Gmail is changing faster than we can wrap our mind around. It’s crazy! Technology.
“Call phone” is now a regular presence in our chat bar (we never chat with her). And, since the introduction of a whole new panel of buttons on our Gchat windows, we have new anxiety about our friends inviting their friends Read More
Rupert Murdoch will launch an exclusively digital news operation aimed at attracting subscribers on tablet readers before the end of the year, according to the Los Angeles Times.
“We’ll have young people reading newspapers,” said Mr. Murdoch when teasing the project in an August 4 earnings call.
The digital newspaper may rely on the Read More
Last October, David Carr wrote about the Stats Monkey, a sportswriting robot being developed at Northwestern University. Now Business Week has returned to check in on the thing. Their findings? It’s getting smarter (or at least less bad)!
The company says it is continually trying to make the system “a less bad writer,” Read More
“You want to know one of the dirty secrets of modern life?” said an Apple store employee. “People shoot endless amounts of footage on their fancy video cameras and then they never bother to edit one minute of it. Why? Because it’s too hard.”
It was a recent Thursday morning, and the staff member—let’s call Read More
Everywhere you look in TV news these days, glass ceilings are shattering.
Female anchors now outnumber men on the broadcast evening news shows. Christiane Amanpour broke up the Sunday morning broadcast boys club when she was named the anchor of ABC’s This Week.
And now, at long last, an inanimate machine is claiming its rightful Read More
