It's been an interesting year for Intenet of Things (IoT) devices. I'd like to think that in 2017 we'll be welcoming a carefully curated market of consumer tested, thoughtfully considered and security first enabled smart devices. However, the reality is that the most superficial of IoT connected devices aren't going away anytime soon...
Samsung acquired Viv Labs in order to build a new and powerful virtual assistant that can rival the offerings from Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon. Today, according to Information received by Sammobile, Samsung will use a new virtual assistant named Bixby on all its native apps on the upcoming Android-powered Galaxy...
Uber has started to integrate self-driving Volvo XC90 cars into its Pittsburgh ride-hailing fleet this month, a noticeably large leap for a company that only started to work on autonomous cars last year. Public interest group Consumer Watchdog is one of the many with eyebrows raised, and has called on...
Engineers and surgeons at the Children’s National Medical Center and Johns Hopkins recently disclosed a new robotics machine that could complete surgical tasks on soft tissue. To show how it works, the team programmed the machine to suture together two ends of a pig’s bowel. According to a report published...
ReadWriteDrive is an ongoing series covering the future of transportation.I used to think the future of cars was all about better powertrains and fuels. If the auto industry could only make a transition away from petroleum-based internal combustion—so I thought—and toward electricity (and other low-carbon fuels), then we could drive...
Google will help you make plans quicker and easier with its refreshed Calendar application launched on Monday. Calendar's update is the latest in Google's efforts to create anticipatory apps that adjust to your behavior. In October, the company unveiled a revamped Google Play Music service that adjusts to the listener's...
Every morning, my phone fills up with notification badges—a dozen little inboxes asking to be cleared before I even get to my email. Dutifully or obsessively, I open them all as I walk my dog.There's a special pleasure I take in swiping through LinkedIn Contacts, a standalone app from the...
Cortana doesn’t want you to know where Master Chief is hiding. But for just about everything else, Microsoft's new voice-controlled personal assistant is ready and available to do your bidding.See also: Introducing Cortana, Plus 8 Other Things To Know About Windows 8.1Cortana, a new feature in Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating...
Dennis Crowley's vision for Foursquare extends way beyond the check-in.The cofounder and CEO of Foursquare envisions a future where our mobile devices learn our behavior and provide suggestions for events, or what to eat for dinner based on a taste profile the company has developed by observing our behavior over...
Guest author Melissa Olsen is a passionate fan of classical music and is currently the marketing director of Morbie.Early this year, Swedish development company DoReMIR Research finally released its widely-praised ScoreCleaner app, a program that takes musical notation with impressive accuracy. It’s been promoted as the answer for would-be-composers who need help...
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.Every once in a while, a tech article grabs you and doesn't let go—whether it’s because it offers much-needed help and guidance, gives you more insight into an area of interest, or transforms a topic you...
Technology Review reports that a team of eight artificial-intelligence specialists at Facebook is working on a technique dubbed "deep learning," which runs on a system of simulated brain cells used to make more precise judgements about a user's text, photos, and future behavior.Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's chief technology officer, says the...
The calendar touches our lives everyday. It’s one of the most personal aspects of the smartphone, and one of the most-used apps.On the desktop and at work, Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar dominate our timekeeping. On mobile devices, by contrast, it's a wide-open field, with hundreds if not thousands of...
The gadget-industrial complex is afroth with the notion that everyone from Apple and Google to Dell and Samsung is working on a smartwatch.Who's going to wear them?I'll tell you: Not me.See also: Arm Race: Samsung To Build A Smartwatch, TooI can't remember ever wearing a watch: I hate the feel...
Yahoo is deploying its billions of dollars in cash and its newly buoyant stock to purchase a bevy of startups.It's worth asking whether its shareholders are getting their money's worth.Qwiki, a mobile-app startup based in New York whose acquisition Yahoo announced this week, is getting sued by Chaotic Moon, an...
You can't be too rich, too thin or have too much computing power, but you can spend too much money. Since the first server went into a rack, enterprise IT departments have been balancing cost and performance in the data center. HP's ProLiant BL660c Gen8 blade server and DL560 Gen8...
"It's incredibly easy these days to get your thoughts out from your brain to the screens of people everywhere, and it's critical you take the time to pause when you feel emotions stirring. It's not just big brands and celebrities who make these missteps. More than ever you are judged...
Imagine playing a game of Scrabble on your iPhone against your mother. You and Ma are competitive and these games tend to turn into rabid battles for literary supremacy. Also, she's your mother so you want to talk about how things are with the family, your nephew and if Pa...
Imagine playing a game of Scrabble on your iPhone against your mother. You and Ma are competitive and these games tend to turn into rabid battles for literary supremacy. Also, she's your mother so you want to talk about how things are with the family, your nephew and if Pa...
"The landscape has clearly changed," U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle told a hearing into AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom, according to this morning's Wall Street Journal. When the deal was proposed in March, it appeared to be rolling like a juggernaut, and the Justice Dept. sought...
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