If you can’t bear to look at today’s Facebook memories of you skipping to the polls—or you’re dreading tomorrow’s memories of your and your friends’ post-election reactions—you’re not alone. We talked to five therapists about how the election and its aftermath has affected their clients’ mental health.
We already know that for various users, iOS 11.1 makes media playback stutter, breaks audio control on the lock screen, and autocorrects the word “I” to an unrecognizable character. But there’s more! It also breaks the Calculator app.
Meet the scientists building a library of designer drugs
Postmates today announced the official launch of a new grocery delivery service, called Postmates Fresh, that puts the company in more direct competition with Amazon and Instacart. Postmates, one of the longest running on-demand and logistics starups, has allowed its users to order items from grocery stores in the past. However, this new product, which will exist under a new grocery tab in its iOS and Android apps, is Postmates’ first official foray into grocery store partnerships. The company is also revealing a full app redesign today to mark the launch.
Postmates Fresh is starting in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City, and it’s partnering with local organic farms and grocery stores to provide everything from meat,...
Apple wants to have a standalone augmented reality headset ready for use by 2019, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The company’s interest in the technology is well-established, with CEO Tim Cook stating in a recent earnings report that Apple believes “AR is going to change the way we use technology forever.” The company took a first major step into augmented reality this year, with the launch of ARKit in iOS 11.
According to Bloomberg, the planned AR headset would have its own display, a new chip, and a specially-designed operating system, currently referred to internally as “rOS” or “reality operating system.” Apple’s engineers are reportedly exploring a number of ways that users might control the headset, including head...
Uber’s “flying car” project Elevate came whizzing back into view today with a number of key announcements about where it will first appear, who will be working on it, and how this futuristic service will look when it ultimately takes off.
In a speech at the Web Summit in Lisbon today, Uber’s head of product Jeff Holden announced that the company is adding a third city, Los Angeles, to its list of places where it hopes to pilot its aerial taxi service by 2020. LA joins Dallas-Fort Worth and Dubai as cities announced to be working with Uber on the program.
Holden also said that Uber has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to create a brand-new air traffic control system to manage these low-flying, possibly autonomous aircraft. And to...
The leaves are changing, the weather is getting cooler, and too-early Christmas decorations have popped up in every store. If you’re finding it harder than usual to enjoy your seasonal latte—or, for that matter, get out of bed—it might be because of the date on the calendar. Not seasonal depression, but another, less…
Israeli company Corephotonics filed a lawsuit against Apple yesterday, just as Apple was awarded $120 million by the Supreme Court after a prolonged battle with Samsung. Corephotonics, a maker of dual lens camera technology, claims that the cameras featured in the iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus infringe on four of its patents.
The Israeli company was founded in 2012 by Dr. David Medlovic, a Tel Aviv University professor and former chief scientist in the Israeli government. Corephotonics claims in the lawsuit that it reached out to Apple “as one of its first acts as a company” to establish a strategic partnership. The exchanges with the tech giant continued for a while but never resulted in a license agreement for Corephotonics’ dual...
Facebook is testing a new preemptive revenge porn defense in Australia that may, at first blush, feel counterproductive: uploading your nude photos or videos directly to Messenger. According to the Australia Broadcasting Corporation, Facebook has partnered with the office of the Australian government’s e-Safety Commissioner, which works primarily to prevent the online abuse of minors, to develop the new system for combating the nonconsensual sharing of explicit media.
By uploading the images or videos you fear may be shared in the future in an attempt to shame or harass you online, Facebook can digitally “hash” the media, effectively giving it a digital footprint. This allows the social network to track the media using the same...
Taika Waititi and the Marvel Cinematic Universe always seemed like an odd team-up. Waititi is a New Zealand-born writer-director who’s primarily worked in comedy, from the vampire ensemble film What We Do In The Shadows to episodes of Flight of the Conchords to the terrific family action film Hunt For The Wilderpeople. He likes to work loose and let his actors improvise, and he’s always operated on a small scale. Putting him in charge of a $180 million blockbuster about superheroes whaling on each other in space was a bold and interesting move for Marvel Studios, but it was still certainly a counterintuitive one.
Still, his MCU film, Thor: Ragnorak, indisputably feels like one of his movies, not a personality-free cookie-cutter tentpole...
The popularity of cheap messaging service WhatsApp is so intense that over a million people have downloaded a fake update on it from Google Play.
Japan has successfully mined zinc, gold, and other minerals from a deep-water seabed off the coast of Okinawa, The Japan Times reported in September. Though the scale of the operation is still unclear, it could be one of the first ventures in what may be a massive deep-ocean mining industry. And that is sparking renewed concerns among scientists about how this new gold rush will affect the unique creatures living off these ore deposits.
The Okinawa deposits, located over 5,000 feet below the sea surface, are formed by underwater geysers called hydrothermal vents. These are chimneys on the seafloor that spew out hot plumes rife with zinc, nickel, copper, and other rare elements; when the plumes collide against the cold seawater, the...
When parents let their kids watch YouTube videos, it’s usually not because they’re in a relaxed mental state and want to provide their child with some rich teachable moments. A lot of the content is basically “toddler crack,” a series of manic, mindless clips that keep tiny viewers weirdly entranced (and blissfully…
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has ruled in favor of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in its fight against Sci-Hub, a pirate site for scientific papers. The court has issued a default judgment that grants all of the ACS’ requests, which includes monetary damages, an injunction that requires search engines, registrars, and hosting providers to block access to Sci-Hub, and a decree that Sci-Hub can no longer sell or promote any works registered to the ACS.
The case was originally brought against Sci-Hub in June. It was expected that the ACS would win, given that Alexandra Elbakyan, the site’s publisher, entered no defense, but the court’s decision to enforce blocked internet access to the site was a surprise...
They will never sit on your desk, and they will most certainly never fit in your pocket. Today, they’re fragile, and need to be kept at temperatures close to absolute zero. Quantum computers aren’t much like the desktop PCs we’re all so familiar with—they’re a whole new kind of machine, capable of calculations so…
The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL may be some of the best Android phones around, but they still launched with a handful of bugs and problems. Now, Google is doing everything it can to address these issues with its November software update.
Esther Perel, author of The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity and host of our video series The State of Affairs, is going to be a guest on our podcast. And although we have our own lengthy list of interview questions, we’d love to know what you might like to ask her.
It’s Tuesday afternoon, so it’s time to take a look at some more gadgets. We’ve got a whole bunch of them ready for Circuit Breaker Live, which’ll start streaming on Twitter at 4PM ET / 1PM PT. You can tweet with the hashtag #CircuitBreakerLive to chat with us during the show.
On today’s show, we’ll have Megan Farokhmanesh talking about the Xbox One X, Ashley Carman on to demo some strange wearable speakers (including a hat speaker and, my personal favorite, a neck speaker), and Chaim Gartenberg joining us to discuss the best wireless charger to get for your new iPhone (or your old Android device). It’s gonna be a good show.
While you’re waiting, feel free to check out last week’s episode, which was all about the iPhone X. And if you...
The iPhone X has only been out for a few days, but we’re already seeing people take advantage of the face mapping technology on the phone in numerous ways. Some, like Animoji karaoke are more entertaining than useful, but others — like Warby Parker’s new app — are a little more useful (as spotted by Joanna Stern on Twitter.)
The glasses company is cleverly using the iPhone’s camera to take maps of people’s faces, and use that data to recommend styles of glasses that will best fit your face. It’s a step beyond the digital try on system the company has previously offered, where it would try to place a virtual pair of glasses on a picture to let you see how it looks.
Warby Parker using the iPhone X TrueDepth camera is super super smart:...
You might have heard of quantum dots in the context of TVs, but Samsung uses them in a 4K computer monitor as well, and we’ve got an exclusive all-time low price on it today with promo code KINJA4K.
Popular culture has always been interested in women who become obsessed with other women. The trope has been re-imagined and re-skinned over and over, from Single White Female to Notes on a Scandal, from “Jolene” to “Girl Crush,” from late Sylvia Plath to approximately 500 of the plot threads on Pretty Little Liars. The stories generally boil down to two explanations for this pathology: secret sexual attraction to other women, or competition for a man’s attention and affection. Sometimes the lines between those two things blur, but there’s rarely any other explanation.
One recent exception is Christian E. Christiansen’s 2011 thriller The Roommate, which has a lonely college freshman striving to take over the identity of her pretty,...
DJI, the Chinese startup leading the market for consumer and commercial drones, kicked off its second annual AirWorks Conference in Denver today. The event focuses on promoting the ways drones can be used by law enforcement and industries like agriculture, construction, and energy. DJI also unveiled a new software system, FlightHub, that allows an operator to manage a fleet of 10 or more drones at once. And it rolled out two new versions of its customizable Wind drones, the units built to handle high winds, rain, and payloads of nearly 30 pounds.
Sadly, you won’t find these new units available for purchase on DJI’s website. Wind drones are aimed at enterprise customers who want a custom build that goes above and beyond what DJI usually...
Rewards enthusiasts, we know you love your Chase Sapphire credit card. We also know you love hopping on new cards with excellent perks, and now that Uber has jumped into the credit card world, you’re probably wondering if they’re worth your time (and the hard pull on your credit report).
In the market for a new phone? Google just made it a ton easier to figure out which one you should buy.
Microsoft’s Windows 10 upgrade program was discontinued for the general public last July, but you can still get your hands on a free upgrade to Windows 10 if you’re a user of the company’s assistive technology features. Luckily, Microsoft’s definition of the term is pretty broad, which means if you rely on features…
My seven-year-old son is not keen on learning to tie his shoes. He doesn’t have any problems with dexterity ... he just gets easily frustrated doing things he’s not already good at (which is a lot of stuff, when you’re seven). So I’ve been coaxing him to practice with me, patiently waiting for him to come around—and…
Recently, we asked people who worked in the food service industry if there were any insights about their job they wished restaurant patrons would know, and we got some great answers. Whether it’s about tipping, food orders, or how you should and shouldn’t treat the wait staff, these are the secrets to being a good…
Thanksgiving is not a day to be concerned with calories, your step goal, or health in general, but it is a day that should involve salad. Though I would be happy if we formally changed the name of the holiday to “Casserole Day,” believe me when I say that a good salad is not only wanted on this day, but needed.
A Logitech Gold Box, a Philips Norelco shaver, a Rosetta Stone package, and more are all part of today’s best deals.
My favorite casual dining restaurant in San Francisco is a Burmese place called Burma Love. I dream about this salad they make topped with fermented tea leaves, as do a lot of my neighbors, apparently. On most nights, the restaurant has at least a 45-minute wait, sometimes closer to an hour an a half. And they don’t…
Last week, Alice Paul Tapper, a fifth-grader in Washington, D.C., wrote an op-ed in the New York Times that had women of all ages nodding in solidarity. On a fourth-grade trip, Tapper noticed that “all the boys stood in the front and raised their hands while most of the girls politely stayed in the back and were…
Fitbit is the first wearable company to get the green light to participate in the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) All of Us program. All of Us was initially started by President Obama in 2015 under the name Precision Medicine Initiative, and is an open research project aimed at discovering how individual differences inform health, and how participants can learn about and contribute to their own health.
The program is aiming to get 1 million Americans to eventually enroll in the program, and has just purchased 10,000 Fitbit devices for participants to use, as reported by TechCrunch. Fitbit was chosen for several reasons, including broad compatibility and the device’s ability to hold a charge for several days.
Two Fitbit models will...
“I came back to work from maternity leave, and a month later, I was let go.”
After the Las Vegas massacre that killed nearly 60 people and injured 600, the New York Times ran a story that spelled out exactly how much money members of Congress have taken from the NRA over their careers, and the statements they made immediately after the shooting offering their thoughts and prayers to the…
Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reached an important milestone recently: since mid-October, the company has been operating its autonomous minivans on public roads in Arizona without a safety driver — or any human at all — behind the wheel. And starting very soon, the company plans to invite regular people for rides in these fully self-driving vehicles.
The news that Waymo’s vehicles have been on public roads with no human in the driver’s seat was announced today by the company’s CEO John Krafcik at a tech conference in Lisbon. The announcement comes on the heels of Waymo’s decision to invite a group of reporters to visit Castle, a 91-acre facility in California’s Central Valley that it has...
In September 2015, a now-infamous Vanity Fair article went viral after it drew a defensive flurry of sarcastic tweets from Tinder. In the piece, titled “Tinder and the Dawn of the ‘Dating Apocalypse,’” Nancy Jo Sales quotes dozens of millennial daters and considers their testimonials, musing, “In a perfect world, we’d all have sex with whomever we want, and nobody would mind, or be judged, or get dumped; but what about jealousy, and sexism, not to mention the still-flickering chance that somebody might fall in love?”
About 30 minutes into Newness, the new feature from Like Crazy team Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones, a minor character reads a liberally adapted quote from Sales, presenting a theory about the major inflection points of...
Even for those who aren’t fans of classic ‘70s rock, Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” is instantly recognizable. It starts off with driving drums and rousing guitar chords that build into its iconic battle howl, “Ah-ah, ah!” Originally inspired by the band’s time in Iceland, the lyrics spin a tale of Norse mythology and viking fantasy involving great battles and the Hammer of the Gods. “Valhalla, I am coming!” wails Robert Plant.
It sounds like a perfect fit for Marvel’s blockbuster Thor movies about the hammer-wielding Norse thunder god, which is why Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi was so insistent about getting it in his film — but landing the rights was no easy feat. It took the film’s music supervisor Dave Jordan the entire...
It’s National Security month in China, and the government made a cartoon to remind young children that they, too, can encourage their parents to protect national secrets and be counterspies, as first reported by Quartz.
In a 10-minute video released by the state-run Chinese Society of Education, various kids, all wearing the requisite red scarves of the Chinese Young Pioneers, were asked what they think national security means. One girl says her mom often forgets to turn off the stove, but her dad reminded her enough times, removing that security problem. A boy says his dad is a rich man and can hire bodyguards to ensure his own security.
The next boy, however, tells the class a story about his dad, a Chinese military engineer who was...
Certain users of the privacy-minded Tor web browser should download the app’s latest update, which adds a temporary fix to prevent the browser from leaking identifying information, namely IP addresses. The TorMoil bug, as named by the security research company that discovered the vulnerability, We Are Segment, can…
Today, Syria announced that it would sign the Paris climate agreement — a landmark deal that commits almost 200 countries to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to fight global warming. With Nicaragua also joining the deal last month, the United States is now the only country in the world that opposes it.
In June, President Donald Trump announced that the US will withdraw from the Paris climate accord, unless it is renegotiated to be “fair” to the United States. But other countries in the deal, such as France, Germany, and Italy, said that’s not possible. The Trump administration is also taking steps to roll back regulations passed under former President Barack Obama to achieve the emissions reduction goals set under the Paris deal. The US...
Sony has added Google Assistant to its 4K HDR sets running Android TV. The voice assistant is now available on all 2017 models and select 2016 versions. Users can now control their TVs, smart homes, and utilize the power of Google search by pressing the microphone button on their remote.
Sony’s adoption of Google Assistant is the second Android TV device to receive the smart assistant, after the NVIDIA Shield TV got the service back in September.
Sony says the 2016 editions of the XBR - Z9D, XBR - X800D, X BR - X750/X700D, and all 2017 Sony Android TVs will have the full Google Assistant experience after downloading the software update, which is available today.
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If you get easily hangry and impatient, Google’s new feature that lists restaurant wait times will help you plan around your hunger pangs. The update will arrive to Google search and Maps “soon.” It will show you how long you’ll have to wait to get a seat at a restaurant at any particular hour. Google says it’ll have wait times for nearly a million sit-down restaurants around the world.
To access the feature, users just search for the restaurant on Google, open the business listing, and a Popular Times section will be displayed with an estimated wait in real time. You can also tap on any hour on the bar graph to see how long the wait will be for that period, in case you want to plan ahead for dinner.
There’s also a summary of how long...
When you’re planning a wedding, you want the perfect day, including providing your guests with celebratory drinks. A full bar, however, can bust your budget and offering just wine and beer might disappoint some. For the best of both worlds, offer your guests a craft cocktail.
In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.
Nvidia is creating special versions of its powerful Titan Xp graphics card for fans of the Jedi Order or Galactic Empire. The two collector’s edition Star Wars GPUs have been designed to fit into the Star Wars universe, with hints of a slightsaber or light panels that look like the Death Star. There are bright green LEDs for the light side or a moody red version for the dark side, and both have subtle design differences for Star Wars fans.
Both cards have windowed areas to show off the lighting and internals, so they’ll look great inside a custom gaming PC that you can peer inside of. The GPUs use Nvidia’s Pascal-based Titan Xp architecture, meaning there’s 3,840 CUDA cores running at 1.6GHz and 12GB of GDDR5X memory running at 11.4Gbps....
Google appears to be working on a new app called Files Go that’ll work as a way to manage, clean up, and share files. It’s that last one that seems the most interesting here: Files Go seems to have a feature that works a lot like Apple’s AirDrop, letting you easily send files to nearby Android phones over Bluetooth.
The file-transfer feature doesn’t appear to work quite as smoothly as AirDrop. Both people need to have the Files Go app open, whereas AirDrop lets you send files from any app to any nearby contact, even if they don’t have the same app.
Still, it’d be a nice addition to Android if Google began shipping this as a stock app. Right now, the best way to send a file to a nearby phone is by using Android Beam, which requires...
As soon as found out I was pregnant, I started researching the best tactics for parenting, including breastfeeding. I started attending La Leche League meetings before my bump was even visible. I learned about latching and holds. I checked out books on breastfeeding from the library, and went to every community…
Amazon has announced that its new Fire TV Stick Basic Edition will be available in more than 100 countries worldwide starting today. The Fire TV Stick is a media player that connects to your TV’s HMDI port, and lets you to stream content, including movies and TV shows, through providers like Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, and, of course, Amazon’s own Prime Video. The stick also gives you access to various apps, music, and games, and comes with a remote.
The Basic Edition has 8GB of storage, a quadcore processor, and 1GB of memory. It can stream movies and TV shows at 720p and 1080p HD, and up to 60 fps. Default languages include Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Italian, German, or English. The compact size makes it useful for traveling,...
