Flexible phones, interviews and books by hacks, VR headsets, and sexism.

• Follow-up on the complexity of computer science versus other fields: quotes and videos from MIT's SICP class (9:00–10:45).
• The death of the iPad 2, the use of sapphire in Apple devices, sapphire versus Gorilla Glass, and the flexible LG phone.
• Haunted Empire, the Jony Ive book, the Jony Ive interview, access to Apple, and hiring hacks for tech stories.
• Sony's Project Morpheus VR headset and initial impressions
  • The Oculus Rift
  • Michael Abrash's blog posts:
    • Two Possible Paths into the Future of Wearable Computing Part 1
    • When it comes to resolution, it's all relative
    • Latency – the sine qua non of AR and VR
    • Raster-Scan Displays: More Than Meets the Eye
    • Game Developers Conference and space-time diagrams
    • Why virtual isn't real to your brain
    • Down the VR rabbit hole: Fixing judder
  • John Carmack and his latency mitigation strategies
  • Casey's birthday party as a child
  • Why Oculus hopes Project Morpheus is good
• The GitHub hubbub, sexism, and how to get better (such as App Camp for Girls).

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