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Target buys same-day delivery company to battle Amazon
A couple of months ago, Target took on Amazon’s Prime Pantry services with its own version: Restock. The retailer’s new service undercut Amazon by a dollar for a 45-pound box full of goodies, and even offered next-day service to beat out Amazon’s four-business-day deliveries.
Apple reportedly in talks with Aetna to bring the Apple Watch to millions of customers
Apple and Aetna have held several secret meetings to discuss offering the Apple Watch to Aetnaâs 23 million customers, according to CNBC.
LTE Apple Watch will keep current form factor, be offered alongside standard versions
Noted KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on Monday weighed in on Apple’s upcoming Apple Watch release, affirming recent reports of LTE cellular connectivity and dispelling rumors that the device will sport a new form factor.
Latest iOS 11 beta contains new Maps icon featuring Apple Park, updated App Store icon
Apple’s latest iOS 11 beta release, issued on Monday, contains a few graphical tweaks that bring a fresh feel to the operating system, including a new Maps icon that appears to feature Apple Park’s main “spaceship” structure.
Google Hires Former Star Apple Engineer for Its AI Team
Chris Lattner, a legend in the world of Apple software, has joined another rival of the iPhone maker: Alphabet Inc.âs Google, where he will work on artificial intelligence. Lattner announced the news on Twitter on Monday, saying he will start next week.
Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the iPhone, Bernstein says
Google is paying Apple billions of dollars to remain the default search engine on iPhones and iPads, Bernstein said in a note to investors on Monday.
SpaceX Launches NASA Cargo to Space Station, Sticks Rocket Landing (Again)
SpaceX has pulled off another one-two spaceflight punch. One of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets lifted off from historic Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida today (Aug. 14) at 12:31 p.m.
Mediumâs Dickbar Gets the Clap
Whether you think this feature is a good idea or not, why the fuck would they put this button on top of the text of the article youâre trying to read? Iâm starting to think Medium is just fucking with me at this point.
Amazon said to be exploring refrigeration-free prepared meal tech
You may have heard the term âMREâ â otherwise known as âMeal, Ready-to-Eatâ â bandied about in discussions related to the military or survivalists.
Netflix should be afraid of Disneyâs OTT play
Last week, Disney rocked the media world when it officially â and inevitably â threw its mouse ears into the direct-to-consumer over the top video ring with separate forthcoming streaming video on demand (SVOD) services for Disney and ESPN television and movies.
The company that invented Post-It notes is hiding invisible messages in signs to help self-driving cars see the world
The same company that invented Post-It notes is now helping self-driving cars see the world. Headquarted in St. Paul, Minnestoa, 3M is behind the creation of everyday objects that everyone uses but no one thinks about.
A bot just defeated one of the world’s best video gamers
An artificial intelligence program just annihilated its human competition at a world championship video game contest. The AI win stunned the gaming community, because bots are generally considered inferior to expert human players.
10 Minute Song Of Silence Is In The Top 50 Of Appleâs iTunes Charts
The four waves of augmented reality (that Apple owns)
Weâve been saying for the last couple of years that augmented/virtual reality is the fourth wave of consumer technology, and that AR could become much bigger than VR.
In China, Facebook Tests the Waters With a Stealth App
SHANGHAI â Facebook and many of its apps have been blocked in China for years. To change that, Mark Zuckerberg has made a big point of meeting with Chinese politicians, reading stodgy Communist Party propaganda, studying Mandarin and â perhaps more daunting â speaking it in public.
Apple refuses to enable iPhone settings that could save countless lives
Despite being relatively easy, Apple keeps ignoring requests to enable a feature called Advanced Mobile Location (AML) in iOS. Enabling AML would give emergency services extremely accurate locations of emergency calls made from iPhones, dramatically decreasing response time.
Apple Accidentally ‘Confirms’ iPhone 8 Is Massive
Apple is supersizing the iPhone. Numerous case leaks, schematics and dummy units all point to a 1.1-inch jump from the iPhone 7âs 4.7-inch display to 5.8-inches. But now Appleâs own software has confirmed thisâŠ
Great News for Everyone! Elon Musk Is Building a Hyperloop
Elon Musk is back in the loop. Four years after encouraging anyone and everyone to try making his crazy hyperloop idea work, the Silicon Valley titan has decided he’s not too busy to do it himself after all. You could see this coming last month, of course.















