Apple’s route to virtual reality
A series of subtle indicators hint that Apple is indeed taking VR seriously, and is laying the groundwork for a future product in the space.
Should virtual assistants be humanized?
Are most digital assistants female because of sexism or user preference?
The Chewbacca laugh heard round the world
What was it about Candace Payne's video that made it an overnight success for Facebook Live?
Bring your own robot
A startup called Jibo will soon introduce a social robot for the home. One for the office can’t be far behind.
Is storytelling the key to VR’s future?
Virtual reality may be the closest to teleportation we will ever have in our lifetime.
Let's make PCs first-class citizens of the connected world
It's high time that our most powerful, most productive and most expensive mobile computing device got its own full-time cellular connection.
Insiders are today’s biggest security threat
The most fundamental element of threat is deeply human.
A locked door beats the best alarm
What good is an alarm if it only goes off after a robber has broken into your house and stolen your stuff?
Echo and Home are endpoints, not the endgame
Amazon is pursuing the same vision as Google — that of a virtual assistant that’s truly virtual, inhabiting all the different devices we interact with throughout the day.
The Facebook Papers, Part 3: Facebook pulls a page from the Amazon playbook
Expect to see a significant increase in the number of ultralight, platform-only publishers seeking to leverage their lower cost bases.
Hardware upgrades offer new opportunities
Imagine if Apple or Samsung did an over-the-air battery upgrade with their phones.
You hired some star designers. Great! Now what?
Memo to the C-suite: Lean into design thinking, building and communication as core to your leadership team.
What will be the smart home's killer user interface?
Voice control is a contender.
Stop thinking that programmatic is the future of online advertising
"Offline" data — things like voice command and in-store shopping — are stil important factors in consumer decision-making.
Virtual reality brings new life ... to desktops?
Brands like Dell are developing complete new lines of desktop PCs specifically for VR.
You cannot be what you cannot see
In a new nationwide survey of African-Americans, a full half of respondents said they don't know a single person in their community who works in the technology industry.
My first year with the Apple Watch as a health-monitoring tool
I won’t go as far as to say it is a life-saver. On the other hand, it has become a key part of how I manage my type 2 diabetes.
Someday you’ll have no screens in your life
The stuff on our desks and in our pockets is disappearing — in 20 years, it'll be gone.
The upside of Facebook's unprecedented power
Yes, Facebook can be a scary organization. But it also empowers media and content businesses to grow and scale in unimaginable ways.
The smart home is stuck
Its addressable market is pretty small, composed of innovators and early adopters.
Tape recording was introduced 70 years ago today
A case of insomnia led to the introduction of tape recording — and, by extension, the entire home media business.
The Facebook papers Part 2: The user experience revolt
What publishers can and can't do — and how that forces them into giving up more of their core competencies to Facebook.
Stop talking about replacements. Give PC owners something new already!
The iPhone didn't really look like something we had before, nor was it positioned as the replacement for something.
After three weeks in China, it's clear Beijing is Silicon Valley's only true competitor
After selling my startup, Shopkick, to SK Planet in 2014, and handing over my CEO role a year later, I packed up my 1- and 3-year-old sons and my wife Angel, and flew to Beijing, Shenzhen and Hong Kong for three weeks, hoping to better understand...
The feed mindset
Today’s consumer lives in their feed: Scrolling and scrolling ... and scrolling ... through an infinite amount of content with the flick of the thumb.
The biggest question for the Internet of Things: Who pays?
You can’t just assume that IT will be paying for all the new sensors, gateways, networking equipment, analytics hardware and software.
Why Amazon loses big on apparel (and how to fix it)
The company needs to make a few changes before it can truly become a home for high-end designers.
The music industry seems to love YouTube. Why do they keep saying they hate it?
Dear Irving Azoff: Being on YouTube is good for artists and record labels, and everybody knows it.
Wearables-market observations from the wild
The technology still has a way to go, but it's still the fastest-growing category in consumer tech.
Robots & ROIs: The future of the fronts
In an on-demand, multi-screen, real-time, data-driven, programmatic world ... are the fronts even necessary?
Past the rhetoric: The immigration and innovation policies we deserve
Our broken and outdated immigration system is why we’re increasingly losing the global race for tech talent.
The Facebook Papers, Part 1: The great unbundling
Facebook’s mass acts as an intense gravitational force in the media industry, warping user behavior and fracturing the economic incentives that defined media companies.