Alexa can do tons of useful stuff, such as eliminate the need for any interpersonal contact. The post The 10 Best Amazon Echo Skills for Loners appeared first on WIRED.
Daily Archives: July 29, 2016
The festivities have wrapped for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, a global competition among students and young people to create new software and devices. The winner this year was ENTy, a polished and highly practical hardware solution for tracking posture, helping with diagnosis and possibly treatment of diseases that affect balance. Read MoreMicrosoft awards hardware startup ENTy the 2016 Imagine Cup
The threat of advertising skulks outside the periphery of every free site or service, but the more terrifying thought is that, to paraphrase “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” the ads are coming from inside the house. That’s what Reddit may be facing with a new form of advertising announced by the social news site earlier this week. Read MoreGilded as charged
If you haven’t been tempted to buy a smartwatch yet, or have been disappointed by your purchase of an Apple Watch, one of Samsung’s (many) Gear wearables or others, there may yet be salvation for you. Read MoreTicwatch 2 is a slick smartwatch that raised $500K on ...
Pokémon Go may be the most downloaded app in its first week post-launch ever, and is said to be raking in some $1.6 million daily on iOS alone, but a new report out on Friday suggests that the popular game’s paying user base may have already shrunk. According to data from Slice Intelligence, the app’s paying users peaked mid-July when the game had 56 percent more paying players… Read MorePokémon Go’s paying user base has reached a plateau
Writing on a computer is awful. Without discipline – in my case, at least – an effort to get out 1,000 words of non-fiction usually ends up consisting of thirty minutes of web browsing before writing, intermittent Facebook trips while tapping out a few hundred words, and a nice jaunt through Hacker News at the 750 word mark. I get the job done, but I know my brain isn’t doing… Read MoreThe Freewrite is the ultimate distraction-free writing tool
This week: productivity apps, Burning Man, and tech sector earnings. The post Gadget Lab Podcast: Earning Man appeared first on WIRED.
Gadget Lab Podcast: Earning Man
This week: productivity apps, Burning Man, and tech sector earnings. The post Gadget Lab Podcast: Earning Man appeared first on WIRED.
Gadget Lab Podcast: Earning Man
You probably aren’t trying to set a land speed record for an all-electric, street legal car, but if you are, I have bad news: The goalposts just got moved further out. Genovation‘s Extreme Electric (GXE) car, which uses a Corvette Z06 chassis with a custom electric drive under the hood, broke its previous record of 186.8 mph by a margin of nearly 20 mph. The new record now stands… Read MoreGenovation’s GXE breaks the land speed record for a street-legal ...
Remember all those balloons last night? Someone had to blow them up. The post How the DNC Pulled Off That Colossal Balloon Drop appeared first on WIRED.