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August 18, 2015
Beleaguered American Apparel May Finally Have To Shut Down
With falling sales and legal troubles, the clothing retailer doesn't have enough cash on hand to make its debt payments.
American Apparel appears to be on the brink of bankruptcy, according to a regulatory filing from the company.
Google Launches Its Own Wi-Fi Router
At $200, OnHub is wireless, simple, and actually beautiful.
Google just announced in a blog post that it's entering the Wi-Fi router business with its own version of what used to be the most universally hated part of connecting to the Internet.
Wake Wants You To Share Designs As They Happen
Think of it like Pinterest for designers.
After weeks of hiding in plain site, Wake.io launches today as a timeline and sharing tool aimed at designers. Think Pinterest for designers, but private and secure.
"Constant Stress" At Amazon Centers Making Workers Sick, Says U.K. Union
A trade union's lead officer says Amazon employees face pressure to be "an above-average Amazon robot all the time."
In the wake of a scathing exposéof Amazon's workplace culture published by the New York Times this weekend, a British trade union is claiming that employees at the e-commerce giant's U.K. distribution centers are becoming mentally and physically ill due to difficult working conditions.
Bitcoin Comes To A Fork In The Road, And Takes It
Bitcoin's developers are at odds over its future. But a clear path forward has already been charted.
On Saturday, Mike Hearn, a key developer of Bitcoin software, posted a blunt essay on Medium explaining why the cryptographic currency's underlying open-source core software is now proceeding along two separate development paths, or forks. As with everything related to Bitcoin, the move is part software, part ideology, part political wrangling, and part finance. In this case, a low-level plumbing issue was threatening to burble up and swamp the network's ability to function unless a change was made. Disagreements over the timing and type of change had stalled resolution.
The Only Way To Make Donald Trump's Tweets *Bearable? Have Josh Groban Sing Them
*Almost bearable.
Presidential hopeful and Twitter hothead Donald Trump has a way of doling out his delusions of grandeur, vitriolic political sludge, and misogynistic overtones in 140 characters or less that makes for some of the most unpalatable quips the Internet has ever endured.
Can You Design Innovation?
Innovation districts are popping up all over the country. But will they work?
Picture a gleaming building wrapped around an expansive tree-filled courtyard. All the walls are glass so you can see what's happening in the ground-level retail and open-plan offices on the upper floors. In lieu of cramped hallways there are wide-open walkways and a snaking ramp that ascends to a rooftop lawn. Apartments are close by and there's a constant hum of activity and interaction throughout. This is the image of a forthcoming innovation district in Miami, Florida.
August 17, 2015
The Agonizingly Slow Decline Of Adobe Flash Player
Despite industry-wide calls for Flash's demise, lots of major websites still use the aging browser plugin. And they won't explain why.
This story on Adobe Flash was supposed to turn out a bit differently.
Technical Ninjutsu And A Whole Lot Of Data: How To Photograph A Black Hole
Radio astronomer Shep Doeleman and the Event Horizon Telescope project are capturing humanity's first images of black holes.
Shep Doeleman of the MIT Haystack Observatory has an unusual job: photographing the unseeable.
Deezer, France's Answer to Spotify, Could Be Valued at More Than $1 Billion
Watch out, Spotify. Competition with Deezer is about to heat up.
Deezer, a French music-streaming platform, is seeking capital from investors that could result in a valuation of around $1.1 billion, Bloomberg reports. Sources familiar with the matter, who disclosed the information to Bloomberg, asked not to be identified because "the process is still at an early stage and the valuation target may change."
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