Why did Toyota just launch a “cuddly companion” robot?
Four years ago, Patagonia's founder, Yvon Chouinard, launched Patagonia Provisions, a food brand focused on sustainable sourcing. So far it has produced soups, Buffalo jerky, and snack bars, but today it's getting into the beer business. In partnership with Hopworks Urban Brewery in Portland, Oregon, it is launching Long Root Ale. Together, the companies made a breakthrough by making the beer from Kernza, a grain that does not require pesticides, uses less water than regular wheat, reduces e..>> view originalGoogle gets more time to respond to EU antitrust charges
Alphabet (née Google) has been given yet another extension to file its respond to charges in Europe that it has misused the dominance of its Android mobile platform to lock out competition by promoting its own services over and above others. Reuters reported the extension today, which gives the company until the last day of this month to file its rebuttal, and follows another extension last month — at the time touted as Google’s last — which pushed the deadline from September 7 to September 20..>> view originalA UK retailer appears to have leaked everything about Google's new Pixel phones
An apparent leak of the Google Pixel.Carphone Warehouse/Google/Android PoliceGoogle's big hardware showcase on October 4 is nearly here, but the company might not have much left to say about the two Pixel smartphones it's expected to reveal by the time the event starts. Those phones have been extensively leaked as it is, but a since removed listing from UK retailer Carphone Warehouse (spotted by 9to5Google) appears to have provided the most complete look yet. According to the former page, Goog..>> view originalFacebook launches Marketplace, a friendlier Craigslist
450 million people already visit “buy and sell” Groups on Facebook each month, and now the company is launching a whole tab in its app dedicated to peer-to-peer shopping. Facebook Marketplace lets you browse a relevancy-sorted feed of things to buy from people who live nearby, and quickly list your own stuff for sale. Integration with Facebook Messenger lets you haggle or arrange a meet-up, and you know more about who you’re dealing with than on anonymous sites like Craigslist thanks to Faceboo..>> view originalSecond report of 10-inch iPad Pro, along with new iPad mini Pro & refreshed 12.9-inch model
A KGI report in August said that Apple was planning to launch three new iPads in 2017, and suggested that the 9.7-inch model would grow in size slightly to 10.5-inches. A Macotakara piece today also suggests three new iPad Pro models are coming up in the spring of next year, with some details overlapping the KGI report and others differing. Makotakara supports the idea of a slightly larger standard-sized iPad Pro, though it suggests the diagonal screen size will be 10.1 rather than 10.5 inches...>> view originalAmazon's simpler, cheaper Echo Dot is still pretty great
Earlier this year, I reviewed the Amazon Echo Dot, a smaller version of the company’s full-size wireless speaker with a voice-controlled assistant. The Dot lacked the room-filling sound of the larger Echo, but it still had all of the same smarts: you could use it to set timers, perform unit conversions, order a pizza, call an Uber, or answer random trivia, all hands-free. I found it best for controlling smart home appliances — it’s far easier to use your voice to turn smart lights on than to di..>> view originalToys For Bob planned for years to let Skylanders fans create their own 3D-printed toys
Paul Reiche III has wanted to let fans create their own Skylanders for a while. Ever since the toys-to-life video game debuted in 2011, fans sent letters showing the designs they imagined for their own Skylanders creatures. Today, the president of Activision Blizzard’s Toys For Bob game studio is announcing that players can finally do that. Activision said that fans can create their own Skylanders in the video game or in a mobile app and then order a $50 custom 3D printed toy based on the desig..>> view originalEfforts to boost elephant protection fails at Cites
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Elephant numbers in many parts of Africa have declined rapidly over the past seven years Attempts to give the maximum level of international protection to all African elephants have foundered at a key species conference in Johannesburg.A proposal put forward by Kenya was strongly supported but failed to gain the two-thirds majority required.The opposition of the EU, which voted as a block, was pivotal in the ..>> view originalA painful reminder of just how bad the iPhone 7's battery life is
Apple’s new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus were released just two weeks ago, but two weeks has been more than enough time for users to get a feel for the phones’ strengths and weaknesses. And as it turns out, they have far more strengths than weaknesses. Apple’s next-gen iPhones are the most powerful smartphones on the planet, and they’ve been improved in nearly every way compared to last year’s iPhone models. There’s one key area where the latest iPhone models aren’t class leaders though, and unfo..>> view original
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