Malware used in attack is popular with the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, Reuters reports. Russian internet giant Yandex reportedly hacked by western intelligence agency – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreCars and trucks now average 11.8 years of age, thanks to a variety of factors including the economy. The average age of cars on America's roads went up again, report says – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreTierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo: The dissent of SCOTUS’ ruling to give gerrymandering a pass from federal judicial review says tech makes it “far more effective and durable than before” — Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan held nothing back in a Thursday dissent criticizing Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion … The dissent of SCOTUS'
Read MoreWitches and wizards will gather for a real-world event. Harry Potter: Wizards Unite's first fan festival is happening this summer – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe foam and wood prototypes that were the foundations of design standards Decades of design from Macintosh SE to 'lisa' by the legendary frog studio – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreApple announced the senior executive’s departure Thursday, saying he will leave later this year to form an independent design company that will count Apple as a client. Ive has been an integral part of the company’s device designs, from 1998’s iMac to the company’s new headquarters. Jony Ive, the Apple design chief who played key
Read MoreJason Koebler / VICE: Jony Ive leaves a legacy of pushing Apple’s products toward disposability and unrepairability, a choice that has reverberated across the consumer tech industry — Ive, Apple’s Chief Design Officer, is leaving the company. He leaves a legacy that made its products hard to repair and impossible to upgrade. Jony Ive leaves
Read MoreOutraged tweets to SCOTUS justices keep going to the wrong Twitter account, with amusing results. Supreme Court critics mocked in 'running of the trolls' – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJohn Gruber / Daring Fireball: It’s not worrying that Jony Ive is leaving Apple, but it is worrying that he’s not being replaced, and the design team reporting to operations makes no sense — First: Wow. There’ve been rumors for years that Ive had one foot out the door, that his last real interest at
Read MoreThere are coffee fans, and then there are coffee fans. The GEESAA robot barista is a product for the latter category of people – and it’s not ashamed of it. Essentially, it wants to do for trendy pour-over coffee what the Mr Coffee machine did for bog-standard drip coffee. The machine comes with a robotic
Read MoreThere’s no positive use case for developing an app with the sole purpose of using AI to predict what a clothed woman, in an image, would look like nude – full stop. Developing such an app, as did the person(s) responsible for Deepnudes, is an act of hate and an attack on women. At best,
Read MoreThe executive played a key role in the iPod and iPhone during his 27 years at Apple, which will be a client of his new company. Jony Ive, Designer Who Made Apple Look Like Apple, Is Leaving to Start a Firm Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreHave you been watching Chernobyl? Well, so has everyone else. Right now it seems the whole Internet is comprised of armchair dosimetrists counting roentgens in their sleep, but [Mark Wright] doesn’t need a high-budget TV show to tell him about the challenges of wrangling the atom with 1980s technology. He’s done it for real. His
Read MoreJony Ive — aka Sir Jonathan Ive, who for the last two-plus decades has been the creative mind behind nearly all of Apple’s iconic hardware — is officially parting ways with the technology company to form his own design firm, LoveFrom. And even though Ive’s firm will continue to work with Apple from the outside,
Read MoreDeadspin A Scout’s Honor | The Slot Adam Scott and Mitch McConnell Are in a Fight Involving Parks and Recreation GIFs and the Confederate Flag | Splinter Twitter Comes Up With a Very Weird Solution to the Problem Of Trump’s Tweets | The Grapevine If Chaka Khan Had Heard Kanye West’s Final Sample of Her Song, She… Read more…
Read MoreDarrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Volkswagen launches WeShare, an on-demand rental car service with only electric cars, initially in Berlin, says it will expand to Prague and Hamburg in 2020 — Making good on plans revealed last year to debut an EV-exclusive car sharing service, Volkswagen is actually launching its fleet for customers … Volkswagen launches
Read MoreThe eBook market is most closely associated with four prominent players: Apple, Amazon, Barnes and Noble’s, and Rakuten, which makes the Kobo eReaders. But it’s easy to forget that Microsoft once owned its own eBook marketplace. Now, in 2019, it’s exiting this business. That’s not really a surprise. Microsoft’s good at a lot of things,
Read More{$inline_image}Twitter revealed today it will be adding a special label to certain tweets — namely those that violate Twitter’s terms of service, but which somehow serve public interest by remaining up. To be clear, Twitter’s been leaving such tweets up for quite some time — now it’s just managed to find a happy medium between
Read MoreSouthwest and United Airlines have extended the cancellation of flights using Boeing 737 Max aircraft, following the news that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has discovered a new flaw in the plane’s flight computer. Southwest Airlines had previously announced it would begin using the 737 Max again starting September 2nd, as long as the plane
Read MoreToday, the Supreme Court blocked a crucial citizenship question from being added to the 2020 U.S. census—a question President Trump couldn’t help but chime in on. Read more… Why the 2020 U.S. Census Could Change Everything, According to an Expert
Read MoreStaying home alone without your parents is a major childhood rite of passage; but during an age in which parents are afraid to even leave their kids in the car for a minute while they grab something from the store, figuring out when they’re ready can be a real challenge. Read more… How to Know
Read MoreApple’s chief design officer Jonathan Ive is departing the company, bringing an end to a tenure spent crafting some of technology’s most influential products, including the iPhone. Ive is leaving his official role at Apple “to form an independent design company which will count Apple among its primary clients.” The company is called LoveForm, and
Read MoreIt’ll gauge crowdedness based on previous rides. Google Maps will now tell you how packed your train will be – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreOne contractor was fired after including music from blue-collar rocker Bruce Springsteen in his profile, The Washington Post reports. Tension reportedly grows as Facebook moderators post complaint to internal forum – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreNo Wonder Woman, but Game of Thrones, Westworld and more are all confirmed now. Comic-Con 2019: From Game of Thrones to Batwoman, here's what we're most excited to see – CNET Source: CNet
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