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You Can Inflate Freitag’s New Roller Bag With a Bike Pump
Daniel and Markus Freitag have been making bags for 24 years. The founders of the Swiss brand Freitag have made messenger bags, handbags, laptop holders, backpacks, and wallets. But there’s one type of bag they could never get quite right.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/freitags-new-roller-bag-inflates-with-a-bike-pump/
The Single Season of ‘The Night Of’ Is the Future of TV
In anticipation of Sunday’s Emmy Awards, this week WIRED staffers are looking back at some of their favorite shows from the last year. The crisis of television in 2017 is a straightforward one: There’s just too much of it.
Samsung just tried to steal some of the iPhone X’s thunder, and it really didn’t work
Today is the day tens of millions of Apple fans around the world have been eagerly anticipating for months.
Read more: http://bgr.com/2017/09/12/iphone-x-release-date-announcement-today-samsung-bendablol-phone/
UK government says humans will always be in charge of it robot weapon systems
The new doctrine published by the Ministry of Defence makes the argument that remote-controlled weapons like drones are safer for military personnel and civilians.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/12/16286580/uk-government-killer-robots-drones-weapons
The Mercedes-AMG Project One is basically a road-legal F1 car
The car industry is currently going through a burst of exuberance that dwarfs even that of the early 1990s. You’d think sensitivities over pollution and climate change would have made the horsepower wars passe, but that doesn’t appear to be the case.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/09/the-mercedes-amg-project-one-is-basically-a-road-legal-f1-car/
Password Managers using Android Oreo’s Autofill API are Potentially Vulnerable to Data Leakage
Autofill is one of the biggest, and most publicized new features introduced with the release of Android 8.0 Oreo. Many different password managing apps, like LastPass, have already implemented this new API into their applications.
Read more: https://www.xda-developers.com/password-manager-autofill-api-data-leak/
Maker Spotlight: Sam Laturi
How did you get started making? I have always had a love for anything mechanical, whether it’s a spinning wheel from the 1800’s or a modern jet engine. As a kid, I loved taking things apart to see how they worked.
Read more: https://makezine.com/2017/09/12/maker-spotlight-sam-laturi/
Rian Johnson Confirms Another Cameo For Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The first big villain DC’s Titans may have been revealed. Director Andy Muschietti teases some cool casting ideas for the It sequel. Idris Elba talks Dark Tower’s future.
Read more: http://io9.gizmodo.com/rian-johnson-confirms-another-cameo-for-star-wars-the-1803756739
Comcast’s X1 set-top box gets a YouTube app with voice control
This past winter, Comcast announced that its set-top box, Xfinity X1, would be getting an integrated YouTube app later in the year. Today, the app launches for customers in the US, who will be able to control YouTube with the X1’s voice remote.
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/12/16293968/comcast-xfinity-x1-youtube-app-voice-remote
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