Windows 8 primer: how to navigate Microsoft’s new operating system
The gestures, keyboard shortcuts, and tips you need to get your bearings in Windows 8 and Windows RT
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K-Pop takes America: how South Korea’s music machine is conquering the world
The internet brought K-Pop to the US, but can it go mainstream? Joseph Flatley investigates. Your playlist is here.
K-Pop, in case you haven’t been paying attention, is a particularly catchy and calculating strain of Korean popular music that somehow manages to simultaneously sound like just about every contemporary musical genre, a conflation of the various strains of electronic dance music — mostly trance, electro, and dubstep — arranged in conventional pop song structure. In addition to taking off in Asia in a big way, K-Pop has found some popularity in the United States, more as a subculture than as a bona fide phenomenon in the west.
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The rule that really matters in tech:
Moore’s law that computer processing power doubles every 18 months is 47 years years old. While long in the tooth, Moore’s prediction still has plenty of life in it. Here’s why.
For artists, especially, the only way to not be used by the Internet is either to not use it, which is ridiculous, or to make something out of it. Later, you can worry about what it makes you.
Apple, Microsoft, Google, and others team up to support standards site Web Platform Docs
Web development has become increasingly complex in recent years, and now a new website has launched — with the backing of several major industry players — in an effort to become the definitive resource for developers looking to explore web standards. Web Platform Docs, which launched today in a self-described “alpha” form, wants to become “the place to come for answers to your trickiest (and simplest) development and design questions about the Open Web Platform.” The project is backed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards body, as well as the likes of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and others.
