October 2, 2018 Apple will add more than 70 new emojis to iOS 12.1 Apple announced that it will release more than 70 new emojis with iOS 12.1, including characters with additional hair options, more animals and a…
October 2, 2018 Volkswagen fires Audi CEO after Dieselgate arrest Audi executive Rupert Stadler has been forced out of the company as a result of his alleged role in the Dieselgate scandal. Stadler was…
October 2, 2018 Juul gets a surprise visit from the FDA as part of agency’s crackdown The Food and Drug Administration is tightening its leash on e-cigarette giant Juul Labs. On Friday, the FDA conducted a surprise inspection of the…
October 2, 2018 FDA seizes marketing documents from e-cig maker Juul In it's latest move against e-cigarettes, the US Food and Drug Administration has seized "thousands of pages of documents" from e-cig maker Juul. In…
October 2, 2018 Yahoo Japan is shutting down the last remnants of GeoCities Yahoo Japan, the last enclave of GeoCities, is scrapping the beloved website-hosting service. In March 2019 — 22 years after its original launch —…
October 2, 2018 Facebook takes on Twitch and YouTube with video premieres Facebook just ramped up its bid to compete with Twitch (and more recently, YouTube). After months of tests, the social network is rolling out…
October 2, 2018 Ford asks for a common language for self-driving cars Ford has been developing its own means for self-driving cars to communicate their intent, but it also knows that fragmentation could be a huge…
October 2, 2018 Verizon’s 5G home internet is sort of real, sort of fake Verizon became the first major ISP to launch 5G home internet service yesterday. It’s a major step on the road to making 5G a…
October 2, 2018 The second Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse trailer features six Spideys Back in June, we got the first look at Sony’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the upcoming Spidey film that’s already shaping up to be…
October 2, 2018 Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 is on sale for $929 on Amazon The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is already seeing some serious discounts a few months after its release. Down from its regular $999 price for…