Technology

As I mentioned in the comments of a post last night, last week’s JMG capacity fix proved to be short-lived and yesterday we again suffered through some agonizing site issues driven by unusually high traffic. (Thanks, Josh Duggar!) Therefore at 11PM tonight this here website thingy will again hitch up her skirts and migrate to a fancy deluxe high-capacity standalone …

Self-described “Cleveland dad and geek” Chris Andrikanich found himself internet famous late yesterday after Google announced that its new parent company is called Alphabet, which happens to be his Twitter handle. It’s against Twitter’s rules to sell screen names, but that hasn’t stopped strangers from telling Andrikanich to hold out for a million dollars. The Washington Post has more about …

Huge news from the tech world today. Via TechCrunch: Google just rocked the world with some light news on a Monday. It has restructured the company and everything will now report up to “Alphabet” a new corporate name. That includes Google, which will now be CEO’d by Sundar Pichai (one less Twitter candidate?). Its site? https://abc.xyz/. The CEO of Alphabet …

According to multiple tech sites, Apple will announce the release of the iPhone 7 on September 9th. There’s still debate on whether Apple’s 2015 device will be called the iPhone 7 or iPhone 6s — most people have their money on the latter, following Apple’s usual device patterns. The ‘S’ updates are more about what’s inside the device than outside, …

What this is about: In good news for all time-conscious technophiles, dating app Tinder and taxi app Uber have combined to create ‘UnDer’, “the ultimate auto-erotic experience”. The only problem is the super-app only exists in a parody video. In the three-minute fake commercial “Uber meets Tinder”, a female passenger waits by the side of a road as a prospective …