Not only are robots going to KILL US ALL, they are going to steal all our jobs too! Damn dirty robots.
Gartner sees things like robots and drones replacing a third of all workers by 2025, and whether you want to believe it or not, is entirely your business.
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Apple TV has long seemed like a natural fit
The game has no advertising, but could the Seattle software giant’s $2.5 billion acquisition change that?
It is very likely, according to Azher Ahmed, senior vice president of digital operations at DDB Chicago. While he doesn’t expect to see advertising inside the game, he does believe that it could become available around it.
“Microsoft will use Minecraft for marketing. I think there’s a demographic play here. [Microsoft sees] a younger audience they can market to, advertise to and provide services to,” he says.
Ahmed believes that through content marketing and branding initiatives, the company will integrate Minecraft into Windows, boosting the operating system’s appeal among a well-established legion of loyal fans.
The New York Times on Saturday decided to analyze one particular Apple conspiracy — “every time a new iPhone comes out, my existing iPhone seems to slow down.”
A simple search on Google Trends, which was charted for us by Statista, shows that people indeed search for “iPhone slow” quite often — particularly around the time of a new iPhone launch. So, it’s definitely a concern amongst iPhone users.
However, there is no evidence to support the idea that Apple is actually slowing your phone. The Times argues it may be an issue of perception — hearing about your phone getting slower may make you pay more attention to its speed. Another theory says people are more concerned about the release of new mobile operating systems, which might be slower on older hardware. But the data, unfortunately, offers no conclusions — only correlations.
There’s certainly an economic argument for Apple to slow down your phone right as a new model is coming. It would push you to buy a new model. However, it would be horrible for Apple’s brand. Who wants to buy a phone knowing it’s going to be crippled?
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BitTorrent (the company, not the popular P2P file transfer protocol) launched a new messaging app today that offers a greater degree of privacy than other popular chat services.
The app, called Bleep, is based on the “principles of BitTorrent technology,” which means it can connect people directly without using centralized servers, according to the company. The app can be used for both voice or text-based conversations. It’s still in the early testing phase, but BitTorrent is inviting others to help them test the alpha version of Bleep to eliminate bugs and refine features.
“Ultimately, this is a chance to help us build an effective and fun tool for a broad array of use cases: from journalists looking to protect their sources to friends looking to chat free from nosy eavesdroppers,” or diplomats engaging in sensitive discussions, the company said in a statement.
Bleep is currently only available for those using Windows 7 and Windows 8, but the BitTorrent team did say support for other platforms would be coming eventually.
The move to launch a chat application seems a bit odd coming from an organization to typically associate with moving around media files, but after hearing BitTorrent’s explanation, we are intrigued, at least. Also, there’s currently lots of activity surrounding secure chat applications — both in general and for mobile devices. Some recent examples would include Secret, Wickr, and YikYak, to name a few.
