The Morning After: Weekend Edition

It's Saturday, February 10, 2018. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. It’s been a busy week, with a successful SpaceX launch, Uber and Waymo’s legal tussle, and guides to both smartwatch buying decisions and cameras. Snap is now doing better business, and Twitter finally made a profit. Watch this video with your sound turned on.   SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon Heavy rocket   After a brief delay, the most powerful rocket in the world launched yesterday afternoon. While the Falcon Heavy’s top portion (complete with Space Oddity-playing Tesla roadster and Starman aboard) is proceeding on a path that will take it beyond Mars’ orbit into the asteroid belt, two of its booster rockets safely returned to Earth. The center core, unfortunately, did not survive an attempted landing on a drone ship but overall the mission appears to be a success. So what’s next for Musk & Co.? The BFR. The case is finally over.   Uber settles with Waymo over allegations of stolen trade secrets   The case between Uber and Waymo is over, and Uber is settling with Waymo over claims that the former stole trade secrets. The payout is a 0.34 percent equity stake in Uber to Waymo which totals around $245 million, according to CNBC. Waymo's accusation was that Uber stole trade secrets (some 14,000 files, allegedly) after engineer Anthony Levandowski left Uber to start Otto, the self-driving truck company that was then purchased by Uber in 2016 for $680 million.   Thanks to a major redesign, Snap’s future is looking bright for the first time in awhile.   Snapchat swaps mess for money   Snap Inc. took a major risk when it completely redesigned Snapchat a few months ago -- it's no secret that people don't like change. But after constantly struggling to add new users since going public last February, the company decided it needed to make adjustments to attract people and keep others coming back. The solution was to refine the app with an easier-to-use layout and to separate friends' posts from media content. Suddenly Snapchat became a more refined app.   You can do better than a pile of notifications on your wrist.   How to set up your smartwatch   Now that smartwatches are actually useful enough for the general populace, setting them up isn't as pedestrian a task as pairing with your phone and calling it a day. On the surface, customizing your new device may not seem like a complicated task, but people often overlook some of the tools that can potentially make wearables more helpful. From recommended settings to the apps worth downloading, here's a walkthrough of what you should look out for when setting up your new wearable.   We've entered a golden age of video and photography.   How to buy a camera in 2018   Stop waving your smartphone at me. Steve Dent takes a tour of the best cameras out there in 2018, running the full gamut from high-powered compacts to top-of-the-range DSLRs that would make fashion photographers recreate that thinking emoji. If you’re looking to upgrade, or are ready to step up from phone photography, here’s where you should be looking.   But wait, there's more... 1. Sondors' three-wheeled EV is affordable and stylish 2. Intel unveils smart glasses that you might want to wear 3. Crucial iPhone source code posted in unprecedented leak 4. Tesla's big battery is undercutting Australia's energy cartels 5. 'Shadow of the Colossus' remake is missing something vital The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

The Morning After: Which camera to buy in 2018

It's Friday, February 09, 2018. Hey, good morning! It’s Friday morning, and we’re figuring out which cameras are worth buying this year, why Snap ditched its Spectacles and discovering that some iPhone source code has leaked into the wild.    We've entered a golden age of video and photography.   How to buy a camera in 2018   Stop waving your smartphone at me. Steve Dent takes a tour of the best cameras out there in 2018, running the full gamut from high-powered compacts to top-of-the-range DSLRs that would make fashion photographers recreate that thinking emoji. If you’re looking to upgrade, or are ready to step up from phone photography, here’s where you should be looking.   Apple’s taken it down, but the iBoot code is now in the wild.   Crucial iPhone source code leaks online   Top-secret Apple code for the iPhone's operating system was posted on Github, opening a new, dangerous avenue for hackers and jailbreakers to access the device. The code, known as iBoot, has since been pulled, but Apple may have confirmed it was the real deal when it issued a DMCA takedown to Github. iBoot is the iOS code that ensures a secure boot by loading and checking that kernel is properly signed by Apple before running the OS. The version posted to Github and brought to the attention of the community by a Twitter user named @q3hardcore was for iOS 9, but much of it likely still exists in the latest version, iOS 11. Apple has responded: "Old source code from three years ago appears to have been leaked, but by design the security of our products doesn't depend on the secrecy of our source code. There are many layers of hardware and software protections built into our products, and we always encourage customers to update to the newest software releases to benefit from the latest protections."   NASA, get ready to take style notes.   Buzz Aldrin wants you to buy this $150 solar backpack   Buzz Aldrin: revered engineer, astronaut of our time and now the face of high-fashion backpacks. Bag brand Sprayground has released a new collection, Mission to Mars, which includes a limited-edition solar backpack that comes with a power pack. Just have to pony up $150 for the bag Buzz endorses.   She literally scheduled her life around this rocket launch.   “SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch brought me to tears”   The buzz over SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launch might have seemed to erupt out of nowhere, but for space enthusiasts, it was a long time coming. Swapna Krishna has followed the development of the Falcon Heavy since it was announced in 2011 and was on the ground at Cape Canaveral to see the launch in person, about three miles away at NASA's press site. Alright, show-off.   Countries are testing out national wireless networks, even if the US isn't.   A state-run wireless network isn't a crazy idea, just ask Mexico   America's mobile infrastructure isn't good enough, at least according to former National Security Council officer Brigadier General Robert Spalding. Spalding's briefing document said the US was lagging behind China in wireless, and the solution was to build its own federal 5G network. The memo cost Spalding his job and sent parts of Washington DC into fits of apoplexy over the proposals. But this idea, deemed too radical to even discuss in the US, has actually been implemented in countries like Mexico, Rwanda and Australia. It might not be 5G, but it proves rolling out national wireless networks is very much a thing, albeit with the requisite positives and negatives.   We're not Olympians, but we got to play with one of their phones.   Samsung's Olympic Galaxy Note 8 isn't for sale, but I wish it was   In addition to the honor of representing their homelands, this year's Winter Olympic athletes will also receive something else: a limited-edition Galaxy Note 8. Unlike Samsung's first Olympic phone, though, it's unlikely this version will ever go on sale to the public. To own one, you have to be a world-class athlete or an Olympic staff member whose job is to support world-class athletes. To play with one, though, you just have to write things on the internet, so here we are.   But wait, there's more... 1. HP's new 4K display lineup has USB-C connectivity 2. Snap is backing away from reckless experiments and that's okay 3. Zeiss' entry-level VR headset is about to get a lot more fun 4. 32 senators want to know if US regulators halted Equifax probe 5. Alexa can build Amazon Music playlists for you The Morning After is a new daily newsletter from Engadget designed to help you fight off FOMO. Who knows what you'll miss if you don't subscribe. Craving even more? Like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. Have a suggestion on how we can improve The Morning After? Send us a note. Copyright © 2016 Aol Inc. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: AOL 770 Broadway #4 New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you opted in at engadget.com. Not interested anymore? Unsubscribe from this newsletter.

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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- February 8, 2018

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The 3 Faces of Customer Care
SEC, Senators Lean Toward Tighter Cryptocurrency Regulation
Five9 President Dan Burkland: Leveraging Tech for Great Customer Experiences

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The 3 Faces of Customer Care
Companies are run by people. Some do a great job of putting the customer
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SEC, Senators Lean Toward Tighter Cryptocurrency Regulation
Federal securities regulators and Senate Banking Committee members on
Tuesday signaled that additional regulation may be necessary in the
rapidly growing area of virtual currency. "The cryptocurrency and ICO
markets, while new, have grown rapidly, gained greater prominence in the
public conscience and attracted significant capital from retail
investors," said SEC Chairman Jay Clayton.
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Five9 President Dan Burkland: Leveraging Tech for Great Customer Experiences
"We're seeing a digital transformation take place, where companies are
moving their contact centers to the cloud," noted Dan Burkland,
president of Five9. "There are two key criteria for a contact center --
there's the CRM and the contact center infrastructure, and those two
really go hand-in-hand. You bring a call, chat, text or email into the
center, and you have to look for an agent who's available and properly
skilled to handle such an interaction."
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