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- The company behind the dual-screen YotaPhone is bankrupt
- SiriusXM launches new ‘essential’ streaming plan for only $8
- The inside of the Samsung Galaxy Fold is marvelously messy
- WannaCry hero pleads guilty to developing banking malware
- The PDF Association thinks the Mueller report sucks
- Microsoft faces down a new claim that pro-diversity hiring isn’t fair to white men
- Leica censored in China for ad that dramatizes the Tiananmen Square protests
- Amazon is now making its delivery drivers take selfies
- Audi’s first electric car reportedly delayed again because of a battery shortage
- NYC subway denies using ‘real-time face recognition screens’ in Times Square
| The company behind the dual-screen YotaPhone is bankrupt Posted: 19 Apr 2019 05:45 PM PDT  We've been following Russia's YotaPhone since 2012, but it seems like the saga of the power-sipping E Ink-backed dual-screen handset has come to an end. Yota Devices is bankrupt, reports Cnews.ru and Liliputing, pointing to a liquidation notice published in the Cayman Islands Gazette (PDF). According to Russian media reports, it was a lawsuit that eventually wound up bankrupting the company. Yota's manufacturer for the first two YotaPhones, Hi-P Singapore, sued for $126 million back in 2015 because YotaPhone reportedly refused to take delivery (and presumably pay for) the minimum number of phones it agreed to order. (In 2016, The Financial Times reported that the first two YotaPhones only sold around... |
| SiriusXM launches new ‘essential’ streaming plan for only $8 Posted: 19 Apr 2019 02:51 PM PDT  SiriusXM is now offering an $8-per-month streaming music plan that it calls SiriusXM Essential, a bundle of over 300 channels consisting of music, talk radio, comedy, sports, and other content. This new, cheap option doesn't include Howard Stern's two channels — you've got to step up to Premier for those — and is strictly for online streaming, so it can't be used with your car's satellite radio if you've got one. But otherwise, the company says you can expect a ton of variety for commercial-free music listening. The Essential plan has plenty of decade, genre, and artist-specific radio channels: you can see the full list here. Paying for online radio might seem pretty strange to the millions of people using the free, ad-sponsored tiers... |
| The inside of the Samsung Galaxy Fold is marvelously messy Posted: 19 Apr 2019 02:24 PM PDT  The Samsung Galaxy Fold doesn't release until April 26th, but if you've been eagerly awaiting a glimpse under the hood, a pre-production version of the folding phone has already been disassembled and laid out piece by piece in photos. These were originally hosted on microblogging site Weibo, though the originals have since been removed. Something that shouldn't be much of a surprise: it takes a lot of parts to build a foldable phone. They're all arranged in a manner that looks quite difficult to repair, though that likely comes down to the Fold being a first-generation product, which you might not guess when you're holding the Fold's sleek exterior. These photos are our clearest look yet at what makes this ambitious, flawed, and very... |
| WannaCry hero pleads guilty to developing banking malware Posted: 19 Apr 2019 02:03 PM PDT  Marcus Hutchins, best known for his role in stopping the 2017 WannaCry ransomware attack, has pleaded guilty to two charges related to computer hacking conspiracy. The other eight charges will be dismissed as part of a plea deal first reported by ZDNet. "I regret these actions and accept full responsibility for my mistakes," Hutchins said in a statement on his website. "Having grown up, I've since been using the same skills that I misused several years ago for constructive purposes. I will continue to devote my time to keeping people safe from malware attacks." Hutchins drew universal praise from security professionals when he discovered the "kill switch" to the WannaCry ransomware in 2017, abruptly halting an attack that had locked down... |
| The PDF Association thinks the Mueller report sucks Posted: 19 Apr 2019 02:00 PM PDT  When Special Counsel Robert Mueller released his report on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election yesterday and political wonks across the internet rushed to download it, many people noticed two things: you couldn't search for any text on the pages, and the whole file was really, really large. If you were annoyed by either of those things, you probably weren't nearly as ticked off as the PDF Association, which published a long explanation of just why the Mueller report PDF file was so bad. "A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF" is both an indictment of the Justice Department and a celebration of the venerable Portable Document Format. It starts with some basic facts: the 448-page document is... |
| Microsoft faces down a new claim that pro-diversity hiring isn’t fair to white men Posted: 19 Apr 2019 01:46 PM PDT  Microsoft employees have been using an internal message board to criticize the company's pro-diversity efforts, referring to the hiring of women and minorities as "discriminatory" against white and Asian men, according to a report from Quartz. Microsoft has left these threads untouched, drawing criticism from other employees who feel the company talks up its diversity and inclusion efforts, but takes little meaningful action to reinforce them at a cultural level. The sentiments, some of which were shared in threads earlier this year and late last year, highlight tensions within the company at an especially fraught time. Earlier this month, women at Microsoft began sharing stories of sexual harassment and discrimination and claiming the... |
| Leica censored in China for ad that dramatizes the Tiananmen Square protests Posted: 19 Apr 2019 01:25 PM PDT  German camera maker Leica is facing heat from Chinese censors and nationalistic internet users who are leaving angry comments after it launched an ad dramatizing the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. Leica has been censored on the social media platform Weibo, as independently verified by The Verge and reported by the South China Morning Post. The nearly five-minute video titled "The Hunt" depicts a photojournalist resisting interrogation from Chinese police and managing to stay in his hotel room so that he can snap a photo of a lone protester standing in front of police tanks, blocking their path. His scenes are interspersed with clips of other life-threatening situations around the world. The end of the video says: "This film is dedicated... |
| Amazon is now making its delivery drivers take selfies Posted: 19 Apr 2019 12:40 PM PDT  Amazon is now making its delivery drivers take selfies, it confirmed to The Verge, in a bid to reduce fraud. Using facial recognition, the company will verify drivers' identities to make sure they are who they say they are. The new requirements appeared on the Amazon Flex app to drivers, notifying them that they needed to take a selfie before continuing work. Of course, Amazon warns drivers to "not take a selfie while driving." By asking drivers to take selfies, Amazon could be preventing multiple people from sharing the same account. These efforts could screen out anyone who is technically unauthorized from delivering packages, such as criminals who are attempting to use Amazon Flex as an excuse to lurk in front of people's homes. In... |
| Audi’s first electric car reportedly delayed again because of a battery shortage Posted: 19 Apr 2019 12:36 PM PDT  Audi has reportedly delayed deliveries of its first flagship electric vehicle, the E-tron, because of issues securing enough batteries from supplier LG Chem, according to The Brussels Times. Wait times have jumped from two months to "6 to 7 months," per the Belgian news outlet. The German automaker will also reportedly now make just 45,000 E-trons this year, or 10,000 fewer than expected, because of the supply problem. Audi has also pushed the release of the second car in the E-tron lineup to next year, The Brussels Times reports. LG Chem is a major supplier of lithium-ion batteries to automakers like Audi, Mercedes-Benz, and their respective parent companies Volkswagen Group and Daimler. Many of these automotive giants have plans to... |
| NYC subway denies using ‘real-time face recognition screens’ in Times Square Posted: 19 Apr 2019 12:25 PM PDT  The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority has denied suggestions that it's putting facial recognition cameras in the subway, saying that a trick designed to scare fare-dodgers was misinterpreted. "There is no capability to recognize or identify individuals and absolutely no plan" to do so with NYC subway cameras, says MTA spokesperson Maxwell Young. Young was responding to a photo taken in the Times Square subway station by New York Times analyst Alice Fung, which shows a prominently placed monitor with the words "RECORDING IN PROGRESS" and "Please Pay Your Fare" superimposed on a video feed. "Hey @MTA, who are you sharing the recordings with?" Fung asked. |
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