Parag Agrawal / @paraga: Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal says that Elon Musk has decided not to join Twitter’s board despite being offered a seat — Elon has decided not to join our board. I sent a brief note to the company, sharing with you all here. https://twitter.com/…
Read MorePhoto by PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk is no longer going to join Twitter’s board, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has announced in a message to the company. Agrawal last week confirmed that Musk would be appointed to the board following his purchase of 9.2 percent of the company’s shares, but now says that
Read MoreTaylor Soper / GeekWire: After Musk asks if Twitter should convert its San Francisco HQ into a “homeless shelter since no one shows up anyway”, Jeff Bezos notes Amazon’s Seattle shelter — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took some time out of his Sunday afternoon to respond to a tweet from Elon Musk …
Read MoreTeaching people efficiently isn’t limited to transmitting material from one head to another — it’s also about conveying the principles that got us there. [Mara Bos] shows us a toolkit (Twitter, nitter link) that you can arm your students with, creating a small playground where, given a set of constraints, they can invent and figure
Read MoreWhat you need to know Three Apple TV+ titles broke into the top ten of streaming last week. “CODA,” “Severance,” and “Slow Horses” all made it into the top ten. “CODA” still held its position as a top-three title after its Oscar win. Apple TV+ had a monster week. Apple TV+ had a monster performance
Read MoreBloomberg: Despite Amazon spending almost a decade and $2B+ developing drone delivery services, sources say it’s still beset by technical challenges, safety concerns, more — Jeff Bezos went on 60 Minutes in 2013 and pledged to fill the skies with a fleet of delivery drones that could zip parcels to customers’ homes in 30 minutes.
Read MoreA funny thing happened on the way to the delta. The one on Jezero crater on Mars, that is, as the Perseverance rover may have captured a glimpse of the parachute that helped deliver it to the Red Planet a little over a year ago. Getting the rover safely onto the Martian surface was an
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Players on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita are having trouble accessing their digital purchases after a strange expiration date suddenly appeared on certain games, as first reported by Kotaku. The problem seems to mostly affect classic titles, preventing users from playing Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, and Final Fantasy
Read MoreWhat you need to know Some Studio Display owners are having issues updating their display to the latest firmware. Apple is telling customers to call Apple Support or even bring the display in for repair. The Studio Display is also still waiting on an update to fix its poor camera quality. The Studio Display problems
Read MorePolice pulled over the Cruise vehicle for not having its headlights on. | Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images It’s been a little over two months since Cruise started letting the people of San Francisco catch rides on its driverless robotaxis, and one of its cars already had a run-in with police. In
Read MoreIf you want to build your own rover, there’s plenty of cheap RC trucks out there that will provide a serviceable chassis to work with. Looking to go airborne with a custom drone? Thanks to the immense popularity of first-person view (FPV) flying, you’ll find a nearly infinite variety of affordable fixed wing and quadcopter
Read MoreWhat you need to know YouTube has officially ended the testing of its picture-in-picture feature on the iPhone and iPad. Picture-in-picture was available as an experimental feature for YouTube Premium subscribers. The feature is no longer available for new testers or any non-Premium users. When is YouTube going to finally launch this thing? Who knows
Read MoreJackie Snow / Wall Street Journal: A look at the regulations cities like New York, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Helsinki, and others are adopting as they increasingly use AI to provide public services — A look at what New York, London, Barcelona and other places are doing to establish regulations that other cities—and countries—may want to copy
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple is expected to launch two new Macs in the middle of the year. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, one of those is “likely” to be the new MacBook Air. Gurman says that the company could unveil the new laptop at WWDC. We might get some hardware at this year’s
Read MoreWhat you need to know Apple is set to introduce new health-tracking features at this year’s WWDC. The features will be available on both the iPhone and Apple Watch. The report comes from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The iPhone and Apple Watch might get a big health boost this fall. Apple has continuously been adding built-in
Read More[Advanced Tinkering] needed a source of fresh ozone for some future chemistry related projects, and since buying an off-the-shelf unit would be, well, just plain boring, it was obvious what to do (Video, embedded below). Wire mesh discharge surfaces separated with a glass tube The concept of the corona-discharge ozone generator is pretty straightforward —
Read MoreThe iMore show brings you everything you need to know about the week in iPhone, iPad, Watch, TV, Mac, and Apple! This week on the iMore Show, Luke, Karen, and Stephen talk about WWDC! Listen now Subscribe in iTunes: Audio Subscribe in RSS: Audio Download directly: Audio Watch now Links Apple announces an online WWDC
Read MoreThe MacBook Pro is where power meets portability, and it’s not an inexpensive computer — this laptop is an investment. If you take it with you on the go, you’ll want to use a sleeve to protect your MacBook Pro from damage in case of accidental drops and bumps. Be sure to match your sleeve
Read MoreApple’s spring event is behind us as our attention turns to June. Though Apple’s first media event of the year was just a month ago, all eyes are already on the company’s next major shindig: WWDC. Now that WWDC 2022 has been officially announced, we know exactly when and where (and how) it will take
Read MoreCredit: Roger Fingas / Android Authority Opinion post by Roger Fingas Moving has always been my most dreaded chore, and the move my wife, son, and I are embarking on this year will probably be the biggest in our lifetimes. We’re relocating from the US to my native Canada ― and as if immigration, selling
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: beta versions of iOS 16, codenamed Sydney, are “chock-full” of references to Apple’s AR headset and its interactions with the iPhone — Apple is set to hold its developers conference virtually for the third year in a row. Expect major iOS and watchOS upgrades, and perhaps some new Macs.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta is following the Oversight Board’s recommendation to remove an exception that permitted users to share a person’s residential address as long as it’s “publicly available,” the Facebook parent company announced in an updated post (via Engadget). Meta’s response comes about a year after the company asked the
Read MoreAssembling a computer yourself is a good way to learn how they work.
Read MoreIf you’re finished with Mouthful Mode, there’s other adventures that await. If you’ve finished Kirby and the Forgotten Land only to find yourself asking “Okay, so what’s next?” then we have you covered. There’s plenty of expansive games available on the Nintendo Switch that aren’t brutally difficult, allowing you to zone out a bit and
Read More[Avian]’s dad got a new ham radio transceiver with a 3.5 mm jack, and his pile-of-cables got him a headphone cable from Bose headphones. He built a DB9 to 3.5 mm adapter with that one – and it failed to let data through, outputting distorted garbage of a waveform instead. With a function generator and
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