Wikipedia Editors Who Fight Conspiracy Theories

There’s a project Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia. These Wikipedia editors have dedicated themselves to fighting conspiracy theories online. As companies like YouTube, Google, and Facebook have turned to Wikipedia to fight fake news, sites like Wikipedia and Snopes need to contain verified and truthful information.

Their subjects provide a window into the various ways people end up on Wikipedia, and how they find information on the internet more generally. Take Stan Romanek, a UFO enthusiast who says he’s been contacted by aliens. GSoW editors wrote his page years ago and included information casting doubt on his claims, such as an interview Romanek gave in which he admitted to faking some of his evidence. But the page became newly relevant last July when Netflix added a 2013 documentary called Extraordinary: The Stan Romanek Story to its streaming service. Traffic to Romanek’s Wikipedia page spiked that month, reaching nearly 45,000 visitors one day.

Apple's iMac Pro & 2018 MacBook Pro Kernel Panic Problem is Pretty Hard Core

iMac Pro owners and now 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro owners are dealing with an ongoing problem: kernel panics. The Apple-designed T2 processor, which handles encryption along with system verification and Siri commands, is the suspected culprit and the company is looking into a solution. Apple is suggesting a work around for now that’s surprisingly drastic. Digital Trends sums it up saying,

Apple suggests that iMac Pro owners wipe and reload MacOS from scratch, disable FileVault, and disable Power Nap, the latter of which worked for some iMac Pro owners.

Some users are saying they also can’t daisy chain devices, use Secure Boot, use Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapters, use power management, unlock with Apple Watch, or load third-party kernel extensions without triggering kernel panics. For now, it seems the best way to keep these Macs from crashing is to not load software, use security features, or link them to other devices. Sounds like Apple needs to get this problem sorted out right away.

TIVOO Pixel Art Bluetooth Speaker: $79

Check out the TIVOO Pixel Art Bluetooth Speaker. It’s a Bluetooth speaker designed to look like a retro TV, complete with a 16×16 LED screen that does lightning effects. It has a built-in 3,000mAh battery, and can play music up to 10 hours.  It’s $79 through our deal.

Easily Send Greeting Cards With StoryChips

Want to send greeting cards from your iPhone? Enter StoryChips, a new, out of the box way to send messages. Now just how does this work? How about just three easy steps. 1. Select a card and stickers from the StoryChips website or a retail shop and scan its QR code to activate. 2. Activating the code allows you to create a story from your phone. You can include videos, text and pictures. 3. When your friend receives the card and stickers and scans the QR code, she can see the personal story you created just for her. You can even choose a setting that allows her to be the only one who can see it. StoryChips has a card and stickers for any occasion. Whatever message you would have normally sent with an ordinary card is now more personal, and clearly more fun, courtesy of StoryChips. App Store: StoryChips – Free

Nike Training Club is Now on Apple Watch

I’m glad to see that Nike Training Club is now on the Apple Watch. Although I don’t have my watch anymore, I do use Nike Training Club on my iPhone so that I can do bodyweight workouts at home. It’s a great app and I recommend it.

What’s to be expected? A Nike Training Club workout is started on the phone and then the Apple Watch allows for easy check of time or reps remaining on a drill. It also delivers haptic prompts, which signal the beginning of the next drill and run until the workout is complete.

The Nike Training Club (NTC) app will be available globally on the Apple Watch beginning July 25. All 180+ workouts currently available on the NTC app will be supported by the Apple Watch.

App Store: Nike Training Club – Free

LG Screen Issues May Spell Trouble for Apple

LG screen issues may spell trouble for Apple. The supplier has cut its investment plans out of concern for the global smartphone market. It recently posted a second quarterly loss in a row because of bad display prices.

LG said it would trim investment by 3 trillion won ($2.7 billion) from what was planned by 2020, without revealing its total or previous capex targets. It also warned that it could adjust production in South Korea and China in response to trade disputes between Washington and Beijing.

The investment cut would not impact plans to “speed up the shift” from LG’s mainstay liquid crystal display (LCD) business toward next-generation organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels, the company said.

This isn’t doom and gloom for Apple, but it does mean the company will have to keep relying on Samsung for OLED iPhone X screens.

Get Ready for a Lot More iPhone Color Choices

Reports claim Apple is introducing more iPhone colors this fall, but not everyone is agreeing on what those will be. First, sources said we’d get blue, gold, grey, orange, and red. Now Macotakara sources are saying (english translation) the colors are black, blue, orange, taupe, and yellow. Red, at least according to their sources, isn’t on the list. Assuming the sources are right—regardless of which colors we really get—this year’s iPhone lineup looks to be much brighter.

6.1-inch iPhone Not Coming Until October

Apple will reportedly introduce 5.8-inch, 6.1-inch, and 6.5-inch display iPhone models this fall, but you won’t be able to get all three at launch. Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty says the rollout is coming in September, but the 6.1-inch model won’t be available until October. Barron’s quoted from her investor note:

We currently see no delay in the ramp of Apple’s upcoming flagship 5.8″ or 6.5″ OLED iPhones. However suspected issues with LED backlight leakage have caused a 1 month delay in mass production of the 6.1″ LCD iPhone, although this is down from a 6-week delay baked into the original production forecast, according to suppliers.

That’s raising concerns about overall iPhone sales, which sounds a lot like fears investors had last year when the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus launched at a different time than the iPhone X. That turned out to be a non-issue for sales, and odds are that’s how sales will play out this fall, too.

Segway Has Self-Balancing 'e-Skates' Coming

People want to roll. Well, really, people want to hover. OK, people really want to fly. Like, for reals. But people really want to roll while they wait for the floaty-flying options. Here in the Bay Area, you can’t walk down the street without tripping over a rentable electric scooter, and non-hovering hoverboards were all the rage until everyone learned that they sucked. Segway, the original self-balancing people mover company, is looking to take this trend further with e-Skates. More specifically, the company introduced the Segway Drift W1 line of e-Skates. These are essentially self-balancing wheels you strap to your feet. Only you don’t strap them on, you just sort of stand on them and go. I can’t imagine what could go wrong. Dean Kamen hasn’t been involved with Segway since 2010, but the company’s technology is still awesome, and these might just be the bee’s knees. They haven’t shipped yet, but TechCrunch reported they’ll be priced at $399.