Killer Apps Headlines

Jon Russell / TechCrunch : Lucy Peng, an original Alibaba co-founder, steps down as CEO of Lazada after 9 months, will be replaced by Lazada's Executive President Pierre Poignant   —  Alibaba has reshuffled the leadership at Lazada, its e-commerce firm in Southeast Asia, after CEO Lucy Peng — an original Alibaba co-founder …

For when you want that groovy countdown effect.

Brian Merchant / Gizmodo : The recklessness of Uber and Tesla in their development of autonomous cars risks alienating a public already wary of self-driving vehicles   —  Autonomous vehicles were supposed to make driving safer, and they may yet—some of the more optimistic research indicates self-driving cars could save tens …

Klint Finley / Wired : Data shows GraphQL, a Facebook-developed open source data query language, has seen a sharp rise in adoption among JavaScript developers over the past two years   —  THE CODE THAT runs the web is a melting pot of programming languages and technologies.  JavaScript, the most popular language on the web …

Daniel Oberhaus / Motherboard : How Jolla's Sailfish has survived as an independent mobile OS by targeting government and enterprise sectors in Russia and China which are wary of Google   —  Alternative mobile operating systems have come and gone over the years, but only Sailfish has survived the iOS and Android duopoly.

High-end cars, watches, planes, clothes prices have all gone through the roof, and now the high-end audio market is ready for the $250,000 Dan D’Agostino Relentless amplifier.

Julie Verhage / Bloomberg : Robinhood deletes tweets about launching checking and savings accounts, scrubs the page from its website, and now calls the offering a “cash management” program   —  After a backlash around the marketing of its newest product, Robinhood Financial LLC has rebranded the service …

The Audiophiliac gets smitten by Kinter’s flyweight K2020A+ amp that costs and weighs next to nothing.

Bomb threat extortion campaign yielded less than $1 for the spammers.

This is a listing of some of the weird, odd gadgets that I've picked up over the years but have found them to be super useful, use them pretty much daily, and have practically become worth their weight in gold.

Travis Knight reveals how Bay and Steven Spielberg inspired the Transformers spin-off.

Here are our favorite augmented reality apps for Apple devices.

Remembering the many big names in pop culture, science and politics who left us this year.

Qualcomm gave us a glimpse of the 5G future earlier this month. AT&T is poised to launch its service in the next two weeks.

Aisha Hassan / Quartz : Profile of MindGeek, which owns 9 of the top 15 porn sites worldwide, has 125M visits per day, and whose bandwidth use exceeds that of Facebook or Amazon   —  The biggest and perhaps best source of data about what people like to watch on the internet and what they would pay for doesn't come …