closing week in tech: A useless robotic, Tesla's surfboard, and social media meltdowns galore

We're deep within the heart of summer highway-go back and forth season and it can also be complicated to keep up with all the newest tech information in case you're cruising the nation. luckily, we're right here with a new episode of the podcast and a succinct circular-up of all the stuff you missed in the land of devices and technology while you have been in your seek a non-gross leisure-stop bathing room.

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This week, Google introduced its new two-ingredient authentication key for protecting your account, and digicam large Nikon went public with its plans to introduce a brand new professional-degree digital camera. Plus, we talked to a hardware hacker who brought a microphone jack to his own iPhone 7. allow us to fill you in on all these subject matters within the newest episode of the closing Week in Tech podcast.

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The Kuri robot danced its closing dance

After greater than a 12 months of hype, the business behind the lovely Kuri robotic announced that its lovable little automaton would certainly not make it to market. Kuri joins an extended line of customer tech items that poofed into vapor regardless of a lot of tech world fanfare.

facebook and Twitter misplaced lots of funds

Twitter and fb are dropping clients as they are trying to clear up the a considerable number of dangerous actors and faux accounts on their capabilities. due to this fact, their numbers are shrinking and ultimate week that translated to financial losses in the billions. Ouch.

you'll want to doubtless clean up your embarrassing historic social media posts

Your ancient social media posts aren't doing you any favors. basically, they may well be a really public archive of the entire bad concepts and faulty ideas you felt like sharing during the past. Now can be a good time to go returned in time and wipe away all that doubtlessly embarrassing content. right here's how.

Uber begun testing self-driving cars once again, however most effective with human drivers

After a fatal crash in Arizona previous this 12 months, Uber halted its self-using motor vehicle verify application. Now, the business has began to ramp issues again up in Pittsburgh, however human drivers will reside in charge of the vehicles at all times, as a minimum of the foreseeable future. The company says there could be two humans in each self-using vehicle, and that it has improved both the tech and the practicing required to retain everyone safe.

ny kicked Spectrum cable out of the state

Complaining about cable groups is normal. ultimate week, however, manhattan state took it a big step past and instructed Spectrum (part of charter cable, which merged with Time Warner in 2016) to pack it up and get out. The long island State Public provider fee claims the enterprise hasn't fulfilled promises it made all over the merger talks and, due to this fact, must cease working in the state within 60 days.

YouTube simply bought even friendlier with vertical videos

There's a lot of vertically oriented video out there and YouTube's app-primarily based player has allowed full-monitor mode on cellular gadgets for quite a while. Now, although, the video-sharing behemoth has introduced an adaptive player on the net in an effort to display tall pictures in higher avid gamers. It's sure to make purists balk, and smartphone shooters smile.

americans missed out on videos for a really dull rationale

due to the fact its inception, MoviePass has sounded too first rate to be proper. ultimate week, the enterprise reportedly ran out of cash it uses to pay for people's tickets. So, the app didn't work. a short money infusion acquired the tickets flowing again, however it doesn't seem like a good signal for the service.

Tesla offered a $1,500 surfboard for a while

There was a short window final week throughout which you may buy a $1,500 surfboard from the Tesla webshop. It was designed by means of a famous board shaper and it bought out presently. No, we don't have any conception why Tesla offered a surfboard. I do, however, appear forward to the constrained-edition Tesla waffle maker that looks like the next logical step within the Musk's Merch program (which is a pet name we've given to Tesla's penchant for promoting inexplicable stuff that individuals buy and take a look at to flip on eBay).