She launches spaceships, sells rockets, and deals with Elon Musk. If all went well, Musk’s cherry-red Tesla Roadster would be propelled toward Mars with a spacesuit-clad dummy behind the wheel and David Bowie’s Life on Mars? playing on the stereo.
Monthly Archives: July 2018
Magic Leap offers a sneak peek at its mixed reality OS
Magic Leap has been peeling away one layer of secrecy after another now that it’s close to shipping its mixed reality headset. Just recently, it released an AR demo and revealed that it’s working with comics industry veteran Grant Morrison.
How a Bunch of Lava Lamps Protect Us From Hackers
Edward Craven Walker lived to see his greatest invention, the lava lamp, make its late-’90s cultural comeback. But the British tinkerer (and famed nudist, incidentally) died before he could witness the 21st-century digital potential of his analog creation.
Google promises to stop suggesting ‘my face’ when you type ‘sit on’ in Gboard
Applying machine learning to everything under the sun can be tricky. Case in point: Gboard’s text prediction has been suggesting people type “my face and” after the words “sit on,” resulting in a reference to a sexual act.
Now is the time for Walmart to strike at Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime has been an enormous influence on e-commerce, but this online juggernaut is beginning to show cracks.
How to beat LinkedIn: The Game
Since its founding in 2002, LinkedIn has quickly become one of the most popular video games of all time. It currently has roughly 530 million users, and was purchased by Microsoft in 2016 for $26.
Art technicians: The industry’s dirty secret, or all part of the process?
Down a chaotic lane in chaotic Govanhill, the works of two of Glasgow’s female Turner Prize-nominated artists, Lucy Skaer and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, are being produced. But it is two men who have their studio here.
Apple is reportedly upgrading most of its Mac lineup this fall, including the Mac mini
Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities has published his research note of predictions for Apple’s fall lineup — and it’s a doozy, via 9to5Mac.
Scientists discover world’s oldest colour – bright pink
Scientists have discovered what they say are the world’s oldest colours – and they are bright pink. The pigments were discovered after researchers crushed 1.1bn-year-old rocks found in a marine shale deposit, beneath the Sahara desert, in the Taoudeni basin in Mauritania, west Africa.
This amazing new web tool lets you create microsites that exist solely as URLs
Former Google designer Nicholas Jitkoff, who’s now the vice president of design at Dropbox, has created a really nifty new web tool he’s calling itty bitty sites, or self-contained microsites that exist solely as URLs. You can create your own by following this URL: itty.bitty.site.
Intel’s Mobile Failure a $17B Mistake, Says New Street Research
Apple shares new App Store stats ahead of its 10th anniversary
Apple revealed several new numbers today in a report celebrating the App Store’s 10th anniversary, including details about subscription apps.
Shell CEO calls for 2040 ban on new petrol car sales to be bought forward
LONDON – Shell, one of the world’s largest oil companies, has supported calls for the UK to bring forward its 2040 ban on new petrol and diesel cars and accelerate the move to greener energy, The Guardian reported.
Apple Music Reportedly Surpasses Spotify Subscriber Count in the U.S.
Apple Music has now surpassed Spotify’s subscriber count in the United States, according to a confidential source who spoke to Digital Music News. The anonymous source, said to be a major U.S.