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- Four people have been shot at YouTube HQ in Silicon Valley
- Mark Zuckerberg shares this common bad habit with 43 percent of Americans
- Bloomberg: Apple is working on iPhones with designs and features like nothing we've ever seen
| Four people have been shot at YouTube HQ in Silicon Valley Posted: 03 Apr 2018 01:30 PM PDT  Four people have suffered gunshot wounds following a shooting at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., according to authorities. One of those people is believed by police to be the suspect, who has been killed. San Bruno police chief Ed Barberini said at a news conference that officers encountered three victims who are "being treated for injuries that are treatable." Two of the victims had fled into a nearby business, the police later said. The suspected shooter, a female, suffered a fatal wound that Barberini said "may have been self-inflicted." Barberini said police arrived to the scene after 911 calls shortly after 12:45 pm PT and then "immediately began a search for a possible shooter or suspect." He described the scene on arrival as "chaotic" and said that the building was eventually evacuated. Stanford University Medical Center spokesperson Lisa Kim told Recode that they are expecting four to five patients to arrive shortly but that she did not have any news on their conditions. Update: Kim now says her information was incorrect and that no patients were treated at her hospital. President Donald Trump tweeted that he was briefed on the shooting.
In a note to staff obtained by Recode, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki wrote: "Pls stay secure as police clear building and pls follow police instructions to safety. We have full team here to get you to safety." Google CEO Sundar Pichai told his employees: "I know you are in shock right now" and called the incident an "unimaginable tragedy." Previously: "We are responding to an active shooter. Please stay away from Cherry Ave & Bay Hill Drive," San Bruno police tweeted.
Google, which owns YouTube, tweeted that it is "coordinating with authorities and will provide official information here from Google and YouTube as it becomes available."
But sources close to the situation said that several people had been shot and that the shooter has been shot, too. It is unclear how seriously anyone has been injured. Employees at the scene are also reporting the shooting and are trying to protect themselves there. Photos posted to Twitter show YouTube employees being led out of the building with their hands up. There are helicopters on the scene, as well as police SWAT teams.
The YouTube building is in a busy area of San Bruno, which is near the San Francisco airport. It is run in a separate location from the campus of Google in Mountain View, which is further south. The huge video platform is a unit of the search giant, which, in turn, is part of Alphabet. Unlike the more college campus-like setting of Google, YouTube is a building right on the street, and its main lobby is relatively accessible — there is security, of course, but it is not noticeably present — in comparison to other tech firms. The site often gets many fans, who want to visit the popular YouTube. |
| Mark Zuckerberg shares this common bad habit with 43 percent of Americans Posted: 04 Apr 2018 08:11 AM PDT  If your first instinct upon waking up is to check your phone, then you likely share a popular bad habit with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. In a Facebook Live Q&A, Zuckerberg tells comedian Jerry Seinfeld that the first thing he does every morning is grab his cell phone from a nearby nightstand and browse through it. "I look at Facebook to see what's going on in the world," he says. "And I check my messages. I look at Messenger and WhatsApp." On a "good calm day," Zuckerberg says that he generally spends just a few minutes scouring his phone. However, the amount of time he spends changes depending on what's happening in the world. "Before I put my contacts in I often go look to see what's going on on Facebook," he says. "It's actually a pretty sad situation," he adds. Although Zuckerberg is the CEO of Facebook, which owns Instagram and text messaging platform WhatsApp, he says this of his early morning habit: "That's probably not my best moment." Notably, the tech entrepreneur's habit of checking his phone as soon as he wakes up is quite common. According to a Deloitte Global Mobile Consumer Survey, 43 percent of people check their phone within five minutes of waking up, 76 percent within 30 minutes and 88 percent within an hour. The study surveyed 2,000 U.S. consumers ages 18-75. However, checking your phone immediately upon waking up could decrease your productivity levels throughout the day, writes business analyst Michael McQueen in his book "Momentum: How to Build it, Keep it, or Get it Back." The author explains that starting your morning by looking at social media on your phone releases dopamine in the brain, which your body loves. This creates a feedback loop throughout the day that conditions you to constantly check your device and lose focus on other tasks. Meanwhile, continually shifting your focus while performing cognitive tasks at work has been shown to decrease the IQ by 10 to 15 points and has the equivalent effect of not sleeping the night before, according to research from Bryan College. Unlike Zuckerberg, sleep enthusiast and founder of Thrive Global Arianna Huffington notes that she refrains from looking at her cell phone or checking email upon waking up. To avoid this temptation, Huffington tucks her phone into a charging station that's made to look like a bed and keeps the entire set up outside of her bedroom. She tells CNBC Make It that doing so helps her unplug and makes her much more productive upon waking up. Huffington adds that taking a break from your devices is a simple well-being tip that people don't give enough attention. "A big part of my routine is about what I don't do," Huffington tells Benjamin Spall and Michael Xander, authors of the book "My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Everyday Inspired." "Once I'm awake, I take a minute to breathe deeply, be grateful and set my intention for the day," she says. Like this story? Like CNBC Make It on Facebook. Don't miss: Bill Gates said he had to quit this common bad habit before he became successful |
| Bloomberg: Apple is working on iPhones with designs and features like nothing we've ever seen Posted: 04 Apr 2018 05:49 AM PDT Apple's tenth-anniversary iPhone X marked the first big redesign on the company's smartphones since 2014, when Apple finally relented and released an iPhone "phablet" with a significantly larger display. Earlier iPhone models all had screens that measured between 3.5 inches and 4 inches diagonally, even as customers clamored for an iPhone with a bigger screen. The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus would end up flying off of store shelves as a result of the pent-up demand for bigger iPhones, and their sales record would still stand today if Apple's holiday quarter the following year didn't include an extra week. But the iPhone X redesign was far more substantial than the iPhone 6 and even the iPhone 6 Plus phablet. The handset's iconic home button was completely removed so that the phone could adopt an "all-screen" design, and some fancy internal engineering allowed Apple to extend the display almost all the way to the bottom of the phone. Touch ID fingerprint authentication, which had become a staple that was copied by every other smartphone maker in the world, was also removed and replaced by a new 3D facial recognition system called Face ID. The iPhone X was indeed a bold reimagining of the iPhone, and it looks like Apple has no plans to stop there. According to a new report, Apple is working on new iPhone designs and new features that are unlike anything we've ever seen before from Apple. Bloomberg on Wednesday issued a new report that may offer some insights into Apple's plans for the iPhone of the future. We're not talking about the distant future here, but rather a few years from now. The site has a good track record when it comes to Apple's unannounced plans, so this may indeed be our first taste of things to come from the most successful consumer tech company in the world. According to the report, Apple is working on both new designs and new features for its iPhone lineup that are unlike anything we've seen before from the Cupertino, California-based company. Bloomberg says Apple is internally developing "touchless gesture control" features that would let an iPhone user "perform some tasks by moving [his or her] finger close to the screen without actually tapping it." It's unclear what exactly would be gained by moving one's finger in front of the screen rather than tapping it. Apple does have several patents on glasses-free 3D display technology, however, and the company has also been researching various holographic display features. It's possible that these touchless gestures could be tied to one of those solutions, though Bloomberg's report makes no mention of holographic displays or glasses-free 3D images. The report does cite one unnamed source as indicating that this technology won't make its way into Apple's iPhone lineup for "at least two years," if at all, so we'll undoubtedly learn more about it soon. On the design front, the report claims that Apple is working on curved screens for future iPhone models. Again citing just one anonymous source, Bloomberg says Apple is "developing iPhone displays that curve inward gradually from top to bottom." This is a curious claim for a few reasons, but the biggest is the claim that Apple is considering the move "to differentiate design in crowded marketplace." Apple is not a company that has been known to do things just to differentiate its products from competitive offerings. On top of that, phones with screens that "curve inward gradually from top to bottom" are nothing new. LG released two different smartphones with that exact design, but then abandoned the "G Flex" line due to a lack of interest from consumers.
The only way we could see this rumor making sense is if the curvature of the phone serves an important purpose. For example, if Apple is indeed working on touchless gesture control, a slight curve could help Apple better position cameras and sensors in order to detect movements close to the screen. This is just speculation on our part, however. Bloomberg notes that the new curved iPhone design and Apple's supposed touchless gestures are "still in the early research and development stage and Apple could choose to not go forward with the enhancements." |
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