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Twitter now puts live broadcasts at the top of your timeline
Sep 15, 9:55PM
Twitter will now put live streams and broadcasts started by accounts you follow at the top of your timeline, making it easier to see what they’re doing in realtime. In a tweet, Twitter said that that the new feature will include breaking news, personalities and sports. The social networking giant included the new feature in its […]
A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your iPhone
Sep 15, 9:29PM
A security researcher has found a new way to crash and restart any iPhone — with just a few lines of code. Sabri Haddouche tweeted a proof-of-concept webpage with just 15 lines of code which, if visited, will crash and restart an iPhone or iPad. Those on macOS may also see Safari freeze when opening […]
Original Content podcast: Netflix's 'Insatiable' is even worse than you've heard
Sep 15, 8:48PM
“Insatiable,” the Netflix comedy about an overweight high school girl who suddenly becomes slim and beautiful thanks to having her jaw wired shut for a summer, has been drawing controversy ever since its first trailer went online. The reviews for the show were almost uniformly negative, yet they didn’t quite prepare me for the terribleness of […]
Everyday home gear made smart
Sep 15, 6:00PM
If you only have one smart home device, it's likely something simple and fun like a voice-controlled speaker or color-changing LED light bulb. As you expand your smart home setup, you can begin to swap out gear that isn't as flashy but you still use everyday.
In VC fund creation, have we passed the peak?
Sep 15, 5:07PM
In venture capital, a variant on the Glengarry Glen Ross mandate is most fund managers' modus operandi: Always. Be. Raising.
FEMA to send its first 'Presidential Alert' in emergency messaging system test
Sep 15, 1:53PM
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will this week test a new “presidential alert” system that will allow the president to send a message to every phone in the US. The alert is the first nationwide test of the presidential alert test, FEMA said in an advisory, which allows the president to address the nation in the […]
Why the Pentagon's $10 billion JEDI deal has cloud companies going nuts
Sep 15, 1:09PM
By now you’ve probably heard of the Defense Department’s massive winner-take-all $10 billion cloud contract dubbed the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (or JEDI for short). Star Wars references aside, this contract is huge, even by government standards.The Pentagon would like a single cloud vendor to build out its enterprise cloud, believing rightly or wrongly that […]
North Korea skirts US sanctions by secretly selling software around the globe
Sep 15, 1:29AM
Fake social media profiles are useful for more than just sowing political discord among foreign adversaries, as it turns out. A group linked to the North Korean government has been able to duck existing sanctions on the country by concealing its true identity and developing software for clients abroad. This week, the US Treasury issued […]
This is how much VCs are paid
Sep 15, 12:17AM
Venture capital is known for being an opaque industry, so it's no surprise most of us have no idea what the average VC earns in a year.
NASA's climate-monitoring space laser is the last to ride to space on a Delta II rocket
Sep 14, 11:32PM
This weekend, NASA is launching a new, high-tech satellite to monitor the planet's glacier and sea ice levels — with space lasers, naturally. ICESat-2 will be a huge boon for climatologists, and it's also a bittersweet occasion: it will be the final launch aboard the trusty Delta II rocket, which has been putting birds in the air for nearly 30 years.
Inside Planet Labs' new satellite manufacturing site
Sep 14, 11:19PM
Satellite imaging and analytics company Planet is taking the wraps off its new manufacturing space in San Francisco. Founded by ex-NASA employees, Planet is leveraging some of the $183 million in funding it’s amassed to expand. In the basement of a nondescript office building in the middle of Harrison Street in San Francisco, Planet is […]
Three years later, Let's Encrypt has issued over 380 million HTTPS certificates
Sep 14, 9:48PM
Bon anniversaire, Let’s Encrypt! The free-to-use nonprofit was founded in 2014 in part by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and is backed by Akamai, Google, Facebook, Mozilla and more. Three years ago Friday, it issued its first certificate. Since then, the numbers have exploded. To date, more than 380 million certificates have been issued on 129 million unique […]
California is 'launching our own damn satellite' to track pollution, with help from Planet
Sep 14, 9:44PM
California plans to launch a satellite to monitor pollution in the state and contribute to climate science, Governor Jerry Brown announced today. The state is partnering with satellite imagery purveyor Planet to create a custom craft to "pinpoint – and stop – destructive emissions with unprecedented precision, on a scale that's never been done before."
Senator claps back after Ajit Pai calls California's net neutrality bill 'radical' and 'illegal'
Sep 14, 9:18PM
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has provoked a senatorial response from California after calling the "nanny state's" new net neutrality legislation "radical," "anti-consumer," "illegal," and "burdensome." Senator Scott Wiener (D-CA), in response, said Pai has "abdicated his responsibility to ensure an open internet" and that the FCC lacks the authority to intervene.
Twitch updates security for its TwitchCon event following the Jacksonville esports shooting
Sep 14, 8:00PM
Twitch is today announcing changes to its security procedures for its TwitchCon event taking place in San Jose, California on October 26-28. The update follows news of the tragic shooting at an esports event in Jacksonville, Florida last month where three people died, including the shooter, and 11 were injured. Twitch said it would review its […]
UK warns of satellite and space surveillance problems in case of Brexit 'no deal'
Sep 14, 6:52PM
The U.K. government says that access to satellites and space surveillance programs will suffer in the event of a “no deal” departure from the European Union . Britain has less than six months to go before the country leaves the 28-member state bloc, after a little over half the country voted to withdraw membership from […]
ChargePoint is adding 2.5M electric vehicle chargers over the next 7 years
Sep 14, 6:44PM
Electric vehicles still make up just a fraction of the cars, trucks and SUVs on the road today. But that’s changing: The number of electric and plug-in hybrid cars on the world’s roads exceeded 3 million in 2017. By 2025, there are expected to be 20 million electric vehicles in just North America and Europe. […]
The new iPhone's here, so Google wants to talk Pixel 3
Sep 14, 6:31PM
In the off-chance you haven't already had your fill of phone news for the week, Google just offered up a few friendly reminders that it's got its own handset coming out in the not so distant future. The company's event isn't happening until early next month, but Google's started with the teasers. Here’s a site […]
The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now it's dead
Sep 14, 6:29PM
I only wanted one thing out of 2018's iPhone event: a new iPhone SE. In failing to provide it Apple seems to have quietly put the model out to pasture — and for this I curse them eternally. Because it was the best phone the company ever made.
Drone startup Airware crashes, shut downs after burning $118M
Sep 14, 6:22PM
Drone operating system startup Airware today suddenly informed employees it will cease operations immediately despite having raised $118 million from top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Google’s GV, and Kleiner Perkins. The startup ran out of money after trying to manufacture its own hardware that couldn’t compete with drone giants like China’s DJI. The company at […]
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