When Michael Newman was a little kid, he liked to draw new video game levels. Quite literally, the obsessive tinkerer is still doing so, but judging by the Video Game Sans Video project he demoed at the 2013 Maker Faire, his pursuits are anything but juvenile.SEE ALSO: Video Game EvolutionNow a creative director a developer for Pomp productions, his self-owned and operated Los Angeles-based interactive development and product design company, Newman’s latest project harks back to classic wind-up steering games.In Video Game Sans Video, gamers navigate a spaceship in four directions —... Read similar

Alexis Ohanain continues his coversation with Founder Stories host Chris Dixon by discussing some of his activities and interests outside of Reddit. Highlights of their chat include Ohanian telling Dixon he considers Paul Newman, "the OG of social enterprise" and that Newman was the inspiration for Breadpig, Ohanian's organization that creates "geeky things" and donates profits to worthy causes.  On his role as the Y Combinator ambassador to New York, where Ohanain mentors budding New York-based Y Combinator founders, Ohanian notes "you can't spell New York City without YC" and on founding ... Read similar

Modern space suits are large and bulky, heavy, and difficult to move in, but that could be coming to an end in the relatively near future. MIT professor Dava Newman has developed a form-fitting space suit that eliminates most of the bulk, as well as the problems associated with current suits. As a result, the Read The Full StoryRead similar

6pm PT, 9pm ET, 2am GMT — iPhone Live! and iPad Live! join forces tonight with Rene, Chad, Georgia and that angry ball of hate, Keith Newman, to bring you our 2010 Year in Review spectacular! There will be triumphs, tragedies, prizes, and maybe the imbibing of appropriate New Year’s beverages. What could be better [...]iPhone + iPad Live! mega podcast tonight! Year in Review! Join us! is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch BlogRead similar

Our podcast feed Download Directly Subscribe via iTunes Rene, Chad, Georgia, and The Keith Newman talk the top ten iPhone and iPad stories of 2010, top apps, top accessories, and top things we want from Apple in 2011. This is a double dose of iPhone AND [...]iPhone Live 132 + iPad Live 36: Year in Review is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch BlogRead similar

Our podcast feed Download Directly Subscribe via iTunes Rene, Seth, The Keith Newman, Ally, and Leanna talk WWDC 2011 Keynote: iOS 5, iCloud, what it means for Apple, for users, for Jailbreak, and for apps. Yes, we snuck in an early, secret show on you… This is iPhone Live! Hosts Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) Seth Clifford [...]iPhone Live 155: Enter iOS 5 and iCloud is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store. TiPb - The #1 iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch BlogRead similar

Robert Newman, creative director of Reader's Digest, sat down with TMG's Engage to discuss how the magazine made the digital transition to publishing on the iPad. The article offers good advice in how to take a publication digital, as well as how it could influence a print product in return. It's also great for iPad design in general, and is a great reference for those wanting to get into this field. "If there's one crucial mistake that people make on their apps it's that they don't pay enough attention to the text font and the size and the width-and how it navigates," Newman cautions the... Read similar

Have you ever left a restaurant after experiencing either fabulous or really lousy service and went online to write a review of it? Congratulations, you too can now be a restaurant reviewer.Self-described "lifelong entrepreneur" Brad Newman says his ReviewerCard program is a great way for people to let a restaurant or business know they'll be writing a review about it. He's selling Reviewer ID cards for $100 bucks a piece to bloggers he thinks merit ReviewerCard status. He tells the LA Times he screens the applicants to make sure they only go to worthwhile applicants.Newman says he got the ide... Read similar

Shasta Ventures VC Jason Pressman is a newlywed, married to Jessica Newman (now Jessica Pressman). How he got her to say yes is really one of the sweetest stories we've heard in a long time. It all started with an iPhone app called the Tiffany Ring Finder from legendary jeweler Tiffany & Co, Pressman told Business Insider. The app lets you shop for rings and see what they'll look like on your hand. His girlfriend couldn't decide between two rings. Pressman let her believe the decision to ask for her hand was still up in the air when he booked a trip to a tropical island. On the first ... Read similar

We heard in December that one of the FBI's targets at raided hedge fund Diamondback is allegedly Todd Newman, one of the firm's tech portfolio managers. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that a second man, called Jesse Tortora, is also a target of the investigation. "Diamondback...  told clients that investigators... appeared to be focused on that portfolio manager and a former employee who had worked under him. [T]he former employee is Jesse Tortora, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Tortora left Diamondback early last year, saying he was going to work on the West Coast... Read similar