Mike Murphy

Uber has turned a ”frenemy” into a partner.

We’re getting really close to completely automated deliveries.

At some point this week, Snapchat parent company Snap will publicly file its initial public offering, having originally filed confidentially in November. The documents that businesses file with the US Securities and Exchange Commission are long, sprawling tomes, meant to provide potential investors with the information they would need to decide whether to buy shares, as well as when they might reasonably expect some sort of return.

Last quarter, Apple announced an annual decline in revenue and profit, its first in 15 years. Over that period, the company revolutionized personal computing, and launched the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. But the sheen started to wear thin in 2016, as Apple’s newer models of old product lines, as well as entirely new products like the Apple Watch, failed to excite consumers.

In the nine or so days since Donald Trump was sworn in as US president, he has continued to tweet from his personal Twitter account, possibly on a non-secure personal smartphone. He’s tweeted roughly 60 times from both his personal account and the official account run by his social media director and former caddie, Dan Scavino.

In his customary mock-turtleneck and dad jeans, a gaunt Steve Jobs introduced the iPad to the world on this day in 2010. “All of us use laptops and smartphones now,” Jobs said. “And the question has arisen lately: Is there room for a third category of devices in the middle?”

The broth in Alphabet’s soup is still pretty much Google.

This is an article from 2017. Read our most recent coverage of the Doomsday Clock: In 2022, the Doomsday Clock didn’t change for the second year running

Alphabet will be reporting its fourth-quarter earnings Jan. 26 at 4.30pm ET, and there’s little reason to expect that they’re going to be anything other than another strong quarter for Google. The rest of Alphabet, however, may be a different story.

US president Donald Trump appears to still be using his personal smartphone. Even though Trump reportedly turned over the device after his swearing in, the New York Times reported today that he has been carrying his old “unsecured Android phone” around the White House, “to the protests of some of his aides.”

Since the inauguration of Donald Trump to the White House on Jan. 20, various government bodies have, with varying degrees of subtlety, pushed back on Twitter against the new US president’s stances on certain issues. Trump has said that global warming is “bullshit,” and referred to it as a conspiracy created by China. Some arms of government have chosen to disagree with the president, stating provable facts on Twitter.

Apple released a new beta version of its iOS mobile operating system today (which anyone can download) and it includes a new feature called “Find My AirPods.” As the name suggests and as with Apple’s other device-finding software, the program will allow owners of Apple’s $160 wireless earbuds to keep tabs on their whereabouts.

If you’re reading this on an Apple device, stop. Go update it.

Earlier today, Lucasfilm, the Disney-owned production house behind the Star Wars franchise, announced the title of the eighth movie in the series. It will be called The Last Jedi.

Qualcomm is not having a great week.

Trump was sworn in as US president today, and received the keys to the presidential Twitter accounts. But instead of tweeting from the official accounts, Trump has chosen to keep on posting to his personal account, @realDonaldTrump:

US president Trump loves two things (well, lots of things if you count television ratings, taco bowls, and gold): Twitter, and American manufacturing. And for the past few years he’s used the former as a bully pulpit to pressure companies to do more of the latter. Even though Trump’s inauguration means he has to give up his personal phone—and reportedly did so yesterday, in the interest of national security—there’s no reason to think he’ll give up using a phone or some other device to badger companies to make their products in America.

Update, Jan. 20, 1:35pm: The misinformation in question—a photo from former US president Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration—has been replaced at the top of the @POTUS Twitter account with a generic image of the American flag.

Nintendo, perhaps more than any other videogame outfit, has perfected the art of selling nostalgia. The company’s Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong franchises—to name a few—have enthralled gamers for decades, and Nintendo consistently re-ups popular games on new platforms. In the case of the Wii, released in 2006, it even created a “Virtual Console” to let gamers download and play games from older systems.

“We don’t serve their kind here.”

MakerBot CEO Jonathan Jaglom, who tried to pivot the company away from an unsuccessful push into consumer 3D-printing, has resigned after two years in charge, the company announced today.

Michael Lynton, the CEO of Sony Entertainment, Sony Pictures, and Sony America—the company has a rather complicated organizational structure—announced today that he will be stepping down from his positions to become chairman of Snap, the holding company behind Snapchat. According to a release from Sony, Lynton will step down this month to ensure a smooth transition for his successor.

On Dec. 31, a drone pilot thought it would be nice to film Seattle’s most iconic structure, the Space Needle. The video started off well—beautiful, sweeping shots, taken during a stereotypically grey Seattle day—but then the drone takes a sudden turn, careening into its target at full tilt.

Nothing to see here.