After Sandy, climate-resilient design is on the rise. Museums, seeking to protect their priceless art, are on the cutting edge.
Source: Wired
Most iPhone reviews are done by technically savvy writers that put them through their paces locally or in a lab. But what if you took an iPhone to a place where millions of people travel every year and use the absolute crap out of it for several days straight? Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Microsoft today announced that in December it will launch a Surface Pro with built-in LTE Advanced support to its business customers. Panos Panay, Microsoft’s corporate VP for Windows devices, made the announcement at the company’s Future Decoded event in London. In the announcement, Panay argues that as the global workforce evolves, being a mobile worker will become the new… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The 20-year-old kids behind RoBhat Labs are unearthing the hidden bots that plague the social media giant—so, why isn’t Twitter?
Source: Wired
Skype for mobile received a major overhaul exactly a year ago. This week it’s the turn of the desktop app. The new design comes with fresh features and (hopefully) improvements, and is available now for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
The post Skype for desktop offers all-new design for Windows, Mac, and Linux appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital trends
Calling all budget-minded entrepreneurs and startup fans — it’s time to place buying Disrupt Berlin tickets at the top of your priority list. Our value-priced early-bird promotion disappears soon. Early-bird tickets, which provide general admission conference passes for both days, cost €833. But once those birds fly the coop, the price increases to €1190. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Did you accidentally send sensitive information to Becky? It’s OK. Becky never has to know.
Source: CNET
Three presidents at the technology giant have been elevated to co-CEOs in the wake of a bribery scandal.
Source: CNET
Waymo has been very protective of its testing process in past, but recently it started opening up – likely as a bid to help get the public more comfortable with self-driving vehicle technology as it moves towards broad deployment of its autonomous cars. As part of that, the former Google self-driving car project asked a group of journalists to pay a visit to its Castle testing facility… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Today was a first for me: I drove in a fully autonomous vehicle on roads without anyone behind the wheel. They weren’t public roads, but they did have intersections, other vehicles, pedestrian traffic, cyclists and more, and the car managed a fairly long route without any human intervention –Â and without any cause for concern on my part. I’ve done a lot of self-driving… Read More
Source: TechCrunch