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YouTube/calloftreyarch Cortana is a disembodied voice on WP8 based on the Halo character Windows Phone is still a distant third to Apple and Android in the smartphone market, but Microsoft is hoping to change that with the introduction of Windows Phone 8.1— and more importantly its personal digital assistant Cortana. Microsoft claims that Cortana isn’t […]

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images You can do a lot with your iPhone. There are plenty of cool features that might not be so obvious. Kind of like finding an Easter egg. To get the most out of your phone, you just have to know where to find them. View as one page Your phone charges a […]

DigiBarn Apple, unlike any other company in the world, has its identity tied to one individual: Steve Jobs. And without question, Jobs was the driving force that turned Apple into the world’s most valuable tech company. But, Jobs didn’t do it alone. We decided to take a look at the first 10 employees at Apple, […]

R/GA Yesterday we noted that Nike had laid off 55 of its 70-person hardware team, a move that looks like it will kill the popular Nike FuelBand personal fitness tracking product. Today, Re/code has a statement from Nike that undercuts that report: “The Nike+ FuelBand SE remains an important part of our business,” the company […]

Microsoft Priceline CEO Darren Huston Last week, Priceline CEO Darren Huston called out Facebook and Twitter as ad media, describing them as useless for him as a travel advertiser. “We haven’t found anything there,” were his exact words. Most of his online ad budget goes to Google. That criticism stings because Priceline’s online ad budget […]

Meet the Sand Flea: Boston Dynamics Google-owned robotics company Boston Dynamics makes a number of stunning robots, perhaps most notably its Atlas humanoid and the “Big Dog” cargo-carrying robot. But the “Sand Flea,” weighing in at a mere 11 pounds (compared to Atlas’ 330 pounds) can do something that none of these others can. It […]

Short Circuit We’re really enjoying this paper by scientist Steve Omohundro, in which he lays out the more-realistic-than-you-think implications of a robot uprising. Because robots are only getting more and more advanced, they will one day be imbued with what Omohundro calls “approximate rationality.” This is a way of saying that the robots of the future will have […]

Twitter via MKBHD Google Nexus 5 as advertised in a Google Play Store leak. Google is planning a low-budget smartphone that may retail for as little as $100, according to rumors coming from Taiwanese supply chain sources. We saw the news on 9to5Google but you can read more about it here, too. Treat this info […]

Alibaba Nope, not a meat suit. Alibaba, the enormous Chinese e-commerce company, is about to file for an IPO in the U.S. The two most popular Alibaba websites — Taobao and Tmall — are Chinese marketplaces and rather inaccessible if you don’t know the language, but there’s also Alibaba.com, an English site for sales between importers […]

AP Photo/Jeff Chiu Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg surrounded by reporters. There are lots of best practices and tips out there for how to get a job at places like Google and Facebook. Be humble, care about the company, demonstrate leadership, fake it ’til you make it. Whatever it may be. But let’s be honest, there […]