Gadgets & Tech – Spoken Edition

Data junkies rejoice—Verizon is bringing back its unlimited data plan starting Monday. According to a CNBC report, the company will sell these plans for $80 per month for single users or $45 per line on a four person family plan. The only catch is that after you use more than 22GB of data per month on your plan, Verizon will“prioritize usage behind other customers in the event of network congestion.

Republicans love to remind everybody that they’re the party of Abraham Lincoln. Which is true. But they might want to do a little more research on Honest Abe. Because the GOP Twitter account just tweeted a fake Lincoln quote. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years,” the quote reads, attributing it to the 16th President of the United States. The tweet was sent out with a “Happy Birthday” for the President.

Dave Mitchell is a 49-year-old devotee to his old cell phone and members of the UK press are claiming he’s the proud owner of the “oldest working mobile phone in Britain.” Considering the 17-year-old model he uses is a Nokia 3310, that claim is believable. The 3310 was reliable, compact and it just worked. It was such a tough bastard that it even became a meme a few years ago—The Indestructible Nokia 3310.

Steve Jobs was known for his perfectionism, insistence on innovation, megalomania, and making workers’ lives miserable. Now that he’s gone, Apple’s quality control has continued to slide. But Jobs’ final project, a new corporate headquarters, may be his most demanding tantrum of all. In an absurd report, Reuters spoke to inside sources involved in the construction of the long-delayed Apple campus.

A little over a week ago, seller valuestampsinc posted a listing on eBay for a Flaming Hot Cheeto vaguely resembling Harambe. On Monday, this inevitably became a viral story due to its exorbitant price—as of 11:45PM, the bidding is currently at $97,600. Cheeto Harambe is the perfect paradigm for internet virality at its worst. In short, it is very, very stupid.

A new message found in the latest iOS 10 beta update seems to indicate Apple will be killing off thousands of apps and games that haven’t been updated to support 64-bit processors. Say hello to the world of vintage iPhone gaming. Apple is getting tough with developers in an effort to keep the app store up to date and clear out garbage apps no one wanted in the first place. The company began requiring all new apps to be updated from 32-bit to 64-bit back in 2015.

The agricultural industry has long been considered an enemy of humanity when it comes to recklessly pumping antibiotics into animals. In further evidence that this practice is fueling a public health crisis, a new study has found a disconcerting trend at Chinese farms: flies are spreading the gene that gives bacteria resistance to our strongest antibiotics, and it’s showing up in hospitalized humans. At the moment, colistin is considered a last “last resort” antibiotic.

On Tuesday, a 42-year-old Indian woman went to the hospital, complaining of an extremely painful “tingling, crawling sensation.” After being transferred three times, doctors determined that there was a “foreign body that seemed to be mobile” in her head. Yes, your worst nightmare is a reality. “It was a full grown cockroach,” Dr. M.N. Shankar, the head of the ENT department at Stanley Medical College, told the The New Indian Express.

As expected, Snap Inc. (the company formerly known as Snapchat), has filed the paperwork for its initial public offering (IPO). According to the S1 documents in the filing, Snap Inc. is seeking $3 billion when it goes public and will value itself between $20 and $25 billion. The Snap IPO was already being hyped as one of the biggest tech IPOs in years, with plenty of commentators and finance tech types hoping it would be the second-coming of Facebook.

Boaters off the coast of Western Australia have spotted a bottlenose dolphin that appears to be wearing some kind of shirt. Wildlife officials suspect it was a deliberate act—one that could have caused the aquatic mammal to suffocate. Alarmingly, the dolphin hasn’t been since since. The T-shirt clad dolphin was spotted in Koombana Bay, Bunbury, on Australia Day (January 26).