Turns out if you do not pay your bills, you will get sued and asked more forcefully to pay those bills. Twitter finally paid its Google Cloud bill (though the current state of the platform might suggest otherwise), but it looks like there are still some outstanding payments the company has been letting slide.
So Keurig is getting into ice coffees. An exec on their team tells The Wall Street Journal that ice coffee’s aesthetics are one of the reasons they added a new machine designed for large iced drinks.
“And also, let’s be frank—you drink iced coffee in a clear cup, so it’s a lot more fun to be able to play with, look at, do recipes behind and take lots of pictures,” [Becky Opdyke, Keurig Dr Pepper’s senior vice president overseeing coffee marketing,] said.
The Wall Street Journal reports that women interviewing for jobs were asked about sexual histories, nude photos, and porn — men were spared these questions.
The report doesn’t indicate that Gates knew about these questions, but the incident follows other indiscretions that have recently put Microsoft’s founder in the news, including his connection to Jeffrey Epstein and an affair with a Microsoft employee.
Magic: The Gathering fans are already offering more than $2 million to secure the one-of-a-kind “One Ring” card that’s being released as part of a Lord of the Rings set today. One hiccup: no one’s actually found it yet!
And it’s probably intentional: the XP wallpaper photo was taken in Sonoma, California. The new MacOS name? MacOS Sonoma.
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is here, and rumors suggest a brand-new virtual reality headset will get top billing.
The New York Times reports that TikTok’s internal Slack-like tool, Lark, has made data on American users visible to teams in China — very much the kind of thing US regulators have been worried about.
In response, TikTok’s spokesperson seems to say something along the lines of we’re getting better. But it’s very much not a this isn’t happening.
Alex Haurek, a TikTok spokesman, called the documents seen by The Times “dated.” He said they did not accurately depict “how we handle protected U.S. user data, nor the progress we’ve made under Project Texas.”
[The New York Times]
The longtime YouTuber, science educator, and author said he’ll take a break from creating videos while being treated and asked fans to send him recommendations for movies to watch and games to play that are “really dumb things that will not make you cry.” True to form, Green still manages to go off on an educational science tangent while sharing the news.