Adobe’s Document Cloud adds support for Box and Microsoft

Adobe’s Document Cloud adds support for Box and Microsoft

Adobe is launching an update to its Document Cloud service today that will bring support for both Box and Microsoft OneDrive to the company’s PDF-centric digital document solution. Adobe previously announced a similar partnership with Dropbox. Thanks to this partnership, Document Cloud users will now be able to use tools like Adobe Sign, the company’s […]

Twitter quietly retires Magic Recs, a DM bot that recommended viral accounts and Tweets

Twitter quietly retires Magic Recs, a DM bot that recommended viral accounts and Tweets

As Twitter tries out bigger things to spur growth activity — like changing the order and length of tweets — it is turning away from others. Twitter has quietly retired Magic Recs, a strikingly effective bot account that used to send you DMs recommending viral accounts or Tweets to follow, run by an algorithm that measured how many others you knew were following an account or […]

A closer look at Samsung’s connected Family Hub Refrigerator

A closer look at Samsung’s connected Family Hub Refrigerator

Imagine for a moment that you’re a fly on the wall of a Samsung executive board meeting. It’s pretty easy to imagine why the Family Hub Refrigerator seemed like a great idea. Someone probably said something about leveraging the smart home and disrupting the kitchen and they were off to the races. And sure, there […]

Apple’s App Store search is completely broken right now

Apple’s App Store search is completely broken right now

Apple’s App Store search is experiencing significant issues this morning, which, if allowed to continue for a longer period of time, could end up impacting app developers’ sales. The problem is that keyword searches on the App Store are simply not returning the appropriate list of apps, and aren’t even able to pull up many apps […]

Cheap Off-Brand Flash Buying Advice

Cheap Off-Brand Flash Buying Advice

The 24-70mm f/2.8 is often referred to as a “workhorse” lens. Many photographers swear by it, even those who prefer shooting primes, and the Camera Store TV wanted to see which company makes the best 24-70. Is it Nikon, Canon, Pentax, or Sony? Samyang made a big splash yesterday when they debuted their very first […]

Robot surgeon outperforms human colleagues doing same procedure

Robot surgeon outperforms human colleagues doing same procedure

It’s another victory for the machines: a robotic surgical system outperformed humans and robot-assisted human operators in a soft-tissue procedure, bringing us that much closer to automated medical care (and the robocalypse). The Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) was designed at the Children’s National Medical Center as an attempt to bring automation to soft-tissue surgery, […]

Oculus snags Fitbit exec Hans Hartmann as new COO

Oculus snags Fitbit exec Hans Hartmann as new COO

Oculus is bringing a new COO aboard as it perhaps looks to double down on tightening things up logistics-wise. Fitbit COO Hans Hartmann will be jumping ship and joining the virtual reality company owned by Facebook, according to a tweet from Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe. Hartmann, who was with Fitbit since 2011, will be replacing founding COO Laird Malamed, […]

How consolidations will play out in the transportation, food and entertainment industries

How consolidations will play out in the transportation, food and entertainment industries

Out of the ashes of its predecessor the phoenix is born. People forget that the Hype Cycle exists because rational people with good vision see opportunity. Often the vision is “spot on,” but expectations of velocity of transformation and adoption are inflated, leading to over-investment that subsequently must be rationalized. There has been no shortage of thoughtful […]