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The US lost Apple’s manufacturing jobs years ago, and probably for good. Steve Jobs is rumored to have said as much at a high-power Silicon Valley dinner in 2011, when he told President Barack Obama “those jobs aren’t coming back.” But billionaire kleptomaniac Donald Trump thinks he’ll be the one to get them back. Speaking at Liberty…
Begin: WordPress Article Content GoPro’s stock dropped 23.34% to 10.87 Wednesday afternoon after the company announced its Q4 was worse than expected. The stock was already trading at an all-time low. The stock briefly jumped to 11.20 before trading was halted. The company has a market cap of about $2 billion in after-hour values. This…
The two-year phone contract is dead. Sprint confirmed to The Verge this morning that it is no longer offering two-year contracts on phones, meaning that all four major US carriers — Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint — now only sell phones at full price and on installment plans. Though it means having one fewer option…
I don’t know about you guys, but if I invented a product that the whole world was waiting to see and was having some difficulties getting it into the hands of consumers, the last thing I would do is alienate those patient enough to stick with me. Skully, the brand behind that fancy but long-delayed…
The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car. In His Garage George Hotz is building a self-driving car by himself. By Ashlee Vance | December 16, 2015 Photographs by Peter Bohler From END BODY COPY CENTERED A few days before Thanksgiving, George Hotz, a 26-year-old hacker, invites me to his house in…
is this thing on? can you hear me now? Man, living in the future was supposed to include jet packs and flying cars, but instead all we got was terrorists who keep thinking of innovative ways to blow stuff up so we to take off our goddamn shoes at the airport. Oh, and we got…
Get ready for a serious Geeksgiving celebration. The Raspberry Pi Foundation today announced its latest wonder: The ultra-low-cost Raspberry Pi Zero. At $5 per unit, it may rank as the world’s cheapest computer. The Pi Zero goes on sale today, and the foundation is expecting a swell of orders, so it’s limiting each order to one or…
Walmart is selling an Android smartphone for $9. Technically, the phone costs $9.82, but the important thing here is that it’s a functioning smartphone for less than ten American dollars. It’s terrible, but it’s also fantastic. Here’s how it can be both of those things at the same time. I’ll get straight to the point:…
With depressing statistics revealing sexual assault to occur every 107 seconds in the United States, it’s not unusual to carry some form of protection at all times — whether it’s pepper spray, a stun gun or a cute, cat-shaped keychain meant to gouge out the eyes of an attacker. A problem with these self defense…
The company that owns the rights to make Polaroid devices sued GoPro on Tuesday, alleging that the action camera maker’s new cube cameras infringe on its patents. C&A Marketing Inc., filed its lawsuit against GoPro in a U.S. District Court in Newark and said that the San Mateo, Calif.-based camera company’s new Hero4 Session Camera…