The discussions between the digital pin board company and the app that inspired the “VSCO girls” trend are ongoing. SAN FRANCISCO — Pinterest has held talks to buy VSCO, a photography app that spawned a teenage social media craze, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The discussions are ongoing, said the people, […]
The 2021 digital toolkit – How small businesses are taking charge Learn how small businesses are improving customer experience, accelerating quote-to-cash, and increasing security. Register Now During CES 2021, Advanced Micro Devices CEO Lisa Su spoke with a group of journalists about a wide range of issues, including AMD’s product road map, the core counts […]
When it comes to customer expectations, the pandemic has changed everything Learn how to accelerate customer service, optimize costs, and improve self-service in a digital-first world. Register here (Reuters) — Cloud-based software company Salesforce.com is in talks to acquire workplace messaging app Slack as it seeks to expand its offerings to businesses, people familiar with […]
SAN FRANCISCO — When Microsoft began talking this summer with the popular video app TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, no one had any intentions of pursuing a blockbuster deal. With tensions swirling between the United States and China, along with the complexities of running a social media company, any large acquisition appeared too […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber is in talks to acquire Grubhub, said three people with knowledge of the discussions, aiming to create one giant player in food delivery as more people turn toward those services in the coronavirus pandemic. Uber recently approached Grubhub with a potential all-stock takeover bid, said two of the people, who spoke […]
The opening shot of Half-Life: Alyx, as captured from real gameplay. Anything I captured while playing will appear in portrait orientation, due to how SteamVR image captures work. Any landscape images are provided by Valve. While you’re up here, marvel at the city sprawling all around you, and play with the nearby radio. Also, see […]
Enlarge / An Apple Watch Nike+ Series 4. Getty Images | Wachiwit Apple will stop storing voice recordings captured by Siri-enabled devices except in cases when users intentionally opt in to the practice. “[B]y default, we will no longer retain audio recordings of Siri interactions,” Apple said in an announcement yesterday. “We will continue to use […]
The Planetary Society In 1976, astronomer Carl Sagan appeared on Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show to talk about solar sailing, a technology he said could let spacecraft travel using particles and radiation from the Sun as propellant. The Planetary Society Forty years later, Sagan’s vision is becoming a reality. On June 24, The Planetary Society’s […]
Prakash Mathema/Getty Images If you’ve been following the conversation about technological unemployment and the threat of robots and A.I. stealing jobs, you may have come across the prediction that 47% of current jobs in the U.S. are at risk of automation. That figure comes from a widely cited 2013 paper, titled “The Future of Employment.” […]
Business Insider/Jessica Tyler Amazon was still trying to hammer out a deal with New York officials and union representatives, just the day before the company officially canceled plans for its proposed HQ2 headquarters in NYC, Bloomberg reports. Amazon executives, city officials, and union heads reportedly met Wednesday to address “outstanding issues” related to the proposal. […]
GamesBeat Summit 2019 is a can’t-miss event. On April 23 + April 24, you’ll have the chance to connect with the biggest, brightest, and most interesting folks in the industry at Two Bit Circus, a “micro-amusement park” that’s like an arcade meets Ready Player One in the L.A. Arts District. To whet your appetite for […]
Oculus Quest, the latest VR headset from Facebook, enables full six degrees of freedom (6DOF) tracking for both head and hands using the company’s new inside-out system called Insight. This brings the standalone headset closer to Rift-quality tracking than ever before, but it’s still not perfect. Gabor Szauer, Developer Relations Engineer at the company, spoke […]
LOS ANGELES—Sprint is moving to 5G next year, but first the company will deliver better voice calls. Sprint needs to debut voice-over-LTE, or VoLTE, before it launches its 5G network in the first half of next year. VoLTE will “soft launch” by the end of this year, Sprint CTO John Saw said, with a more […]