Apple amends Siri’s response to suicide with more direct approach
Apple’s made some changes to Siri’s programming if the mention of suicide comes up — she’s now much more proactive in getting the user help. Read more »
Apple’s made some changes to Siri’s programming if the mention of suicide comes up — she’s now much more proactive in getting the user help. Read more »
In September, LinkedIn launched a new feature called endorsements, that allows people to validate certain skills you have on your profile. But LinkedIn needs to figure out how to make these lightweight features more relevant. Read more »

SpaceCurve has raised another $10 million for its database technology designed to make sense of massive amounts of data from sensors, social media, mobile devices and other streaming sources. Read more »
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Google has sued to shine more light on the secret court that approves controversial national security letters — the petition also represents part of the ongoing PR strategy of tech companies caught up in a surveillance scandal. Read more »

Eventually, their technique could be applied to print bones for medical use, plane components and even buildings. Read more »
An ambitious new plan calls for the deflection of the most dangerous near-Earth objects and research into how to move an asteroid into the moon’s orbit. Read more »
Netflix and Amazon both want to be the company that captures your kid’s screen time this summer. Read more at paidContent »
With IT giants including IBM now actively targeting CMOs as primary buyers of IT solutions, you have to wonder if this is really a great idea. Read more »
Cloudera CEO Mike Olson is now chief strategy officer and chairman of the board, while former Arcsight CEO Tom Reilly will take over the Hadoop pioneer’s leadership role. Read more »
The Designer Fund is looking for the next wave of talented designers to work with design-forward web companies, and we sat down with the directors and learned why they’re not looking for the next skinny jeans. Read more »
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Dish maintains that it’s offer for Clearwire is fair and legal, and Sprint’s attempt to block it in the courts is just an attempt to divert attention away from its own failed bid. Read more »
The BBC’s young accelerator program, called BBC Labs, has launched its latest batch of London digital media startups. Read more »
As it tries to make inroads into the internet of things GE has decided it will become a big data company, building Hadoop-based software to help its customers automate their industrial assets. Read more »
Very few Amazon Web Services customers know that infrastructure better than Netflix. Now it’s open sourcing its tool for tracking AWS use and spending. Read more »
Quantum computing is still far off, but investors at the QWave Fund aren’t waiting. They’re funding startups with innovations in materials science and physics. Read more »
New Yorkers soon will start seeing strange kiosks popping up in parks and other public places. They should be welcome sights, though, since anyone can plug their phones into them for a quick battery refresh. Read more »
As competition mounts among online doctor review services, Vitals raises $22 million in a Series C round of funding. Read more »

A study that looked at more than a billion tweets and the geographic connections between 71 million users across the globe shows how Twitter has changed the way we communicate and helped erase geographical barriers. Read more »
Apple said the new MacBook has the longest battery life of any of its notebooks. Well, according to the first users, that claim is true. Here’s a roundup of the best Air reviews. Read more »
A study by Priceonomics compared hotel prices to Airbnb in major metro areas across the country — and found that the startup is significantly cheaper than traditional hotels. Read more »
As incumbent vendors take steps along big-picture strategies to support a new networking age, OpenFlow-enabled switches are gaining adoption and enabling innovative applications. Read more »
Heroku co-founder James Lindenbaum is launching a new effort focused on giving developer-focused startups the tools they need to scale. He has recruited some significant peers and investors as advisers to teach member companies the ropes. Read more »
Sweden’s iZettle is now at Square’s doorstep thanks to help from Banco Santander. The company has updated its credit card reader for the North American market. Could a push into the U.S. be far behind? Read more »
What would get your average teenager to ditch their favorite video chat app and switch to a competitor? Co-browsing may just be one of those features. Read more »
Thought there was no money in producing original content for YouTube’s audience? The folks at Bedrocket Entertainment beg to differ — and just invested in What’s Trending. Read more at paidContent »
SendGrid grew a business enabling apps with automated sales confirmation, invoice and opt-in/opt-out email. Now it wants a piece of the email marketing business as well. Read more »
Punchey hopes to carve off a piece of mobile credit card payments market by charging lower fees for high-dollar transactions. Read more »
The company behind one of the best and highest-grossing apps on the App Store landed its first round of funding from Andreessen Horowitz and others to grow its team and expand into new and somewhat unexpected realms. Read more »
As the Apple ebook pricing trial enters its final week, much of SVP Eddy Cue’s testimony Monday focused on Steve Jobs’ involvement with the launch of the iBookstore. Read more at paidContent »
Kaplan’s TechStars-powered startup accelerator — the latest to launch for education entrepreneurs — is announcing the startups in its inaugural class. Read more »
Smart window startup View (formerly Soladigm) gets a new big backer in glass giant Corning. Read more »
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says Tesla will demo battery swap technology at its design studio near LA on Thursday night. Read more »
How do you make PaaS work for your enterprise? The answer lies in understanding new models of delivery, such as private PaaS. An enterprise needs a good understanding of its requirements, and this paper aims to help business managers find the best path to understanding and deploying this technology. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
New Corp.’s education division Amplify is getting into the gaming business with the roll out of more than 30 tablet-based games meant to help middle school students improve language arts, science and math skills. Read more »

Accel has launched its Big Data Fund 2, a followup on the equally large fund the venture capital firm started in November 2011. Rather than seeking products that target data scientists, it wants those targeting business users. Read more »
AMD has released its new server roadmap, which includes its first ARM-based chip aimed at the data center. This is big for AMD and an evolution of the data center. Read more »

Verizon is locked in a head-butting battle with Cogent Communications, a large bandwidth provider. The cause for these issues: Netflix, one of Internet’s killer applications that has been growing its share of the network. Bad news for Verizon customers: Netflix may not work as well. Read more »

Sprint has filed a lawsuit in Delaware against Clearwire and Dish, claiming their pending nuptials violate state laws and the company’s shareholder agreements. Read more »

GE Healthcare is pushing a system called Corvix for doing agent-based simulations on complex problems. In India, the technology simulated a population of 80 million people in order to determine the best places to build medical facilities. Read more »
Have you ever wondered how long it would take to print a house? Brick by brick it would take more than two centuries, according to one equation. Read more »
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