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June 25, 2015
Apple Removes Civil War Game From App Store Amid Confederate Flag Controversy
The game's developers have issued a statement about the decision on their official site.
As the country continues to confront the social and political implications of the Confederate flag in the wake of the terrorist attack in Charleston—and the subsequent revelations about the perpetrator—companies are quickly moving to revise how they handle Confederate flag-related merchandise.
Virgin Galactic Takes a Big Step Toward Space-Based Internet
Virgin is partnering with OneWeb, a satellite Internet company serving the world's most remote regions.
Virgin Galactic, if all goes well, is going to help bring the Internet into space. On Wednesday, the company announced a massive contract with satellite company OneWeb to launch 39 satellites into space that will enable Internet access in the world's most remote regions.
Hands On With Amazon's Echo Speaker: Hey, This Thing Is Remarkably Smart
This smartly designed, easy-to-use wireless speaker has artificial intelligence built in. Is it worth $180?
For a moment, it almost seemed like Alexa was getting frustrated with me. To be fair, I just unpacked this artificially intelligent robo-speaker this morning and already I'm throwing it curve balls.
Watch Toro Y Moi's Chaz Bundick Design And Screen Print A T-Shirt
The chillwaver is also a talented illustrator and designer.
Artist Chaz Bundick's slinky, chilled music as Toro y Moi sounds like an Instagram-filtered summer day. But anyone familiar with Bundick knows that his colorful, casual style extends beyond his music—the former graphic design student creates all of his own merch and cover art, and even designed a pair of sunglasses for Aussie brand Colab.
Watch Endless GIFs All Day With Tumblr TV
Tumblr TV is all GIFs, all the time.
Tumblr's latest GIF-tastic feature will make you all kinds of happy: Today, the blogging platform and social network introduced Tumblr TV, a portal where you can watch GIFs all day, endlessly, to your heart's content. Tumblr TV is one of the biggest rollouts the service has offered in the post-Yahoo era—and it makes for killer lunch-break entertainment.
T-Mobile's New Strategy: Upgrade Your Phone Three Times A Year
The mobile company's new upgrade program is one of the first phone-leasing initiatives from a major mobile provider.
T-Mobile is trying something new: an early upgrade plan that lets users trade in their smartphones for a newer model up to three times a year. The initiative, called JUMP! On Demand, leases out phones rather than selling them, and is aimed at tech junkies itching to upgrade their phones more often than they already do.
How Tesla's Commercial Batteries Have Changed The Future...For Winemakers?
Tesla won't deliver batteries until late this summer, but Jackson Family Wines is already using them to slash its peak-demand energy use.
The vast majority of the 49 lush acres at La Crema winery in Windsor, California is covered in uncountable rows of beautiful green Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapevines. But nestled into a small industrial area near the side of one of its fermentation buildings, near the new vending-machine-sized boiler and a whole lot of piping, is a set of what might look to the untrained eye like some sort of electrical transformer.
In fact, these tall, wide, white boxes are three banks of Tesla's new industrial batteries. You'd only know if someone told you (or if you went around the back and found a small sticker with Tesla's logo and some technical information). But unlike the ones in the renderings unveiled in late April by Elon Musk, the CEO of both Tesla Motors and SpaceX (and the chairman of Solar City, the largest provider of solar power in the United States), these are the real thing, part of a pilot project to see how the batteries—freed from the confines of the Tesla automobile—can help businesses with heavy energy needs.
How Tesla's Commercial Batteries Have Changed the Future...For Winemakers?
Tesla won't deliver batteries until late this summer, but Jackson Family Wines is already using them to slash its peak-demand energy use.
The vast majority of the 49 lush acres at La Crema winery in Windsor, California is covered in uncountable rows of beautiful green Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapevines. But nestled into a small industrial area near the side of one of its fermentation buildings, near the new vending-machine-sized boiler and a whole lot of piping, is a set of what might look to the untrained eye like some sort of electrical transformer.
In fact, these tall, wide, white boxes are three banks of Tesla's new industrial batteries. You'd only know if someone told you (or if you went around the back and found a small sticker with Tesla's logo and some technical information). But unlike the ones in the renderings unveiled in late April by Elon Musk, the CEO of both Tesla Motors and SpaceX (and the chairman of Solar City, the largest provider of solar power in the United States), these are the real thing, part of a pilot project to see how the batteries—freed from the confines of the Tesla automobile—can help businesses with heavy energy needs.
Uber Protest in Paris: French Cabbies Blockade Roads, Assault Drivers
The anti-Uber protests stem from frustrations over the legality of the ride-sharing service's operation in France.
French taxi drivers have taken to the streets of Paris to protest UberPOP, the European equivalent of UberX, cutting off access to the city's airports and attacking Uber drivers. TechCrunch reports that 2,800 cabbies are rallying nationwide in response to the ride-hailing app's continued operation in France, even after the government allegedly banned UberPOP back in January.
How Intel's Ayse Ildeniz Got Fashion Designers And Engineers To Play Nice
When the behind-the-scenes chipmaker decided to make its own high-end fashion wearable, lessons abounded.
When Intel unveiled the MICA smart bracelet designed with fashion house Opening Ceremony last fall, the news came amid a flood of other, similar announcements. Buzz surrounding the Apple Watch's high-end accessories had become deafening; Will.i.am announced plans for his own smartwatch.
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