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- The FAA has banned recalled MacBook Pros from all flights — like any other bad battery
- Human dressed as TV trolls town by leaving TVs on people’s porches
- Electric moped startup Revel expands into Washington, DC
- Twitter tests letting users follow topics in the same way they follow accounts
- Weakening the Endangered Species Act could harm humans, too
- Apple’s tap-to-use student IDs let pupils buy food and badge into their dorms
- Facebook also hired human contractors to listen to audio from its Messenger app
- Apple and Spotify are reportedly in talks to let Siri play your Discover Weekly
- Pete Buttigieg rolls out $80 billion plan to improve rural broadband
- AirPods, Apple Watch, and HomePod will face 10 percent import tax, starting in September
| The FAA has banned recalled MacBook Pros from all flights — like any other bad battery Posted: 13 Aug 2019 05:42 PM PDT  This might seem like common sense: if your 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina Display is a fire risk, you can't bring it on an airplane. But Bloomberg is reporting that the FAA is taking the extra step of explicitly banning select recalled MacBook Pros from being brought aboard as cargo or carry-ons — seemingly singling out these devices like it did with the infamous Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone. In a statement to The Verge, though, an FAA spokeperson suggested that its actions here were actually pretty routine — a reminder to airlines that any device with a recalled lithium-based battery, including the MacBook Pro, isn't allowed on planes:
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| Human dressed as TV trolls town by leaving TVs on people’s porches Posted: 13 Aug 2019 04:00 PM PDT  "He wants to be known as the TV Santa Claus. I don't know," one homeowner told Virginia ABC affiliate WTVR-TV. So begins the tale of a human who literally stuck a giant television on his or her head so they could bring joy to the world in the form of unwanted TV sets. And just as it did for the person who brought it to our attention, it has totally made my day. We're talking big, heavy old-school CRTs. More than 50 of them, according to the report. Left right on people's porches. Just get a load of that swagger as he or she strides up on camera: And how do the homeowners repay this generosity? By letting our local news camera operator get a delightful shot of the cops hauling a truck full of old TVs... |
| Electric moped startup Revel expands into Washington, DC Posted: 13 Aug 2019 02:57 PM PDT  Photo by Sean O'Kane / The Verge Electric moped sharing startup Revel is expanding beyond New York City and into Washington, DC. Starting this weekend, Revel's mopeds (which are more like speed-limited electric motor scooters, since they don't have pedals) will be available to rent and ride in the capital city as part of a four-month pilot program. Revel says it will roll out 400 of its mopeds in DC, almost half as many as the 1,000 currently on the streets of Brooklyn and Queens. Pricing will be the same as it is in New York City. It costs $19 to sign up, the bulk of which Revel says goes to verifying each user's driver's license and history. Each ride costs $1 to start, and $0.25 per minute. Rides can be "paused" if the user wants to, say, run an errand and not have... |
| Twitter tests letting users follow topics in the same way they follow accounts Posted: 13 Aug 2019 02:39 PM PDT  Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge Twitter will begin allowing users to follow interests, the company said today, letting users see tweets about topics of their choosing inside the timeline. When the feature goes live, you'll be able to follow topics including sports teams, celebrities, and television shows, with a selection of tweets about them inserted alongside tweets in your home feed. Topics will be curated by Twitter, with individual tweets being identified through machine learning rather than editorial curation, the company said. For now, only sports-related interests can be followed, said Rob Bishop, a Twitter product manager. The feature is now being tested on Android. The move represents Twitter's latest effort to help users find the best content on the platform... |
| Weakening the Endangered Species Act could harm humans, too Posted: 13 Aug 2019 02:20 PM PDT  Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images On August 12th, the Trump Administration issued crucial changes to the Endangered Species Act, which — if implemented next month — will affect both people and wildlife. Critics of the new measures, announced by the Fish and Wildlife Service, say the changes weaken protections for many species, and potentially open up huge areas of land for oil and gas development, even as carbon dioxide emissions continue to heat the planet. The Endangered Species Act was created in 1973 under President Nixon with bipartisan support to help conserve wildlife at risk of extinction because of human activity. Since then, it's been credited with preventing the eradication of 99 percent of the 1,650 species it has guarded. The latest changes to the law... |
| Apple’s tap-to-use student IDs let pupils buy food and badge into their dorms Posted: 13 Aug 2019 01:43 PM PDT  Apple Today's college students rely on their ID cards for almost everything, including using them to get into the gym or to buy the cafeteria's beloved turkey-avocado sandwich. That means losing their ID can make navigating campus difficult, and cards can be a pain to replace. Now, Apple has a way for students to integrate their ID cards into their iPhones and Apple Watches so they can buy a sandwich without the need for their physical card. Apple is expanding the program to 12 universities so more students can use the technology. Here's what the virtual card looks like in practice: The expansion comes as Apple builds more uses for Apple Pay and Wallet, including last week's launch of the Apple Card and a test... |
| Facebook also hired human contractors to listen to audio from its Messenger app Posted: 13 Aug 2019 01:11 PM PDT  Facebook has been hiring third-party contractors to review and transcribe audio clips of its users, according to a new report from Bloomberg. Facebook claims it stopped using human workers to review audio clips "more than a week ago," noting that the contractors were previously hired to check whether anonymized conversations were being correctly transcribed on the Messenger app. Since 2015, Messenger has offered a feature to transcribe voice clips to text, although it is turned off by default. Facebook claims only those who opted in to the feature had their audio clips reviewed by third-party contractors. However, according to its support page, if even one person in your chat has consented to Facebook transcribing the conversation, any... |
| Apple and Spotify are reportedly in talks to let Siri play your Discover Weekly Posted: 13 Aug 2019 12:47 PM PDT  Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple and Spotify are in talks about potentially enabling Siri to play songs, albums, and playlists from the leading subscription music service. A new report from The Information confirms that Spotify would be taking advantage of new capabilities that Apple is introducing in iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, which allow other apps to be on equal footing with Apple Music when making music requests through the company's Siri voice assistant. If Spotify takes advantage of the new tools, you'll be able to play music without having to open the app on your iPhone or iPad. The integration could be a sign of progress between two companies that have butted heads to a more heated degree than ever before over the last year. In March, Spotify filed an... |
| Pete Buttigieg rolls out $80 billion plan to improve rural broadband Posted: 13 Aug 2019 12:17 PM PDT  Photo by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images On Tuesday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released a new economic policy plan for rural America that includes a multibillion-dollar broadband initiative and a pledge to fight for public internet options. As part of the South Bend, Indiana, mayor's $80 billion "Internet For All" initiative, he promises to expand internet access to unserved and underserved communities across the country within his first term in office. In areas where there is little to no competition among broadband providers, Buttigieg says that his administration would seek to create a public option for broadband, something he hopes would patch the huge service gaps and drive down prices across the country. "Where companies have not provided... |
| AirPods, Apple Watch, and HomePod will face 10 percent import tax, starting in September Posted: 13 Aug 2019 11:58 AM PDT  Photo by James Bareham / The Verge A new set of tariffs from the Trump administration will put a 10 percent import tax on smartwatches, fitness trackers, smart speakers, and Bluetooth headphones, starting September 1st. The administration plans to delay proposed tariffs on most consumer electronics until December 15th, including cell phones and laptops. But the tariffs are still likely to land heavily on Apple, which relies on Chinese manufacturing for its HomePod, AirPods, and Apple Watch. These goods were exempted last year after manufacturers sent letters to the government asking for relief. "It is difficult to see how tariffs that hurt U.S. companies and U.S. consumers will advance the Government's objectives with respect to China's technology policies," Apple wrote... |
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