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Editorial: Self-driving cars FTW, but not for everybody
Author: Brandon Zimmerman
I drive a two-seat roadster known for its great handling. The last thing I want is for a machine to take the steering wheel out of my hands. My car company isn’t into self-driving cars, but others are: Ford, BMW, Audi. And, of course, Google is moving quickly forward with road-worthy autocars that have accumulated 300,000 miles with only one (human error) accident. The advantages of cars that drive themselves are multiple and compelling.
Automobile intelligence already assists the driving experience by warning of dangerous situations and taking control of parking, which is, for some people, the most difficult maneuver to perform. We are gradually ceding control to our cars. When a completely automated consumer car launches, some drivers will hand over the reins gladly. But for me and other enthusiasts, driving a car isn’t just about reaching a destination; it’s about the journey and operating a beautiful machine. Unfortunately for people who feel that way, the greatest social benefits of self-driving cars would kick in if everyone were herded into a new era of hands-off driving.
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Editorial: Tech is a flock of starlings
Author: Buck Howard
You have actually seen the videos – thousands of starlings flocking in the sky to swirl and surge throughout large, cloudless backdrops. The beauty of their worked with movement is sensational. The phenomenon is expressively called murmuration.
There might be function to starling choreographies, but if so, it is movement without location. The flock shapes and re-shapes itself continuously. Doing so makes preying on the flock tough, however beyond that, the motivation of these team air travels is ineffable. If ornithologists told us that starlings were copying the group behavior endemic to tech-adoption culture, it would be easy to see the resemblance. The science behind murmuration extends the analogy even further.
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Editorial: iWatch app speculation is filler, not killer
Author: Tiffany Shoman
Advancement is problem-solving. Radical development is seeing normalcy as problematic, and fixing it. That level of invention, which addresses a normally unrecognized trouble to create a brand-new item classification, or user experience, could be tough to acknowledge in the conceptual phase. A far-reaching concept could appear insignificant if it addresses routineness. Often it takes the item itself, the manifested experience, to show exactly how to rise above the customary. E-mail fixed postal mail, which died an additional incremental death last week by revealing a proposal to end Saturday letter deliveries. Cellular phone resolved the separate in between phones and the walking-around life. Mobile apps addressed the space between computer systems and cellular phone. Perhaps HTML5 will address apps.
So forgive me if I’m being small-minded, but Bruce Tognazzini’s speculative manifesto about an Apple iWatch fails to make a convincing futurist case for the envisioned gadget– regardless of whipping up a whirlwind of attention. Exactly what is the future of wearable computing?
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Editorial: Nintendo’s digital content problem and how the Wii U is making things worse
Author: Jamie Colby
The Wii U’s launch was a bit rocky, to say the least. Missing features, promised TV services and slow-loading, day-one firmware updates left Nintendo fans frustrated and disappointed. The company is still cleaning up the mess too, announcing that it will push two additional software updates to fix the console’s slogging load times. A quicker console will certainly be welcome, but the Wii U spring updates are missing an opportunity to close a rift that divides Nintendo from its loving customer base: how it handles digital content ownership.
Ever buy an Xbox Live game? You probably know that purchase is tied to your Xbox Live account, and will be available on any subsequent Xbox you purchase. Not in Nintendo’s world; Kyoto’s digital sales are tied to the gaming hardware, not the user’s account. It’s been a soft spot for Nintendo gamers for some time now, and the Wii U was the company’s chance to make amends — except it didn’t. Like its predecessors, the new console locks content to the device it was originally purchased on, imprisoning digital purchases in a physical cage. The Wii U takes content confinement a step further with its support for legacy software, providing a near-perfect example of the folly of Nintendo’s content ownership philosophy: the isolated sandbox of its backwards-compatible Wii Menu.
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Editorial: BlackBerry slumps into history of Super Bowl tech ads
Author: Tiffany Shoman
The contrast is evident: BlackBerry‘s already-infamous “Can’t Do” commercial in this year’s Super Bowl vs. Apple’s fabulous “1984″ area in the 1984 game. Let’s do the contrast anyway, and consider some other tech advertising over 35 years of Super Bowls.
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Editorial: BlackBerry slumps into history of Super Bowl tech ads
Author: Angela Chin
The comparison is obvious: BlackBerry‘s already-infamous “Can’t Do” commercial in this year’s Super Bowl vs. Apple’s legendary “1984″ spot in the 1984 game. Let’s do the comparison anyway, and consider some other tech advertising over 35 years of Super Bowls.
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Editorial: Engadget on BlackBerry 10
Author: Heather Brown
January 30th has been circled on our calendars for quite some time. It’s the day that Research in Motion (now known as BlackBerry) officially pulled the curtains away from its next-gen BlackBerry OS — aka BB10 — revealing all of its secrets to the world after no less than 15 months of development. Don’t underestimate the importance of this move; this is just the beginning of BlackBerry’s battle to remain relevant in the mobile industry. Now that BlackBerry 10 devices are ready to spend time in the public eye, what does our editorial staff think about the products — as well as BlackBerry’s future? Engadget voices off about BlackBerry 10 after the break.
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Editorial: Microsoft ‘surprised’ by Google’s ecosystem warfare? Give me a break
Author: Jade Kim
Come on, Microsoft.
Redmond finally issued a statement today in response to Google’s decision to cut off Exchange ActiveSync support to personal, non-enterprise users — a decision that renders Windows Phone effectively unable to handle contacts and calendars stored in Google’s cloud.
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Editorial: Microsoft ‘surprised’ by Google’s ecosystem warfare? Give me a break
Author: jos
Come on, Microsoft.
Redmond finally released a declaration today in response to Google’s choice to cut off Exchange ActiveSync support to individual, non-enterprise individuals– a choice that renders Windows Phone effectively unable to deal with contacts and calendars kept in Google’s cloud.
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Editorial: Microsoft ‘surprised’ by Google’s ecosystem warfare? Give me a break
Author: Melissa Shroeder
Come on, Microsoft.
Redmond finally issued a statement today in response to Google’s decision to cut off Exchange ActiveSync support to personal, non-enterprise users — a decision that renders Windows Phone effectively unable to handle contacts and calendars stored in Google’s cloud.
