Two years ago, Jony Ive was promoted to chief design officer at Apple. The newly founded role observed the company’s beloved designer taking a break from day to day management of the team, handing the reins over to VPs Richard Howarth and Alan Dye. The duo took over the administration of the industrial designing and […]
Twitter is finally having a good day on Wall street as it chiefs into the final weeks of the year, and this time around it may be a result of a little bit of optimism from investors. There were two big moves for the company today: first, Twitter said it would begin enforcing new rules […]
Following an eleventh-hour order instructing voting officers in Alabama to keep the digital ballots generated in Tuesday’s controversial Senate election, the state’s Supreme Court has issued a bide to block that decision. The order to preserve the records was issued by the Montgomery County Circuit Court on Monday afternoon — less than 24 hours before […]
Stitch Fix’s first earnings report is not going well for the company, as its shares went into a tailspin after a significant run up over the past month following its IPO when it delivered its results its most recent fiscal quarter. Stitch Fix, a personalized apparel corporation that ships a box of recommended items that […]
WhatsApp has always said that it has no programmes to set ads into its own app, but this is not stopping Facebook, which now owns WhatsApp, from figuring out other ways of monetizing the hugely popular messaging service, which has around 1 billion daily users. Today, Facebook is launching a new ad division that will […]
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, its most powerful reusable rocket to date, might have its first launch before the end of the year after all — and it’s going to include Elon Musk’s very own Tesla. Following reports that time was up for the launch in 2017 — it was initially been schedule for November — SpaceX […]
Biotech is one of today’s many hot frontiers of technology, but one thing holding it back is that it’s significantly less amenable to traditional computing techniques than other areas. A new startup called Asimov, spun off from research at MIT, is working on bridging the gap between the digital and the biological by creating, essentially, […]
Facebook’s “Poke” feature has never really gone away, but now the social network is giving it a more prominent placement- and is even holding expanding the define of casual greeting alternatives to include others, like a winking, wave, high-five or hug. Though Facebook had never genuinely discontinued the age-old feature, which serves as a quick […]
