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The Daily optimizes app for new iPad

The debut of the new iPad today marks a media milestone as Rupert Murdoch’s nascent digital publication The Daily will soon become the world’s first HD newspaper — and it paves the way for others to follow suit.

The techies behind the cutting-edge, Big Apple-based periodical are busy designing an updated version of the Daily’s app that is optimized to run on the tablet’s new ultra-high-definition screen, with a pixel density of 2,048 by 1,536.

“The changes will be notable for the readers who have the new iPad,” said the Daily’s publisher, Greg Clayman, in an interview. “We design to make sure everything looks fantastic.

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The Only ‘iPad 3’ Story You Need To Read

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The latest round of next-iPad speculation kicked off with a post on the Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD site predicting an introduction in the first week in March. Follow-up coverage pointed to a March 7 date, and then a WSJ piece Tuesday reported that a new iPad would run on AT&T and Verizon’s 4G LTE networks.

That timing, however, should surprise nobody. Over the past few years, Apple has updated its mobile devices about once a year (aside from the iPhone 4S’s delayed arrival in October). The first iPad reached stores in April of 2010 and its successor shipped in March of 2011, so a March unveiling for an “iPad 3” would be right on schedule.

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newyorker: The Story of a Suicide He talked about Tyler’s senior year in high school. “I would characterize him as a child growing up,” he said. “He was getting more into being fashion-conscious. Now, this kid, he had to dress for orchestra—since he was seven, he was wearing suits and ties. But he was getting more trendy, in the last year or so.” Jane Clementi recalled that, not long before his death, Tyler had bought a spectacular new pair of glasses—bright green on the inside of the stems. His father said, “He was definitely trying to express himself.” They never saw any sign of depression, and can’t even see it retrospectively. “As a parent, what it says to me is that what you think you know, you don’t know,” Joseph Clementi said. “And that’s a hard thing, because we all think, I know what my kid’s up to. You don’t.” On the night Jane Clementi learned that Tyler was gay, she said, “I told him not to hurt himself.” Not long before, a girl from his school had committed suicide. “We had talked about it briefly that summer, and for some reason that thought came to mind. And all I said was ‘Don’t hurt yourself,’ and he looked me right in the eye and he laughed, and said, ‘I would never do anything like that.’ ” - In this week’s issue, Ian Parker gives the first in-depth assessment of the Tyler Clementi case, told through a series of exclusive interviews & IM conversations: http://nyr.kr/AeSgrV

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The Story of a Suicide

He talked about Tyler’s senior year in high school. “I would characterize him as a child growing up,” he said. “He was getting more into being fashion-conscious. Now, this kid, he had to dress for orchestra—since he was seven, he was wearing suits and ties. But he was getting more trendy, in the last year or so.” Jane Clementi recalled that, not long before his death, Tyler had bought a spectacular new pair of glasses—bright green on the inside of the stems. His father said, “He was definitely trying to express himself.”

They never saw any sign of depression, and can’t even see it retrospectively. “As a parent, what it says to me is that what you think you know, you don’t know,” Joseph Clementi said. “And that’s a hard thing, because we all think, I know what my kid’s up to. You don’t.”

On the night Jane Clementi learned that Tyler was gay, she said, “I told him not to hurt himself.” Not long before, a girl from his school had committed suicide. “We had talked about it briefly that summer, and for some reason that thought came to mind. And all I said was ‘Don’t hurt yourself,’ and he looked me right in the eye and he laughed, and said, ‘I would never do anything like that.’ ”

- In this week’s issue, Ian Parker gives the first in-depth assessment of the Tyler Clementi case, told through a series of exclusive interviews & IM conversations: http://nyr.kr/AeSgrV