Apple Moves to Sever Ties With Goldman Sachs — Here’s What That Means for Apple Card and Savings Holders
The end may be near for one of the most prominent alliances between a technology firm and a banking institution.
The Download: DOGE’s tech-enabled destruction, and Meta’s brain AI for typing
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Elon Musk, DOGE, and the Evil Housekeeper problem —Dan Hon is principal of Very Little Gravitas, where he helps turn around and modernize large and complex government services and products. In trying to…
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Squint peers at $13M led by Sequoia for AR aimed at B2B to interact with physical objects
Apple’s and Google’s move into smart augmented reality several years ago, creating ways for people to use their smartphone cameras to identify everyday objects to interact with them, put the technology on the map with everyday consumers and gave a way for businesses to build new experiences to cater to them. It also laid the […]
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Augmenting the realities of work
Imagine an integrated workplace with 3D visualizations that augment presentations, interactive and accelerated onboarding, and controlled training simulations. This is the future of immersive technology that global head of Immersive Technology Research at JPMorgan Chase, Blair MacIntyre is working to build. Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies can blend physical and digital dimensions…
The X Prize is taking aim at aging with a new $101 million award
Money can’t buy happiness, but X Prize founder Peter Diamandis hopes it might be able to buy better health. Today the X Prize Foundation, which funds global competitions to spark development of breakthrough technologies, announced a new $101 million prize—the largest yet—to address the mental and physical decline that comes with aging. The winners will…
Salesforce or Abobe? The choice is undeniably clear
As the markets get drunk on their excitement over technology stocks, a few cracks begin to show, play this arbitrage deal on Salesforce against Adobe
The Download: the year’s most-read climate stories, and Amazon’s chatbot
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A look back at the year’s most-read climate stories 2023 has been a big year for climate news. Wildfires, floods and heatwaves displaced and killed thousands of people across the world as extreme…
Police Issue Warning About iPhone’s ‘NameDrop’ Feature
How to safely manage the iPhone’s latest feature and understand how the technology works.
Procurement in the age of AI
Procurement professionals face challenges more daunting than ever. Recent years’ supply chain disruptions and rising costs, deeply familiar to consumers, have had an outsize impact on business buying. At the same time, procurement teams are under increasing pressure to supply their businesses while also contributing to business growth and profitability. Deloitte’s 2023 Global Chief Procurement…
The Download: COP28 controversy and the future of families
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why the UN climate talks are a moment of reckoning for oil and gas companies The United Arab Emirates is one of the world’s largest oil producers. It’s also the site of this…
Why the UN climate talks are a moment of reckoning for oil and gas companies
The United Arab Emirates is one of the world’s largest oil producers—it’s also the site of this year’s UN COP28 climate summit, which kicks off later this week in Dubai. It’s certainly a controversial location choice, but the truth is that there’s massive potential for oil and gas companies to help address climate change, both…