The man who brought you Objectified, Helvetica, and Urbanized is launching a company for virtual reality documentaries.
The Future Of Microsoft Office: Many Apps, Many Interfaces, Many Devices
What was once a box of monolithic apps is getting broken down into discrete tasks and reimagined for a less PC-centric age.
More than a quarter of a century ago, Microsoft put a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation package, and an email client into one box and called it Microsoft Office. In doing so, it created the productivity suite as the world came to know it. And for all that’s since changed about Office, the devices it runs on, and the competitive landscape, the basic defining idea—lumping together a handful of feature-laden apps, each of which handles a different sweeping category of business tasks—has hardly changed at all.
Me Want More Cookie Monster: Adorable Outtakes From The Apple Commercial
Because you can never get enough Cookie Monster.
Cookie Monster and Siri have proved a highly marketable (and adorable) combination after Apple’s recent iPhone 6S ad featuring the dessert-loving Sesame Street character reached the top of Campaign’s viral chart, according to Business Insider.
Counsyl Lays Off Significant Staff In Product And Development Teams, Say Sources
Layoffs at the genetic testing startup affected about 25% of the company, says one well-placed source.
Counsyl, the company that offers a slew of genetic tests, made significant cuts in its product, design, sales, marketing and engineering teams, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
#Cancer: Researchers Are Conducting Huge Studies Using Twitter, Facebook
Instead of relying on the small number of patients who go to research hospitals, doctors are recruiting huge numbers of participants online.
Nearly 40% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetimes, with about 1.7 million of those cases expected in 2016 in the United States (according to the National Cancer Institute). These patients are hoping for better treatments and, hopefully someday, cures. They could also be valuable resources, helping experts develop better therapies, if only staff at research centers like Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston could study their unique cases. Even patients with the same diagnosis, such as breast cancer, have different genetic makeups, both in their healthy cells and in their tumors. These differences provide clues to new genetic factors that may cause the disease, why some patients respond especially well to certain treatments, why some tumors are so resistant to treatment, and how people of different ages or ethnicities are affected.
The Real Reasons That Amazon’s Alexa May Become The Go-To AI For The Home
Amazon made several very smart decisions early in the voice platform’s life that may make it a friendlier ecosystem for device makers.
If Amazon’s Alexa had just served as a entry point to Amazon’s marketplace, it would have been as boring as the failed Amazon Fire smartphone. But Alexa is way more than that.
Apple Suspects The Latest Encryption Case Has Nothing To Do With Law Enforcement
…And everything to do with politics.
On Friday, the Justice Department renewed its efforts in a Brooklyn court to force Apple to help break into a drug trafficker’s iPhone, a move that Apple believes is just another attempt to establish a legal precedent that would make such demands on tech companies easier in the future.
Offshore accounts are for more than laundering money
Regular people use them to simplify transactions with relatives overseas — or hide money from a soon-to-be ex-spouse.
Read More Howes: Tesla hoopla embodies the disruption of Detroit
Reactions are freighted with the reality of GM’s history of mediocrity and Silicon Valley’s record of the opposite.
Read More In lead crises, water-filter maker sees opportunity
Zero Technologies says its pitchers render a glass of water more than 99.6 percent free of total dissolved solids
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