Apple’s prepping a hostile takeover of the textbook industry. Geeks, hippies, and normals can all agree. Unless you’re working for a paper publishing dinosaur, it’s basically impossible to argue that this isn’t a fabulous idea.
China, robots are coming to get your economy.
Kickstarted: Romo the Smartphone Robot! I see real potential here for breathing new life into my old dust-collecting paperweight 3GS. But the cartoon face lovechild of MS Clippy and Cookie Monster has gotta go.
Google’s broad-spectrum tech development efforts & investment probably excede that of any other private entity. That’s great, but what’s up here? Is cutting-edge technological innovation shifting away from governmental entities? Is that good or evil?
If personal computing didn’t need to satisfy a few universal human desires (shiny, useful, has a few rules), then all those other options, those alternatives to Apple, they would be like, you know, winning. SEE ALSO: Communism. Hippies. Linux.
Now that Siri’s iOS integration is confirmed, just how intelligent will Apple’s new AI personal assistant be? Does Siri even merit the “AI” label?
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011