Android founder leaving Google to launch hardware incubator
Android founder Andy Rubin leaves Google to incubate startups through his own company. James Kuffner will move up in Google's robotics division to …
Android founder Andy Rubin leaves Google to incubate startups through his own company. James Kuffner will move up in Google's robotics division to …
Last year Apple introduced iBeacons, low-energy Bluetooth transmitters that wirelessly send alerts to your iPhone based on your proximity, touting them as a way for retailers to reach shoppers more directly with discounts and deals. As it turns out, they may be good for other things too, like helping you stay more physically fit. The US Department of Health and Human Services has installed several iBeacons and other wireless transmitters throughout its headquarters building in Washington, D.C. that send employees alerts encouraging them to „take the long way back to their desks,“ and hydrate more, as Bloomberg reports.
The executive in charge of the project calls them „an angel on your shoulder helping you make the right choices.“…
In June a report detailed a feature in development by Google that would reportedly allow Android devices to alert people, places, and things to the …
Director Christopher Nolan has a new movie coming out soon: Interstellar, a big budget, original sci-fi film (original, as in, not adapted from any pre-existing novel or comic book property), which hits theaters and IMAXes across the US on Friday, November 7th. I’m excited to see it, as I’m sure many of you are. But until then, you can whet your appetite with a lengthy New York Times Magazine profile of Mr. Nolan, which explores how he came to make a bunch of commercially successfully and critically acclaimed movies over the past two decades: Memento, The Prestige, The Dark Knight trilogy among them.
You might think that Samsung stopped paying Android patent licensing fees to Microsoft because of concerns about the viability of Microsoft's Android …