ICYMI: Sound wave sewer checks, the feminized phone and more
Today on In Case You Missed It: A town in Maryland is checking for clogs in sewer lines with a sound wave system funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. And a Chinese-made smartphone is geared towards women in the most condescending of ways. In TL;DR, be sure to read up on Tesla’s newest, ‘low-cost’ car. As always, please share any interesting tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI...
Recommended Reading: How reliable are internet movie ratings?
‘Ghostbusters’ is aperfect example ofhow internet movieratings are brokenWalt Hickey,FiveThirtyEight The reboot of the 1984 classic hits theaters this weekend, but the criticism of the new Ghostbusters has been flying for months. FiveThirtyEight takes a close look at internet ratings for the film as a way of showing that you shouldn’t always rely on those numbers when making a decision about which movie to see....
Apple Announces Record iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Sales
CUPERTINO, California — September 28, 2015 — Apple® today announced it has sold more than 13 million new iPhone® 6s and iPhone 6s Plus models, a new record, just three days after launch. iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus will be available in more than 40 additional countries beginning October 9 including Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain and Taiwan. The new iPhones will be available in over 130 countries by the end of the year.“Sales for iPhone...
Recommended Reading: How reliable are internet movie ratings?
‘Ghostbusters’ is aperfect example ofhow internet movieratings are brokenWalt Hickey,FiveThirtyEight The reboot of the 1984 classic hits theaters this weekend, but the criticism of the new Ghostbusters has been flying for months. FiveThirtyEight takes a close look at internet ratings for the film as a way of showing that you shouldn’t always rely on those numbers when making a decision about which movie to see....
Facebook isn’t trying hard enough to increase its diversity
“The pipeline problem is demonstrably false,” said Leslie Miley, a Director for Engineering at Slack who left Twitter last year due to the company’s diversity issues. In an interview with Engadget, he said the issue lies in the company’s own internal hiring practices. Simply donating money to diversity programs isn’t enough, he said. “I think it’s a very poorly done PR job to gloss over the...
