs was heard telling Schmidt:
“They’re going to see it all eventually so who cares how they get it, Let’s go discuss this somewhere more private.” So what do we have here? Did Steve Jobs know about the lost iPhone? Looking at what he said, it sure makes sense that he did.
Poor guy, I mean
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While the Norwegian Prime Minister may be running his country using one (image), we know most customers in the U.K., Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland must wait until next month to get hold of their iPads – now it appears production problems may cause further delays in Apple’s global iPad roll-out.
Citing higher than anticipated demand, Apple last week delayed introduction of the iPad until May in those key new markets noted above. Now it seems screen production difficulties are impacting the speed with which the company can ramp up iPad production.
iSuppli analyst, Andrew Rassweiler, tells Bloomberg production the 9.7-inch screen – previously revealed to be the most expensive single component of the device – is facing problems.
