With the creators of Siri offering up a new personal assistant that won't just tell you what pizza is but can order one for you, artificial intelligence is showing a huge leap forward. Viv is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform built by Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer, the creators of the AI behind Apple's Siri, the most well-known digital assistant in the world. Siri is known for answering questions, like how old Harrison Ford is, and reminding you to buy milk on the way home. Viv, though, promises to go well past that. Earlier this week during an onstage demo at Disrupt NYC, Kittlaus showed off Viv. This created an online buzz about the assistant's ability to not just answer questions or fire up a timer on a smartphone, but to answer complex questions and to interact with third-party services as well as online businesses.
Annual iTunes song downloads are projected to hit almost $600 million in sales in 2019. But that figure may not be big enough to keep Apple in the music-selling business. Apple wants to phase out the sale of music downloads via the iTunes Store in two years, according to a new report by
No, your eyes don’t deceive you. The Instagram logo really does look dramatically different. You’ll notice the new icon, along with a reworked app interface, when you get the newest update to the Instagram app for In a
Adobe Systems is working on a patch for a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that hackers are already exploiting in attacks. In the meantime, the company has released other security patches for Reader, Acrobat, and ColdFusion. The Flash Player vulnerability is being tracked as CVE-2016-4117 and affects Flash Player versions 21.0.0.226 and earlier for Windows, OS X, Linux, and Chrome OS. Successful exploitation can allow attackers to take control of affected systems. “Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for CVE-2016-4117 exists in the wild,” the company said in
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Firefox users no longer need to an unstable version of the web browser to test the latest experimental features. With a new add-on called For now, Mozilla is testing three experimental features. Tab Center puts tabs on the side of the screen instead of the top, Universal Search recommends sites as you type in the address bar, and Activity Stream combines recent history and bookmarks with imagery from highlighted webpages.
Sometimes even good ideas just don’t work out in the real world, and to that end, Microsoft recently announced it’s killing Wi-Fi Sense in Windows 10. In fact, the latest Windows preview build for PCs, build 14342, already removed the feature from Windows Insiders' computers. Wi-Fi Sense is a controversial Wi-Fi password sharing feature Microsoft added to the original release of Windows 10. The idea was simple enough: click a check box and the passwords for Wi-Fi networks saved to your PC would be seamlessly shared with your friends on Skype, Facebook, and your Outlook.com contacts. That way, your pals' PCs would automatically log into Wi-Fi networks you've already visited and logged into. The feature did not work with enterprise machines or with select workplace Wi-Fi network types.
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Once a bloated ugly mess, Samsung’s TouchWiz interface now offers innovations that Google ought to borrow.
Working with ranges in Excel is a fast and simple way to identify, define, or refer to a single cell, a range (or group) of cells, a specific or constant value, or a formula. Then you can use those range names in your formulas or macros to replace values or cell references, or to quickly and more easily navigate through your spreadsheets and workbooks. It’s also a more efficient way to manage the various processes that you've created in your worksheets. For example, ranges are often named after the field (or column) names that define their contents. 1. Select a range of cells in your spreadsheet (for example, in our sample, select B4:B13).
Next year, Hulu will join the likes of While Hulu What we’ve heard so far doesn’t sound much different from the “skinny bundles” that exist already. Still, Hulu’s existing service—and its ties to big TV networks—put the company in a unique position to replace the cable bundle. Here’s where a Hulu TV bundle could go right—and where it might go sideways.
The Bowers & Wilkins brand has always been synonymous with premium quality speakers that cost as much as a three-day Las Vegas bender. The Sized at 4.4 x 8.25 x 2.15 inches and weighing in at just over two pounds, The T7’s on the cusp of what I’d consider portable. But its build and audio quality make it easy to see past its size and heft.
Slack is offering its users a new way to sign into other applications. The company Developers of applications like Quip can now enable their users to sign in with Slack credentials, which can make it easier for people to get started with applications -- and therefore more likely to try them out. The new feature makes it possible for independent developers and startups focused on workplace productivity to get an easier foothold with new users.
