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- Indiegogo’s CEO steps down amid layoffs
- Las Vegas approves a $48.6 million contract with Elon Musk’s Boring Company
- ‘Skyborg’ could let F-35 and F-15 fighter jets control their own companion drones
- Playdate is an adorable handheld with games from the creators of Qwop, Katamari, and more
- Huawei executive accused of helping steal trade secrets
- A quarter of Google Duplex calls are actually placed by humans
- ARM cuts ties with Huawei, threatening future chip designs
- Smart assistants have totally slept on sleep timers and I’m tired of it
- A contentious legal debate over user agreements has been delayed after Elizabeth Warren called it ‘dangerous’
- Apple Watch Series 3 is back down to $199, its lowest price yet
| Indiegogo’s CEO steps down amid layoffs Posted: 22 May 2019 04:22 PM PDT  David Mandelbrot is out as CEO of crowdfunding site Indiegogo, citing "personal reasons" in his farewell LinkedIn post. The company also laid off some employees, according to sources familiar with the matter. Andy Yang will begin his tenure as the next CEO today, Mandelbrot said in his post, which was published yesterday. Yang was most recently "leading core product at Reddit," and had previously been the CEO of 500px, an online platform and community for photographers. "I'm thrilled to take over the CEO reins from Dave and enable the company to further achieve its mission," Mandelbrot quoted Yang as saying. The post did not comment on the layoffs. An email to Mandelbrot wasn't returned. Indiegogo declined to comment. Indiegogo's main... |
| Las Vegas approves a $48.6 million contract with Elon Musk’s Boring Company Posted: 22 May 2019 03:13 PM PDT  The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority held a vote today, where it approved a $48.6 million contract with the Boring Company, Elon Musk's tunneling venture. The Boring Company's underground "people mover," the LVCC Loop, will consist of two tunnels for vehicles and three stations, as well as a pedestrian tunnel. The project is expected to be complete in time to be used at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2021, LVCVA told me in March. Then, Musk got on Twitter and suggested the project could be running by the end of the year. The public contract suggests that tests will start by November 2020. Regardless of the completion date, two-thirds of the money in the contract won't be paid until the project is complete. Of the... |
| ‘Skyborg’ could let F-35 and F-15 fighter jets control their own companion drones Posted: 22 May 2019 03:08 PM PDT  The US Air Force hopes that the XQ58-A Valkyrie drone wingman might someday accompany the F-35 and a new version of the F-15 fighter jet, according to Defense News. The aircraft is designed to fill a role known as "loyal wingman" — imagined as a low-cost platform that would be controlled by a parent aircraft to accomplish a variety of tasks, such as flying ahead to scout out terrain, or absorb enemy fire in the event that they're attacked. The Air Force is reportedly talking with defense manufacturers Boeing and Lockheed Martin, which manufactures the fighter jets, about integrating the platforms. Will Roper, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, told Defense News that a forthcoming... |
| Playdate is an adorable handheld with games from the creators of Qwop, Katamari, and more Posted: 22 May 2019 03:00 PM PDT  Panic made its name through high-end Mac software, but more recently, the company moved into gaming, publishing indie hit Firewatch and the upcoming Untitled Goose Game. Now, the developer is expanding its work in games and moving in a very unexpected direction. Today, Panic unveiled Playdate, a tiny, yellow Game Boy-like device with a black-and-white screen, a few chunky buttons, and... a hand crank for controlling quirky games developed by indie stars like Keita Takahashi and Zach Gage. The company says that it wanted to create "something truly different in the world of video games." From the looks of the Playdate, it managed to do just that. "The yellow color immediately made Playdate feel approachable, friendly, and impossible to... |
| Huawei executive accused of helping steal trade secrets Posted: 22 May 2019 02:32 PM PDT  A Huawei executive was involved in a plot to steal trade secrets, claims California-based electronics startup CNEX Labs. Chinese telecommunications company Huawei and CNEX — which was co-founded by a former Huawei employee — have filed dueling lawsuits over trade secret theft. Now, The Wall Street Journal reports that high-level Huawei figure Eric Xu has been accused of helping oversee an alleged conspiracy. The Journal quotes a newly released hearing transcript that offers some details in a largely locked-down trial. According to its write-up, CNEX claims that Xu — one of Huawei's rotating chairmen — "directed a Huawei engineer to analyze Cnex's technical information." The engineer then allegedly posed as a potential CNEX customer to... |
| A quarter of Google Duplex calls are actually placed by humans Posted: 22 May 2019 01:45 PM PDT  Earlier this month, I shadowed several restaurants throughout New York and talked to restaurant employees across the US to see how they've received Google Duplex, the AI that makes life-like calls for reservations on your behalf. Most if not all agreed that those calls sounded unmistakably human — and according to Google's response to reporting by The New York Times, there's a 25 percent chance that they were. Google says that a quarter of Duplex calls start with human callers, and 15 percent start with the AI and are later intervened by a person from the Duplex call center. The company told The New York Times that it uses a variety of signals to decide whether a call should be placed by a human or a robot, "like if the company is unsure... |
| ARM cuts ties with Huawei, threatening future chip designs Posted: 22 May 2019 01:44 PM PDT  Chip designer ARM has suspended business with Huawei, threatening the Chinese company's ability to create its own chips. BBC News reports that ARM employees have been instructed to halt "all active contracts, support entitlements, and any pending engagements" with Huawei due to the US trade ban. The US has banned any US companies from doing business with the Chinese telecom giant without permission from the American government, but ARM is based in the UK and owned by the Japanese SoftBank group. ARM is concerned it is affected by the US ban, with an internal memo reportedly revealing that its chip designs include "US origin technology." ARM develops some processor designs in Austin, Texas and San Jose, California, which could place it... |
| Smart assistants have totally slept on sleep timers and I’m tired of it Posted: 22 May 2019 01:32 PM PDT  Smart home assistants need smarter timers. Today, you can use Alexa, Google Assistant, or Siri to set timers. You can use all three smart assistants to control your smart home gadgets. But frustratingly, you cannot use the two features together: setting your lights to arbitrarily turn off in 30 minutes is impossible with today's most sophisticated, cutting-edge smart home technology. Now, you could use a pre-programmed routine, but that's not the same thing. You can set your lights to go on when a motion detector goes off, have your motorized shades close at sunset, or have your air conditioner turn on at exactly 12:53PM on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. But with all three smart home platforms, you need to set up those routines in... |
| Posted: 22 May 2019 01:11 PM PDT  A group of legal experts has delayed a controversial vote about contracts that affects any internet user who's clicked "Agree" without really reading a platform's terms of service. It's difficult to buy products, use apps, or even go online without accepting the terms of dauntingly long user agreements, which govern everything from how companies use your data to whether you can sue them. People almost universally ignore these contracts, which has created a conundrum for courts: when has a user meaningfully agreed to something, and when is a company taking advantage of their ignorance? The powerful American Law Institute (ALI) hoped to solve this problem with something called the Restatement of the Law of Consumer Contracts. The proposal... |
| Apple Watch Series 3 is back down to $199, its lowest price yet Posted: 22 May 2019 01:07 PM PDT  Memorial Day is coming up next Monday, May 27th. Several retailers are already lowering prices for the US holiday, and you can find deals on all sorts of tech. You still have time to check out the Google Express sale, which includes some great deals on some Apple products and gaming consoles. It knocks almost $100 off of the PS4 Pro and $200 off of an Xbox One X, to name a few examples. The Apple Watch Series 3 (38mm, GPS) is back down to its lowest price: $199 on Amazon. This makes it $200 cheaper than the newer Apple Watch Series 4, and despite not being the newest wearable, it's still a great value. It has good battery life, offers speedy performance, and it's likely to be compatible with the next few iterations of watchOS. |
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