With all the buzz about the 2020 iPhone, what exactly are we going to see this year? …read more Source:: CNet

We love our employees, sorry, contractors, so much we’ll spend a small fortune stopping them from getting overtime, workers’ comp etc Gig-economy giants Uber, Lyft and Doordash have put $30m apiece into a new fund to push a new California ballot measure that would prevent their workers get ordinary benefits like a minimum wage, overtime,…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Last week, the Washington Post reported that the White House had been briefed on a plan to create an agency called HARPA, a healthcare counterpart to the Pentagon’s research and development arm DARPA. Among other initiatives, this new agency would reportedly collect volunteer data from a suite…

The current V2-generation Superchargers have a peak charging rate of 120 kilowatts. …read more Source:: CNet

An asteroid that sprouted tails surprised scientists by shifting its color. …read more Source:: CNet

The co-founder and chief executive of Twitter has had his own account on the service taken over by hackers. From a report: A group referring to itself as the Chuckling Squad said it was behind the breach of Jack Dorsey’s account. A spokeswoman for Twitter told the BBC that the site was urgently investigating. The…

The Twitter CEO’s account was compromised Friday. …read more Source:: CNet

And another $262,000 to figure out who he was A former Tesla employee who leaked information about its production problems cost the electric car biz $167m, Musk’s crew claims.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

As promised, popular RSS reader NetNewsWire, which changed ownership last year, has released v5.0. From a blog post: NetNewsWire 5.0 is shipping! In case you haven’t been following along until just now: NetNewsWire is an open source RSS reader for Mac. It’s free! You can just download it and use it. No strings. It’s designed…

High resolution digital cameras are built into half of the devices we own (whether we want them or not), so why is it still so hard to find good pictures of all the incredible projects our readers are working on? In the recently concluded Beautiful Hardware Contest, we challenged you to take your project photography…