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LinkedIn looking at bots and online schooling as the next frontier
LinkedIn Corp. wants to go to the next phase of networking by introducing bots to help make connections easier for both individuals and enterprises. The company announced yesterday three big updates: a new desktop design, an Interest Feed for relevant news pertaining to a user’s industry and a smart messaging facility. The company has also ...
We just can’t stream enough: How Netflix is killing traditional television
To think Netflix started off as a DVD mail order business, a bright idea catalyzed in co-founder Reed Hastings’ mind after apparently amassing a $40 late fine at the video store from misplacing Apollo 13. As we pointed out here not so long ago, Americans watch a lot of TV, but that’s charted water. It’s ...
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo agree to block sex-selective abortion ads in India
In India aborting a fetus due to its gender has for a long time now been practiced, and while anomalous, it was widespread enough for the Indian government in 1994 to create the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act (PCPNDT). The act banned all forms of prenatal sex screening in India and held that anyone ...
Wild ride ahead for autonomous vehicles, says Lyft’s John Zimmer
“We’ve built our communities entirely around cars,” says Lyft Inc. President John Zimmer in a detailed article just released for Medium. He points to the fact that the average car spends 96 percent of its life parked, relating to reports that state our parked cars are deforming our cities and while looking for a place to ...
Ford explains its slow development of autonomous cars: ‘Don’t confuse activity for progress’
The year 2021, Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields announced earlier this year, is when the company will be “mass producing vehicles with full autonomy,” in a ride-hailing or ride-sharing service. Fields expects these cars to hit the consumer market by 2025. At the same time, Ford has come under the spotlight recently in view ...
Adblock Plus is now dictating the business of online advertising
To be or not to be is evidently not a position that Adblock Plus, the internet’s self-proclaimed heroic ad-blocking machine, feels too concerned with. While the German-made content-filtering browser extension may be essentially in the business of blocking ads, it’s also just lately come under the gun in the tech media for announcing it’s getting into the ...
Get rid of data caps, says Netflix, as video streaming surpasses TV viewing
The average American Joe watches more television than any other average Joe on the planet. According to one article in The Economist, Americans held the “couch potato crown” as far back as 2005, out-watching the rest of the world by a long way. And we mean a long way. According to the article, the average American in ...
Tesla’s updated self-driving system could have prevented death, says Elon Musk
Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk says a new software update to the car’s autopilot system could have prevented a fatal accident that happened last year. While preliminary reports suggest the driver, Joshua Brown, may have been partly to blame, an investigation also stated that the car’s advanced driver assistance features did not recognize ...
Landmark in human history: Drone drops burritos on U.S. university
First came the Burrito Bomber back in the winter of 2012 – more a research experiment than a viable food delivery option – and people asked if ever a day would come when our beloved soft-shell, goodness-packed burritos would be falling into our laps from the sky on a regular basis. Well, that day hasn’t come ...
Nintendo’s shares soar after Super Mario discovers iPhone
Nintendo Co Ltd. ended up becoming a big winner after recent announcements at Apple’s event this week. An event that while focused on shiny happy iPhones, water resistant wearables and iconoclastic wireless earbuds, also gave us the news that some of the gaming pioneer’s new and not-so-old products will be coming to Apple devices. The ...
