Apple plans TV service with around 25 channels after falling out with Comcast: WSJ
Apple’s long-rumored online TV service could be announced as soon as June, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company is reportedly preparing to offer a service with around 25 channels from broadcasters like ABC, CBS and Fox and launch it this September across all iOS devices and the Apple TV.
March 16, 2015 at 09:00PM
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Neptune Suite: A Taste of What Computing Should Be in 2025
When Neptune launched its grand idea for upending the smartphone ecosystem, many of the responses boiled down to: Huh?
March 16, 2015 at 09:00PM
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Forget drones. Here’s a beetle whose flight you can remote-control — Fusion
After strapping tiny computers to the backs of giant flower beetles, they were able to control their flight path, essentially turning them into biological drones.
March 16, 2015 at 05:16PM
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How Police Body Cameras Were Designed to Get Cops Off the Hook
In the wake of protests over police violence against black men, many civil rights activists are calling for a high-tech solution: strapping wearable body cameras to cops. The idea is to hold police accountable for unnecessary violence. But the history of police body cams reveals that the devices have often had the opposite effect.
March 16, 2015 at 02:10PM
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Apple will offer Android switchers gift cards to trade-in rival smartphones for iPhones
According to sources, Apple will soon introduce a new recycling and trade-in program that will accept non-Apple smartphones, notably including Android devices, in exchange for gift cards to be used toward the purchase of new iPhones.
March 16, 2015 at 01:35PM
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The Undead Yutu Rover Probes the Moon’s Unique Volcanic Past
The story of China’s Yutu lunar rover has been a rollercoaster from the start.
March 16, 2015 at 11:02AM
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The New York Times
“I think we’re going to see more and more systems in this field of quantified work, or people science, that are going to make the most valuable resource that we have — which is our team — more effective.”
March 16, 2015 at 11:02AM
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Americans’ Privacy Strategies Post-Snowden
Nearly two years after Snowden’s revelations, 87% of Americans say they have heard about U.S. surveillance programs. Among them, 25% say they have changed their own technological behaviors in some way.
March 16, 2015 at 10:30AM
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The Evolution Of Steve Jobs
If Apple’s rise depended on the standard Steve Jobs clichés, what are we to make of its dominance now? Time to revisit — and correct — the myth.
March 16, 2015 at 08:28AM
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Project Titan, SixtyEight & SG5: Inside Apple’s top-secret electric car project
Shrouded in secrecy and speculation, Apple’s mysterious “Titan” electric car project is believed to be in development at a top-secret facility hidden in plain sight, discovered by AppleInsider just minutes away from the company’s California headquarters.
March 16, 2015 at 01:15AM
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