Apple better have a backup plan for the sapphire screens on its upcoming Apple Watch . The situation with its sapphire partner GT Technology does not look good. The company filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, and now announced plans to close two of its sapphire plants in Arizona and Massachusetts. Read more…
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Apple Sapphire Supplier To Close Two Plants, Lay Off Hundreds of Workers
Someone is trying to make “The Snappening” happen. Read more…
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A Third-Party App May Have Leaked Tens of Thousand of Snapchat Photos
Passenger rail has never been known for punctuality (at least in this century), but over the past year, Amtrak’s long distance passenger trains have reportedly gone from being late 35 percent of the time to being late 60 percent of the time. But don’t blame Amtrak—it’s being forced to make way for the thousands of trains carrying oil from the Midwest. Read more…
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The US Doesn’t Have Enough Railroads to Keep Up With the Oil Boom
Jason Koebler writes Yahoo announced [Tuesday] it would be laying off at least 400 workers in its Indian office, and back in February, IBM cut roughly 2, 000 jobs there. Meanwhile, tech companies are beginning to see that many of the jobs it has outsourced can be automated, instead. Labor in India and China is still cheaper than it is in the United States, but it’s not the obvious economic move that it was just a few years ago: “The labor costs are becoming significant enough in China and India that there are very real discussions about automating jobs there now, ” Mark Muro, an economist at Brookings, said. “Companies are seeing that automated replacements are getting to be ‘good enough.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Outsourced Tech Jobs Are Increasingly Being Automated
A class-action lawsuit against Red Bull is being settled, and if you’ve purchased any Red Bull products in the last 12 years, you can get a piece of the pie. No proof of purchase required. Read more…
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You Get Free Red Bull or $10 If You Bought One In the Last 12 Years
Yesterday morning, Belkin routers stopped allowing users from accessing the Internet. In a statement provided to TechCrunch Belkin identified and outlined steps it will take to prevent it from happening again. “One of our cloud services associated with maintaining router operations was negatively impacted by a change made in our data center that caused a false denial of service.… Read More
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Belkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working
The Federal Trade Commission announced today that AT&T will pay $105 million for hiding extra charges in cellphone bills. The best part of the news? $80 million of it will go back into the pockets of people bilked by AT&T. Read more…
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AT&T Will Repay $80 Million In Shady Phone Bill Charges
iPhone: Google has updated the Chrome browser for iOS with a new download feature. It also gets better support for the iPhone 6/6+. Read more…
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Chrome for iOS Now Downloads and Save Files in Supported Applications
Adobe has made a video with its vision for the future of its tablet-based graphic applications. Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere… it is really amazing, almost unbelievable—borderline magical, really. Check it out. Read more…
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This is the future of Photoshop and it feels like magic
An anonymous reader writes: ISPs around the country are being kept busy today answering calls from frustrated customers with Belkin routers. Overnight, a firmware issue left many of the Belkin devices with no access to the customer’s broadband connection. Initial speculation was that a faulty firmware upgrade caused the devices to lose connectivity, but even users with automatic updates disabled are running into trouble. The problem seems to be that the routers “occasionally ping heartbeat.belkin.com to detect network connectivity, ” but are suddenly unable to get a response. Belkin has acknowledged the issue and posted a workaround while they work on a fix. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Belkin Router Owners Suffering Massive Outages