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October 9, 2014
Quip's Cool, Collaborative Word Processor Is Now A Spreadsheet, Too
New features let you crunch numbers inside your text documents--and chat about them with your colleagues.
Quip--the collaborative word processor for iPads, iPhones, Android devices, and the web--is expanding into spreadsheets. But it isn't becoming a suite à la Microsoft Office or Google Apps. Quip tends to do productivity in its own contrarian way, and it's putting spreadsheets inside its word processor.
Super-Investor Carl Icahn Is Really High On The Apple Watch
"Jony Ive and his team have yet again executed at a level that will bring to market a product that revolutionizes the entire category."
As promised, mega-billionaire Carl Icahn published an open letter to Tim Cook today, lauding the Apple CEO for leading the Cupertino-based technology giant out of uncertainty and into the promised land.
If You'd Like To Interact With The Future Of Audio Ads, Please Say "Proceed"
Now when an audio ad talks to you, you might need to talk back.
It's not weird for an audio advertisement to talk to you, except when it's asking for a response in return. That's probably why the first time I heard one of XAPPmedia's new interactive audio ads, I actually missed the opportunity to respond--I didn't realize it was talking to me personally.
Contratados: A Yelp To Help Migrant Workers Fight Fraud
A storytelling tool built by MIT's Center for Civic Media is the backbone of the site, which helps protect migrant workers from fraud and abuse.
Every year, more than 100,000 Mexican migrant workers are recruited to travel to the United States on temporary employment visas (and many more arrive unofficially). They find themselves with little ability to research whether promised wages and working conditions will actually be delivered. In some cases, fake job recruiters even collect application fees from prospective workers, only to disappear without a trace.
October 8, 2014
Join Us For Live Coverage Of Apple's October Product Event
Apple is announcing new hardware and software on Thursday, October 16. We'll be in Cupertino to share the news as it happens.
It's been a a month since the epic media event at which Apple unveiled the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and Apple Watch. Today, it confirmed the recent report by Re/code's John Paczkowski that it's going to hold another event next Thursday, October 16.
Your App Is About To Get Smarter: IBM Opens Watson To Developers
It took almost a year, but IBM has now released eight APIs that give developers access to Watson's big brain.
Once upon a time, artificial intelligence was strictly the domain of giants. To make an app that thinks more like a person, you needed the computing resources of Google or IBM. That's starting to change as big companies open up their machine intelligence APIs for developers to use.
Hulu May Cut Back On How Many Ads It Shows Viewers
Nothing definitive yet, but one can be hopeful.
Hulu could cut down on the number of ads that show up during commercial breaks on its subscription streaming service.
AT&T Will Pay $105 Million For Deceptive Billing Practice
Of that settlement, $80 million will be returned to customers.
AT&T will pay $105 million to settle a federal investigation into claims it billed customers "millions of dollars" for add-on services without their consent, a practice called "cramming."
Microsoft, Google Partner With Code.org To Get 100 Million Students Coding
New campaign looks to raise funds for both learning and teaching computer science.
With a goal of introducing 100 million students worldwide to coding, big tech companies, including Microsoft and Google, are partnering with the nonprofit Code.org in a new crowdfunding campaign.
Google Now Will Now Remind You When Your Bills Are Due
"Okay, Google. Show me my bills."
Out of the current crop of virtual assistants that fit in your pocket, Google Now is far and away the most useful thanks to its ability to contextualize information from your Calendar and Gmail to send you alerts when you actually need them. (Keep trying, Siri!) And this week, Google Now introduced a new feature that makes it easier to keep track of which phone/Internet/education loan bills are actually due.
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