iOS/OS X: Services like Facebook, Instagram, and Google Hangouts all have their own archives, but they can be tricky to download and organize, if you can at all. Shryne is an iPhone app (and companion desktop tool) that puts you in control, and lets you download, archive, and organize it all. Read more…
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Shryne for iPhone Lets You Download and Archive Your Own Social History
The weird thing about the road trip of the future is that it’s much more like the road trips we used to take in our past than anything else. My coworkers and I just did 1400-odd miles in an electric Tesla Model S that could also drive itself. It wasn’t just the trip of the future. It was the way things used to be, too. Read more…
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How A Tesla With Autopilot Forced Us To Take The Road Trip Of The Past
The health insurer Centene has admitted that it’s performing an “ongoing comprehensive internal search” for six hard drives. Sadly, those hard drives contain personal details about 1 million of its customers. Oops. Read more…
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A Health Insurer Lost Six Hard Drives Holding Data About 1 Million Customers
There’s all sorts of expensive R&D facilities working frantically to make body-enhancing skeletons into actual things, but the research isn’t limited just to big companies. Two years ago, a YouTuber showed off his Elysium -inspired suit curling 170lbs; last weekend, he decided to life a Mini Cooper. Read more…
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Here’s a Homemade Exoskeleton Jacking Up a Small Car
Tax season already sucks for independent contractors, but some Uber drivers who logged on to the company’s Partners portal to receive their 1099s are complaining about an especially nasty surprise: Instead of their own information, drivers say they received the tax forms of other drivers. Read more…
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Uber Screwup Exposed Driver’s Social Security Number and Tax Info
Neural networks are increasingly taking on jobs that used to be the preserve of the human brain . So Erik Bernhardsson decided to see what would happen if he threw 50, 000 fonts at a neural network and left it to chew through them. The results, it turns out, are pretty interesting. Read more…
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This Is What Happens When You Let a Neural Network Design Fonts
Apps die—often. It’s all part of the technological circle of life where alpha predators in multi-billion dollar dens feast on more vulnerable, less cash-infused prey. And one company that has always had an insatiable T. Rex-level hunger is Apple. Read more…
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Every App That Apple’s Tried to Kill
On Thursday, the El Salvadorean government recommended that all women in the entire country refrain from getting pregnant for the next two years. The extreme recommendation was made in an attempt to prevent children from being born with brain damage due to the Zika virus. Read more…
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El Salvador Recommends All Women Refrain From Getting Pregnant Until 2018
If you wanted to loop videos on YouTube, you used to need extra software. Now, it’s built right into YouTube itself. Read more…
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You Can Now Loop Videos Directly in YouTube
Mac: It’s no secret that a lot of people really don’t like iTunes, but that doesn’t mean that most of us have bothered to actually replace it. If you really just want a simple way to play some songs from your iTunes library, iTunes-Remote is a command line tool that’s simple to use. Read more…
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iTunes-Remote Controls iTunes Directly from the Command Line