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A new report today from The Information (paywalled, via 9to5Mac) discusses the troubled seven-year history of Apple’s digital assistant Siri, describing it as “a problem” for Apple, and blaming it for the underwhelming performance of Apple’s smart speaker HomePod. Contrasting somewhat with a Siri cofounder’s recent cla…Read More
The billionaire investor says Silicon Valley is unprepared for a coming wave of regulation. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a90ae75183e80505b186b1b/master/pass/PeterThiel-578544764.jpg
Netflix On “The Late Show,” comedian John Oliver told host Stephen Colbert that he wouldn’t be surprised if Meghan Markle backed out of her wedding to Prince Harry at the last minute. Oliver suggested that she watch Netflix’s “The Crown” to get an idea of what her life will be like in the British royal […]
Reggie Bush was a star college football player for USC. Here’s what he thinks about the College Football Playoff. Following is a transcript of the video Reggie Bush: I think it’s a step in the right direction, but, four-team playoff is not the answer. I’ve always said I think it should be the top ten teams. […]
Flavorwire is taking the final week of 2017 off, because God knows we need it. But all week, we’ll be reposting some of our favorite pieces from the year. Read them all here. When I told a couple of my queer friends that I’d been on a streak of self-imposed emotional auto-terrorism — seeing two […]
A bill to extend one of the NSA’s most powerful surveillance tools, and further peel back American civil liberties, was approved today by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in a strict party line vote (12-8), with Republican members voting in the majority. The committee and the public had less than 48 hours to […]
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Enlarge / The disembodied hand of fate falls on you, tree! Since consumer-grade virtual reality became a thing last year, there has been some criticism over the lack of lengthy, meaty VR experiences that can draw players in an epic story for dozens of hours. As if to answer that criticism, Bethesda has released Skyrim VR, […]
Russia has criticized the latest OPCW-UN report which blames Damascus for the chemical attack in Syria’s Idlib province in April, pointing out the many discrepancies, questionable witness accounts and unverified evidence which forms the basis of the report. The Russian Foreign Ministry said it has already found serious flaws in the methodology of the recently […]
Hollis Johnson/Business Insider It’s pretty amazing that a tiny smartphone camera lens can produce photos almost as good as bigger and heavier dedicated cameras. I’ve just tested the cameras on two of the top smartphones you can buy right now — Apple’s iPhone 8 Plus and Google’s Pixel 2 XL — and they both take […]
