10 Things In Tech You Need To Know Today
Sep 5, 2014, 16:01 IST
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- Big profile at Fortune of billionaire investor Peter Thiel: "Thiel contends that the amazing advances we have seen in computer science and communications have masked ominously disappointing progress in energy, transportation, biotech, disease prevention, and space travel."
- Tim Cook gave the WSJ an interview about the iCloud celeb nudie scandal. He says Apple is planning additional security measures to make Apple accounts more secure in the future.
- Motorola finally released the Moto 360 smart watch, and it doesn't sound too good. For women, "it almost looks like I grabbed a clock off the wall and strapped it to my arm."
- New details on the iWatch and the iPhone 6 from the New York Times. The iPhone 6 will have a special one-handed mode. The iWatch will have a flexible screen, wireless charging, a small postage sized processor, and Apple put a lot of effort into developing sensors for tracking health/fitness.
- Vice just got $500 million selling a big chunk of its company at a $2.5 billion valuation. According to Peter Kafka at Re/code, Vice will get a cable TV network to run from A&E, which owns 6 channels. A&E is one of two companies buying a stake in Vice.
- Bre Pettis, the CEO of popular consumer 3D printing company Makerbot, has stepped down. He will lead an "innovation workshop" for Makerbot's parent company Stratasys.
- Amazon is partnering with the U.S. Postal Service to test out delivering groceries to people in San Francisco. To be clear: The postal service is going to deliver groceries for you if this works.
- Facebook updated Slingshot and killed the thing that people hated about Slingshot, making it into a Snapchat clone. Slingshot was an app for chatting by sending photos back and forth. To open a photo, you had to send a photo. It never gained traction, now it's pivoting.
- Megan Smith, a former Google executive, is now officially the CTO of the United States.
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk: "I think our stock price is kind of high right now to be totally honest."