Apple Spaceship Campus Rapidly Taking Shape – Construction Continues at Rapid Pace
New images posted to Twitter by KCBS New’s traffic reporter Ron Cervi show construction at Apple’s new Spaceship campus is clicking right along. Cervi has been posting aerial shots of the campus to track construction progress for several months. The new #Apple #spaceship HQ is getting closer to link to story
McKinsey vets launch PolicyGenius to make insurance shopping less terrible
Shopping for insurance is often boring and unpleasant, much like eating brussels sprouts, said one PolicyGenius cofounder. That’s why the co-founders of PolicyGenius have set out to make the tastiest brussels sprouts. Both former McKinsey & Co. consultants,link to story
Facebook rolling out Mentions iPhone app for verified public figures
Facebook is releasing a new app today called Mentions, an app exclusively for public figures with verified pages that previous reports noted the company was experimenting with. According to Facebook, the app is made specifically for actors, athletes, musicians, and other influencers and makes for link to story. Becoming a social media influencer is a huge career nowadays, there is a lot of focus on how to gain instagram followers to share their message or promote something to their audience, so this app could be of benefit to these types of people.
Chinese hackers take command of Tesla Model S
Security firm Qihoo 360 says hackers gained control of some Tesla Model S functions, but it skimped on details about how the car was hacked. The first documented successful hack of a Tesla Model S has come from China, Chinese security giant Qihoo 360 Security Technology announced on Thursday. link to story
Photos of iPhone 6 Battery Appear Online-Further Suggesting Thin Device
Since the iPhone 6 is expected to have a larger, 4.7-inch display, naturally it will need a battery with greater capacity. The question is how much larger the capacity will be.The iPhone 5s has a capacity of 1,570 mAh, and an earlier rumor pegged the iPhone 6 battery at between 1,800 and 1,900 link to story
A New Partnership Shows Why Pinterest Is So Important For Retailers
Pinterest is gearing up for a big rest of the year thanks to a newly announced partnership with the e-commerce platform Shopify. As most shopify reviews testify, the world of E-commerce as we know it is constantly changing and embracing other platforms is instrumental to its success. Correspondingly, Shopify has automatically enabled Pinterest’s Rich Pins for all 100,000+ merchants that use its e-commerce platform. This means that whenever an online shopper link to story
Not slowing down at all, Google spent $2.65B on data centers in Q2
Google’s quarterly infrastructure spending has been skyrocketing for several quarters now, and the past three months were no exception It makes sense when you consider how much goes into running their search functionality alone (click here for more info about how you can use that to your advantage). Google spent nearly $2.67 billion on data center during the second quarter – an amount more than double last year’s second quarter and more than triple link to story
GoTenna creates a cell network out of thin air anywhere on Earth
The Brooklyn-based startup is offering a solution for off-the-grid travelers who need low-cost connectivity for their smartphone — and it doesn’t rely on satellites. Our modern, wired society often romanticizes going off the grid. Pack-toting hikers bravely venture into areas without electricity link to story
The Details About the CIA’s Deal With Amazon
A $600 million computing cloud built by an outside company is a “radical departure” for the risk-averse intelligence community. The intelligence community is about to get the equivalent of an adrenaline shot to the chest. This summer, a $600 million computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Service…link to story
Nurse ‘posed with axe he planned to use to behead 14-year-old girl’
Dale Bolinger, 57, denies charges of arranging to meet and groom the girl, who he met online and whose identity is not known Nurse Dale Bolinger posed with the large axe he allegedly planned to use to behead a teenage girl before eating her. The father-of-four bought the three-foot handle weapon …link to story
