Not exactly app-maker friendly.
But they do claim to be first to have squeezed the price of the tech to maker-friendly levels.
Maker-friendly cities are home to new enterprises, including companies that make everything from jewelry to drones to barstools to apps.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation unveiled the next generation of its low-cost microprocessor, the Pi 2, today — adding a quad-core chip and double the memory, while retaining the $35 price-tag — taking the maker-friendly hardware "firmly into the PC space", as they put it.
"I am deeply committed to didactic exchange of information, and I employ mostly open-source and maker-friendly technologies, unless the spirit of the work demands something other," he says.
(Schwendener) Brooklyn Museum: 'Keith Haring: 1978-1982' (through July 8) Heavy on the party photographs and punk-to-New Wave soundtrack, this show repackages the mythic Haring — club kid, Warhol protégé and maker of friendly street art — for a younger generation.
It looked as if the museum had simply repackaged the mythic Haring — club kid, Warhol protégé and maker of friendly street art — for a younger generation, glamorizing the permissive culture of downtown New York in the 1970s and '80s.
If the administration wants to influence public opinion and policy makers in friendly and neutral countries, it must practice what it preaches to the rest of the world.
You report that the White House has "distanced itself from a secret Pentagon directive that would authorize the military to carry out covert operations to influence public opinion and policy makers in friendly and neutral countries" (news article, Dec. 17).
Seventh Generation, the Burlington, Vt., maker of environmentally friendly cleaning, home care and body care products, hopes its promise to switch to sustainable palm oil by 2012 will keep critics at bay.
Here's a surprise turn of events: SoftBank — maker of the friendly Pepper robot and a major M&A player in the tech world — has just announced that it is acquiring two more robotics companies from Google owner Alphabet as part of its own deeper move into the field: it is buying Big Dog developer Boston Dynamics and the secretive bipedal robotics firm Schaft.
