They can already play soccer and beat us at Jeopardy—I just didn’t think this day would come so soon.
Narrative Sciences, a start-up in Evanston, Illinois, has developed a sophisticated program that can write articles—typically sports summaries—in under 60 seconds according to the New York Times. Previous iterations of the …
Bloomberg is reporting that AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is in preliminary talks with Yahoo officials “to gauge its interest in combining the companies,” according to two anonymous sources.
This comes during a week in which both companies had their fair share of controversies: Yahoo, with the embarrassing public ousting of former CEO Carol …
Say you’re a major cell phone carrier, sitting in third place behind AT&T and Verizon. Suddenly a major phone manufacturer like Apple gives you the go-ahead to sell their bestselling products at your stores, eliminating the unfair competitive advantage that’s kept you from taking on your rivals.
With the game changed, what would you …
“Where were you on 9/11?” It’s the fundamental question posed in this beautiful application of Google Maps’ API used by the New York Times.
Ostensibly, it’s a map of the world where users can drop a pin to indicate where they were when they heard about the attacks. Color-coded signifiers dotting the map are used to add weight and …
Whoa-hoa-hoa. Google quietly released its HTML 5-optimized Google Music web app a few moments ago on Twitter. And—surprise, surprise—it’s a thing of beauty, dare I say a bit Android-feeling.
It has a rich, responsive UI that allows users to access their Google Music accounts from iDevices and it’s surprisingly fast and easy to …
When Carol Bartz announced that she’d been dismissed as Yahoo’s CEO (over a phone call, no less), she quickly left her hotel and scribbled an email on her iPad to blast to the company’s 13,400 employees.
It was a move so boldly 21st century that it made many (including us) like her a little bit more.
Now Bartz—a woman who once …
Turntable.fm, the innovative crowdsourcing music service, made a lot of noise when its beta version launched earlier this year. Things grew so quickly that by its third month of operation the web-only service managed an impressive 207,000 unique visitors—not bad for a startup. By June the company was able to raise $7.5 million in …
Correction 9/7/11: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the BSA survey found the United States to have the world’s highest piracy rate rather than China. The appropriate changes have been made to reflect this.
According to a new survey conducted by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), 47% of the world’s PC users …
The iPhone’s native video recorder built into the camera app? Nothing to write home about.
It’s serviceable, yes, as best evidenced by the cool art-horror project “Paranmanjang” shot entirely on an iPhone 4 by “Old Boy” director Park Chan-wook late last year. And I’m sure if you had a well-deserved $130,000 budget you’d be able to …
It’s a truism that technology is always shrinking and getting more compact. This, however, might be something else altogether.
Previously the world’s smallest electronic motor was a microscopic 200 nanometers across. Not bad, especially when you consider that the average human hair is only 60,000 nanometers wide.
(MORE: Can Humans …
Late last week MG Siegler of TechCrunch posted a detailed account of Amazon’s mythical tablet, which many had hoped would finally pose serious competition to Apple and their iPad crown.
Of note is that the tablet appears to be a 7-incher running Android, thus closer to the Nook or even the BlackBerry Playbook than an actual iPad. …
Make no mistake about it: The Bold 9900 is the best BlackBerry smartphone to date. But even with a handsome redesign highlighted by a new capacitive touchscreen (plus all the familiar features that make a BlackBerry a Blackberry) will it be enough to close the gap between Apple or Android? Maybe a little?
Take my hand. Let’s find …
