Mashable Tech – Spoken Edition

Twitter may be having its best day ever — or at least, in a while. Wall Street (Twitter's worst enemies who have dropped the stock price to all-time lows) expected to see slow user growth and a downturn on Twitter's revenue. And yet, the unexpected happened. Twitter proved it can beat the street. For the first time since going public in 2013, Twitter's quarterly revenue declined. Yes, that's bad, but analysts, and myself, were expecting a really, really bad day for Twitter.

Take a moment to imagine the childhood lives of Bill Gates' three kids. You're picturing joyful children leaping and lounging upon heaps of all the coolest and newest tech, right? Shockingly, you're wrong. Bill Gates, technology giant and co-founder of Microsoft, had pretty surprising technology restrictions for his kids. Gates and his wife Melinda banned their three children from owning cell phones until they were age 14 - even though they argued all their friends had them. (Classic.

Samsung has a winner on its hands. The Samsung Galaxy S8 and its big brother, the S8+, are two exquisite slabs of glass-covered technology. Instantly lust-worthy devices, yet both are nearly upended by one terrible decision. Samsung's decision to put it on the back next to the camera to make way for the incredible 5.8-inch infinity display is an awful one. It takes an exquisite piece of technology and makes it awkward.

You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. That's the vibe in Instagram "pods" — secret communities trying to fight the platform's algorithmic timeline, one like at a time. In June 2016, Instagram began rolling out its new algorithmic timeline which changed the order of posts in people's feeds, favouring popular posts over chronology. Instagram bloggers have been complaining that it's becoming harder to gain followers organically. Faced with this new challenge, they're fighting back.

Mashable Choice highlights the best of everything we cover, have experienced first-hand and would recommend to others. The Samsung Galaxy S8 is good enough to make people forget the Note7. Beautiful, thin, and wrapped in glass, it’s a handset that elicits ooh's, ah’s and requests for more time with it. That isn’t the only measure of a good smartphone, but it’s a start. For Samsung, getting something out into the market quickly was imperative.

Not content to rip off just Snapchat, Instagram is going after Pinterest, too. The Facebook-owned app is adding a new feature that lets users save individual posts into collections. Love flowers? Or gadgets? Or food porn? Now you can save all those posts into their own folders, letting you obsess over them in the most left-brained way possible.

Developer Scotty Allen used to be an engineer in Silicon Valley, but now he's spending his time traveling the world making things. Allen is currently spending his time in Shenzhen, China, where he made his own like-new iPhone by buying the parts in the markets of Huaqiangbei, where all kinds of cellphone parts are available over-the-counter. Allen wrote about and extensively filmed the process, and he's a joy to watch.

Cupertino-based Apple has over its 41-year lifespan successfully disrupted the former, but it may be about to revolutionize treatment for the latter. According to a report from CNBC, the tech giant has a secret team of scientists working to develop technology that would allow for the continuous and non-invasive monitoring of blood sugar levels as part of an effort to better treat diabetes.

Mashable Choice highlights the best of everything we cover, have experienced first-hand and would recommend to others. Apple announced a new iPad a few weeks ago. Did you even notice? I wouldn't blame you if you missed it. There wasn't any big event, or a keynote, and people definitely weren't waiting in line for it. Apple's new 9.7-inch iPad (it's just called iPad) doesn't come with any major redesign and it's not as powerful as the 9.7-inch iPad Pro.

Back in August, when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were still fighting for the presidency, a hacking group called the Shadow Brokers released secret NSA hacking tools. At the time they claimed they weren't working with the Russian government. Now that claim looks, well, ridiculous. Here's what they said on Saturday, shortly after Donald Trump bombed Syria, a Russian ally. “Respectfully, what the fuck are you doing?" they wrote on Medium.