Hurricane Irma lands; iPhone x is coming

Hurricane Irma consumed everyone’s bandwidth over the weekend, faking right and then veering left toward up the northwest coast of Florida, and leaving up to five million without power. Floridians [used Snap Maps]( to document their storm preparations, and [the walkie-talkie app Zello saw a surge in usage]( — adding a million new users a day since last Monday — serving as a source of real-time updates and access to emergency information. Here’s a firsthand account of how [Zello was used to coordinate rescues]( by the all-volunteer “Cajun Navy.” [[The New York Times](] Rumors and leaks are rampant as Apple readies the Steve Jobs Theater on its brand-new Cupertino campus for tomorrow’s big event revealing new iPhones and iterations of its Apple Watch, Apple TV, AirPods and operating systems. Apple savant [John Gruber vouches for some of the leaks]( and says Apple may go after the leaker; the usually reliable 9to5 Mac site says the new phones will be called [iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and a high-end iPhone X](, and that we can expect new features including [Face ID, Portrait Lighting and animated emoji](. [[ArchDaily](] Twitter is working on a built-in tweetstorm feature. It's not live in the Twitter app yet, but clues were found within the Android version by a developer. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, known as “[the father of the tweetstorm](,” deleted all his tweets around this time a year ago; you can see some of [his greatest hits here](. Politico examines the phenomenon of t[he Twitter thread as a literary form]( peculiar to the Trump era, and nods to some noteworthy “threaders” — often stalwarts of government, media, or academia. [[Johana Bhuiyan / Recode](] Here are the frontrunners among the U.S. cities who could land Amazon's second North American HQ. Check out Recode’s list of cities with more than a million people, comparing criteria including tech talent, airport travel time, office prices, housing costs and population. Amazon is on the forefront of automation, with more than 100,000 robots in action around the world, and plans to add many more. Here’s what that means for the company’s [tens of thousands of human employees](. [[Rani Molla / Recode](] Should Amazon buy Nordstrom next? On his last visit to Recode Decode hosted by Kara Swisher, NYU professor and brand expert Scott Galloway predicted that Amazon would buy Whole Foods. That was back in May; he returns to the podcast to share some new M&A forecasts for the company. [[Eric Johnson / Recode](] [Insert alt text here] [Millennials mostly watch TV after it’s aired.]( Older people still watch more live TV, but that’s changing. [Snapchat wants to get deeper into news, so it’s adding college newspapers to Discover.]( Student papers from Berkeley, Texas A&M, Wisconsin and Syracuse are coming to Snapchat. [The U.S. Congress is going to hold two hearings on the massive Equifax data breach.]( Meanwhile, New York announces its own investigation. [Insert alt text here] [Some content about content.]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Instagram]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Manage your [email preferences]( to receive fewer emails, or [unsubscribe]( to stop receiving all emails from Vox. Vox Media, 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20036. Copyright © 2016. All rights reserved.