Elon Musk has a plan to solve the traffic crisis in our cities. A vague, secret plan. He may not actually have a plan. But he did say something out loud in public about it, and he doesn’t usually do that unless he has at least kind of a plan. Read MoreDaily Archives: April 21, 2016
Elon Musk has a plan to solve the traffic crisis in our cities. A vague, secret plan. He may not actually have a plan. But he did say something out loud in public about it, and he doesn’t usually do that unless he has at least kind of a plan. Read More
Snapchat is done selling you stuff. As of today’s update, every snap can be replayed once, but you can no longer buy extra replays. That means people with more money can’t break the rules of Snapchat any more.
Snapchat launched $0.99 replays on top of the one free one you got per day, but along with the shut down of the Lens store that launched in November and closed in January… Read MoreSnapchat lets you Face-Swap with your camera roll, drops paid ...
Quick: you can send 20 gigabytes of data to the moon. What’s it going to be? Time’s up!
Wikipedia? What a coincidence — that’s what the Part-Time Scientists, a team working on a homegrown lunar rover for Google’s Lunar XPRIZE, decided too! And they’re really planning to do bring Wikipedia to the Moon. Read MoreTo the Moon! Lunar XPRIZE team looks to send Wikipedia ...
For a split second, Alphabet was the most valuable company in the world. Not so much any more, however, with the company’s market cap continuing to slide after it reported its first-quarter earnings. Relatively speaking, shares of Alphabet are only down around 6%. But for a company worth more than $500 billion, that’s erasing tens of billions of dollars in value — and… Read MoreAlphabet slides 6% after missing earnings expectations
For a split second, Alphabet was the most valuable company in the world. Not so much any more, however, with the company’s market cap continuing to slide after it reported its first-quarter earnings. Relatively speaking, shares of Alphabet are only down around 6%. But for a company worth more than $500 billion, that’s erasing tens of billions of dollars in value — and… Read MoreAlphabet slides 6% after missing earnings expectations
GE’s gadget invention partner FirstBuild is launching a cold brew coffee maker for the home called Pique.
Coffee has turned from daily routine into somewhat of an art form in the last few years with drip makers, French press, single-serve cups, pour-over and an endless supply of the latest hi-tech machines that will whip up any bean-flavored concoction to your liking.
Note most of… Read MoreFirstBuild launches Pique, a faster cold brew coffee maker for ...
A new iPhone application launching today called Plastiq lets you pay any bill with your credit or debit card just by snapping a photo. The goal with the app is to offer something designed for mobile, that’s also more convenient than using a bank’s online bill pay feature. And more importantly, it allows bills to be paid with plastic – hence the name – as opposed to… Read MorePlastiq lets you pay any bill with your credit or ...
Facebook says it learned that the actions people take on Facebook — liking, clicking, commenting or sharing a post — don’t always tells the whole story of what is most meaningful to them, so just when you were starting to get used to the way Facebook shows your News Feed, it’s time for another shake-up. Read MoreFacebookâs News Feed is changing again to prioritize sites you ...
Swarm, the gamified check-in app from Foursquare, has today launched a new feature that will let users check in to locations without sharing that location with their group of friends. The company is calling these private check-ins ‘off-the-grid check-ins’ and users will be able to activate them through a toggle in the check-in portion of the app. Foursquare originally launched Swarm… Read MoreSwarm now lets users check in without sharing their location
Linked together, the 180,000 personal weather stations in the US provide the most accurate weather forecasts on the Internet. Join the party. The post Building Your Own Personal Weather Station Is a Breeze appeared first on WIRED.