Category: Tech news

 DoorDash is unveiling new versions of its website and app today, putting each restaurant’s delivery experience front-and-center. That’s happening through a new “Delight” score, which Head of Design Josh Abrams described as an “industry-first” rating — one that doesn’t just reflect the general quality of the meal, or the experience of dining in… Read More

 Call it on-demand on steroids. A 10-month-old San Francisco company called Recharge has developed an app that enables users to book a stay in hotel for just for 67 cents a minute, or $40 an hour. The offering sounds both brilliant and preposterous, yet it has already attracted some smart investors, including Scott and Cyan Banister and early Google engineer Harry Cheung, who’ve provided… Read More

 Music streaming service Vevo has been working to extract itself from YouTube’s shadow over the past several months, despite the two networks’ symbiotic relationship. The company recently launched new, more personalized music applications on iOS, Android and Apple TV. Today it’s taking another step at making those apps better reflect users’ musical tastes through… Read More

The successor to one of history’s most beloved vehicles, the 2017 Acura NSX is the thinking man’s supercar. The post Review: 2017 Acura NSX appeared first on WIRED.

 Smartphone cameras are so good these days it can seem almost churlish to yearn for improvements. And yet enhancements continue to shave away at imperfections as engineers turn the screw to optimize multiple aspects of image capture hardware and software. Read More

 Just one day before the government was set to meet Apple in court to determine whether Apple could be forced to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook.. the government is saying “Nevermind (for now)!”
Why?
Because they might’ve found their own way in. Read More

 You probably have your credit card and other payment information keyed into at least 10 different services right now, all of which are likely based over a mobile app or website. For a long time, the effective user detection has been the preserve of large payment providers and web services — take Amazon.com or Google’s Gmail service as examples. Castle, part of Y… Read More

 It’s time to hold companies to a higher standard when it comes to APIs. As software “eats the world,” it seems like it’s not enough for a business to just serve its customers and hopefully make a profit, they also have to be “platforms” — and, as any developer would respond, these days you just can’t be a platform without an API. Read More

 Today’s Apple press conference had an unusual start. Most of the time, the company starts by releasing a few vanity numbers — iOS devices sold, apps in the App Store, iOS adoption rate, etc. But today was different. Apple spent around a third of the keynote talking about privacy, the environment, and ResearchKit and CareKit. The message is clear — Apple is the good guy. Read More

 Apple held a special event today, announcing the new iPhone SE, new iPad Pro, update to Apple TV, new Watch bands, ResearchKit and Carekit. Unlike its last event, where there was little diversity and a grand total of zero black people, this event prominently featured Apple Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives Lisa Jackson as the second speaker, right after Apple CEO… Read More

 Watch a robot rip apart and recycle iPhones, see the petite but powerful new iPhone SE in action, and geek out on 40 years of Apple history. Read More

 Georgios Kasselakis has the same concerns as most VCs: How to raise money, how to grow the money investors provide him, how to identify the most promising startups. Unlike most VCs, Kasselakis and his seed-stage firm, OpenFund, are based in Athens, Greece, a country that’s nearly bankrupt and where, even worse, more than 44,000 refugees are now trapped (a number that’s growing… Read More

 Didn’t catch today’s Apple keynote? Want to get a quick rundown of everything they announced? Here’s all the big stuff, in ultra-quick bite size form.
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 Apple announced on Monday the launch of CareKit, a new developer tool that will make it easier to build healthcare apps for iOS devices. The open-source platform will be available in April and should work similarly to ResearchKit, but will focus on patient care. With help from top medical institutions including UCSF, Johns Hopkins and Stanford School of Medicine, CareKit can help… Read More

 Apple’s Greg Joswiak revealed at the company’s “Let us loop you in” event in Cupertino that iOS 9.3 would be available for download beginning today. Joswiak called the free update “one of the biggest ‘dot’ releases yet.” With iOS 9.3, users can now enable Night Shift mode to make their iOS device’s display easier on their eyes. Other… Read More