RIP MacBook, Apple’s ultimate lightweight workhorse
My 12-inch MacBook was stolen from my car last week, a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it smash-and-grab. Materially, the loss shouldn’t much matter — no one died, it was insured,...
Dockless bikes, except for JUMP’s, are still on hold in SF
In light of Lyft filing a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco regarding dockless bikes, the city is holding off on its permitting process for...
Mini Cooper is now electric and just as cute
The tiny British Mini Coopers have been around for decades (six to be exact) — but on Tuesday the first all-electric version was revealed. The world...
Facebook Pledges to Move Dumb and Eat Shit
Slipping-on-a-banana-peel-into-a-pile-of-rakes firm Facebook, a name which is now synonymous with massive, irreparable fuckups, has recommitted itself to mistakes, failures, and harebrained flights of fancy. We know...
Twitter updates hate speech rules to include dehumanizing speech around religion
Against a backdrop of rising violence against religious minorities around the world, Twitter today said that it would update its hateful conduct rules to include dehumanizing...
Blasting Rich People Into Space Is Better Business Than Uber, Somehow
Virgin Galactic is preparing to become the first publicly traded spaceflight company, and the venture is setting a course to be profitable by August 2021, which...
Flaws in hospital anesthesia and respiratory devices allow remote tampering
Security researchers have found a vulnerability in a networking protocol used in popular hospital anesthesia and respiratory machines, which they say if exploited could be used...
Bumble chief responds to reports of misconduct at parent company
Update 4:30pm PT: “The responses are designed to obfuscate and deflect from the facts as borne out by the rigorous reporting,” a Forbes spokesperson told TechCrunch....
The 10 Best Deals of July 9, 2019
We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today. Read more… Source : The 10...
AOC and Bernie Sanders Are Asking Congress to Declare a Climate Emergency
Governments declaring climate emergencies are all the rage these days. On Tuesday, a resolution slated to be introduced in Congress aims to get the U.S. as...
