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May 26, 2015
Tech News Site Gigaom Will Relaunch This Summer
A Texas startup called Knowingly Corp. has acquired the site's domain name and archives.
Gigaom, the well-regarded technology news and analysis site that shut down abruptly in March, appears set for an August relaunch.
Taco Bell And Pizza Hut Are Ditching Artificial Ingredients To Distract You From The Real Issues
Fast food chains are trying to give their brands a healthier image, without actually making their foods healthier.
When Chipotle announced earlier this month that its menu is now free of genetically modified foods, scientists were quick to point out that there is no evidence that so-called GMOs are harmful to health. According to some, the move made Chipotle seem healthier but with no real benefit to Chipotle's customers.
Microsoft's Cortana Coming To iPhone And Android This Summer
For the first time, iPhone and Android users can access the digital voice assistant as an extension of their Windows 10 experience.
"Siri, how well does Microsoft's Cortana work on an iPhone or Android device?"
These Incredibly Thin, Simple Headphones Don't Use Any Wires
Headphones using printed electronics, designed by Maxime Loiseau, are made of only eight parts.
Traditionally, making headphones is a complex process. The devices are commonly made up of at least 50 parts, and the production process is lengthy. But a new kind of headphones, created using a technique called roll-to-roll processing, are thin, simple, and easy to produce.
Google's Hiroshi Lockheimer On The Present And Future Of Android And Chrome OS
The engineer in charge of Google's operating systems says they're both similar and different—and add up to an overarching vision.
In 2005, software engineer Hiroshi Lockheimer got a call from Andy Rubin, his former boss at Danger Research, the creator of the Sidekick (aka Hiptop), the first truly web-savvy smartphone. Rubin was now at Google, which had recently acquired his new startup. Lockheimer was working on Internet TV software for Microsoft, after stops at Palm and Good Technology.
Android For Your Car's Dashboard Is Now Available In The Hyundai Sonata
The Android Auto navigation and entertainment system rolls out this week, with the goal of making your dashboard more like a smartphone.
Starting today, car buyers have the option to purchase a car—specifically, a 2015 Hyundai Sonata—with Android built right in. Android Auto, first announced a year ago, brings the Android interface to a touchscreen in the center of the dashboard. The 2015 Hyundai Sonata is the first production vehicle to get Android Auto.
Jony Ive Is Apple's First Chief Design Officer
Ive has a newly created position that will allow him to take a step back from day-to-day operations.
Jony Ive, former senior VP of design at Apple, is now the company's first Chief Design Officer. He will still oversee Apple hardware and software, albeit less directly, focusing more on bigger-picture projects.
Twitter Launches Periscope Live-Streaming For Android
Periscope for Android makes it easier to return to a broadcast after leaving the app.
Today Twitter is launching its live-broadcasting app, Periscope, in the Google Play Store. It arrives two months after the app debuted on the iPhone, and adds some new Android-specific twists.
May 25, 2015
What Happens When You Put A Sex Therapist, A Conservationist, And A Millennial Entrepreneur On A Boat?
Summit Series, which today announces Summit at Sea 2015, believes great ideas are born when leaders focus on each other and on nature.
May 23, 2015
After The Fracas Over Hello Barbie, ToyTalk Responds To Its Critics
CEO Oren Jacob has a few things he'd like to clear up.
At New York's Toy Fair, the toy industry's big February trade show, visitors to Mattel's booth were greeted, literally, by Hello Barbie, a Wi-Fi–connected doll that uses speech-recognition technology to have real conversations with kids. The prototype was programmed with a few lines of dialogue specific to visiting New York and the Toy Fair, well short of the hours of conversation she'll be prepared to engage in when she's released officially later this year. Still, she performed so well that some visitors asked if there was a woman with a microphone hiding behind a curtain, and an unplanned "interview" with CNBC's Morgan Brennan went off without a hitch. "She went six or seven questions deep," says former Pixar CTO Oren Jacob, now cofounder and CEO of ToyTalk, the company behind the doll's conversation technology. "And she crushed it."
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