And in softer tech news, Instagram has revealed plans to put ads in the stream over the next couple months.
www.bonfiresnow.com ARC'TERYX JAVELIN SV Made from a new three-layer Gore-Tex fabric called Soft-Tech, a flannel-like inside layer bonded to a hardy outer layer by a breathable membrane.
One was his "Soft-Tech House for the 1980s" – an evocative, late-70s vision of "the future" that looks like a cross between Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House and a sort of Hobbit-style eco-dwelling.
Watch the interview above to see Brittany Morin talk in full about the upcoming apps, the latest lifestyle gadget she's obsessed with, the possibility of raising outside funding, why Silicon Valley needs some "soft-core tech," and more.
And the timing of the latest leaked call for 'decryption on-demand' coincides with an imminent UK general election, while also serving to shift potential blame for security failures associated with a terrorist attack that took place during the election campaign off of government agencies — and onto a softer target: overseas tech firms.
Reports said that the Swiss company would be initially purchasing 20 of the robots, created by tech conglomerate Soft Bank, to help sell Nescafé's Dolce Gusto and Barrista coffee machines, with the company predicting a further 1000 to be introduced by the end of next year.
Their analysis was used to develop a new easy-to-clean hairbrush that may help pet owners with allergies, and could lead to advancements in cleaning tech and soft robotics.
Given his previous form, he might conceivably consider this an opportune moment to unveil a penchant for soft metal balladry or tech-step drum'n'bass.
Instead, it's a nicely caricatured vision of hi-tech, soft-touch totalitarianism, a narrative thought experiment in which it's liberal idealism (rather than the fascist or communist kind) that reaches a final solution.
