Mondays might not be your favorite day of the week, but the good news is that we’re all in this together ladies and gentlemen. As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track.
Welcome to The Monday List.
Every Monday, we link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you to get your week started on the right foot. Be sure to check in each week for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.
What We’re Reading This Week:
Toyota’s Vision of Autonomous Cars Is Not Exactly Driverless
The company invested $4 billion in a robotics and AI research institute to create safer vehicles.
When Televisions Were Radioactive
Anxieties about the effects of screens on human health are hardly new, but the way the public addresses the problems has changed.
Google Knows Where You’ve Been, but Does It Know Who You Are?
For years, the company has allowed users to control their “location history,” which stores a detailed record of where they’ve been, based primarily on their activity in Google Maps. This, the researcher suggested — and The A.P. confirmed — did not work as advertised.
Inside Apple’s iPhone XS Camera Technology
Apple’s latest imaging system takes hardware, software, a neural engine, and trillions of computations to produce images that rival DSLR quality
Making Marines Into MacGyvers
The ability to rapidly design and print a mortar-tube bolt or a Humvee door handle could be critical on the battlefield.
An Oral History of Apple’s Infinite Loop
Apple’s old HQ holds stories of pizza ovens, iPhone secrets, baseball bats, and what happened to Steve Jobs’ office.
