A Juul is not a cigarette. It’s much easier than that. Through devilishly slick product design I’ll discuss here, the startup has massively lowered the…
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Facebook is fielding so many problems, oversights, scandals, and other miscellaneous ills that it wouldn’t surprise anyone to hear that its fact-checking program, undertaken last…
This was a bad year for the smartphone. For the first time, its seemingly unstoppable growth began to slow. Things started off on a bad…
Trump administration officials are removing the Pentagon’s top weapon buying negotiator, who racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel costs and pushed a…
34 M BY ERIC LOVEDAY It seems Tesla has again underrated the performance potential of one of its cars. Tesla seems to like to underpromise…
Slack has apologized after it shut down the accounts of users who have visited Iran following a poorly executed effort at complying with U.S. sanctions…
Japanese retailer Start Today, which operates Zozotown, the country’s largest online fashion marketplace, has developed a figure-hugging bodysuit featuring lots of uniquely patterned dots. As…
Artist depiction of loop quantum gravity effects in a black hole. The bottom half of the image depicts the black hole which, according to general…
Convo, a tool perhaps best described as a real-time company message board, picked up a new trick this week: automated acknowledgements. It’s a pretty common…
[embedded content] Bad Lip Reading has held a special place in my heart longer than just about any other YouTube channel. The formula is just…
The story of the game Star Citizen and Cloud Imperium, the company developing it, is almost too ludicrous to believe: a crowdfunding effort to create…
Chatty gamers are apparently worth billions. Discord, the gaming chat startup with more than 200 million active users, announced Friday that it had secured $150…
A government shutdown over Christmas and New Year’s is not certain, but federal contractors need to have preparations in place to weather what could be…
A lot can happen in a year. In 2018, the bitcoin bubble popped (again), tensions between the U.S. and China boiled over into a trade…
If you thought Capitol Hill spent the entire week locked in a battle over government funding, you’re right. But spending packages aside, lawmakers managed to…
Fresh off an order from the Defense Department’s then-chief information officer to migrate “fourth estate” data and applications to milCloud 2.0, the Pentagon has successfully…
If there is one term that has punctuated government contracting in 2018, it is “OTA.” The use of OTAs or “other transaction authority” agreements has…
My podcasting rig is simple: Two microphones, a Tascam recorder, two XLR cables. I’ve upgraded things a bit in the past year — improved the…
Florida men are seemingly involved in so many strange happenings involving pythons, alligators, and restaurant break-ins that when a parody “Florida Man” Twitter account surfaced back in…
While more than 60 companies have received permits to test their driverless vehicles in California, Zoox has become the first permitted to actually transport people…