August 6, 2015 Spotify’s Content Chief Moves to Online Video Start-Up Pluto TV by BEN SISARIO and MIKE ISAAC By BEN SISARIO and MIKE ISAAC Ken Parks, Spotify’s chief content officer and one of its longest-serving executives, will become Pluto TV’s executive chairman…
August 6, 2015 Blocking a PC’s Webcam by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER Disabling a webcam in case of a virus or attack by hackers, and getting Google Now on a desktop computer….
August 6, 2015 Following Netflix, Microsoft Sweetens Parental Leave Benefits by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Microsoft’s changes to its policy came a day after Netflix, the online video service, said it would allow new mothers and…
August 6, 2015 Hashtag Aims to Break Gender Stereotypes in Engineering by KATHRYN VARN By KATHRYN VARN What started as an employee recruitment campaign has become a social media movement with the goal of diversifying the tech industry….
August 6, 2015 Yahoo Tweaks Email to Make Search More Personal by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL The company is making small changes to sort email search results better, changes that it hopes to extend to its other…
August 6, 2015 Diving Headfirst Into the Internet of Things by ERIC A. TAUB By ERIC A. TAUB The idea that all products will someday be connected to the Internet has spurred inventions like an automatic home brewery…
August 5, 2015 A New Action Camera, Born From a Cycling Crash by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD Graava, a new start-up, plans to announce a new action camera that works with an online service to automatically edit any…
August 5, 2015 ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Online Is Poised to Spread by FARHAD MANJOO By FARHAD MANJOO Some countries’ demands for the erasure of search engine results on privacy grounds could soon affect even information available in the…
August 5, 2015 Siebel Institute Seeks to Make the Smart Grid Smarter by STEVE LOHR By STEVE LOHR The new Siebel Energy Institute is backing research into the software needed to deliver the energy-saving promise of smart-grid technology. Published:…
August 5, 2015 GIFs, Glorious GIFs, From Readers by THE NEW YORK TIMES By THE NEW YORK TIMES Readers sent in GIFs by the dozens after a New York Times article asking people to submit their greatest…
