10 Tech Things You Need To Know This Morning
Getty Images, Kevork DjansezianGood morning. Here's the overnight news.
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Don't use "hollow" icons. It makes our brains do too much work.
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Activist investor Carl Icahn says he's going to have dinner with Apple CEO Tim Cook. Icahn tweeted: "Planning dinner in September. Tim believes in buyback and is doing one. What will be discussed is magnitude."
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Google patented a technology that will change your phone's security preferences based on its location. So if you're at home, you might not have to enter a password. At work, you would.
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You know about 3D printers. This is a 3D scanner for your desktop.
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Twitter is talking to banks about doing a "low profile" IPO. Sorry, but that isn't going to happen.
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Here are some technology breakthroughs that happened when people where high on drugs.