An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: After nearly a decade and a half as the chief executive officer of the hardware company he cofounded, John MacFarlane has announced his resignation as the head of Sonos. The move had…
MIT Unveils New Material That's Strongest and Lightest On Earth
A team of MIT researchers have created the world’s strongest and lightest material known to man using graphene. Futurism reports: Graphene, which was heretofore, the strongest material known to man, is made from an extremely thin sheet of carbon atoms…
Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Network World: The Orange County Weekly reports that Best Buy’s “Geek Squad” repair technicians routinely search devices brought in for repair for files that could earn them $500 reward as FBI informants. This…
Author of Swift Language Chris Lattner is Leaving Apple; We're Interviewing Him (Ask a Question!)
Software developer Chris Lattner, who is the main author of LLVM as well as Apple’s Swift programming language, is leaving Apple, he said today. From a post: When we made Swift open source and launched Swift.org we put a lot…
An Asteroid Passed By Earth At About Half the Distance Between Our Planet and Moon
On Monday at 7:47 A.M. EST, an asteroid thought to be between 36 and 111 feet wide passed roughly 120,000 miles from Earth — and astronomers didn’t spot it until Saturday. Smithsonian reports: According to astronomer Eric Edelman at the…