Apple needs to sharpen its focus

Apple Inc.’s disappointing quarter has many people wondering whether the world’s most valuable company has lost its mojo. I am one of them. But my concern for the tech giant’s future is less about its financial results and more about Apple’s ability to maintain the brand promise that was responsible for the last 13 years of strong earnings.

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In Annual Letter, Sundar Pichai Says Computing, And Google, Will Be Driven By Artificial Intelligence

Back in April 2004, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote their first, and now famous, Founders’ Letter (it opened with the bold-but-still-true: “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.”) Sundar Pichai was a new employee who had joined the company that month as a mid-level manager. Twelve years, Pichai got tapped to pen the letter, which has become an annual thing, an update on the company’s progress and priorities from the founders.

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Orion Crew Module for Exploration Mission-1 Lifted to Test Stand

The Orion spacecraft crew module for Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) is lifted into a test stand for pressure testing in the Neil Armstrong Operations & Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The work is an important milestone on Orion’s journey toward EM-1, its mission beyond the moon atop the Space Launch System rocket in 2018. via NASA http://ift.tt/1NX1IZI