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August 13, 2015
Lights, Camera, Liftoff: Drone Film Fest Coming To San Francisco
The Flying Robot International Film Festival will showcase the best films shot using drones.
Got a terrific film you've made with footage from your drone? There may be finally be a theater full of people waiting to watch it.
Will Google's Next Alphabetical Moonshot Involve Genetic Engineering?
Alphabet is flirting with the idea of genetically programming mosquitos to combat disease.
Alphabet, Google's new parent company, just gave a better idea of what its next moonshot project might be. The Information reported Wednesday that Google exec Linus Upson was interested in genetically engineering mosquitos to fight disease. According to Re/code, Upson and Larry Page, now Alphabet's chief executive, have spoken to George Church, a prominent geneticist and Harvard professor, about his work with gene editing.
Google And Dell Announce A Chromebook Built For Business
It's neither bargain basement nor impossibly high-end—and it looks pretty slick.
Once upon a time, when Google first talked about Chrome OS and the Chromebooks that run the mobile operating system, it pitched them as business tools. But when Chromebooks finally started to catch on, it wasn't in the workplace. Except for a few higher-end machines such as Google's own Pixel, Chrome OS systems have mostly catered to consumers and schools on a tight budget.
Send Songs To Your Friends With Msty, A New Music Messaging App
The app, which landed partnerships with Apple Music and several major record labels, wants to be a Snapchat for songs.
A new app aims to combine the best parts of Spotify and Snapchat: Msty will allow users to send instant messages with images and short lines of text accompanied by songs. The London-based startup boasts it is the first messaging service to partner with Apple Music, Universal, Sony, and Warner.
"Sesame Street" Gets A New Home, And A Cash Infusion, From HBO
The partnership means some episodes of the beloved children's show won't be available on Netflix and Amazon.
The makers of Sesame Street announced a five-season deal with HBO that will allow it to produce almost twice as many shows and will give HBO, and all of its subscription apps and services, exclusive rights to the new programs for nine months.
Facebook Revokes Internship After Student Exposes Messenger Flaw
When a Harvard student built an application that exposed a privacy risk, Facebook yanked his internship offer.
Landing a high-profile internship is a coup for any college student. But even before Harvard student Aran Khanna began his internship at Facebook, he was already hard at work in his dorm room on a browser application that piggybacked off users' location data on Facebook Messenger.
Tory Burch Wants More Women To Walk In Her (Classic Ballet Flat, Gold Logo) Footsteps
Today, her foundation unveiled a new site with tools and resources for women entrepreneurs.
Picture an early-stage entrepreneur, and you probably imagine someone working into the wee hours, caffeine in hand and computer aglow. For women entrepreneurs, there's often an added twist—young children, asleep down the hall.
Google's iOS App Just Got A Smart Update
Google's voice assistant will answer your questions based on what you are browsing at the time.
If you're reading an article in the Google app on your iPhone, you may not want to navigate away from the page to learn more. With the most recent upgrade to its iOS app, the search giant has you covered.
Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edge+ And Note5: Almost The Same Phone, But Distinctly Different
The screen size and specs are the same. But one model caters to the mainstream while the other targets productivity-minded types.
Samsung being Samsung, it isn't content to have one flagship smartphone. It wants to offer several of them. So today, less than six months after unveiling the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, the company is back with two more high-end models, which it's announcing at its "Samsung Unpacked" event in New York City.
August 12, 2015
Apple Pay Rival CurrentC Puts Brakes On Year-End Launch
The retail-backed payment platform may be delaying its rollout till next year.
CurrentC, the Apple Pay and Google Wallet competitor backed by some of America's largest retailers, may hold off on debuting its app this year, Re/code reports. Initially scheduled to go public in the summer of 2015, the product is now beginning a limited public beta in Ohio instead. According to Re/code, the company "will not rush a wider rollout if the product is not ready."
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