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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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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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Science Space

Scientists discover one of the most Earthlike planets yet

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As reported on The Verge. By Ellis Hamburger Can Gliese 832c support life, or is it just a super-Venus? Sci News is reporting that astronomers at the University of New South Wales have discovered an Earthlike planet just 16 light-years away. The planet, dubbed Gliese 832c, is orbiting a red dwarf star half the mass and radius of our own sun. Gliese 832c has an orbital period of about 35 days, and a mass more than five times…

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Google will keep absolute control over the the look and feel of Android Wear

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As reported on The Verge. By Chris Welch OEMs can’t change the design of Android Auto and Android TV either Companies that make Android Wear, Android Auto, and Android TV products won’t be allowed to dramatically alter the design and user experience of Google’s latest software. Somecustomization will be permitted; they’ll be able to add custom apps, services, and other small touches, but changing up the overall look and feel is expressly forbidden. “The UI is more…

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Apple Culture

Apple’s New iPhone Pitch To Parents

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Matthew Panzarino In my line of work  I’m often called on to think critically about the usability of both hardware and software, especially smartphones. One of my big touchstones, and one that’s ignored by a surprising amount of designers — is that stuff doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If your goal is to have thousands, or millions, of people use your thing then you’ve got to consider how it works when…

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LA school officials shift from free iPads to laptops and hybrids

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As reported on Engadget. BY MAT SMITH  An iPad for every student was the plan. Then, some students were too smart for their own good, quickly enabling their for-learnin’ iPads to access to anything on the web, including Twitter, Facebook and all that other fun stuff. LA’s school district now plans to differentiate what it offers its students, authorizing purchases for one of six different devices, including laptops and hybrids such as Chromebooks, Microsoft’s Surface Pro 2 and…

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