Twitter’s stock is cratering this week following its earnings report on Tuesday, down around 15% and shaving more than a billion dollars off its market cap — again. This isn’t even an all-time low for Twitter. But the company is a long, long ways from its successful run after its initial public offering. At the time, […]
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Next time you open the YouTube app on your iOS or Android phone, you’ll be greeted by a new homepage experience. Before, YouTube would show you a list of recommended items with small thumbnails, followed by a few more lists of recommended videos about topics you’ve recently shown interested in. Now, you’ll see a single feed […]
Apple: Watch apps must be stand-alone Apple has changed the rules for Watch developers with a mandate that they must work without an iPhone going forward. Apps have always required a connected iPhone to work but that’s now changed. This means that Apple Watch apps must be self-contained and execute entirely on the Watch. Source: […]
Nothing like a bit of surprise weaponry and armor to transform a romantic photoshoot into something else entirely. That’s what happened to Alex of Alexandria Photography when, in the middle of a romantic engagement shoot, she and her clients were photobombed by an enthusiastic group of LARPers! Drone Fishing. It’s exactly as ridiculous-but-kind-of-fascinating-but-really!? as it […]
I’ve spent the last week trying to pretend the new Kindle Oasis is the same as reading a real book. It’s not. I love books. I love Kindle’s e-readers and was hoping this was the melding of the two. That real book feel was part of the inspiration for the latest Kindle in the family […]
AMD teased the Radeon Pro Duo last month as a graphics solution powerful enough for the forthcoming Assassin Creed movie’s virtual reality experience, but waited a few weeks to launch the dual-GPU card in a semi-official manner that mirrors its “tweener” status in the graphics board market. Instead of the usual release hoopla that includes […]
This week was completely loaded with earnings reports from some of the biggest tech companies in the world — and it was a crazy week of swings for most of the companies that reported. There’s a running theme here: growth is being heavily rewarded — and lack of growth, punished — by Wall Street. And that’s […]
We’ve fallen in love with apps. It’s hard to see something so popular fading into the past, but what if that happened? What if apps were simply an iteration of the mobile web, before something better came along? With the flurry of announcements that occurred around Facebook’s F8 conference, perhaps that time has finally come. Are we witnessing […]
Hundreds of millions of kids around the world lack access to, among other things, basic education — much less organized school systems with adequate teaching resources. XPRIZE is hoping that tech can help where humanitarian efforts have yet to make a dent — and putting $15 million on the line to that end, with the […]