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January 11, 2016
Today in Tech: Super Peach Jelly
What even was Super? No one knows.
Once more choosing the worst available option, Twitter un-verified Milo Yiannopoulos, giving him something meaningless to complain about while not actually depriving him of a platform to complain about it on. His fellow bad people Jason Calcanis, Egg, and Vivek Wadhwa all leapt to his defense, because garb recognize garb.
Bill Gates, Illumina To Fund $100M Blood Test For Cancer
The gene-sequencing company hopes the test will hit the market by 2019.
Gene-sequencing giant Illumina is spinning out a new company, Grail, to develop a new blood test that can detect cancer.
David Bowie Predicted The Future Of Music In 2002
''Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity," Bowie said nearly 14 years ago. And here we are today.
As the world mourns David Bowie today, there will be no shortage of tributes to him as a creative innovator, a cultural icon, somebody who cared little for the rules (and thus rewrote them). He was a music industry visionary, especially with one prediction that anticipated our era of streaming music.
Elon Musk: Tesla Cars Could Drive Across The Country Autonomously By 2018
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that a new self-parking feature, called "Summon," is "just a baby step."
In two years, a Tesla car could feasibly steer itself to its owner from thousands of miles away, according to Elon Musk. The Tesla CEO recently unveiled a beta feature called Summon, through which a Model S electric sedan or Model X electric crossover can park itself in a garage or on the street. At a press conference on Sunday, Musk noted that the introduction of Summon was "just a baby step."
The White House Is Now On Snapchat
Snapchat users can add the account "WhiteHouse" to see behind-the-scenes footage of the Oval Office.
Leading up to his election in 2008, President Obama was widely hailed as the social media candidate, as his use of platforms like Facebook and Myspace helped propel him into the White House. In 2015, he built on that reputation by getting his own personal accounts on Facebook and Twitter.
January 9, 2016
Don't Look Now (But You Probably Will): Porn Is Already Big Business In VR
Porn helped VHS vanquish Betamax and Blu-Ray beat HD DVD. Now it'll probably boost virtual reality.
If there's one segment of the VR content industry that is banking on the highly immersive nature of the medium, well, of course it's porn.
January 8, 2016
Is Xiaomi's Smartphone Mojo Fading? Company Strangely Silent On 2015 Sales Goal
The company came out of nowhere to overtake Samsung and Huawei as the Chinese smartphone sales leader in 2014.
The upstart Asian smartphone maker Xiaomi became a serious force in the Chinese market when it overtook Samsung and Huawei as the sales leader in 2014.
Popular Fitness App MyFitnessPal Adds Calorie Counts For Restaurant Meals
Want to know how many calories are in that slice of pizza?
Curious about how many calories are in that latte?
Uber Agrees To Encrypt All User Geodata To Close "God View" Investigation
The New York attorney general will also require Uber to pay $20,000 for failing to report a 2014 data breach.
Uber has reached a settlement with the New York state attorney general requiring it to encrypt riders' geolocation information and implement other rider privacy protections.
CES 2016: Wearable Shareable Aerial Rideables
Welcome to the doomed media convergence fest.
Adrianne Jeffries has been one of my favorite technology writers since the very beginning of Tabs, and she remains the person whose bullshit detector I put the most faith in. So I'm extremely pleased that she's here today, straight from VICE's hipster-infested Brooklyn headquarters where she edits Motherboard, to bring us the latest tech news.
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