Report: Apple Silicon iMac With Custom GPU to Launch in Second Half of 2021

Apple will debut a powerful custom-designed graphics procesing unit in its first Arm-based iMac which is set to launch in the second half of next year, according to a new report today.
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/31/apple-silicon-imac-custom-gpu-2021/?source=Snapzu

The US is adding jobs. But the recovery could take years

Economists are worried that the tepid recovery in the US job market could run out of steam this fall should coronavirus cases surge again just as federal stimulus money runs out.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/30/investing/stocks-week-ahead/index.html?source=Snapzu

The 2020 Tesla Model Y Proves How Far Behind The Rest Of The Auto Industry Still Is

Say what you want about the panel gaps and the tweets, but everyone who's come at this king so far has missed. My opinion of Tesla in recent years has been one hell of a roller-coaster ride. At first, I admired the company's fast, innovative electric cars; then I grew to hate CEO Elon Musk's constant Twitter shenanigans and nuclear takes on journalists and the media.
Read more: https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/35696/the-2020-tesla-model-y-proves-how-far-behind-the-rest-of-the-auto-industry-still-is?source=Snapzu

The Big Tesla Hack: A hacker gained control over the entire fleet, but fortunately he's a good guy

A few years ago, a hacker managed to exploit vulnerabilities in Tesla’s servers to gain access and control over the automaker’s entire fleet.
Read more: https://electrek.co/2020/08/27/tesla-hack-control-over-entire-fleet/?source=Snapzu

Drug Cartel Now Assassinates Its Enemies With Bomb-Toting Drones

The tactic has become widespread on battlefields overseas and now appears to be proliferating to organized crime.
Read more: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36013/mexican-drug-cartel-now-assassinating-its-enemies-with-improvised-explosive-toting-drones?source=Snapzu

Chadwick Boseman tweet bumps Obama's as most-liked post ever

A tweet from Chadwick Boseman’s account confirming the actor’s death on Friday is now Twitter's most-liked post of all time, surpassing a 2017 tweet from former President Obama. 
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/514329-chadwick-boseman-tweet-bumps-obamas-as-most-liked-post-ever?source=Snapzu

Horrifying Moment Kite-Flying Girl Is Swept Into The Sky By Wind Caught On Video

It’s the thing nightmares are made of, and for one mother in Taiwan the nightmare became reality at the 2020 International Kite Festival. A three-year-old girl surnamed Lin became wrapped up in the tail of a giant kite. As soon as the adults released the kite into the sky, the girl was immediately pulled into the sky where her body was violently swung around like a rag doll.
Read more: https://unitedsquid.com/horrifying-moment-kite-flying-girl-is-swept-into-the-sky-by-wind-caught-on-video/?source=Snapzu

Cloudflare says its Sunday morning problems were due to CenturyLink outage

Cloudflare said its Sunday morning outage affecting numerous websites was due to an IP outage by internet service provider CenturyLink. According to a tweet from CenturyLink, all affected services have been restored as of 11:15AM ET.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/30/21407429/cloudflare-down-websites-hulu-feedly-discord?source=Snapzu

Tesla Introduced A Business Model The World Has Not Seen Before

You can save tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars with continuous improvements to a Tesla, which is a stark contrast to other automaker that do something else continuously: ask you to pay again!
Read more: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/29/tesla-introduced-a-business-model-the-world-has-not-seen-before/?source=Snapzu

54% of adults want to work remotely most of the time after the pandemic, according to a new study from IBM

The coronavirus pandemic has created global shifts in the way people work, shop, and socialize. While not every change created during the quarantined lifestyle of the pandemic will stick, many employees hope that working from home will. A survey conducted by IBM found that 54% of employees would prefer to primarily work remotely.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/54-percent-adults-want-mainly-work-remote-after-pandemic-study-2020-5?IR=T?source=Snapzu

Lukashenko gets birthday call from Putin as Belarus protests rumble

Russian President Vladimir Putin used a birthday phone call on Sunday to invite Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to visit Moscow, a Kremlin show of support as thousands of protesters streamed into central Minsk demanding Lukashenko step down.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-election/lukashenko-gets-birthday-call-from-putin-as-belarus-protests-rumble-idUSKBN25Q0GK?il=0?source=Snapzu

Delta Air Lines has put 240 people on ‘no fly list’ for not wearing masks, CEO says

Delta Air Lines Inc. has placed about 240 people on a “no fly list’ for failing to comply with the airline’s face-mask policy, chief executive officer Ed Bastian said in a memo to employees on Thursday. There is no U.S. federal mandate on masks in airports or on airplanes, leaving U.S. airlines to enforce their own rules that passengers must wear face coverings while traveling.
Read more: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/international-business/us-business/article-delta-air-lines-has-put-240-people-on-no-fly-list-for-not-wearing/?source=Snapzu

Particles From Space Are Messing With Our Quantum Computers, Scientists Discover

In an incredible example of cosmic scales meeting the tiniest possible realm, scientists found that radiation including cosmic rays causes superconducting qubits to slip into disarray.
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqy5x/particles-from-space-are-messing-with-our-quantum-computers-scientists-discover?source=Snapzu

Tesla Autopilot Will Detect Green Lights and Speed Limit Signs With the Upcoming Update

You can expect Tesla cars to become more efficient at recognizing speed signs using their cameras in the near future. Electrek reported that the carmaker is pushing a new version of its software update that will allow vehicles to visually detect speed limit signs and more.
Read more: https://interestingengineering.com/tesla-autopilot-will-detect-green-lights-and-speed-limit-signs-with-the-upcoming-update?source=Snapzu

Climate change is threatening to create a new housing crisis in America

As climate change continues to increase the frequency and intensity of storms, and as sea level rise and coastal erosion push storm damage further inland, millions of additional American properties are at risk for catastrophic damage each year. A major report released in June shows that federal flood maps underestimate the number of homes and businesses at risk of flooding by a stunning 67%
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/coastal-flooding-climate-change-cause-new-american-housing-crisis-2020-8?source=Snapzu

U.S. economy plunged an annualized 31.7% in second quarter

The U.S. economy shrank at an alarming annual rate of 31.7% during the April-June quarter as it struggled under the weight of the viral pandemic, the government estimated Thursday. It was the sharpest quarterly drop on record.
Read more: https://apnews.com/a9ef11294c55f6fc8d130194dd507d0a?source=Snapzu

AT&T reportedly trying to sell DirecTV after massive customer losses

Sale could value DirecTV at much less than $49B AT&T paid in 2015, reports say.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/att-reportedly-trying-to-sell-directv-after-massive-customer-losses/?source=Snapzu

'This isn't the 1990s': Apple under pressure from app developers

Facebook may be the home of international conspiracy theories, Amazon the bane of high streets everywhere and Google slowly tightening its grip on the entire web but it is Apple that is rapidly becoming the most friendless of the big tech companies.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/30/this-isnt-the-1990s-apple-under-pressure-from-app-developers?source=Snapzu

IBM has built a new drug-making lab entirely in the cloud

The news: IBM has built a new chemistry lab called RoboRXN in the cloud. It combines AI models, a cloud computing platform, and robots to help scientists design and synthesize new molecules while working from home. How it works: The online lab platform allows scientists to log on through a web browser. On a blank…
Read more: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/28/1007737/ibm-ai-robot-drug-making-lab-in-the-cloud/?source=Snapzu

Beachgoers form human chain to rescue man in sea by Durdle Door

Witnesses have described the moment beachgoers formed a human chain to rescue a man in danger in the sea by the Durdle Door. The incident happened on Thursday, as large waves crashed in around the popular tourist attraction on the Jurassic coast.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/23/beachgoers-form-human-chain-to-rescue-man-in-sea-by-durdle-door?source=Snapzu

Meteorite study suggests Earth may have always been wet

A new study finds that Earth’s water may have come from materials that were present in the inner solar system at the time the planet formed — instead of far-reaching comets or asteroids delivering such water. The findings published Aug. 28 in Science suggest that Earth may have always been wet.
Read more: https://source.wustl.edu/2020/08/meteorite-study-suggests-earth-may-have-always-been-wet/?source=Snapzu

56-year-old NASA satellite expected to fall to Earth this weekend

The derelict spacecraft poses no threat.
Read more: https://www.space.com/ogo-1-satellite-reentry-coming.html?source=Snapzu

MLMs Are A Nightmare For Women And Everyone They Know

As a stay-at-home mom of three, Angela was eager to find an excuse to get out of the house. Having no one to talk to except her kids all day was a lonely existence, and a Tupperware party hosted by a new neighbor in her Reno, Nevada, community seemed like a great way to socialize.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mlm-pyramid-scheme-target-women-financial-freedom_l_5d0bfd60e4b07ae90d9a6a9e?source=Snapzu

Iconic Portland bookstore Powell's says it won't sell directly on Amazon anymore: 'We must take a stand'

Selling through the Amazon marketplace was "hard to give up, sort of like smoking," said Powell's CEO Emily Powell. But when Amazon prioritized essential supplies over books in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, that sealed the deal.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/27/portland-bookstore-powells-wont-sell-on-amazon-we-must-take-a-stand.html?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk is one step closer to connecting a computer to your brain

At a Friday event, Elon Musk revealed more details about his mysterious neuroscience company Neuralink and its plans to connect computers to human brains. While the development of this futuristic-sounding tech is still in its early stages, the presentation was expected to demonstrate the second version of a small, robotic device that inserts tiny electrode threads through the skull and into the brain. Musk said ahead of the event he would “show neurons firing in real-time. The matrix in the matrix.”
Read more: https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/8/28/21404802/elon-musk-neuralink-brain-machine-interface-research?source=Snapzu

Almost 200 Uber employees are suing the company over its disappointing IPO last year

190 Uber employees have filed a lawsuit against the ride-hailing giant accusing it of indirectly raising their tax bills when it accelerated the issue date of their stock options ahead of its lackluster IPO last year.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-lawsuit-employees-sue-over-ipo-stutter-accelerated-stock-payments-2020-8?source=Snapzu

5,700-year-old Neolithic house discovered by archaeologists in Cork

IRISH ARCHAEOLOGISTS have made an incredible discovery in Cork, having unearthed the foundations of a house from the Neolithic era. The ancient house is believed to be 5,700 years old, and was likely the home of a family from one of the earliest farming communities to have settled in the south of Ireland.
Read more: https://www.irishpost.com/news/5700-year-old-neolithic-house-discovered-by-architects-in-cork-191736?source=Snapzu

N.Y.C. Tenants Say They Were Tricked Into Appearing in R.N.C. Video

“I am not a Trump supporter,” one of the tenants said, adding that she was furious that her interview with a government official was used for the convention.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/nyregion/nyc-tenants-rnc-video-trump.html?source=Snapzu

Facebook isn’t happy about Apple’s upcoming ad tracking restrictions

Apple’s upcoming operating system iOS 14 (currently in public beta) could have a big impact on publishers who work with Facebook’s ad network — at least, according to Facebook. The company published a couple of blog posts yesterday outlining the potential impact of a major privacy change that Apple announced at WWDC — namely, the fact that Apple will explicitly ask users whether they want to opt-in before sharing the IDFA identifier with app developers, who can then use it to target ads.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/27/facebook-vs-apple-ad-tracking/?source=Snapzu

California Rolls Out Tough Emissions Regulations on Ships, Big Rigs

Calling for a crackdown of two major contributors to California’s notoriously hazy air, the state is moving forward with stringent new anti-smog laws for the shipping and transportation industries. Aimed at cargo ships and heavy-duty diesel trucks, the California Air Resources Board estimates the new rules will drastically reduce air pollution and prevent over $35 billion in medical costs over the next three decades. The board cast the decision as a win for environmental justice and passed it despite the billions it will cost the industries to implement various new technologies.
Read more: https://www.courthousenews.com/california-rolls-out-tough-emissions-regulations-on-ships-big-rigs/?source=Snapzu

“Nectar Of The Dogs”—Busch Has Launched A Beer For Dogs

The new bone broth-based Dog Brew by Busch lets owners and pooches crack a cold one.
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/katedingwall/2020/08/27/busch-has-launched-a-beer-for-dogs/?source=Snapzu

What silence can teach you about sound

What can you hear in silence? In this exploration of sound, host of the podcast "Twenty Thousand Hertz" Dallas Taylor tells the story of arguably the most debated musical composition in recent history -- composer John Cage's iconic piece 4'33" -- and invites you to take notice of the soundscape around you. Watch to the end to experience a performance of 4'33''.
Read more: https://www.ted.com/talks/dallas_taylor_what_silence_can_teach_you_about_sound?source=Snapzu

Scientist uses algorithm to make the perfect peanut butter and banana sandwich

The optimal peanut butter and banana sandwich should have each ingredient in every bite, according to Ethan Rosenthal. That means banana placement is important. Rosenthal, who has a PhD in physics, is a data scientist for Square, and lives in New York City. He found himself with a lot of time on his hands during COVID-19 lockdown, so he set out to determine the best way to get optimal banana slice coverage on a piece of bread.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/scientist-uses-algorithm-to-make-the-perfect-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-1.5702355?source=Snapzu

Zuckerberg Admits That Facebook Screwed Up by Ignoring Militia Group Complaints Before Kenosha Shooting

Facebook made “an operational mistake” in ignoring reports about a page encouraging an armed militia to “defend” Kenosha, Wisconsin, against Black Lives Matter protestors, CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a video post Friday.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/zuckerberg-admits-that-facebook-screwed-up-by-ignoring-1844888444?source=Snapzu

Triller says made $20 billion bid with Centricus for TikTok assets

Triller Inc executive chairman Bobby Sarnevesht said on Friday that the short-video app had made a $20 billion offer with investment firm Centricus Asset Management Ltd for the assets of rival TikTok that China’s ByteDance is seeking to a divest.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-centricus-idUSKBN25O30N?source=Snapzu

Apple has now terminated Epic's App Store account following legal dispute between the two companies

As previously promised by Apple, Epic’s App Store account has now been terminated due to the legal dispute between the two companies after Apple removed Fortnite from the iOS App Store. Epic Games still had a few apps available for iOS besides Fortnite, but they were all removed today.
Read more: https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/28/apple-has-now-terminated-epic-games-app-store-account/?source=Snapzu

Washington University develops COVID-19 saliva test

Test is faster, simpler than nasal, oral swab tests and enables screening on a massive scale
Read more: https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/washington-university-develops-covid-19-saliva-test/?source=Snapzu

Climate Change Poses a Real and Imminent Threat to Agriculture

Climate change is not a future or hypothetical problem – year after year, farmers and ranchers across the country are enduring more frequent and extreme weather events and natural disasters.
Read more: https://nfu.org/2020/08/27/climate-change-poses-a-real-and-imminent-threat-to-agriculture/?source=Snapzu

Japan's 'flying car' gets off ground, with a person aboard

The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory. Japan’s SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of “flying car” projects around the world, has carried out a successful though modest test flight with one person aboard.
Read more: https://apnews.com/951c5f396b4277967e3e94f24c71ef68?source=Snapzu

Zuckerberg says Facebook made ‘operational mistake’ in not taking down militia page

The page belonged to the Kenosha Guard, a self-identified local militia that had set up an event on Facebook calling for people to take to the streets with weapons.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/zuckerberg-says-facebook-made-operational-mistake-not-taking-down-militia-n1238730?source=Snapzu

Japan's 'flying car' gets off ground, with a person aboard

TOKYO (AP) — The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory.
Read more: https://www.providencejournal.com/news/20200828/japans-flying-car-gets-off-ground-with-person-aboard?source=Snapzu

Elon Musk confirms Russian hacking plot targeted Tesla factory

Earlier this week, US authorities arrested and charged a Russian national for traveling to the US to recruit and convince an employee of a Nevada company to install malware on their employer's network in exchange for $1 million.
Read more: https://www.zdnet.com/article/elon-musk-confirms-russian-hacking-plot-targeted-tesla-factory/?source=Snapzu

86% of US states increased internet speeds during COVID-19 lockdown

Logic may have you believe that with the dramatic increase of use and reliance on the internet during the coronavirus crisis that internet speeds slowed. However, the average internet speed in the US increased from 84.9Mbps to 94.6Mbps. This may surprise some, given the surge in bandwidth demand from Zoom-use, streaming, gaming and more reliance on the internet speed.
Read more: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/86-of-us-states-increased-internet-speeds-during-covid-19-lockdown/#ftag=RSS56d97e7?source=Snapzu

Biden campaign turns 'Keep America Great' domain into list of broken Trump promises

The campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has purchased the web domain for President Trump’s reelection slogan "Keep America Great," using it to list
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/514140-biden-campaign-turns-keep-america-great-domain-into-list-of-broken-trump?source=Snapzu

YouTube Tests Native Picture-in-Picture Mode for iOS App

YouTube appears to be testing Picture in Picture (PiP) mode for its iOS app, reports 9to5Mac. The feature allows users to watch YouTube videos while using other apps, and was discovered by developer Daniel Yount, who stumbled across it while viewing a YouTube live stream on his iPad.
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/28/youtube-tests-picture-in-picture-mode-ios/?source=Snapzu

JK Rowling returns award amid trans row criticism

JK Rowling has said she is giving back an award associated with the US Kennedy family, after being criticised for her views on gender and trans issues. The author was given the Ripple of Hope honour by the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights organisation last year. But earlier this month, its president Kerry Kennedy said views expressed by Rowling recently "diminished the identity" of trans people.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53944773?source=Snapzu

Twitter banned a network of fake accounts pretending to be Black people leaving the Democratic party to support Trump

Twitter has been taking increasing action against accounts that violate its policies on coordinated inauthentic behavior ahead of the 2020 election.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-pro-trump-spam-accounts-posing-as-black-people-2020-8?source=Snapzu

Apple Announces New AI and Machine Learning Residency Program

Apple's Machine Learning Reseach group has launched a new residency program inviting experts in various fields to apply their expertise to build new ML and AI-powered products and experiences.
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/28/apple-announces-ai-ml-residency-program/?source=Snapzu

Russian tourist offered employee $1 million to cripple Tesla with malware

“This was a serious attack,” Elon Musk says.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/russian-tourist-offered-employee-1-million-to-cripple-tesla-with-malware/?source=Snapzu

Apple features Fortnite competitor PUBG in App Store on same day it will terminate Epic’s developer account

Amid the ongoing legal battle between Epic Games and Apple, a Fortnite competitor is receiving some beneficial publicity in the App Store. When you open the App Store today, you’ll see an editorial story promoting PUBG Mobile, a popular competing battle royale.
Read more: https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/28/apple-features-fortnite-competitor-pubg-in-app-store-on-same-day-it-will-terminate-epics-developer-account/?source=Snapzu