Where Microsoft’s open source policy went wrong
In 2001, then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Linux “a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” This comment was only one part of Microsoft’s anti open source campaign that began with Bill Gates’ 1976…
Elon Musk wasn’t wrong. Apps are breaking under Apple’s rules.
Comment on this story Comment This article is a preview of The Tech Friend newsletter. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Tuesday and Friday. You are not Elon Musk. (Unless you are? Hi!) But like Musk, you have reasons to be mad about Apple and…
More than 100,000 Trump supporters tricked into downloading WRONG Truth Social app
AN ANDROID app boasting a similar name to Donald Trump’s new social media platform has racked tens of thousands of downloads. The smartphone app, titled ‘MAGA Hub — Truth Social Trump’, was downloaded more than 100,000 times on the…
Tech Stocks Roundup: What If Zuckerberg Is Wrong About the Metaverse?
Predicting the next big thing has been notoriously hard. Nobody doubts that the Metaverse has its uses, but Mark Zuckerberg believes in it so much he has bet Facebook’s future on it to the point of renaming his company Meta (MVRS) – Get Meta…
Wrong sperm used during fertilization procedure
CLEVELAND (AP) — Jessica Harvey Galloway asked her parents for a DNA genealogical test for Christmas in 2020 hoping to finding distant relatives during a planned trip to Italy with her husband. The test led to a shocking and disturbing discovery,…
‘Smart guns’ promise to keep guns out of the wrong hands
DALLAS (NewsNation Now) — After two decades of reliability questions and concerns, personalized smart guns could finally be hitting the U.S. market soon. Smart guns use technology that only allows them to be fired by an authorized user. While some…
Meet the man who thinks your gut instincts are always wrong
“I wanted to make people aware of their own biases and fallacies, and where they come from, and to try to explain them as a psychologist,” he tells me of the latest project. “I was not content to say that the human brain is this buggy contraption, just a…
“Maid” author Stephanie Land on the struggles of emotional abuse and what people get wrong about welfare
Stephanie and her child Story. CBS News/Stephanie Land, Netflix Before her memoir “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive” was even an idea, Stephanie Land was a single mother who had escaped an abusive relationship,…
$4,500 US Incentive For Union-Made EVs Is Wrong
In an interview on SiriusXM, Volkswagen Group of America CEO Scott Keogh weighed in on the Biden Administration’s goal to offer $4,500 in extra incentives for electric cars produced by unionized companies in the US. Keogh isn’t the only…
500,000 Public Electric Vehicle Chargers Is the Wrong Goal
FREDERIC J. BROWN / Contributor via Getty Moveable explores the future of transportation, infrastructure, energy, and cities. On Tuesday, the New York Times ran an article headlined “Biden’s Electric Car Plans Hinge on Having Enough…