“Life in iPhone hell”
SALON
“I have an iPhone, and eventually I will have an iPhone X. Not because I like products or I thirst for innovation; it’s because all of my tech, including work and home computers, are Apple products, so why may make things more difficult than they have to be? And everyone knows that old iPhones break when the new ones drop. (I can’t prove it, but ask your friends, they’ll tell you.) So I know the iPhone X is in my future, but I can’t get excited about it.” MORE
“Apple’s 2-hour infomercial: World’s most valuable corporation reveals new disposable gadgets”
SALON
“This morning in California, a large corporation dispatched a human on a stage to announce new things that they would sell and which they believed would be extremely desirable. These things included several glass and metal objects shaped roughly like rectangular prisms.
One of these glass and metal devices could be strapped to humans’ wrists. It appeared identical to previous devices manufactured by the corporation, which could also be strapped to humans’ wrists. The other glass and metal device could be held in a hand and also looked identical to hundreds of millions of similar devices that already exist.” MORE
“Trump names climate science denier to run NASA”
THINK PROGRESS
“In a Friday night news dump, the White House announced that President Donald Trump Plans to nominate Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), a climate science denier to be administrator of NASA.
Bridenstine is a politician without any scientific credentials, unlike previous NASA chiefs, and for that reason his nomination has already been criticized by both Florida’s senators Marco Rubio (R) and Bill Nelson (D), Politico reports. Rubio said, “I just think [his nomination] could be devastating for the space program.” MORE
“LISTEN: 9 podcasts for and about women in business and tech”
SALON
These shows offer a wide range of perspectives on leadership, from “Side Hustle Pro” to “Brilliant Business Moms”
