September 5, 2019 Foxconn’s first announced product for its Wisconsin factory is an airport coffee robot Image: Briggo Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn is expanding its controversial Wisconsin presence with automated coffee robots. The manufacturer, known best for helping create the…
September 5, 2019 Medium is toying with being the place for all your longreads — even if they’re paywalled Medium has become a popular place for people who don’t run their own websites to post long essays and scathing exposes, in addition to…
September 5, 2019 8chan could be back online as soon as next week, lawyer says Jim Watkins, YouTube 8chan owner Jim Watkins provided evidence to congressional staffers on Thursday to comply with a subpoena the House Homeland Security Committee…
September 5, 2019 NYC sues T-Mobile over ‘pervasive’ illegal sales tactics New York City is suing T-Mobile for allegedly violating consumer protection laws within the city. The lawsuit stems primarily from Metro by T-Mobile, a…
September 5, 2019 No, NASA Did Not Say It’s Developing Its Own Cryptocurrency Let’s get one thing straight right now: “crypto” means “cryptography.” It does not mean “cryptocurrency.” Unless you’re a person who thinks the blockchain is…
September 5, 2019 Nintendo teases strange new motion control experience for Switch Fresh off its Nintendo Direct announcements yesterday, the gaming company is already teasing a “new experience” for the Switch — some sort of bizarre…
September 5, 2019 Facebook Throttles Satirical Women’s Site Reductress for Sharing ‘Clickbait’ A satirical women’s site that lambasts clickbait content is being suppressed on Facebook because the social media platform determined Reductress was sharing clickbait. Read…
September 5, 2019 Investigation into vaping illness hones in on one substance https://ift.tt/32xhIzs | Mike Wren, NYS Department of Health US officials working to track down the cause of a rash of lung illnesses connected to…
September 5, 2019 Influential Coalition With 15 Million Members Calls for Outright Ban on Facial Recognition More than thirty organizations on Thursday called for a nationwide ban against government use of face recognition calling the technology “unreliable, biased, and a…
September 5, 2019 United and Southwest Will Allow Passengers to Opt-Out of 737 Flights Even after Boeing’s beleaguered Boeing 737 Max jets return to the skies, some Stephen Brashearwary passengers won’t be expected to board them—at least if…