The Coinbase blog : Today, we are excited to release a new bitcoin tip button for accepting micropayments anywhere on the web. The tip button can be easily added to any web page and enables website visitors to tip using a Coinbase account or other bitcoin wallet. Coinbase introduced today a very interesting way to make tips to people.This button doesn’t revolutionize anything, it’s very lookalike of the Flattr button, but adds the benefit of using Bitcoins for payments, which decrease the Credit Card fees, which can be a problem for transferring little amounts of money.…

After a 10 year voyage, ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft finally landed it’s Philæ module on the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet. As you’ve might saw it on the news, this was a big achievement and a marvelous job made by the scientists at the European Space Agency. As you might think, I’m incredibly proud of them, and by the fact that this was made possible because countries, instead of fighting against each other, chose to be on the same side and make great things all together.…

If you’ve ever tried to use RSS on iOS, Reeder is an app that you’ve must have stumbled upon. Described as the best RSS app for iOS for a long time by most of the tech scene (and replaced by Jared Sinclair’s/SupertopUnread by some Apple podcasters), Reeder is still my go-to app when I have to tackle some of my untidy RSS feed. updated for iOS 7 with Reeder 2, Silvio Rizzi finally releases an update for iOS 8.…

So, last Thursday, I posted a blog post about the new Nuzzel iPad app, saying that this update (to the already existing iPhone app) and various feedback from famous writers made me rethink a bit my work-flow. So here I am, more than a week after. The problem of not being a professional blogger. So, first, I have to make a huge disclaimer before beginning to talk about my experience : things didn’t go as I would have expected.…

The switch to Squarespace may have broke all the previous links made on Wordpress. To fix this, just put ‘/blog/’ between the domain name (http://lawgier.net) and the “slug” (/2014/10/XX/name-of-the-article) in your address bar. Thanks. So, here we are, dealing with my need to experiment things. Testing everything. Never be satisfied. Avoir la bougeotte (have ants in one’s pants would be a good translation). Before launching the website, I moved to many platforms : Ghost, Scriptogr.…

Timothy B. Lee, for Vox : I mostly agree with my colleague Matt Yglesias’s argument that Amazon is doing the world a favor by crushing book publishers. But there’s at least one way US law gives Amazon excessive power, to the detriment of publishers, authors, and the reading public: ill-conceived copyright regulations lock consumers into Kindle’s book platform, making it hard for new e-book platforms to gain traction. Both Yglesias’s (linked in the quote) and Lee’s arguments are very interesting for me.…

When you see a product that you know, but don’t expect being reviewed by both Jason Snell and Federico Vittci, it might give you a totality different approach on it. In this case, the product is Nuzzel. What is Nuzzel? Jason Snell introduces it way better that I could : Nuzzel is a free web site and iOS app that mines your Twitter and Facebook networks and shows you the newest or most popular links.…

Re/Code : Apple and GT Advanced Technologies struck an agreement on Tuesday that will let GT begin the shutdown of key Arizona operations and will shed some more light on why the former stock market darling abruptly filed for bankruptcy this month. So it seems that we’re about to know what really happened in this case. This should give us some insight about Apple’s manufacturing deals with it’s parteners, if GT did or did not meet the expectations (and what were they), and under how much pressure was GT on.…

Glenn Fleishman, writing for Six Colors : The same principles that motivated Netflix to sign the Sandler deal should motivate Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to do the same thing—only for fiber-optic broadband Internet service in the United States, and maybe elsewhere. And for nearly the same reason. “Dear sir,” I hear you cry over the interwebs, “You’ve lost your mind.” No, no, hear me out, folks. As these tech giants find themselves increasingly dependent on Internet service providers like Comcast, AT&T, Cablevision, and Verizon, and with those companies wanting “fast-lane” exemptions to network neutrality rules (which are murky at the moment following court decisions) the easy way to keep a connection to consumers without being at the mercy of the broadband providers is to build it themselves.…

Federico Viticci : iOS 8.1 brings bug fixes, speed improvements, and interface changes, but it also enables Continuity features such as Text Message Forwarding and Instant Hotspot, allowing iOS devices to better integrate with each other and Macs running OS X Yosemite. With iOS 8.1, Apple is opening access to its iCloud Photo Library beta – an iCloud service that stores all your photos from all your devices, in a single library that relays changes to every device.…