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Retail Rivals Amazon and Best Buy Team Up to Sell Smart TVs

Posted on April 23, 2018 by HeyJK

Rivals Amazon.com Inc. and Best Buy Co. are joining forces to sell television sets powered by Amazon’s Fire TV operating system. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly revealed the partnership on Tuesday at a Best Buy store in Bellevue, Wash.

The Book No One Read

Posted on April 23, 2018 by HeyJK

I remember well the first time my certainty of a bright future evaporated, when my confidence in the panacea of technological progress was shaken.

Amazon Has a Top-Secret Plan to Build Home Robots

Posted on April 23, 2018 by HeyJK

Ten years ago, Amazon introduced the Kindle and established the appeal of reading on a digital device. Four years ago, Jeff Bezos and company rolled out the Echo, prompting millions of people to start talking to a computer. Now Amazon.com Inc. is working on another big bet: robots for the home.

Google CEO Pichai Set to Cash In $380 Million Award This Week

Posted on April 23, 2018 by HeyJK

Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai is about to have a very big week. On Wednesday, an award of 353,939 restricted shares he received before a promotion in 2014 will vest.

Reading Aloud to Young Children Has Benefits for Behavior and Attention

Posted on April 19, 2018 by HeyJK

It’s a truism in child development that the very young learn through relationships and back-and-forth interactions, including the interactions that occur when parents read to their children.

New Brain Maps With Unmatched Detail May Change Neuroscience

Posted on April 19, 2018 by HeyJK

Half a century ago, the pioneers of chaos theory discovered that the “butterfly effect” makes long-term prediction impossible.

The anti-robot uprising is coming

Posted on April 19, 2018 by HeyJK

“He’s back-tracked before. My guess is he’ll go back and forth some more,” said William Reinsch of the Center for Security and International Studies, who served in the Clinton administration as undersecretary of commerce for exports.

Facebook. Well contained. Keep the rest of your life to yourself.

Posted on April 18, 2018 by HeyJK

Facebook can track almost all your web activity and tie it to your Facebook identity. If that’s too much for you, the Facebook Container extension isolates your identity into a separate container tab, making it harder for Facebook to track you on the web outside of Facebook.

How Domino’s Pizza Drove a 90x Increase in Stock Value by Acting Like a Tech Startup

Posted on April 17, 2018 by HeyJK

Startups can learn some of the most valuable lessons on product and marketing from the growth of the world’s biggest pizza chain. The story of Domino’s Pizza is a hero’s journey. It’s a story of reinvention.

Target’s Drive Up service is now available at 270 stores

Posted on April 17, 2018 by HeyJK

Last year, Target began piloting a new service called Drive Up that lets customers order what they need from the Target app, pick up their purchases at a Target store and have it delivered right to their car.

Scientists accidentally produce an enzyme that devours plastic

Posted on April 17, 2018 by HeyJK

There are research teams around the world dedicated to finding a remedy for the growing plastic pollution crisis, but now it seems that one group of scientists have found a feasible answer — and they stumbled upon it by accident.

Apple has an iPhone design problem it’s getting harder to solve

Posted on April 17, 2018 by HeyJK

Apple made waves in 2016 when it decided to get rid of the iPhone’s headphone jack, and again in 2017, when it announced the iPhone X would have a virtual home button.

Apple Is Planning to Launch a News Subscription Service

Posted on April 17, 2018 by HeyJK

Apple Inc. plans to integrate recently acquired magazine app Texture into Apple News and debut its own premium subscription offering, according to people familiar with the matter. The move is part of a broader push by the iPhone maker to generate more revenue from online content and services.

Watch SpaceX launch NASA’s latest exoplanet-hunting satellite

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket today during a 30 second window at 6:32pm EDT. Onboard is NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) designed to find exoplanets. SpaceX said this morning there’s an 80 percent chance of launching today.

Target debuts same-day delivery for in-store purchases in some urban markets

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

Target wants to make it easier for customers in urban markets to shop its store and get their hauls home, without having to lug their bags onto the subway or other public transit.

Nikola Tesla predicted the smartphone in 1926

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

In an interview published in Collier’s magazine in 1926, Nikola Tesla, then in the twilight of his career, made some predictions about the future that included electric airplane flights “from New York to Europe in a few hours”, more frequent earthquakes, and temperate zones becoming cooler o

Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Botnets, APTs

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

Botnet operators and cyber-espionage groups (APTs) are abusing the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol that comes with all modern routers to proxy bad traffic and hide their real location from investigators.

Bolt Threads joins Modern Meadow in the quest to bring lab-grown leather to market

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

There’s a new world of lab-grown replacements coming for everything from the meat department in your grocery store to a department store near you.

Apple considering third-party Apple Watch face support, watchOS beta code reveals

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

A line of code unearthed in Apple’s latest watchOS 4.3.1 beta release suggests a future version of the operating system will allow third-party developers to deploy customizable watch faces, a feature for which many users have pined since Apple Watch debuted in 2015.

Facebook tracks you even if you’re not a user, and you can’t really do anything about it

Posted on April 16, 2018 by HeyJK

We’ve talked about the fact that Facebook is tracking everyone online — even people who choose not to open a Facebook account — long before the Cambridge Analytica revelations came to light.