California’s largest utility is in a death spiral in wake of the deadly Camp Fire last fall. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) announced Monday it’d be filing for bankruptcy on January 29.
In the capital of Thailand, a bout of toxic air has gotten so bad that officials are planning to literally make it rain to combat the smog.
Do you feel that your kids ignore your texts? Would you like to find out if they really do that? Well, there’s an app for that. Nick Herbert has developed an app called ReplyASAP which forces kids to reply to text messages from their parents. The idea to develop this app came to him when his son got a smartphone.
“I just found that my messages and calls tended to get missed quite a lot because he got a lot of social media notifications,” Herbert said, adding that he wanted to make sure that whenever he had an important message to send to his son, it would not get lost in the sea of notifications.
The app can be used to send a text message which will be displayed over the top of anything that the recipient might be doing on the device. It also sounds an alarm on the device even if it’s set to silent. The recipient can then either reply, cancel the message or snooze it. When the message has been viewed, the sender gets to know that as well.
It’s not a standard text messaging app so it can’t just be used to send messages to anyone that can’t be ignored. Both the sender and recipient need to have the app installed. ReplyASAP is only available for Android right now and Herbert is hoping to get it listed on the App Store as well.
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Tidal isn’t as big of a music streaming service as Spotify or Apple Music but it does have respectable streaming numbers. However, it’s under investigation for allegedly bogus streaming numbers in Norway. Norwegian financial newspaper Dagens Næringsliv reports that authorities in Norway have opened an investigation following reports that millions of Tidal’s stream are bogus.
The investigation is being conducted by the National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime. The investigation stems from reports in May last year that 320 million streams of Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo were bogus. It’s pertinent to mention here that Tidal is owned by Jay-Z.
Bogus streams would mean that the number of streams for each album would be substantially increased. This would mean more royalty payments for artists in return for streams that never happened. When the report about the bogus streams was first published, it was reported that Tidal was months behind on royalty payments to three big record labels. It has also been accused of misreporting its total subscriber numbers from 350,000 to 1 million.
“DN has quoted documents that they have not shared with us in spite of repeated requests. DN has repeatedly made claims based on information we believe may be falsified,” is Tidal’s response on the report, adding that it is not yet a suspect in the investigation. Tidal also said that it’s aware at least one person it suspected of theft has been questioned and that it can’t comment further at this time.
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Nike launched its HyperAdapt 1.0 self-lacing sneakers back in 2016. They didn’t have wireless connectivity so you couldn’t lace them up using an app on your phone. The sneakers had physical power buttons for self-lacing which you had to press every time you wanted to activate the self-lacing feature. Nike is going to address this with its first self-lacing basketball shoes. You will be able to control them from a phone.
Nike hasn’t shown off these basketball shoes as yet. However, a video showing different NBA athlets has been posted online which reveals that it will be possible to lace up the shoes with your phone.
This goes to show that Nike has made a major improvement compared to the original HyperAdapts and one that’s going to make the shoes more functional. Also according to reports, the upcoming shoes will cost around $350 and not $720 like the originals. While still expensive, they would at least be in the buying range of more customers this time around.
No further information has been revealed about these basketball shoes at this point in time. Nike fans won’t have to wait for too long to get all of the details, though. Nike is going to officially announce its first self-lacing basketball shoes at an event tomorrow.
The game will never be the same.
Tune in tomorrow at 8AM EST. @nikebasketball pic.twitter.com/4LrJGpPDY6
— Nike (@Nike) January 14, 2019
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