Apple’s Siri reportedly hurt by flawed code, scalability, and management

A new report today from The Information (paywalled, via 9to5Mac) discusses the troubled seven-year history of Apple’s digital assistant Siri, describing it as “a problem” for Apple, and blaming it for the underwhelming performance of Apple’s smart speaker HomePod. Contrasting somewhat with a Siri cofounder’s recent cla…Read More

John Oliver says Meghan Markle should watch Netflix’s ‘The Crown’ before she marries into an ’emotionally stunted group of fundamentally flawed people doing a very silly pseudo-job’

Netflix On “The Late Show,” comedian John Oliver told host Stephen Colbert that he wouldn’t be surprised if Meghan Markle backed out of her wedding to Prince Harry at the last minute. Oliver suggested that she watch Netflix’s “The Crown” to get an idea of what her life will be like in the British royal […]

REGGIE BUSH: The College Football Playoff is an improvement but it’s still flawed

Reggie Bush was a star college football player for USC. Here’s what he thinks about the College Football Playoff. Following is a transcript of the video Reggie Bush: I think it’s a step in the right direction, but, four-team playoff is not the answer. I’ve always said I think it should be the top ten teams. […]

How Two Flawed Plays Deal with the Forgotten Symbol of the Tragedy of the UpStairs Lounge

Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. When I told a couple of my queer friends that I’d been on a streak of self-imposed emotional auto-terrorism — seeing two […]

House Intelligence Committee advances deeply flawed NSA surveillance bill

A bill to extend one of the NSA’s most powerful surveillance tools, and further peel back American civil liberties, was approved today by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in a strict party line vote (12-8), with Republican members voting in the majority. The committee and the public had less than 48 hours to […]

OPCW-UN report on Syria chemical attack ‘flawed & logically inconsistent’ – Moscow

Russia has criticized the latest OPCW-UN report which blames Damascus for the chemical attack in Syria’s Idlib province in April, pointing out the many discrepancies, questionable witness accounts and unverified evidence which forms the basis of the report. The Russian Foreign Ministry said it has already found serious flaws in the methodology of the recently […]

The Pixel 2 XL’s camera makes the iPhone 8 Plus’ camera seem flawed

Hollis Johnson/Business Insider It’s pretty amazing that a tiny smartphone camera lens can produce photos almost as good as bigger and heavier dedicated cameras. I’ve just tested the cameras on two of the top smartphones you can buy right now — Apple’s iPhone 8 Plus and Google’s Pixel 2 XL — and they both take […]