Russia bans state officials from using Apple devices over US spying concerns
Russian authorities have begun to ban government employees from using Apple devices for official state use, according to the Financial Times. As of Monday, the country’s trade ministry will prohibit the use of iPhones for all “work purposes.” Other agencies, including Russia’s telecommunications and mass media ministry, either have similar…
Apple’s first M3 Macs could arrive in October
The first batch of Apple’s M3-equipped Macs could arrive as early October, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman reports there “should be another launch” after the company’s annual iPhone event in September, with a new slate of Macs likely the focus of whatever…
Canoo made a cute trio of EVs to carry NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts to the SLS
Electric vehicle startup Canoo has delivered its first shipment to NASA. This week, a trio of the company’s Crew Transportation Vehicles (CTVs) arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Although they look like they’re made for exploring the surface of the Moon, the vans are designed to carry astronauts…
Elon Musk says Twitter’s ad revenue has dropped by 50 percent
Twitter is still spending more money than it’s making, according to Elon Musk. In the early hours of Saturday morning, the billionaire tweeted the company was suffering from an ongoing negative cash flow issue due to an approximately 50 percent drop in advertising revenue and heavy debt burden. “Need to…
Bluesky allowed people to include the n-word in their usernames
Before this week, Bluesky, the up-and-coming decentralized Twitter alternative, did not have a system in place to automatically prevent people from registering usernames that featured the n-word as part of their handle. On Wednesday, the company received multiple reports of someone who had the slur in their username. And while…
Tesla’s Texas factory has produced its first Cybertruck
After multiple years of delays, it looks like the Cybertruck is finally on its way to consumers. On early Saturday morning, Tesla tweeted out a photo of a Cybertruck that recently rolled off the company’s Giga Texas assembly line in Austin. “First Cybertruck built at Giga Texas!” the automaker said…
The old, good version of TweetDeck is back
Earlier this week, Twitter began migrating users to the “new” version of TweetDeck after its decision to limit how many tweets people could view temporarily broke the previous iteration of its list aggregator. For many, the change was a downgrade due to the new version missing some of the features…
Hayao Miyazaki’s final film will be Studio Ghibli’s first IMAX release
Hayao Miyazaki’s final film, the tentatively titled How Do You Live?, is coming to IMAX theaters. The milestone marks a first for Miyazaki and the animation studio he co-founded nearly four decades ago. According to Anime News Network, the film will also screen in Dolby Atmos, Dolby Cinema and DTS:X…
Apple will stream the first episode of ‘Foundation’ on YouTube
Late last month, Apple uploaded the debut episode of Silo to Twitter to promote the show’s season one finale. Now it’s doing the same with its other tentpole sci-fi series. Starting Monday, you can watch Foundation’s first episode on YouTube ahead of season two’sJuly 14th premiere. Apple’s live-action adaptation of Issac…
Twitch is finally adding Stories and a feed for discovering new streamers to watch
It’s probably safe to say no one could have predicted that LinkedIn would add Stories before Twitch, but here we are. Nearly eight years after Instagram lifted the feature from Snapchat, Twitch announced Saturday that its own users will be able to begin recording Stories starting later this year. At…