In this episode of MashTalk, Mashable sits down with Giri Sreenivas, Co-Founder & CEO of personal server company Helm.
While Helm’s product entices privacy-concerned consumers with data security and promises of protection from surveillance …
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How John Deere’s autonomous vehicles are besting self-driving concept cars
In this special edition of MashTalk, Mashable sits down with John Stone, Senior Vice President of Intelligent Solutions for John Deere, at CES 2019.
Stone discusses how the latest models of autonomous vehicles are revolutionizing farming practices an…
IBM exec says we need to get the world ready for quantum computing
In this special edition of MashTalk, Mashable sits down with Dario Gil, COO of Research at IBM, at CES 2019.
Gil details IBM’s latest announcement of IBM Q System One, the world’s first commercial quantum computer, and explains why widespread use and…
Sony President talks 8K TVs and the premium features coming to 4K models — MashTalk
In this special edition of MashTalk, Mashable sits down with Mike Fasulo, President of Sony Electronics, at CES 2019. While Sony wowed at the tech conference with their new 85″ and 98″ 8K TVs, Fasulo said the trend to watch for 2019 is the further ado…
View More Sony President talks 8K TVs and the premium features coming to 4K models — MashTalkHow Google Assistant is planning a huge swing with amazing new features and devices — MashTalk
In this special edition of MashTalk, Mashable sits down with the Lilian Rincon, director of project management for Google Assistant, at CES 2019. Rincon details the major improvements the new Assistant is packing – like Interpreter Mode – and talks a…
View More How Google Assistant is planning a huge swing with amazing new features and devices — MashTalkTo reboot GoPro, CEO Nick Woodman went back to basics
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Things are looking up for GoPro.
After a tumultuous couple of years — which saw the action-camera company enter and then leave the drone business, get squeezed harder by increasingly competitive smartphone cameras, and ride a steady wave of criticism of its product line — GoPro appears to have found its footing with the well-received Hero 7 Black camera and a return to profitability.
At the center of the company’s renewal is founder Nick Woodman. Woodman joined MashTalk to discuss what it’s been like to be CEO during such a roller coaster of a time. After promising expeditions into media, drones, and 360 video didn’t work out as planned, he’s discarded unrealistic visions for tighter focus. The new GoPro may be less ambitious, but it’s much more confident about what it can offer: high-quality action cameras with a compelling mix of features, value, and usability. Read more…
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Why we’ll never get rid of program guides — MashTalk
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Want live TV over the internet? Today you have several options, including Hulu, YouTube TV, PlayStation Vue, and more. It’s hard to remember, though, but there was a time when there were virtually no options for consumers who wanted to cut the cord. Sure, services like Netflix and Vudu provided plenty of titles via on demand, but current content was scattered across myriad websites and services, and it didn’t do a good job of replicating the TV experience.
Then Sling TV came along. Launched by satellite powerhouse Dish Network in January 2015, Sling TV wasn’t the first over-the-top (OTT) video service, but it was the first to get it right, both in terms of user experience and offerings. It made deals to package several popular TV channels live over the internet, including — crucially — ESPN. Since then it’s expanded in terms of both content and features, now offering dozens of channels, a cloud DVR, and even its own streaming box, the AirTV Player. Read more…
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What does ‘time well spent’ mean for games like ‘Candy Crush?’
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If you own a smartphone, chances are you know Candy Crush and maybe even the game’s latest incarnation, Candy Crush Friends Saga. What you may not know is the story behind the franchise: How an Italian entrepreneur put all his cash on the line as a co-founder of King, the company that created the game, in the early 2000s, with a big idea: re-invent gaming for the online world.
That person is Riccardo Zacconi. He’s guided the company through the many phases online gaming (desktop, Facebook, mobile, and more), taking King public and eventually selling it to gaming giant Activision Blizzard in 2015. In this episode of MashTalk, Zacconi talks about that journey, his thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg, and what the future holds for gaming now that people are starting to question all the time they’re spending on their devices playing games like, well, Candy Crush. Read more…
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View More What does ‘time well spent’ mean for games like ‘Candy Crush?’Anki CEO: Consumer robots need personality to succeed
In case you missed it, the robots are here.
No, not the apocalyptic hordes of artificially intelligent machines that some believe are destined to enslave or eradicate us (hello, Boston Dynamics!), but the everyday devices and companions that are rapi…
Apple’s 2018 iPhones have a serious naming problem
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Let me blow your mind with this rumor: Apple is going to unveil new iPhones in the fall.
Yes, that we know. But we also “know” a little more than that. Obviously Apple has so far not said a single word about its 2018 iPhone models, but the rumor mill has been chugging away, and the consensus is Apple will launch three different iPhones: a successor to the iPhone X, a large-screen version of that phone, and a new model that mostly mirrors the iPhone X design, but doesn’t have quite all the same features so Apple can sell it at a lower price.
SEE ALSO: Dual-SIM iPhone may be in the works
There have been plenty of reports about the screen sizes, features, and technology the three phones will have, but there’s a big question about the phones that doesn’t have an obvious answer: What is Apple going to call these babies? Read more…
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There is no more gun emoji. Is that a good thing?
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Emoji have conquered the world, no doubt, but what happens after the conquest?
The answer: Things change. Emoji are constantly evolving, not only with new symbols that arrive on our smartphone keyboards year after year, but also the symbols themselves. A couple of years ago, your standard emoji keyboard usually had a gun on it, but today that symbol has been almost universally replaced with a water pistol.
The gun’s transformation may be the most dramatic of changes, but emoji are changing in subtler ways, too. Apple recently announced a new set of emoji coming in iOS 12, and it includes a eye-like symbol, the nazar amulet, that’s very popular in Turkey and other parts of the world, but not the U.S. With the emoji keyboard now pretty much filled out with “universal” symbols, expect more niche or regional characters to appear. Read more…
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View More There is no more gun emoji. Is that a good thing?Where online ‘spiritual gurus’ go wrong
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We all know YouTube. YouTube is the biggest video platform on the planet, with about 400 hours of video uploaded to the service every second.
But YouTube, of all the current content “platforms,” is arguably the most fragmented. There’s no newsfeed, so there’s no central place where everyone — or seemingly everyone — is gathering. As a result, communities form on their own, typically around channels or personalities, and they tend to be pretty insular.
One of these communities formed around someone named Teal Swan. Swan is what you might call a “spiritual healer” or at least someone who believes herself to be that. But it turns out she has some very controversial thoughts on many topics, including suicide, and a lot of people think her teachings are potentially damaging — and may have contributed to the suicide of someone who followed her closely. Read more…
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