Month: September 2017

Apple’s iPhones are critical to its business and its cash hoard. But now speculation is that the money machine may not be humming as well as expected. The upcoming iPhone X smartphone, available on Nov. 3, may be having manufacturing… Continue Reading →

Behold all the wonders of space with these glorious photos! First up is a two-galaxy collision that formed the system known as Arp 269, captured by the Hubble space telescope. The pair became entangled when galaxy NGC 4490’s gravity drew… Continue Reading →

Less than a month into the job, new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is headed to London to try to negotiate the restoration of the company’s operating license in the British capital. On September 22, Transport for London (TfL) ruled that… Continue Reading →

In CrossFit they’re called “chippers.” These are unusually long workouts that can feel like they’ll never end. They’re called chippers because, in order to survive the workout, you just need to keep chipping away until you succeed. It’s in the… Continue Reading →

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Airbnb may become a headache for more than just traditional hoteliers and travel booking sites. That comes as the company has started thinking about day-to-day use of its app. Most recently, the startup has been expanding its “Experiences” offering, in… Continue Reading →

Investment Thesis General Electric (GE) is selling its industrial solutions business to Swiss rival ABB for $ 2.6 billion. The company is clearly targeting underperforming plants and putting them up for sale. This is one way to improve its free… Continue Reading →

According to Twitter’s well-worn origin story, the 140-character limit for tweets was born out of the now bygone restrictions of text messaging. The founders wanted Twitter to be used via SMS; at the time, messages were capped at 160 characters.… Continue Reading →

Last night, CBS finally took the wraps off its oft-delayed new show, Star Trek: Discovery. The two-part debut (“The Vulcan Hello” and “Battle at the Binary Stars”) gave fans the first new TV Trek since Star Trek: Enterprise ceased subspace… Continue Reading →

Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. What is it about lawyers these days? Have they suddenly realized that coming over all human actually works with, well, humans?… Continue Reading →

If you’ve ever read a science fiction novel or watched an episode of Star Trek, you’ve probably wondered: What would it really be like to meet a being from another planet face to face? You may think you can only… Continue Reading →

With businesses that focus on clean energy, electric, self-driving cars and launching into outer space, Elon Musk is on the innovation scoreboard in a big way, and often leading it. But according to a Quora response from his SpaceX co-founder,… Continue Reading →

PrefaceApple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) is dropping hard after its event to announce the new series of hardware, in particular the new iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X as well as the Apple Watch 3. It’s Different This TimeNormally when Apple stock… Continue Reading →

Twitter representatives will meet with the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff next week in relation to inquiries into the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a company representative said. The committee, along with other congressional committees and special counsel Robert… Continue Reading →

Japan’s embattled Toshiba (tosbf) has selected a group led by U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital to buy its prized memory chip unit, three people with knowledge of the talks said on Wednesday, a last-minute dramatic twist to a highly… Continue Reading →

The limits of public transit in a city that needs much more. The post Detroit’s New Streetcar Is OK, But It Can’t Save a City appeared first on WIRED. All articles