Backdoors in Huawei Equipment Discovered by Vodafone Italy in 2009
Vodafone Italy discovered backdoors in its Huawei home internet routers and software between 2009 and 2011 according to a new report from Bloomberg News. The backdoors...
Uber adds real-time public transport data for London
From today, Uber has added public transport to its app in London, incorporating real-time information on the city’s Underground, Overground, train and bus network, as well...
Grocery startup Honestbee makes layoffs and cuts costs as it prepares to raise more money
Asia Pacific grocery delivery startup Honestbee has confirmed it is suspending business in half of the eight markets it operates in and laying off 10 percent...
Garmin adds menstrual cycle tracking to devices
Garmin announced today that it will be adding menstrual cycle tracking to its line of trackers and smartwatches. The new feature gives users the ability to...
How Can Our Mothers Ever Live Up to Our Expectations?
I remember first reading Michele Filgate’s essay “What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About” on Longreads. It was a year and a half ago, October...
UiPath nabs $568M at a $7B valuation to bring robotic process automation to the front office
Companies are on the hunt for ways to reduce the time and money it costs their employees to perform repetitive tasks, so today a startup that...
7 Honest Books About Hoaxes
I’ve long wondered what makes a person believe something improbable — either really believe, or convince themselves to err on the side of a questionable opinion, even if...
Worshipping at Jerry Springer’s Daytime Altar
“Girls don’t play baseball,” Will said. He kicked a footful of the playground’s pea gravel at me when I tried to join the boys for a...
Cool Bookish Places: Squishface Comic Studio, Melbourne
Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia, is a great literary city. It’s got bookish bars, charming cafe-filled public libraries, abundant little free libraries, and book-related events galore. It...
13 Adorable Amigurumi Books
Yarn people, scarves are done. This is mostly because I now have hundreds of scarves and I cannot take anymore. My crochet and knitting books are...
