September 23, 2015 Quirky, an Invention Start-Up, Files for Bankruptcy by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR The crowdsourced company, which raised $185 million from investors, said it was arranging a sale of “substantially all its assets.” Published:…
September 23, 2015 Microsoft Releases Office 2016, With Features Focused on Teamwork by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Office 2016 has numerous changes, with the most prominent ones designed to improve how the software is used by groups of…
September 23, 2015 Daily Report: A New iPhone for the Slow Upgrade Crowd by JIM KERSTETTER By JIM KERSTETTER The latest generation of iPhones has several important new features and improvements upon screens and processors. Are they enough to justify…
September 23, 2015 Siri, Apple Music and Other iPhone Questions by BRIAN X. CHEN and FARHAD MANJOO By BRIAN X. CHEN and FARHAD MANJOO We asked readers to send us questions about Apple’s newest smartphones, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus,…
September 22, 2015 Testing iPhone 6s’s 3D Touch and Live Photos Features by BRIAN X. CHEN By BRIAN X. CHEN Live Photos, which generates a mini-video of a still, was fun; 3D Touch, which summons different actions through finger pressure,…
September 22, 2015 IPhone 6s’s Hands-Free Siri Is an Omen of the Future by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO Voice recognition and artificial intelligence have improved so fast that we are nearing “ambient computing,” or robotic assistants that are always…
September 22, 2015 France Rejects Google’s Efforts to Limit Application of Privacy Ruling by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT Several European privacy regulators, particularly in France, have urged that the so-called right to be forgotten be applied to all of…
September 22, 2015 Daily Report: Kickstarter Becomes a ‘Public Benefit Corporation’ by JIM KERSTETTER By JIM KERSTETTER You won’t find many tech companies worried about the corrupting influence of money. But Kickstarter, the company that has helped finance…
September 21, 2015 Skype Service Disrupted for Some Users Worldwide by MARK SCOTT By MARK SCOTT Microsoft’s Internet calling unit did not specify how many of its roughly 300 million global users were affected. Published: September 21,…
September 21, 2015 Apple Improves the Watch, Slightly by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO The company has made some small and useful improvements, but this is still a product of limited use for most people….