Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Our fearless leader, Nilay Patel, sent me an article about Chipotle accepting cryptocurrency for payment earlier this year. I did think about writing something to troll my cryptocurrency-hating editor who loves Chipotle, but then Elon Musk did some manner of nonsense, and I forgot. Chipotle did pay $25…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
There are plenty of autonomous driving vehicles testing on the roads of Shenzhen today: Pony.ai, Baidu, DeepRoute, AutoX, you name it. But these vehicles are not really the unmanned vehicles tech upstarts envision for the future, as they have been required to operate with a safety driver behind the wheel. A set of provisions introduced…
Netflix’s app on iOS now has a signup button that will redirect you to its site so you can subscribe to one of its plans with the company paying no App Store fees. This change comes after Apple said in March that “reader” apps — ones that provide digital content like books and videos —…
The rumored DJI Avata drone has appeared in a new leaked photo that gives us a closer look at the indoor flying camera, easing recent fears about launch delays. The photo below, posted by regular DJI leaker @OsitaLV on Twitter, is the first time we’ve seen the FPV (first-person view) drone in the wild, and…
After previously postponing while it worked on enhancing usability, Microsoft has now finally started blocking macros from running on downloaded Office files. IT admins can now update their productivity suite and prevent their employees from running Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros in the same, simple and convenient way, they used to. In an announcement…
A small group of computer science and engineering students at the University of Washington have designed a new set of wireless earbuds that use AI-powered technology to provide a better standard of background noise cancellation during phone calls. The earbuds – which the students have dubbed ClearBuds, an excellent name in our opinion – work…
Several schools and other educational organizations are having to restrict usage of Google’s software, including its Chrome browser and Chrome OS offerings over security and privacy fears. The Dutch Ministry of Education has ordered the country’s education industry to implement the changes following over fears that Google’s software is in conflict with the General Data…
Stray players on PC are currently living the dream with mods that let them swap their own cats into the game. The game’s furry protagonist is an orange tabby whose antics have hypnotized cats the world over. He’s partly based on Murtaugh, the cat whose human is one of the cofounders of developer Blue Twelve….
If you’re having a hard time remembering to run a script regularly or you simply wish to invest your time and energy into something a bit more creative, it’s high time to put cron to good use. However, before diving in you’ll probably want to know what cron is, what exactly a cron job is,…
Flight attendant said they had found a snake head inside a meal on SunExpress flight, report says. Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images/Don & Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group A flight attendant said she found a snake’s head in her in-flight meal, Turkey’s Gazete Duvar reported. The airline, SunExpress, said in a statement it…