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Steve Jobs' Widow to Spend $50M to Unfreeze Schools

'Start from scratch,' says Laurene Powell Jobs

(Newser) - Steve Jobs' innovative spirit lives on through his widow, Laurene Powell Jobs. The Emerson Collective founder wants to revolutionize the way high school students are taught in the US, and is putting $50 million behind the initiative. "The system was created for the work force we needed 100 years...

A Lesson on Life, Fatherhood From Steve Jobs
A Lesson on Life,
Fatherhood From Steve Jobs
OPINION
Aug 8, 2015 10:00 AM CDT

A Lesson on Life, Fatherhood From Steve Jobs

Nick Bilton passes it along after the birth of his son

(Newser) - The birth of his son has Nick Bilton thinking about the lessons he'd like to pass along, and he relays one in the New York Times courtesy of the example of Steve Jobs. It begins when Jobs had lunch with a mutual friend, and he twice sent back orange...

Tim Cook Offered Steve Jobs Part of His Liver

But Jobs staunchly refused: new book

(Newser) - As Steve Jobs got sicker, in need of a liver transplant, the man who would replace him at Apple—Tim Cook—offered up part of his own liver. The story comes via Fast Company 's excerpt of Becoming Steve Jobs , a biography by Brent Schlender and Fast Company Executive...

Apple Wins $1B iTunes Case
 Apple Wins $1B iTunes Case 
Dec 17, 2014 12:45 AM CST

Apple Wins $1B iTunes Case

Trial included testimony from Steve Jobs

(Newser) - After just three hours of deliberation, a federal jury decided yesterday that Apple didn't compete unfairly when it sold music players and songs with copy-protection software that was incompatible with rival devices and music from competing online stores. The jury handed Apple a victory by rejecting a claim from...

Steve Jobs to Testify in Apple Trial

Deposition could be bad news for firm in antitrust suit

(Newser) - Steve Jobs is remarkably busy for a dead man. Not only has the Apple founder received 141 patents since his death in 2011, he will be the star witness in a class-action antitrust lawsuit set to open in California today. The case will feature a videotaped deposition from Jobs, as...

Steve Jobs Has 141 Patents —Since Dying

His name keeps coming up on new inventions

(Newser) - The MIT Technology Review unearths a stat that it thinks is a pretty good indicator of Steve Jobs' legacy: The Apple founder has received 141 patents since his death in 2011. An example of one of these post-death patents is the glass-cube design outside the Apple Store in Manhattan. The...

Steve Jobs Is Getting a Stamp

We're totally iMessaging people to tell them to expect the letter

(Newser) - Steve Jobs loved keeping his products under wraps, so he'd probably be annoyed that word has leaked a year early that the US Postal Service plans to immortalize him on a stamp*. A document obtained by the Washington Post reveals the USPS' stamp plans through 2016. The list includes...

Steve Jobs' 1983 Time Capsule Uncovered

With some pretty cool stuff inside

(Newser) - A massive time capsule put in the ground during 1983's Aspen International Design Conference earned the nickname the "Steve Jobs Time Capsule" after he dropped his own computer mouse into it. The pod was supposed to be unearthed in 2000, but construction in Aspen caused organizers to lose...

Steve Jobs' Old Home Gets Historical Protection

It's where he and Wozniak built the first Apples

(Newser) - The Silicon Valley home where Apple co-founder Steve Jobs grew up and built some of his first computers is now on the city's list of historic properties. The historical commission in the city of Los Altos voted unanimously for the historic designation last night, the Palo Alto Daily News...

Jobs Less Enjoyable Than an Apple Ad

 Jobs Less 
 Enjoyable Than 
 an Apple Ad 
MOVIE REVIEW
Aug 16, 2013 7:13 AM CDT

Jobs Less Enjoyable Than an Apple Ad

Kutcher does OK as Apple founder Steve Jobs

(Newser) - It looks as though most critics are ready to throw apples at the new Jobs flick, starring Ashton Kutcher and directed by Joshua Michael Stern. They say it focuses too much on Steve Jobs' professional life and not enough on his personal life, and ends up being something less entertaining...

Oracle's Ellison: Apple Is Lost Without Steve Jobs

Outspoken tech leader thinks company is in trouble

(Newser) - One bigwig in the tech industry is making headlines this morning for dissing another. Oracle CEO didn't mention Apple's Tim Cook, but he made clear in an interview with CBS that he thinks Apple will flounder without Steve Jobs. Asked by Charlie Rose about the post-Jobs era, Ellison...

Steve Jobs' Widow Dating Former DC Mayor

She and Adrian Fenty in 'budding romance,' says Washington Post

(Newser) - The Reliable Source column at the Washington Post has a gossipy piece about two people who don't usually show up in gossipy pieces. It says Laurene Powell Jobs, the 49-year-old widow of Steve, is in a "budding romance" with former DC Mayor Adrian Fenty, 42. The connection? Fenty...

5 Stars Whose Siblings Are Crazy Talented

James Cameron's brother: aerospace engineer

(Newser) - We've all heard of Steve Jobs, James Cameron, and Art Garfunkel, but the siblings of those stars and more are also pretty darn impressive in their own right. Cracked offers up five such examples:
  • Mona Simpson, Jobs' sister, has won a ton of awards and literary prizes for her
...

How Playing Steve Jobs Landed Kutcher in Hospital

'Fruitarian' diet can be a little risky, Ashton says

(Newser) - Playing Steve Jobs was "terrifying" in many ways, Ashton Kutcher tells the AP —and it also landed him in the hospital. While preparing for his role in jOBS, Kutcher watched hundreds of hours of Jobs footage, listened to the Apple founder's speeches, and talked to his friends....

Why Steve Wozniak Hates the First Steve Jobs Movie Clip

Scene from 'jOBS' isn't accurate, he complains (but later cools down)

(Newser) - The first clip from the Steve Jobs movie jOBS came out this week , and one of the main players isn't too happy. Steve Wozniak complains to Gizmodo that the clip (with Ashton Kutcher as Jobs) isn't accurate. Here's a sample:
  • In a comment on the website: "
...

Swartz Suicide: Proof Our Sense of Humor Is Fading

Tim Lee: Let's not lock up our unruly geniuses

(Newser) - Aaron Swartz's suicide left many of us grieving the loss of a brilliant Internet prodigy . It also showed that America has begun losing "the sense of humor that has made it the home of the world’s innovators and misfits," writes Tim Lee at the Washington Post...

Steve Jobs' Superyacht Impounded

Over a bill issued after he was dead

(Newser) - Dead people are always such deadbeats. That includes Steve Jobs, whose Dutch-built "superyacht" has been impounded in Amsterdam, the AFP reports, over two bills issued after he died. The yacht's designer, Philippe Starck, says Jobs' estate is stiffing him; the estate says Starck should only get a percentage...

5 Myths About Apple
 5 Myths 
 About Apple 
OPINION
Dec 1, 2012 12:25 PM CST

5 Myths About Apple

Darrell Etherington knocks down some common misconceptions

(Newser) - Apple is bound to lose its edge without Steve Jobs in charge, yes? Not so fast, writes Darrell Etherington at the Washington Post . In busting "Five Myths About Apple," he writes that it's easy to take Jobs successor Tim Cook for granted. But Cook "is far...

With Sinofsky Exit, Microsoft Loses Its Steve Jobs

Farhad Manjoo: Who cares if Windows boss was kind of mean?

(Newser) - Farhad Manjoo pulls no punches when it comes to the departure of Windows chief Steve Sinofsky from Microsoft: It's like FDR firing Dwight Eisenhower on D-Day. Of course, both Sinofsky and Microsoft are trying to paint this as a mutual, amicable decision, but that's ridiculous, Manjoo writes on...

Finally, at Tim Cook's Apple: Perks

Things are getting a little rosier for employees

(Newser) - One big change at Apple under Tim Cook: The company is much more open to employee perks. Steve Jobs famously resisted perks common to other Silicon Valley companies, like free lunches, because he thought the chance to work at such an influential company was reason enough for employees to stay....

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