LG G5: It’s Complicated

Give LG credit for innovation, making its new G5 smartphone modular. A compartment just below the phone’s screen can detach from the rest of the body, allowing you to swap out the battery for a fresh one, add camera functionality, or even install a hi-fi speaker unit. I’m guessing there are other modular attachments coming, and that there’ll be consumers wanting to take full advantage of the flexibility.

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Dan Ariely on Building More Human Technology Data Artificial Intelligence and More

Dan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioral economics and author of New York Times best-sellers Predictably Irrational and The Update Of Irrationality, talks about what the technology world can learn from the psychology world and how we help the machines to understand us better.

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Want To Know What Is Possible With VR? Check Out These Movies

At this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, two separate experiential storytelling showcases put numerous 360 video and VR experiences on display. And, honestly, some of them were pretty darn interesting: The sorts of shorts that could dim the doubts of VR skeptics, while showing what the platform can pull off when it comes to narrative and storytelling. Here’s a closer look at three of the show’s VR highlights, which could give us a glimpse of the platform’s future.

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Intel’s Earnings Review: Accelerating The Focus on Data Center IoT Memory & FPGAs To Drive Growth

Intel reported its Q1 2016 earnings on April 19th. While revenue came in at the lower half of the guided range, non-GAAP EPS beat Wall Street estimates. Just prior to the earnings release, the company announced its restructuring initiative (Read Press Release) to accelerate its evolution from a PC company to one that powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices. Intel expects the restructuring program to deliver $750 million in savings this year and annual run rate savings of $1.4 billion by mid-2017. A one time charge of approximately $1.2 billion will be recorded for the restructuring in Q2 2016.

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