The Morning After: Weekend Edition
But we’re all adults here — or at least that’s what our analytics team tells me — and, as our latest themed week shows, the internet isn’t always the digital equivalent of an eighth-grade locker room. Over the course of the week, our editors have offered advice on how to stay cool in a connected world, clean up digital clutter, keep all your things safe online and do a little good from your desktop. They’ve also delved into some uniquely adult issues like online dating after 40, using the internet to dress your age, oversharing as a parent and never learning to drive in the age of automation.One need look no further than this past year’s alt-right ascent to see that the man-baby is alive and well. We live in a world where cartoon frogs are tools of oppression, and finger-pointing on a short-form social network is the preferred diplomatic tactic of world leaders, but we can all try a little harder and do a little better at pulling up our big-kid britches every once in a while. So here’s to all the grown-ass folks out there. You might have a few more wrinkles and a little more debt, but you’ll never have to diagram another sentence as long as you live.– Christopher Trout, Editor-in-ChiefUber’s bad 2017Uber’s bad Friday nightWe don’t know what you did last night (you stayed in and watched Netflix — we know), but it probably went better than Uber’s evening. First The Information reported that CEO Travis Kalanick was present at a 2014 trip to a “karaoke escort bar” that led to an HR complaint by one of Uber’s managers. The source of this revelation? Kalanick’s ex, who was present for the trip, and received a call from Uber VP Emil Michael suggesting her story about that night remain vague. And all of that happened before a self-driving Uber Volvo rolled over after colliding with another car in Arizona.This would’ve been a great VineEnjoy this six-second clip of a prototype Tesla Model 3Elon Musk tweeted a brief video showing the first drive of a “release candidate” of his company’s first mass-market EV. There aren’t really any conclusions to draw from the video, but it is a good sign that things are coming together so it can start shipping later this year. In other tweets, Musk mentioned that a dual-motor AWD performance version of the Model 3 would probably follow next year, along with an RHD version for markets like the UK. The Model S is expected to remain Tesla’s acceleration champ thanks to its larger battery, at least until the company revisits its Roadster model in a few years.Hope you liked ‘Ridiculous 6’Netflix commits to four more Adam Sandler moviesThe Netflix strategy to have something for everyone applies to Adam Sandler, as the service just cut a deal to get four more of his movies. Those will add on to the four movies it bought from him in a 2014 deal, which has produced Ridiculous 6, The Do-Over and upcoming release Sandy Wexler. It’s been a while since we anticipated a Sandler movie, but the company’s closely guarded data seems to suggest he’s worth the investment.iStuffApple tweaks its iPhone, iPad lineupTuesday morning Apple refreshed a few items, by upgrading the storage on the iPhone SE (the 16GB iPhone is officially dead) and iPad Mini 4, and dropping in a limited edition line of Project Red iPhones. The new 9.7-inch iPad got most of our attention, but mostly because of its compromises.But wait, there’s more…The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you’ll miss if you don’t subscribe.
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