Apple announced the iPhone 5S with a fingerprint reader in the home button. Touch ID. Half of HN says biometrics are the future, half says you can’t rotate your fingerprint like a password, and one guy is explaining how he’ll lift prints with gummy bears. I love this website. There’s also a plastic 5C in colors, which exists so the 5S looks premium. Pricing psychology: noted.
EPL season is a month in and my auto-picked Fantasy Premier League team (two goalkeepers, no striker) somehow won gameweek one. I have opinions about formations now. This is how they get you.
Grand Theft Auto V comes out Tuesday. My PC is dusted off. The review embargo lifted and it’s straight 10s. They spent $265 million making it, more than most startups will ever raise, and it’ll earn that back in a day. Games are the biggest media business nobody at my office takes seriously.
TIL: what a CDN actually does. Our images were being served from one server in Virginia to users in Singapore. Put CloudFront in front, and page load dropped 3 seconds. Three seconds. The speed of light is a real constraint and I find that delightful.