by Asmawisham | Mar 24, 2017 | Technology
Alaska Airlines has announced they are killing off the Virgin America brand sometime in 2019.Sad? Angry? You’re not alone. Richard Branson, founder of Virgin America, just penned a love letter saying “tears were shed today” and memorializing all the great things...
by Asmawisham | Mar 24, 2017 | Technology
YouTube has long had an automatic captioning system that, thanks to Google’s machine learning advances in recent years, has gotten pretty good at automatically transcribing spoken words in a video. As the company announced today, its technology is now able to take...
by Asmawisham | Mar 24, 2017 | Technology
The broadband privacy rules created by the FCC last year and vigorously debated last night are in danger after the Senate voted to repeal them this morning. Among other things, the rules required ISPs to obtain consumers’ permission in order to use certain sensitive...
by Asmawisham | Mar 24, 2017 | Technology
While CoreOS is probably still best known for its Linux distribution, that was only the company’s gateway drug to a wider range of services. Tectonic, the company’s service for running Kubernetes-based container deployments in the enterprise, sits at the core of...
by Asmawisham | Mar 24, 2017 | Media, Technology
[embedded content] Hulu’s original series The Handmaid’s Tale, which debuts on April 26, is based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, which is a work of fiction. Try to keep that in mind as you listen to the opening lines of narration in this first full-length trailer,...
by Asmawisham | Mar 24, 2017 | Technology
Soundcloud — the popular, but unprofitable platform that lets creators post and share music and other audio files — may have been unsuccessful (so far) in closing a new $100 million round of funding, but it’s not running out of money soon. The company has secured a...