SolarCity “He’s Full of Shit”: How Elon Musk Fooled Investors, Bilked Taxpayers, and Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCityVanity Fair - Bethany McLeanThe controversy over SolarCity, which has dovetailed with questions about Musk’s mountain of debt and profit shortfalls, offers a window into the mindset of America’s most outlandish CEO. It was a Saturday
Mobile Technology Forget the smartphone and get yourself a satellite phone that will work anywhere on the planetZDNet - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Need a phone that will work where your smartphone won't? You need a satellite phone! Need to be able to stay in touch when off the grid? A satellite …
China China's hackers are ransacking databases for your health dataWired UK - Matt Burgess In May 2017, the WannaCry ransomware spread around the globe. As the worm locked Windows PCs, the UK's National Health Service quickly ground to a …
NASA NASA's Amazon forest fire map shows just how much trouble we're inslashgear.com - Brittany A. Roston NASA has published a new sequence showing the carbon monoxide plume generated by the wildfires in Brazil, tracking the changes each day starting from …
Technology Can a Silicon Valley entrepreneur fix California's troubled DMV? Newsom is banking on itLos Angeles Times - Patrick McGreevyTech entrepreneur Steve Gordon got a glimpse of how wary Californians are of the Department of Motor Vehicles when he visited an office near his San Jose home at 6 a.m. one morning and found people waiting
Technology Consumer DNA testing has hit a lull — here's how it could capture the next wave of usersCNBC - Christina Farr Sales of consumer-focused DNA tests from companies like Ancestry and 23andMe are down this year. And while companies in the space aren't offering any …
Netflix Netflix tests Collections that are curated by humans instead of algorithmsThe Verge - Chris WelchNetflix is testing a new Collections section that rounds up content into themed lists like “Watch in One Weekend” and “Stream & Scream.” Netflix told TechCrunch that Collections are put together by “experts
Technology Meet the Woman Responsible for Most of the Top Shows in Your Netflix QueueInStyle - Shalayne PuliaBadass Women celebrates women who show up, speak up, and get things done. Lisa Nishimura is an August 2019 InStyle Badass 50 honoree. Lisa Nishimura has an eye for excellence. As vice president of original
Netflix Netflix tests human-driven curation with launch of ‘Collections’TechCrunch - Sarah PerezNetflix is testing a new way to help users find TV shows and movies they’ll want to watch with the launch of a “Collections” feature, currently in testing on iOS devices. While Netflix today already offers
Amazon removes hundreds of toxic and unsafe products after news reportThe Guardian - Kari PaulAmazon has removed hundreds of toxic and unsafe products from its site after a Wall Street Journal report found thousands of listings from third-party sellers don’t comply with federal safety standards.
Amazon ripped over product safety concernsThe Washington Post - Jay Greene and Todd C. FrankelA top consumer protection regulator raised concerns about whether Amazon committed “widespread deception” by selling thousands of products without any warnings despite federal agencies deeming those goods
Technology Facebook’s Libra backers look to distance themselves from projectFinancial Times - Hannah MurphyIntensifying regulatory scrutiny of Facebook's Libra digital currency has spooked some of the project's early backers, with at least three privately discussing how to distance themselves from the venture.
Siri Apple contractors were allegedly listening to 1,000 Siri recordings a day — eachThe Verge - Jay PetersEach of the big five tech companies has been caught secretly using human contractors to listen to conversations recorded by their gadgets and services. Pro-privacy Apple is one of those companies, and
Employment Google is cracking down on its employees’ political speech at workRecode - Shirin GhaffaryGoogle announced new rules on Thursday about what employees are allowed to say in the workplace — including restrictions on political expression and guidelines on internal debates about company activity.
Eric Schmidt How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagonpropublica.org - ProPublica Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to the Pentagon. And one whistleblower who raised flags has paid the …
Technology FDA to trial innovative computer-assisted heart surgeries this fallEngadget - Igor BonifacicOPTIMA creates a virtual model of a patient's heart so doctors only need to operate once. Starting this fall, the FDA plans to trial an innovative new computational medicine approach to heart surgery 160
Blood Tests This Blood Test Seems to Predict if People Are Going to Die Soonfuturism.com - Kristin Houser A simple blood test could one day reveal clues about your mortality. In a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, a team of …
GPS A new, more secure GPS signal could be ready by 2020c4isrnet.com - Nathan Strout A fix that will allow military ground systems to receive a highly secure, military signal from GPS III satellites is on track for early 2020, …
Startups This Thiel Fellow thinks he help scooters, drones, and delivery robots charge themselves with sunlightTechCrunch - Connie LoizosFrom the time he was a high school student, Rohit Kalyanpur thought it was peculiar that although it’s possible to create energy from a solar panel, the panels have long been used almost exclusively on
Play buttonRobotics This 3D-printed robot assembles itself and then rolls awayLos Angeles Times - Amina KhanIt’s the ultimate DIY robot, a machine that assembles itself out of a single sheet and then rolls away — all without need for an onboard motor or even wheels. The so-called rollbot, described this week
Technology Smartphones may be leaking more radiation than we thinkCNET - by Jackson Ryan An investigation by the Chicago Tribune suggests iPhones and Galaxy models may exceed radio frequency radiation safety limits.
iPhone iPhone 7 might violate FCC rules on radio-frequency radiationCult of Mac - Ed HardyAn independent lab claims that the iPhone 7 emits more radio-frequency radiation that is allowed by the FCC. And the iPhone X skirts the line. The tests, done at the behest of the Chicago Tribune, have
Apple Card Apple says clean Apple Card with a microfiber cloth, avoid contact with leather and denimappleinsider.com - AppleInsider Staff With physical Apple Cards now making their way into the hands of consumers across the U.S., Apple this week offered up a few tips for cleaning, …
Apple Watch Apple’s Pro iPhones, new iPads, and 16-inch MacBook Pro detailed in Bloomberg reportThe Verge - Jon PorterMultiple details about Apple’s upcoming lineup of iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and Watches have emerged in a new report from Bloomberg. According to the report, two of the iPhones will be camera-focused phones,
Amazon Amazon just opened its biggest office building — and it's not in the United StatesCNN - By Rishi Iyengar, CNN BusinessNew Delhi (CNN Business) — Amazon just opened its biggest office building in the world in the Indian city of Hyderabad. The online retail giant's new campus in the city's financial district opened on It
Technology SpotHero raises $50 million to bring underutilized parking spaces onlineVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersChicago, Illinois-based parking inventory and booking startup SpotHero today announced that it has secured $50 million in a series D round led by Macquarie Capital, bringing its total raised to date to
Technology Air Force tests headset that uses wearer's bones to transmit soundsBusiness InsiderRAF MILDENHALL, England — An innovative in-ear headset is being tested by the 100th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and 100th Maintenance Squadron at RAF Mildenhall, England. The device, which uses the in
Technology Policy Ring asks police not to tell public how its law enforcement backend worksArs Technica - Kate Cox Ring asks cops not to call its security cameras "security cameras" in public. Amazon's Ring line of consumer home surveillance products enjoys an …
Xbox Microsoft Contractors Listened to Xbox Owners in Their HomesVICE - Joseph CoxContractors working for Microsoft have listened to audio of Xbox users speaking in their homes in order to improve the console’s voice command features, Motherboard has learned. The audio was supposed
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