May 29, 2014 Intel Shows Off ‘Smart’ Wearable Shirt by NICK BILTON By NICK BILTON Intel announced that it was making a smart T-shirt in partnership with AIQ, a company that makes electronic-based textiles. The company…
May 29, 2014 Police, Pedestrians and the Social Ballet of Merging: The Real Challenges for Self-Driving Cars by JOHN MARKOFF By JOHN MARKOFF John J. Leonard, a veteran Massachusetts Institute of Technology roboticist, thinks that Google is trying to tackle tremendous challenges in its…
May 29, 2014 Facebook Wants European Blessing for WhatsApp Deal by MARK SCOTT and VINDU GOEL By MARK SCOTT and VINDU GOEL Facebook is turning to the European Commission in hopes of sidestepping country-by-country hurdles to the potential $19 billion…
May 29, 2014 Even Sun Microsystems Had Its Roots at Xerox PARC by JOHN MARKOFF By JOHN MARKOFF Most in the tech industry know how Apple and Microsoft owe (at least) inspiration to the famed research laboratory. Not many…
May 29, 2014 Irish Regulator Finds Himself at Heart of Privacy Debate by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT Billy Hawkes is tasked with handling privacy complaints about any company based in Ireland, leaving him responsible for protecting around a…
May 29, 2014 State of the Internet: Still Growing but More Mobile Than Ever by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Mary Meeker, an influential venture capitalist, analyzes the rapid growth of mobile devices, Internet video and China in her annual report…
May 29, 2014 Apple’s New Master of Irreverence: Jimmy Iovine by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL The music impresario, who agreed to sell Beats Electronics to Apple for $3 billion on Wednesday, pulled no punches as he…
May 29, 2014 Finally Breaking Up the Cable Bundles by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Trying to recalculate monthly bills by paying separate companies for high-speed Internet, cable television and landline telephone service. Published: May 29,…
May 29, 2014 Removing the Ads From a Kindle by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER Plus, how to use use your 4G iPad as a mobile hot spot. Published: May 29, 2014 at 12:00AM from…
May 29, 2014 Google Releases Employee Data, Illustrating Tech’s Diversity Challenge by CLAIRE CAIN MILLER By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Google on Wednesday released statistics on the makeup of its work force, providing numbers that offer a stark glance at…