Month: July 2014

Application Legal

Tinder CEO’s Internal Memo Says Harassment Complaint Is Inaccurate

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Jordan Crook TechCrunch has obtained an internal memo sent from Tinder CEO Sean Rad to employees in the wake of a new lawsuit waged against the company. The lawsuit focuses on the relationship between Whitney Wolfe and Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen, accusing him and the company of sexual harassment and sexism. Former VP of Marketing Whitney Wolfe has alleged that Justin Mateen, her ex boyfriend, threatened and sexually harassed her after they broke up.…

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HealthCare News

Biobots made from tissue could one day be implanted in humans

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As reported on Engadget. BY STEVE DENT  It turns out that robots don’t need to be BigDog-sized to be freaky. Scientists at the University of Illinois have created one a mere centimeter (half-inch) in size built on a 3D-printed hydrogel backbone. The “ew” part is what powers it: a strip of skeletal muscle cells triggered by an electric current. Previous biobots built with heart tissue couldn’t be controlled, but muscle cells can be activated with electric pulses and made to “walk” at…

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Entertainment

‘Into the Storm’ trailer shows what happens when a tornado drill is for real

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As reported on The Verge. By Carl Franzen Fire-burning, plane-churning… It’s been a while since Hollywood offered us a good tornado movie (Sharknado doesn’t count, really). But that appears to be changing with Into the Storm. The found-footage disaster pic, which hits theaters in the US on August 8th, follows a pack of storm chasers and ordinary citizens trying to survive a series of tornadoes in the small town of Silverton. Whereas the first teaser focused on quick shots of…

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Cloud Microsoft Security

Microsoft Bolsters Encryption For OneDrive And Outlook.com

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm Microsoft announced this morning that it has bolstered the security of several of its digital products, bringing stronger encryption tools to its OneDrive and Outlook.com services. In the wake of revelations that the United States government was tapping the core fiber cables of the Internet, snooping on traffic between the data centers of large technology companies, and working to weaken encryption, a loose, industry wide effort has been undertaken to build digital…

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Application Cloud Culture

Virtual Says It Can Emulate iOS Or Android Devices In The Cloud

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Matthew Panzarino A new company called Virtual is claiming that it can imitate nearly any Android or iOS device almost perfectly in software, on any platform, with nearly ‘native quality’ performance. It does this with a combination of virtualization and emulation technology and it could change the way that developers test apps. Chris Wade started out hacking the iPhone in its earliest days, and contributed to some of the first jailbreak exploits. Since…

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Culture Internet

How to Disappear (almost) Completely: a practical guide

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As reported on Engadget. BY DANIEL COOPER Maybe you’ve seen Into the Wild, or (gasp) have actually read it. It’s the true story of an ordinary person who, one day, decided to abandon society, pack some rice and a rifle into a bag and head off into the wilderness never to return. It’s the sort of drastic move you rarely hear about in our modern life. But in next week’s final installment of How to Disappear, we’ll meet some people who’ve…

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