Apple News: Listen Up Apple-Haters: IPhone Sales Eclipse Microsoft and Amazon Revenue
Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has taken plenty of flack for running a company that is supposedly well past its glory days—and the iPhone smartphone franchise is sometimes dismissed as a spent force, losing ground to more innovative brands such as Android and Samsung. Well, here’s a little perspective for the Apple-haters. The iPhone 5s and 5c sold a record 9 million units during the first weekend after its launch. Consider this: The brand’s sales haul over the last four reported quarters eclipses that of such companies as Home Depot, Microsoft, Target, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, PepsiCo, Comcast, Dell, Google, Pfizer, and UPS.
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Technology News: Siri Ex-Product Lead Who Quietly Sold Another Startup’s Assets To Apple Raises $1M For Unsilo, A Semantic Search Engine
Apple’s acquisition of Siri in 2010 gave the company the technology it needed to build a voice-activated personal assistant for its iPhone and iPad devices. A year later, Mads Rydahl — one of the first employees at Siri as its director of product design — sold something else to Apple: a set of patents, nine in all, from a startup he founded before joining Siri. (Considering how closely the media monitors Apple news, that acquisition hasn’t been reported until now.) Today, Rydahl is working on a new startup: a semantic search engine called Unsilo, which is now preparing for a launch in November backed with $1 million from Danish incubator Oei and Scale Capital, a small VC firm co-headquartered in the U.S. (Palo Alto) and Denmark. Not quite Wolfram Alpha, and not quite like Enigma, Unsilo gives users — initially enterprise customers in areas like scientific research — the ability to find answers to their questions by aggregating data from dozens of disparate sources. The idea behind Unsilo is that the right answers may not be related to the keywords in your search query, but in how those keywords, juxtaposed laterally as they would be in a human’s mind, might help you think of the right answer, essentially applying the concept of natural language processing to search.
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Programming News: A Quick Guide to the Basics of Python
Python is a computer program that has been around for well over twenty years now. First developed in 1990 it was actually named after the famous British comedy Monty Python’s Flying Circus. It is a general purpose programming language, meaning that in can be used to write software applications in a wide variety of different domains. It can be described as a high-level programming language, meaning that the code is highly readable and usable. Python is what is known as an interpreted programming language. This essentially means that the programming language is indirectly executed by a secondary program, known as interpreting program. This program “interprets” the programming language so that the computer can read it and execute it.
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Photography News: 25 Free Landscape Photography Tutorials
One of the most popular topics here on Digital Photography School is that of Landscape Photography. We’ve published hundreds of articles on the topic over the years but to help you find them we’ve pulled together 25 of the most popular Landscape Photography tips and tutorials and listed them below.
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