As reported on Wired. BY MARCUS WOHLSEN Photo: Archive Holdings, Inc. Evernote CEO Phil Libin sounds like a lot of tech executives when he advocates for treating employees well. It’s not just a nice thing to do, he says, it’s an important business strategy. “You can’t beat more productivity out of knowledge workers,” he says. “The only way you can get people to do more is to make them relatively happy.” That’s the kind of…
As reported on The Verge. By Kwame Opam Peter O’Toole, best known for his legendary role in the classic 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, died this weekend at a hospital in London. He was 81. O’Toole announced his retirement from his 50-year acting career last year, something he later attributed to his failing health. “I bid the profession a dry-eyed and profoundly grateful farewell,” he said at the time. The actor had been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor…
As reported on The Verge. By Tom Warren Microsoft distinguished engineer Blaise Agüera y Arcas is joining Google. Agüera y Arcas originally joined Microsoft in 2006 after the software giant acquired his Seadragon startup. He was a key software architect that helped develop and build Microsoft’s Bing Maps service and its image-stitching Photosynth software. The New York Times reports that Agüera y Arcas will work on machine learning at Google, something Microsoft’s research teams have been focusing on heavily recently. Agüera…
As reported on TechCrunch. by Jordan Crook Apple has taught us to dream. When the company launched game-changing products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad, Apple made us feel like the future we picture in our minds will one day be a reality. And here we are, with Elon Musk working on flying cars while Pebble and friends put your smartphone on your wrist. But some of us take the dream more seriously than others. Take, for example, these…
As reported on TechCrunch. by Semil Shah .‘Tis the season to reorganize the apps on my iPhone. With iOS 7 and the shift from spotlight search to swipe-down-to-search for apps, I’ve noticed my app behavior has changed a bit, as it’s become easier to search for apps with the new UI and therefore less important where the app is located on my phone. For instance, the Amazon app is buried in my Shopping folder (on my…