Ben and Dan Volach are unlikely candidates to lead a developer insurrection against Apple Inc., a company whose products they deeply admire. But the chatty Israeli brothers, who have a knack of finishing each others’ sentences, find themselves at the vanguard of an “AppRising” against Apple AAPL, -6.10% and its increasingly controversial App Store. “We…
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But good luck getting a signal — Dirt-cheap Snapdragon 4-series chips will make nearly every phone a 5G phone. Ron Amadeo – Sep 3, 2020 3:45 pm UTC Enlarge / The Snapdragon 4 series is near the bottom of Qualcomm’s lineup and is used in most cheap devices. QualcommQualcomm’s push for 5G will soon hit…
On April 28, 2016, an IT tech staffer for the Democratic National Committee named Yared Tamene made a sickening discovery: A notorious Russian hacker group known as Fancy Bear had penetrated a DNC server “at the heart of the network,” as he would later tell the US Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence. By this point…
On March 12, 2020, the university where I was then employed, Brown, announced it was moving classes online. The northeast was the early epicenter of the pandemic in America, and there was pressure on universities in the region to make the right decision—and, almost as important, craft a careful message. Institutions had to convey that…
Most of us know how delightful it is to hear a computer-generated song playlist that feels entirely personal. Now, Google wants to create a similar type of bespoke audio experience—not with music, but with news. The company is adding some new features to its existing news aggregation service called Your News Update, which gathers news…
You’ve probably heard by now about how microfibers from your synthetic clothes—like yoga pants and stretchy socks—slough off when you do the laundry and wind up in the environment because wastewater treatment plants can’t screen them all out. Everywhere scientists look, from the deep sea to coastal waters to the surface of the Atlantic, they…
A poll out Monday confirmed many experts’ worst fears about the public’s faith in scientific leadership. According to a survey published on the website STAT, a bipartisan supermajority of Americans—78 percent in all—now worry that the approval process for a Covid-19 vaccine “ is being driven more by politics than science.” Health care experts quickly…
If there’s one defining feature of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s uncertainty. Will there be a vaccine? When can schools safely reopen? Will I still have a job next week? Should I book a spring vacation abroad? A crisis that we’d all hoped would be short-lived is dragging on indefinitely, and the list of unanswered questions…
No one’s driving the RV. That would be more disconcerting if it were actually moving, but it still feels a little odd to be sitting by myself toward the back, so I move up into the driver’s seat. Through the windshield I can see another RV, and a string of others in front of that…
