The wireless AirPods accessory has been a really hot seller for Apple and CEO Tim Cook has called them a “Cultural Phenomenon.” The first AirPods patent actually surfaced in Australia back in late January. Then on March 21 a next-gen AirPods patent surfaced regarding sports oriented AirPods with biometrics and noise cancellation features. Late last month the U.S. Patent Office published a whopping 250 patent applications from Apple on a single day. Usually when that occurs I’m able to find some fresh new concepts buried in this mountain of paperwork. To date Patently Apple has reported on more than a dozen interesting inventions derived from that same patent group. The latest find reveals a next generation AirPods charging case worth noting. While the concept may be simple, it could pack quite the beneficial punch for future Apple customers. Apple is considering adding a secondary charging system to the AirPods case so that it could double as a portable wireless charging dock that could recharge other iDevices on its outer surface.

A Brooklyn artist turned 24 years of malware, from Brain.a to Stuxnet, into colorful, cyberpunky, alien-like creatures.Computer malware has become a routine part of life on the internet. Every day, according to a recent estimate, around one million new pieces of malicious software get unleashed online. But once upon a time, there was no malware.In 1986, that changed with the spread of what’s deemed to be the first-ever personal computer virus, known as Brain.a, an innocuous piece of malware that spread through floppy disks and strangely came with a return address—that of its two creators. Since then, the world has seen millions of different viruses, trojans, and other kinds of malware. Some have come and go, others have made history.

Blommor, kramar och en stor hjälpsamhet. Så har Stockholm mött terrorn med kärlek de senaste dagarna.– Aldrig varit med om något liknande, jag är tagen, säger Södermalmspolisens yttre befäl till SVT Nyheter.I fredags slog terrorn till mot Stockholm city. En lastbil mejade ner flera personer på Drottninggatan. Fyra personer har dött och många är fortfarande skadade.De senaste dagarna har terrorn besvarats med kärlek. Snabbt skapades hashtaggen #openstockholm där många stockholmare bjöd in människor som hade strandsatts eller kände sig otrygga i centrum efter lastbilsattacken.Många visade solidaritet och medmänsklighet. Vissa bjöd på mat, vissa erbjöd sängplats och andra erbjöd skjuts i sina bilar.