When you work at Microsoft, everything looks like software—even cancer and other threats to human life.
When you work at Microsoft, everything looks like software—even cancer and other threats to human life.
Microsoft’s researchers don’t talk about “curing” cancer. Instead, they are aiming to “solve” it.
Remember that movie where De Niro plays an intern? Paul Critchlow decided to try it.
Remember that movie where De Niro plays an intern? Paul Critchlow decided to try it.
Paul Critchlow had earned his retirement. It was May of 2015, and he’d worked very hard over a long life, and as a young man, he had even fought in Vietnam. He went on to report for the Philadelphia Inquirer and served as spokesman for Pennsylvania’s governor. Finally, he’d spent the last 30 years at Merrill Lynch, half of those as its head of communications. Now that he was turning 69, it seemed like time for a rest.
Monday’s alert asked New Yorkers to be on the lookout for suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami with little information. What can be done differently?
Monday’s alert asked New Yorkers to be on the lookout for suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami with little information. What can be done differently?
New Yorkers had a particularly rude awakening on Monday morning, when phones across the city blared with the earsplitting tone of an emergency phone alert, which until now have been reserved for extreme weather notifications and Amber Alerts. But this time, phones displayed the following banner message—the first of its kind—urging people to look out for the suspect behind the bombings in NYC and New Jersey:
Leveraging everything from advanced hardware engineering to AI, this startup wants to give you control over your world’s sounds.
Leveraging everything from advanced hardware engineering to AI, this startup wants to give you control over your world’s sounds.
I’m trying to listen as Doppler Labs cofounder and CEO Noah Kraft walks me through his company’s new smart earbuds over the din of a crowded restaurant, but the cacophony of chattering diners and clanking silverware is overwhelming. I can’t make out a word. Then, all of a sudden, the background noise disappears. Kraft’s voice comes in loud and clear.
The camera maker wants to take on DJI, its former partner and now rival, but upending the consumer drones market won’t be easy.
The camera maker wants to take on DJI, its former partner and now rival, but upending the consumer drones market won’t be easy.
The chatter started two years ago: GoPro was getting into the drone business.
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