TNW’s Guide to iOS 5: iMessage and how it will save you money

This is an excerpt fromTNW’s Complete Guide to iOS 5.If you’re interested in more information about Apple’s latest mobile OS, you should check it outhere. And be sure to take a peek at the rest of our iOS 5 coveragehere. Announced right along side the rest of the features of iOS 5, iMessage took on the appearance of just another aspect of Apple’s new OS. A convenience feature or marketing tool, much the way in which Facetime was received at its announcement with iOS 4....

5 min · 1058 words · John Williams

TNW’s Guide to iOS 5: Twitter integration

This is an excerpt fromTNW’s Complete Guide to iOS 5.If you’re interested in more information about Apple’s latest mobile OS, you should check it outhere. And be sure to take a peek at the rest of our iOS 5 coveragehere. As far back as early last year, Apple had been rumored to be working on deep iOS integration with social network Facebook. Evidence of this had popped up in internal builds of iOS, with Facebook appearing in the system level Settings menu....

6 min · 1208 words · Katherine Wu

TNW’s Top 10 Superbowl Ads for 2011

The Super Bowl is one of the biggest sporting events in the world. But let’s admit it, there are some of us who aren’t really huge football fans that would rather see the extra-entertaining primetime commercials of Super Bowl instead. Admit it, it’s a guilty pleasure. We here at TNW listed our top 10: Brisk: “Eminem: That’s Why I Don’t Do Commercials” Pepsi Max: “I Want Her Pepsi Max”...

2 min · 224 words · Brian Baxter

To achieve AGI, we need new perspectives on intelligence

This article is part of “the philosophy of artificial intelligence,” a series of posts that explore the ethical, moral, and social implications of AI today and in the future. For decades, scientists have tried to create computational imitations of the brain. And for decades, the holy grail ofartificial general intelligence, computers that can think and act like humans, has continued to elude scientists and researchers. Why do we continue to replicate some aspects of intelligence but fail to generate systems that can generalize their skills like humans and animals?...

7 min · 1463 words · Emily Bailey

To C or LLC, that is the question

Almost every day, I have another startup coming to me and asking for advice about how they should form the legal entity of their business. Almost every day, my answer is the same — Talk to your lawyer. I want to preface this piece by making it clear that I am not qualified to provide legal advice. What I can do is give you a brief, high-level understanding with which you’ll be able to make a better-informed decision....

7 min · 1417 words · Erik Stevens
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