IBM faces a big leadership change, Apple’s new Maps app rolls out across the U.S. and a social media service exposes thousands of Instagram passwords. Here’s your Daily Crunch for January 31, 2020.
Krishna, IBM’s senior vice president for cloud and cognitive software, will take over on April 6 after a couple months of transition. Rometty will remain with the company as chairman of the board.
Krishna reportedly drove the massive $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat at the end of 2018, and there was some speculation at the time that Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst was the heir apparent. Instead, the board went with a more seasoned IBM insider for the job, while naming Whitehurst as president.
The redesigned app will include more accurate information overall as well as comprehensive views of roads, buildings, parks, airports, malls and other public places. It will also bring Look Around to more cities and real-time transit to Miami.
The company, Social Captain, says it helps thousands of users to grow their Instagram follower counts by connecting their accounts to its platform. But TechCrunch learned this week Social Captain was storing the passwords of linked Instagram accounts in unencrypted plaintext.
Crystal McKellar played Becky Slater on “The Wonder Years,” and she writes about how that experience prepared her to be a managing partner at Anathem Ventures. (Extra Crunch membership required.)
High-end fashion might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think about online shopping, but it has actually been a ripe market for the e-commerce industry.
Vue launched in March 2015, offering live and on-demand content from more than 85 channels, including many local broadcast stations. But it failed to catch on with a broader audience, despite — or perhaps, because of — its integration with Sony's PS3 and PS4 devices, and it shut down this week. (Extra Crunch membership required.)
Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning now are being used to predict where an outbreak might occur -- or even more importantly, where it might spread.
As part of a far-ranging, weeks-long virtual discussion, we asked ECT News Network's roundtable of industry insiders to pause and reflect on their own personal tech preferences, to speculate on what popular gadgets may vanish from use in the next decade, and much more.
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The Free Software Foundation wants Microsoft to keep Windows 7 alive as a free operating system. Microsoft stopped providing free security patches and support for Windows 7 earlier this month. Meanwhile, some 200 million PCs around the globe still run it, according to industry estimates.
A new iPhone app allows you to capture two high-quality video streams simultaneously from any of the mobile device's cameras. Called "DoubleTake," the free software is produced by FiLMiC, based in Seattle, which also makes a pro style video capture and editing app for the iPhone.
Motorola on Monday began taking orders for its $1,499 Razr foldable smartphone. Units are expected to start shipping on Feb. 6. The new Razr is a flip phone with a foldable display. Its 6.2-inch OLED screen folds in half to create a compact package that comfortably fits in a shirt pocket.
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