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June 9, 2015
Intel Launches Investment Fund For Startups Led By Women And Minorities
The fund aims to invest $125 million over the next five years.
Intel Corporation, the Silicon Valley chip maker and tech giant, launched today the Intel Capital Diversity Fund, which over the next five years will invest $125 million in businesses led by women and underrepresented minorities.
First Look: Bjarke Ingels's Ambitious New Tower For The World Trade Center Site
The Danish starchitect is replacing Norman Foster as the designer of the long-stalled tower. Will his design actually get built?
After the twin towers toppled on September 11, 2001, it seemed inevitable that two new towers would take their place—a defiant symbol of American resilience. The reality, though, was anything but inevitable. While the first of those towers, One World Trade Center, was completed in 2013, the second tower's development has been at a virtual stall for years.
Let This Intelligent Oven Cook All Your Meals For You
Ammunition Group helps ex-Apple, GoPro, and FitBit engineers design what it hopes is the biggest kitchen appliance since the microwave.
The big metal fire box in the middle of your kitchen hasn't changed much in the last 50 years. Some convection fans here, some LED displays there, but otherwise, the trusty range remains largely untouched by the increasingly connected march of technology.
Do Huge Fines Actually Reduce Cigarette Butt Litter?
Reducing the most prevalent form of litter in the world requires more than just hard-to-enforce laws.
Being near the Great Lakes, the state of Illinois has long had pretty good anti-littering laws with one glaring exception. Until a law passed in 2013, cigarette butts were not considered litter.
Why Do We Like Brands As Much As We Like People?
And sometimes even more...
We've all done it: used the L-word in reference to a certain favorite brand. The common assumption is when we say "I love Coke" (or whatever product we fancy), we're using love as a lazy stand-in for whatever true, presumably lesser emotion we're feeling—"contributing to the trivialization of the word," as Don Draper once vented. But what if consumers who say they love a brand actually mean it with the same emotional intensity they do when referring to a beloved person?
How Apple Is Quietly Preparing Us For The Merging Of iOS And OS X
Apple is slowly blurring the lines between iOS and OS X. Here are three new announcements that prove the trend.
With its giant phones and tiny laptops, it makes less and less sense that Apple's OS X and iOS operating systems are completely separate platforms. Even if one has a touch screen and the other does not, should the design language between the two really be so different?
As MakerBot Struggles, Desktop Milling Machines Are On The Rise
The maker community is embracing affordable mini-mills designed to machine wood and metal.
MakerBot's 3-D printers will soon be able to produce items that look like bronze, limestone, and wood, thanks to a new line of plastic-based composite materials shipping later this year. But the launch may be too little, too late: Entrepreneurs and artists interested in working with metal and wood are already embracing desktop milling machines that can handle the real deal.
June 8, 2015
Apple Is Officially Spotify's Newest, Biggest Competitor
Apple Music enters a crowded music streaming market. Will human curation be enough to take on Spotify?
After months of speculation, Apple officially entered the music subscription market this afternoon with the official debut of Apple Music.
The Apple Watch Just Got A Lot More Useful
Apple's WatchOS 2 is here and it will let developers build native, much more capable apps.
If you had your doubts about the Apple Watch, Cupertino just made it much more interesting. At the Worldwide Developers Conference this morning, Apple announced WatchOS 2, a new version of the watch's operating system that lets developers build native apps for the device.
El Capitan Will Make Your Mac Feel More Like An iPad
Apple WWDC 2015: The latest update to Mac's OS X include improved search and a whole lot more swipe functionality.
Apple's new Mac OS is getting some big changes.
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