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January 14, 2016
Why Doesn't Apple HealthKit Include Mental Health Tracking?
Digital mental health is a fairly new but fast-growing field.
Apple's HealthKit, which launched last year, is a service for people to pull together health and fitness data from their favorite apps. Apple refers to the service as the "beginning of a health revolution."
How You Can Test One Of Google's Self-Driving Cars
In a Backchannel post, editor Steven Levy details his experience behind the wheel of one of Google's self-driving cars.
So you want to take a self-driving car for a spin? Backchannel editor Steven Levy, who had the chance to test out Google's crop of autonomous vehicles, published a post on Wednesday that pulls back the curtain on the company's exclusive training center—and reveals how you, too, can get behind the wheel of a Google car.
Slack Messaging Users Can Now Set Up Skype Calls Within Channels
The integration is another example of Skype's efforts to ease the enablement of its service inside other platforms.
Skype released the preview version of a new plug-in today that enables voice and video calls within the popular Slack team messaging platform.
In A Quest For Profitability, Shyp Is Tweaking Its Service And Leaving Miami
Business customers will get additional options. Shippers of bulky items will pay more. And one market is going away.
By any measure, Shyp had an eventful 2015. The on-demand shipping service—which lets you use a smartphone to summon a courier who will take any item off to a Shyp warehouse to be packed up and sent on its way via the most economical option—launched in two new cities, Los Angeles and Chicago. It launched Shyp Returns, a feature designed to simplify sending stuff back to online merchants . It turned its couriers from contractors into full employees. It collected $50 million in funding from investors. And toward the end of the year, it added tools for package recipients as well as senders, became a shipping option on eBay, and gave its branding a thorough makeover.
Report: Samsung To Ramp Up Manufacturing Of Flexible iPhone Displays
Samsung will likely spend $7.47 billion to expand flexible OLED display business, ET News reports.
Samsung's display business is planning to spend $7.47 billion to expand its capacity to manufacture flexible OLED displays for future mobile devices, including iPhones.
January 13, 2016
Expect ISIS Cyberattacks This Year, Says Leading Security Firm
PKWare also anticipates attacks on health devices, the electric grid, law enforcement databases, and a U.S. presidential campaign
ISIS is likely to launch a cyberattack on a major corporation this year, security firm PKWare predicted this week.
In Bleacher Report's Changing Lineup, Cofounder Dave Finocchio Returns as CEO
It's the second management shake up in roughly a year for the popular online sports publisher.
Bleacher Report, a division of Turner Sports, announced today the return of cofounder Dave Finocchio as CEO. It's the second management shake up in roughly a year for the popular online sports publisher. After providing high-level direction for the rapidly evolving company, as well as consulting on digital strategy throughout Turner, a spokesperson said Finocchio will assume a more hands-on and more visible role, working out of Bleacher Report headquarters in San Francisco.
Cable News Channel Al Jazeera America Is Shuttering In April
Two years after launching its American division, Al Jazeera feels the channel is "no longer sustainable."
Al Jazeera America, the cable news channel that debuted in August 2013, is closing its doors on April 30, Politico reports.
GM's Cybersecurity Secrets
Here's what the carmaker is doing to ensure hackers can't break into its cars.
Amid the chaos of CES last week, General Motors made an unusual announcement. The auto giant went public with its plans to launch a security vulnerability disclosure program, which promises not to take legal action against hackers that come to GM with security flaws they discover in the company's cars. These disclosure programs are common practice in Silicon Valley, but are extremely rare in the auto world—only Tesla has a similar program.
My Fellow Americans, The State Of The Union Is Lit
My whole Presidential squad lit.
With all the polls indicating he will roll easily into his third term, a relaxed and confident President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress last night with his seventh State of the Union Medium post. It's worth taking a moment to reflect, here at what will likely be the midpoint of a historic four-term administration, that if we had not set aside our differences and passed the 28th Amendment, we might be looking at the very real prospect of a President Trump next year. America can be fractious and backward, but let it never be said that we can't get the job done when it really matters.
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