What is Edward Snowden up to

The NSA whistleblower posted a puzzling tweet on Aug 3. He said, “It’s time” and requested his former colleagues, probably who were working with NSA, to reconnect with him. Snowden also mentions the name of Barton Gellman. Did you work with me? Have we talked since 2013? Please recontact me securely, or talk to @bartongellman….

Make Your Own Twitter Bot In 5 Minutes

Ever see a “bot” automatically (and eerily) answering questions on Twitter and wish you could make one yourself? Guess what? You can! There’s a Twitter bot that not only answers questions, it shares its source code – so you can copy it and make a creepy little assistant of your very own! @DearAssistant is a…

Twitter hires Ex-Apple designer as a director of AR and VR

A week after acquiring the machine-learning firm Magic Pony, Twitter is venturing further into the realm of virtual reality and augmented reality. The microblogging site has acquired the music VR experience startup IXOMOXI and hired its CEO, Alessandro Sabatelli, to serve as Twitter’s director of AR and VR. Sabatelli, a former Apple designer, confirmed the…

Elon Musk tweets video of SpaceX rocket’s crash landing

Elon Musk isn’t afraid to admit when things go wrong.  The SpaceX founder tweeted out a video on Thursday of the company’s rocket crashing as it attempted to land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.  Looks like early liquid oxygen depletion caused engine shutdown just above the deck pic.twitter.com/Sa6uCkpknY — Elon Musk (@elonmusk)…

Twitter will slide into your DMs when London’s Tube stops working

Twitter has teamed up Transport for London (the organization that looks after the city’s tubes and buses) to create a new alert systems for disruptions on the London Underground. TfL has long provided travel alerts via Twitter accounts for different tube lines, but now, users that follow these accounts will get DMs when there are…