For the last 12 years, YouTube’s logo has been a pair of anachronisms wrapped inside each other. “We have the word tube in a tube,” says Christopher Bettig, the head of YouTube’s art department. “This is weird. No one know what this is.” Tube is slang for a television set, which used to be powered […]
Read moreFinish Line has trimmed its profit outlook for the full year amid disappointing sales volume, sending its stock plunging more than 28 percent Tuesday morning. Just earlier this month, the CEO of rival Dick’s Sporting Goods said that his sector of retail was in “panic mode.” The remarks immediately sent shock waves across the broader […]
Read moreSteve Jobs and Bill Gates‘ rivalrous friendship is the stuff of tech lore. The most poignant moment of that fraught relationship happened 20 years ago. In August of 1997, Gates stepped in and saved Apple, which, at the time, was on the brink of bankruptcy. “Bill, thank you. The world’s a better place,” Jobs told […]
Read moreApple and professional services company Accenture said Tuesday they will team up to help businesses build better applications for iOS, the operating system that powers Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Accenture helps large companies write new software and adopt new technology. The company will create special teams dedicated to helping its customers, which include banks and […]
Read moreAnalyzing the large amounts of data created by internet-connected devices will be a huge market in the coming decades, according to a top Wall Street firm. Bank of America Merrill Lynch says the artificial intelligence and so-called “big data” analysis trends will also have dramatic ramifications for business and markets. “We are living in an […]
Read moreGoogle just announced a tool that will allow developers to write augmented reality apps for millions of Android devices. Augmented reality allows developers to overlay digital content on top of the real world. The lion in the image above, provided by Google, appearing to stand right on the street, is a good example of one […]
Read moreElon Musk is warning — yet again — about the potential power of artificial intelligence. “AI will be the best or worst thing ever for humanity,” says the billionaire entrepreneur via Twitter on Tuesday. He also recommends a book on the subject: “Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” by MIT professor […]
Read moreFor the first time, a study on internet addiction is being funded by The National Institutes of Health, a signal that the problems stemming from excessive internet use may finally be getting the serious attention it deserves from the U.S. mental health community. The two-year study kicks off this week and is being conducted at […]
Read moreIDC said Tuesday that it expects that the Apple iPhone 8 will “spur a major upgrade cycle” in 2018 and drive iPhone shipments up by 9.1 percent. The research firm said iPhone shipments were down 7 percent in 2016 and are on pace to grow just 1.5 percent this year. While there are reports of […]
Read moreAmazon said on Tuesday that its Amazon Echo units can now serve as a multi-room speaker system. If you own more than one Echo, Echo Dot or Echo Show, you can ask all of them to play the same song in multiple rooms. Or, if you prefer, you can ask each one to play a […]
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