Musk tweeted that the rocket booster used "almost all of the emergency crush core" which, according to the article, "helps soften the landing".

Can someone explain what this means? What is an emergency crush core?

Ah, I believe I understand now. Here's an older tweet from Musk which mostly explains it: "Crush core is aluminum honeycomb for energy absorption in the telescoping actuator. Easy to replace (if Falcon makes it back to port)."

This was a hot enough landing that they used a 3-engine hover-slam to reduce fuel usage. Their last attempt at a 3-engine landing burn was also their last landing failure. When a landing goes slightly wrong, the crush core is the first thing to go... and this time it successfully did its job.

Please don't remove the headphone jack!

Title is probably misleading many people. This new feature does not do standard calls to phones. From what I can tell, it's more of an "in-amazon-network" voice chat, between amazon apps/devices.

#1 solution that I've been using, is setup an ifttt skill, then "alexa, trigger call my phone"

I use the trackr skill. Advantage being that even if your phone is on silent, it will ring it.

According to the article, it's not real telephone calls, yet.

Getting people to physically visit their B&M store, for whatever reason, is hugely valuable.

yep. foot traffic. go to CVS to do this amazon thing and pick up some candy or something while you are there.

I do wonder if Amazon Pay is a next step for these folks. I cannot believe Amazon will not have an answer Google and Apple.

- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Full VR Support

- DESCRIPTION: VR isn't just for games. And using VR for productivity is a no-brainer. Ubuntu should be the go-to operating system for the most immersive VR desktop experience. Ubuntu should lead the VR-on-the-desktop revolution by supporting desktop VR (by working with Steam/FBOculus/MS/Google/Samsung as necessary to get the hardware and drivers correct and plug-n-play).

Yet even in chrome, the slowness of Asana is just too painful for me to use.

After binge-watching the latest six episodes, I really enjoyed this "Twilight Zone"-like promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di6emt8_ie8

My guess is child seats.

Fair enough. It's high time that car manufacturers worked out how to make seats/seatbelts that are adaptable to all ages. Or perhaps some sort of foldaway "wings" which turn a standard seat into a child seat.