The BB-8 gets gold and shiny for charity

This could be the droid you’re looking for… if you like them gold and sparkly, that is. Kay Jewelers pimped the BB-8 droid by throwing in some gold and diamonds on it. The gold droid comes in at four inches tall and weighs over 1.5 pounds. It’s covered with 18-karat yellow gold and 18 carats of diamonds that top at 860 stones. As for the price, it’s been appraised at US$135,000. The golden droid was created by Kay Jewelers as part of the Force 4 Fashion event held on Wednesday in New York City. It’s a fundraising event where fashion designers are prompted to reimagine Star Wars costumes. This luxurious BB-8 droid is up for auction with its proceeds going to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. No details on the auction are up just yet.

Source: CNET

Apple releases Swift programming language into open source

Apple has released its Swift programming language, used for developing iOS and Mac OS applications and programs, into open source. Swift was developed two years ago as a replacement to Objective-C as a simplified yet powerful deveilopment tool.

Apple says Swift is, "the fastest growing programming language in history and combines the performance and efficiency of compiled languages with the simplicity and interactivity of popular scripting languages.

Apple today also launched the Swift.org website with detailed information about Swift open source, including technical documentation, community resources and links to download the Swift source code.

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Earn cash by watching ads through Caddle

A new iOS app and service called Caddle is hoping to make it easier for consumers to earn money from watching and engaging within the app. Users can earn up to $20 per hour by interacting with Caddle. You can earn this by watching short ads and providing feedback about Caddle’s advertisers. This product-focused app hopes to compensate users for their efforts of engaging within the app as well as entice them in a way to check out the products seen within the app. It’s your call to engage with the app when you want to and even share your discoveries via social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

Twitter introduces simpler login option for tvOS

Trying to enter your username and password on Apple TV is a bit of a cumbersome affair. Twitter hopes to make it easier for you to login to your Apple TV with its Digits service being rolled out now to tvOS developers. The screen shows an authentication code which users enter at digits.com/appletv on a different device. This will complete the authentication process and personalized settings should take effect afterwards. And according to Twitter, it just needs a “few lines of code” for Digits to work.

Source: Digits | Via: Apple Insider