The Morning After: Brain-machine interface

It's Friday, April 21, 2017. Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. Welcome to Friday, friends. A few changes are afoot at Engadget, Elon Musk has plans for brain-machine interfaces in a few years, and HTC made a phone that is rumored to be squeezable. Meanwhile, a high-end, WiFi-connected juicer with mountains of funding is also feeling the squeeze. Changes ahead We're learning from our past to inform our future.   It’s not the weekend yet, but we have a letter from the new editor-in-chief, Christopher Trout walking down memory lane and laying out what you can expect from Engadget in the future. In short, “authoritative reporting on the tech industry and the people, products and ideas that power it.” That's one way to sell more cameras GoPro's Fusion spherical camera is six GoPros in one   Facebook, isn’t the only one with a new 360-degree camera, as GoPro is announcing its 5.2K VR-capable Fusion camera. The spherical device that CEO Nicholas Woodman describes as “six GoPro cameras fused into one” will become available for pilot partners this summer, although details on wider availability and pricing are still TBA. Meet Neuralink Elon Musk’s latest venture is all about connecting your brain to a computer Elon Musk figures that for humanity to avoid becoming obsolete after the rise of AI, we’ll need to pursue a symbiotic relationship with technology. One way to do that will be via brain-machine interfaces (BMI) that connect people to computers and each other. By increasing the bandwidth of connections (beyond what verbal, written or gesture communication can do), Wait but Why’s Tim Urban explains that Neuralink could lead the rise of the “Wizard Era.” Musk predicts that it could have a product on the market for people with brain injuries within four years, although a device ready for people without disabilities could take twice as long to develop. Sponsored Content by StackCommerce Secure your data with Private Internet Access, now $100 off. Oops Juicero offers refunds to its customers If you spent $700 or $400 on a Juicero then we have some news -- you can return it and get your money back. Of course, if you like the company’s system of custom produce packs and expensive press then you can keep them, but it’s a little tough now that Bloomberg showed they’re easily squeezed by hand. The company’s CEO laughably compared that hands-on technique to Keurig hacking, while also trying to convince the world why your juicer needs a WiFi connection. Your new squeeze. HTC will unveil a squeezable 'U' phone in May   HTC has sent out a Save the Date for May 16th. Invites like this are typically shrouded in mystery, and this one’s no different. All the invitation says is "Squeeze for the Brilliant U," though the blurry phone in the background and the company's tweet gives us some idea of what it could announce. In the video, you can see a hand squeezing the edges of a phone, hinting that you'll be able to interact with the device by giving its frame a squeeze. We don’t know why you would want to do that, but hey, innovation 'Tiny Racers' is basically 'Micro Machines' with some 'GTA' mayhem. 'Grand Theft Auto' returns to its top-down roots next week If Grand Theft Auto: Online's last big event, the sophomorically named Cunning Stunts, stoked a flame in your racing heart, next week's add-on might set it ablaze with nostalgia. For a few different reasons, no less. With April 25th's "Tiny Racers," the camera reverts to a top-down point of view like the GTA games of yore. More than that, Tiny Racers is a pretty overt homage to the Micro Machines series of stunt-minded arcade racers from the 8-and-16 bit era. In fact, it could be better than the incoming Micro Machines remake. Happy Holidays! 420 Need advice on the intersection of technology and marijuana? If you live in California, we have advice for buying legal weed online. Otherwise, you can just read up on the future of cannabis, as concentrates push the market towards a pure THC distillate. It'll seamlessly switch between accounts after you train it. Google Home can now recognize more than one person   Google's Home device is late to the domestic AI assistant game, but it can do one trick that Alexa can't right now: Tell family members apart just by their voices. Up to six people can link their Google accounts to one Home device, then train Google's Assistant to recognize their voices. Once that's done, it'll be able to distinguish you from your spouse or other family members and give you pertinent info, like your schedule or traffic on your usual route. But wait, there's more... 1. Samsung and Amazon counter Dolby Vision HDR with HDR10+ 2. Plastc's smart credit card project goes under despite $9 million in preorders 3. 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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- April 20, 2017

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Headline Scan
Microsoft Inches Toward a World Without Passwords
Executive Order Triggers H-1B Jitters in Silicon Valley
Take Marketing Off Autopilot and Get Creative
Cleveland Murder Intensifies Scrutiny of Facebook Live
Federal Agencies Turn to Software-Defined Data Storage
CPQ: Boost Selling Performance and Accuracy

Today's Story Highlights

Microsoft Inches Toward a World Without Passwords
Microsoft has announced the general availability of its phone sign-in
for customers with Microsoft accounts -- a system that could be the
beginning of the end for passwords. The new system requires that
customers add their accounts to the Microsoft Authenticator app, which
comes in both iOS and Android versions, noted Alex Simons, director of
program management of the Microsoft Identity Division.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84471.html

Executive Order Triggers H-1B Jitters in Silicon Valley
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a long-anticipated executive
order that addresses a campaign promise to begin shifting the country
toward the "Buy American, Hire American" strategy that appealed to much
of the industrial working class population in the Rust Belt states. The
order calls on the U.S. government to shift purchasing toward
domestically produced goods.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84467.html

Take Marketing Off Autopilot and Get Creative
More than a quarter of marketers went into marketing because they wanted
to be creative, researchers have found. So why do so many B2B marketing
efforts seem exactly the same? The reason, in part, is that some things
work well. In nature, convergent evolution leads different kinds of
organisms to similar solutions when they work. The number of strategies
that will lead to success is limited.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84466.html

Cleveland Murder Intensifies Scrutiny of Facebook Live
Video footage of a senseless murder in Cleveland, posted after the fact
on Facebook Live, has attracted national attention to the role of the
platform in criminals' minds. Authorities Tuesday morning announced that
Steve Stephens -- the 37-year-old suspect wanted for the cold-blooded
shooting of Robert Godwin Sr. -- shot himself to death after a short
pursuit by Pennsylvania State Police.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84464.html

Federal Agencies Turn to Software-Defined Data Storage
Federal agencies seeking to deal with huge amounts of information have
begun embracing the software-defined data center, a technology tool that
has come into vogue for managing and storing data. The SDDC is an
offshoot of IT virtualization that uses a software-defined architecture.
Agencies have been striving to save money and improve data storage and
management in response to government mandates.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84461.html

CPQ: Boost Selling Performance and Accuracy
They say it can take a product idea 10 years to go from concept to mass-
market appeal but that might be only an optimist's viewpoint. Some of
the best ideas in CRM right now have been marinating for at least that
long -- and some for much longer. Two great examples are analytics and
CPQ, which companies like Oracle, Salesforce and others have embraced
with passion.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84462.html

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Editor's Pick: Apple May Be Getting Its Innovation Groove Back

Apple May Be Getting Its Innovation Groove Back

John P. Mello Jr. Apr 20, 2017 5:00 AM PT

Apple reportedly has begun testing a premium iPhone with a revamped display and body, which could be one of three new models the company is expected to launch this fall. The other two likely will be upgrades to the two existing iPhones. The new design will incorporate curved glass and stainless steel. It will increase the surface area of the display without increasing the size of the phone. [More...]

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Report: Commercial Software Riddled With Open Source Code Flaws Black Duck Software has released its 2017 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis, detailing significant cross-industry risks related to open source vulnerabilities and license compliance challenges. Black Duck conducted audits of more than 1,071 open source applications for the study. There are widespread weaknesses in addressing open source security vulnerability risks across key industries. [More...]

Executive Order Triggers H-1B Jitters in Silicon Valley President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a long-anticipated executive order that addresses a campaign promise to begin shifting the country toward the "Buy American, Hire American" strategy that appealed to much of the industrial working class population in the Rust Belt states. The order calls on the U.S. government to shift purchasing toward domestically produced goods. [More...]

Take Marketing Off Autopilot and Get Creative More than a quarter of marketers went into marketing because they wanted to be creative, researchers have found. So why do so many B2B marketing efforts seem exactly the same? The reason, in part, is that some things work well. In nature, convergent evolution leads different kinds of organisms to similar solutions when they work. The number of strategies that will lead to success is limited. [More...]

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