As Apple prepares to announce its latest and greatest devices later today (Sept. 7), it’s worth checking in on something launched at last year’s event.
In a summary of its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email use while Secretary of State, the FBI revealed that Hillary Clinton was a massive fan of BlackBerrys.
On Sept. 7, we’re hopefully going to get answers to a lot of questions.
The first step in Facebook’s grand vision to connect the entire world to the internet—or Facebook—has gone up in flames.
With its human editors out the door, Facebook is letting the inmates run the asylum.
It’s a rite of passage in the US, a moment when most teenagers feel that they have found freedom, when they finally pass their driver’s test. But there’s now a new hallmark on the entry into adulthood. Today (Aug. 29), anyone in the US can now make money flying drones—assuming they can pass the test.
Since the start of the year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been working to build himself a personal artificial assistant, much like Tony Stark’s JARVIS from the Iron Man comics. And it seems that he really did mean personal.
What are you up to on Sept. 7? Apple wants to know.
That didn’t take long.
Facebook will no longer employ humans to write descriptions for items in its Trending section, which attracted controversy over allegations of political bias in May. Topics appearing in the Trending section will now appear solely as a short phrase or single word, with an indication of the number of people discussing it on the social network.
Facebook’s newest app made it really easy for us to pretend to be high schoolers.
The future of being super lazy is here.
Earlier this week, I left a meeting room table full of men and met president Barack Obama in a meadow in Yosemite National Park. It was great.
Five years ago today, Tim Cook took over as CEO of Apple to replace an ailing Steve Jobs. Although some have criticized the relative lack of excitement from the company since then—it has released just one new product, the middling Apple Watch, since Cook was promoted—the former chief operating officer has grown Apple into a company with roughly $600 billion in market capitalization, making it the most valuable public company in the world.
If you’ve ever had an idea that you think would change the way we get around, Ford would like to hear it. The company has a portal open to employees and the public where anyone can suggest an idea to Ford, and, if the company likes it, it may work with the person to help them secure the intellectual property. But not every idea is a good idea, or a new idea.
The future of luxury cars isn’t all about flashy vehicles that drive themselves, at least that’s what Mercedes and Maybach want the super-rich to believe.
Self-driving cars are apparently no longer a thing of the future: You could hop in one this month—if you live in Pittsburgh, that is.
At an event in Silicon Valley, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced that in five years’ time, the company intends to have a fully autonomous vehicle on the road. The car will be used specifically for ride-hailing and ride-sharing, Fields said, and will not have either a steering wheel or pedals.
Update: Samsung announced on Sept. 2 that it was recalling the Galaxy Note 7 following reports of the phone exploding and catching fire. As a result, we caution prospective buyers to hold off on purchasing the phone until Samsung fixes the problem.
With all the investments being made into self-driving vehicles, there will come a time in the not-too-distant future where an autonomous car will be in a situation where it will have to choose what humans to kill—its passengers, passengers in another vehicle, or pedestrians. A new project from MIT is trying to ensure that those cars are imbued with a sense of humanity when they make fatal decisions.
Among the biggest complaints levied against Snapchat are that the social network is difficult to use and it’s hard to find new things to watch. Snapchat has been working on the former and a new acquisition might help solve the latter.
This post has been updated with a comment from Google.
Even the CEO of the largest company in the world needs some help from time to time.
In the six years that it’s been on the market, Apple’s iPad has always been a bit of a confusing product.
