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SpaceX nailed its first launch since last year’s big explosion
Elon Musk’s rocket company launched ten of Iridium’s satellites on Saturday morning.
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Note to Tesla owners: Don’t forget your car keys
A Tesla owner found the limits of smartphone keyless entry the annoying way.
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Flashback: New Snap chair Michael Lynton on Evan Spiegel and his ambitions
From February 2016: “I just don’t think people recognize how difficult it is to pull off what they’ve pulled off. “
Robots want half of your jobs
That’s $16 trillion in worldwide wages. Can’t blame China for that.
Carnegie Mellon-led non profit received $250 million to create a new robotics institute
The institute aims to help create 510,000 new jobs in 10 years.
Panasonic’s hospitality robot is serving drinks and clearing tables in Japan
But it can’t take your order.
Lyft is on track to turn a profit, but will need to spend more to add riders and drivers as it expands
Losses have narrowed, but new markets will mean new discounts and incentives.
Android co-founder Andy Rubin hopes to reinvent the smartphone — again
His startup, Essential, is working on a phone as well as "smart home" gear
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Android co-founder Andy Rubin hopes to reinvent the smartphone — again
His startup, Essential, is working on a phone as well as "smart home" gear
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Watch Steve Jobs unveil the first iPhone — his greatest performance ever
Ten years ago today, Jobs surprised everyone with a truly revolutionary product.
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Apple cut Tim Cook’s total pay 15 percent last year as it missed its sales and earnings goals
The company’s top six executives still took home more than $100 million in collective pay.
Why we should be (realistically) optimistic about the future of cars
Almost all the major carmakers are actively embracing the three big shifts: Electrification, autonomous driving and new ownership models.
From The Verge
DirecTV Now appears to be a complete mess
DirecTV Now has been plagued with errors in the month and a half since the streaming service was launched by AT&T. Subscribers have complained of being unable to watch shows, frequent interruptions, missing features, billing issues, and more...
To take on Amazon, Walmart is streamlining its retail and web teams
Can the brick-and-mortar retailer become a tech company?
From The Verge
Microsoft just bought an AI startup that can outperform Facebook and Google
Microsoft announced this morning that it has acquired Maluuba, a Toronto startup focused on using deep learning for natural language processing. Deep learning is an approach to artificial intelligence currently in vogue that has driven incredible...
From The Verge
The company that wants to mine the Moon has enough money for its first trip there
Moon Express — the California-based company with hopes of mining the Moon someday — has received full funding for its first trip to the lunar surface, slated for later this year. The company just raised $20 million in its most recent round of...
President Obama made another virtual reality video — this time to say good-bye to the White House
Oculus paid for the video in the hope that POTUS can help bring VR mainstream.
Full transcript: Freakonomics co-founder Stephen Dubner on Recode Media
“Freakonomics is a kind of world view that tries to use data, empiricism, common sense and psychological insight to understand and explain the way the world actually works.”
Recode Daily: Amazon is hiring 100,000, but the malls are shrinking faster
Many of the new jobs will be tech positions.
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Full transcript: Freakonomics co-founder Stephen Dubner on Recode Media
“Freakonomics is a kind of world view that tries to use data, empiricism, common sense and psychological insight to understand and explain the way the world actually works.”
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Is a Chromebook the right computer for me?
Recode’s Kara Swisher and The Verge’s Lauren Goode and Dieter Bohn discuss on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.
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Fox’s digital ad boss wants you to use an ad blocker
Digital ads suck, and they broke the internet, digital ad exec Joe Marchese says on Recode Media.
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Full Transcript: Vic Gundotra of AliveCor on Recode Decode with Kara Swisher
A longtime tech exec shows what happens when big minds take on big problems.
Is a Chromebook the right computer for me?
Recode’s Kara Swisher and The Verge’s Lauren Goode and Dieter Bohn discuss on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask.
From The Verge
Amazon is launching its own $5-a-month anime streaming service
Amazon is launching a new on-demand video service dedicated to anime. A subscription to the newly unveiled Anime Strike will cost you $4.99 a month, and grants access to more than 1,000 anime titles aimed at older viewers. Anime Strike’s library...
From The Verge
The Nintendo Switch will launch on March 3rd for $299
Nintendo has finally revealed the price and release date for its much-anticipated Switch console: it’s launching on March 3rd worldwide, and in North America the console will be available for $299.99. It’ll be launching alongside a new minigame...
From The Verge
Inside Twitter, employees reckon with Trump
Inside Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco, the run-up to the US presidential election played out much as it did elsewhere. Most employees went about their business assuming Hillary Clinton would win, and Donald Trump would be relegated to a...
Amazon just poached one of Target’s rising stars to run Prime in important new markets
Jamil Ghani, the SVP of strategy and innovation, is heading to Seattle.
From The Verge
Google Maps now lets you get an Uber without leaving the app
Everything happens right in Maps now.
From The Verge
Opera made a new web browser called Neon to try out weird ideas
Opera released a new web browser today called Neon that’s meant to try out a bunch of untested design ideas. Neon isn’t close to being ready to replace your main web browser — it’s being called a “concept browser” — but it does have some neat...
Apple wants to make its own movies and TV shows — to help it compete with Spotify
Buy Apple Music for $10 a month and get some free TV shows, too?
From The Verge
Google is using machine learning to reduce the data needed for high-resolution images
Last November, Google unveiled a prototype technology called RAISR that uses machine learning to make low-resolution images appear more detailed. Now, the company has begun the process of integrating RAISR with its online services, using the...
From The Verge
PC shipments have now declined for 5 years in a row
The PC industry has been declining for years, but it just hit a big milestone. PC shipments have now declined for 5 years in a row, with between 260 and 270 million machines shipped during 2016 according to Gartner and IDC. Both firms' estimates...
From The Verge
Trump picks Rudy Giuliani to meet with companies about cybersecurity
President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will hold private industry meetings on cybersecurity preparedness, led by Rudy Giuliani, the transition team and Giuliani announced today, although important details on which companies may be involved...
These paper-airplane drones may one day save your life
DARPA is funding autonomous cardboard airplanes that can carry medical supplies.
From The Verge
Self-tracking headsets are 2017’s big VR trend — but they might leave your head spinning
I’ve gotten used to VR headsets becoming constantly lighter, more powerful, and easier to use, as companies tried to turn a piece of sci-fi tech into a viable product. Several of these shifts have happened at Las Vegas’ annual CES trade show,...
Recode Daily: Donald Trump meets the press
In his news conference, the president-elect also talked about Russia, the border wall and high drug prices.
Fox’s digital ad boss wants you to use an ad blocker
Digital ads suck, and they broke the internet, digital ad exec Joe Marchese says on Recode Media.
Amazon didn’t kill Macy’s. Macy’s did.
A case study in the risks of complacency.
Siri creator Dag Kittlaus went in for a simple exam and found a pancreatic tumor
Death (and life) comes for the entrepreneur and Silicon Valley.