Microsoft Develops Set-Top Box Microsoft has been developing designs for a simple set-top device for streaming video and other entertainment options. More
Amazon may be working on a smartphone with hologram-like 3D Amazon is reportedly developing a smartphone that sports a 3D screen that relies on retina-tracking technology to make images seem to float above the screen like a hologram. With the smartphone, users would be able to navigate through content by using their eyes alone, according to two unnamed people who discussed the phone with the Wall Street Journal. More
YouTube launches pay channels with campy flicks Roger Corman's campy B movies, children's shows like "Sesame Street" and "Inspector Gadget," and inspirational monologues by celebrities — these are among the 30 channels that will require a paid monthly subscription on YouTube coming soon. More
FCC moving forward on speedier in-flight Internet service U.S. federal telecommunications regulators are pushing ahead with efforts to bring faster Internet service to commercial and private airline flights. The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday started deliberations on a proposal that would offer a new type of in-flight broadband service promising U.S. More
Top Stories: Apple Event Preview, iPad Pro With M4 Chip Rumor, New Beats Headphones, and More It's been a long time since the last one, but an Apple event is finally right around the corner! While it's anticipated to be a fairly ... 05/4/2024 - 2:01 am | View Link
Apple profit ebbs as iPhone sales under pressure The iPhone maker reported a profit of $23.6 billion on $90.8 billion in revenue in the first three months of this year ... 05/3/2024 - 7:37 pm | View Link
Apple’s earnings show that, yeah, it’s really time for some new iPads Less than a week ahead of its much-anticipated iPad hardware event, Apple shared its Q2 2024 earnings today, and the numbers paint a predictable picture for the increasingly dated tablet line. iPad ... 05/2/2024 - 2:04 pm | View Link
Apple Reports Decline in Sales and Profit Amid iPhone Struggles in China The company continues to lean on customers’ appetite for apps and services, as demand for its devices weakens. 05/2/2024 - 11:18 am | View Link
Apple Confirms Widespread iPhone Changes Coming To Millions Of iPads It’s been a big year for radical changes for the iPhone and now Apple has confirmed that the iPad will receive similar updates later this year. 05/2/2024 - 10:06 am | View Link
University of Maine built a massive additive manufacturing device that can build houses, and a whole lot more.
In a warehouse at the University of Maine, there’s a gigantic new additive manufacturing machine named Factory of the Future 1.0. And if its developers are right, it could become the new way that many things get built.
Brunt is on a mission to design a better work boot for America’s 23.5 million tradespeople.
When we think of the shoe-obsessed consumer, our minds tend to go to women like Sex and the City‘s Carrie Bradshaw, who opted for Manolo Blahniks over a mortgage. But there’s a large segment of men who also obsess over shoes: specifically, the 23.5 million tradespeople—80% of whom are male—who work in construction, manufacturing, and warehousing.
In ‘Designed For Life’ designers describe their creative process and what makes a great product.
A light fixture made of seaweed. A dreamy, psychedelic laundry machine. A hairy bench fashioned out of agave leaves. All of these objects appear in the new book Designed for Life: The World’s Best Product Designers, published by Phaidon Press.
One of the nation’s fastest-growing cities relies on a vulnerable population of workers to fuel its economic explosion.
The first time Rosa saw snowflakes falling, she thought they were pieces of cotton. “I thought I was going to choke,” she told me.
Recent findings suggest, more than ever, that nonhuman animals are capable of suffering. Scientists are begging us to listen.
Can animals suffer? It’s a question that has been floated around classrooms and dinner tables for centuries, at least since philosopher Jeremy Bentham posed it over 200 years ago.
Stress hormones spike in the weeks before a performance evaluation. This chief people officer says this doesn’t have to be the case.
These days, performance reviews are getting a bad rap. They’re described as “awful,” “harmful,” and getting “more stressful.” This is understandable. No one wants to feel that their entire body of achievement at work across a year can be summarized in a few paragraphs, or with a handful of adjectives that might not do justice to all the effort they put in.