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- Google CEO says it’s ‘important for us to explore’ search in China
- Apple fixes its new bagel emoji with cream cheese and a doughier consistency
- Outgoing Nextdoor CEO not amused by @bestofnextdoor
- Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dead at 65
- A dinosaur obsession leads to stolen fossils and prison time in this new book
- Facebook expands ban on voting misinformation ahead of US midterms
- Rocket car won’t break 1,000 miles per hour unless company raises $33 million
- Former VR film company Jaunt is giving up on VR to focus on augmented reality
- Walmart’s looking to sell third-party streaming platform subscriptions, report suggests
- Winamp is coming back as an all-in-one music player
| Google CEO says it’s ‘important for us to explore’ search in China Posted: 15 Oct 2018 06:51 PM PDT  Google CEO Sundar Pichai publicly addressed his company's plans to re-enter the Chinese market with a search and news-oriented product, telling a crowd at Wired's 25th anniversary summit that such a service would be capable of serving 99 percent of queries. Pichai described the Chinese market as "important for us to explore" given its size and the very high likelihood that it will become the largest and most lucrative internet-using population on the planet. "We wanted to learn what it would look like if Google were in China," Pichai said. "It's very early, we don't know whether we would or could do this in China but we felt like it was important for us to explore. I think it's important for us given how important the market is and how... |
| Apple fixes its new bagel emoji with cream cheese and a doughier consistency Posted: 15 Oct 2018 04:54 PM PDT  Apple's most egregious crime in recent memory — a subpar bagel emoji — has been rectified, as first spotted by Jeremy Burge of Emojipedia. In the fourth beta release of iOS 12.1, it appears that the bagel has been replaced with a new icon that features both cream cheese and a doughier consistency more reminiscent of a fresh, hand-rolled bagel and not the frozen and machine-cut grocery store variety it was accused of emulating in its original form. If you haven't been following the bagel emoji controversy, it's likely because you have better ways to spend your time. But to catch you up quickly: the iOS bagel emoji — like Android's goofy cheeseburger one that generated negative headlines last year — was widely decried for its unappetizing... |
| Outgoing Nextdoor CEO not amused by @bestofnextdoor Posted: 15 Oct 2018 03:52 PM PDT  Last week, Nextdoor co-founder and soon-to-be-former CEO Nirav Tolia took the stage with angel investor Jason Calacanis at startup event LAUNCH Scale for a morning "fireside chat" about Nextdoor and its success. It didn't quite go how Tolia probably expected. "Anybody here follow @bestofnextdoor?" Calacanis asks the crowd in the clip, which LAUNCH just posted on Twitter this afternoon. "You're all going to love this." Onscreen was projected a picture of a screenshot from the "parody" Twitter account, featuring a print of Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night" with the sublime caption: "Not sure of authenticity." Tolia did not, in fact, "love this." "When I showed up today and your team sprung that, sprung that, that tweet on me," he says,... |
| Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dead at 65 Posted: 15 Oct 2018 03:09 PM PDT  Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died today from complications with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was 65. Allen said earlier this month that he was being treated for the disease. Allen was a childhood friend of Bill Gates, and together, the two started Microsoft in 1975. He left the company in 1983 while being treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma and remained a board member with the company through 2000. He was first treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2009, before seeing it go into remission. In a statement given to ABC News, Gates said he was "heartbroken by the passing of one of my oldest and dearest friends." He went on to commend his fellow co-founder for his life after Microsoft:
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| A dinosaur obsession leads to stolen fossils and prison time in this new book Posted: 15 Oct 2018 02:54 PM PDT  On a Sunday in May 2012, the fossilized skeleton of an eight-foot-tall T. rex relative called Tarbosaurus bataar went up for auction in New York City. The bidding started at $875,000, but there was a problem: the bones had been poached from Mongolia and were in the United States illegally. At the New York auction, a lawyer working on behalf of the Mongolian government dialed up a judge and tried to stop the sale. Nearly 1,000 miles away in Florida, Eric Prokopi, the man who had obtained the bones from a Mongolian dealer and painstakingly prepared them for sale, paced the beach where he was celebrating his daughter's birthday. He was waiting for the auctioneer's hammer to finalize the sale, and its consequences. |
| Facebook expands ban on voting misinformation ahead of US midterms Posted: 15 Oct 2018 02:41 PM PDT  Facebook is going to begin banning false information involving voting ahead of the US's midterm elections next month. It's something the company has done before, but amid growing tensions with Congress and the public, these new rules are set to be tougher and more comprehensive than those prior. Before the 2016 elections, Facebook banned posts that provided misinformation as to where people could go to vote and at what time polls opened or closed. But in today's announcement, the Silicon Valley giant plans to push further, banning posts that advertise false voting methods, like sending a text to vote, or posts claiming primary votes will be counted in the general election. |
| Rocket car won’t break 1,000 miles per hour unless company raises $33 million Posted: 15 Oct 2018 02:36 PM PDT  The company behind Project Bloodhound, a UK-based initiative to break 1,000 miles per hour in a rocket-powered car, is in dire straits. The Bloodhound Supersonic Car is all but built, and it reached speeds of over 200 mph in a test last year. But the company says it needs to raise £25 million (just shy of $33 million) or it will go broke. Bloodhound Programme Ltd announced on Monday that it has entered into administration, which, like bankruptcy, is a process where control of the company gets passed to an "administrator" whose goal is to repay creditors as quickly as possible. The business advisory firm that was hired (FRP Advisory LLP) says it has started talking to potential investors, according to the BBC. Until now, the project was... |
| Former VR film company Jaunt is giving up on VR to focus on augmented reality Posted: 15 Oct 2018 02:05 PM PDT  Virtual reality video company Jaunt — which helped spur the early growth of VR video — is shifting its focus to augmented reality, winding down "a number" of its VR-related services, and laying off a "significant portion" of its staff. In a Medium post entitled "The Future of Jaunt is AR," Jaunt wrote that it would focus on developing technologies that could create augmented reality content at a large scale. "We will be winding down a number of VR products and content services in the coming weeks," reads the post. "This unfortunately means that some of our valued and highly talented colleagues will be moving on ... These highly skilled individuals have contributed to our position as a leader in the immersive industry, and the decision to... |
| Walmart’s looking to sell third-party streaming platform subscriptions, report suggests Posted: 15 Oct 2018 01:55 PM PDT  Walmart has big video streaming ambitions. Today, Bloomberg reports that the retailer is in talks with multiple media companies to sell its services through an online store. The publication says Walmart wants to give its Vudu customers the ability to add on premium services, like HBO Now, Showtime, or Starz. Bloomberg attributes the push to declining DVD sales. Amazon offers a similar service through Channels, which allows customers to sign up for these third-party services. Meanwhile, Variety reported earlier this year that Walmart's planning to launch a Netflix competitor under its Vudu brand. At the time, it was expected to launch later this year for around $8 a month. Walmart already sells digital movies to rent or buy. It also... |
| Winamp is coming back as an all-in-one music player Posted: 15 Oct 2018 01:52 PM PDT  Winamp, the legendarily customizable music player, is being revamped as a mobile app that will give you one place to listen to all your music — including playlists, podcasts, streaming radio stations, and more, as reported by TechCrunch. First released in 1997, Winamp was a popular freeware media player famous for its utilitarian music playback and its wealth of incredible community-made skins. It was acquired by AOL in 2002, then sold to Radionomy in 2014. The last time Winamp was updated was in 2013, so news that a revival is coming should be welcomed by longtime fans of the app. "There will be a completely new version next year, with the legacy of Winamp but a more complete listening experience," Alexandre Saboundjian, CEO of... |
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