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Most People Are Cool with 'Smart Toilets' That Share Their Personal Data
As long as we’re connecting every other thing we own to the internet, why not a toilet that monitors our health by analyzing our poo?
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Shanghai's Air Pollution Today Was Literally Off the Charts
Yesterday and today, Shanghai experienced some of the highest levels of air pollution ever recorded in China. The US Consulate in Shanghai reported levels were “beyond index”—i.e., off the charts.
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Amazon's Drone Deliveries May Be a Sideshow for Its Real Ambition for the Skies
There are a lot of reasons why Amazon delivering goods by drone anytime soon isn’t merely “optimistic,” as CEO Jeff Bezos put it, but outright silly. But Amazon is nothing if not opportunistic.
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For the First Time, Apple Will Spend More Money on Technology Than Intel
Apple has just revealed in a filing with the SEC that the company will spend $10.5 billion on stuff—also known as “capital expenditures”—in 2014.
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Apple Earnings Beat Estimates, and Wall Street Is Unhappy — as Usual
Apple’s earnings for the last quarter of its fiscal year are out, and the company has disappointed Wall Street once again by doing better than most analysts predicted.
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This Is the Ad All Instagram Users Will See Next Week
Advertisements are coming to Instagram, as we predicted. To get users accustomed to the idea, the most innocuous “ad” ever (pictured above) will appear in every user’s feed at some point next week, the company just announced.
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The Untold History of Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latte
The pumpkin spice latte, Starbucks’ most iconic and popular seasonal drink, almost didn’t happen. “A number of us thought it was a beverage so dominated by a flavor other than coffee that it didn’t put Starbucks’ coffee in the best light,” says Tim Kern.
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Apple No Longer Innovates, Says the Man Who Helped Steve Jobs Design the Mac
Hartmut Esslinger knows a thing or two about industrial design and what it’s done for Apple. He worked directly with Steve Jobs to establish a “design language” that was used on the Macintosh line of computers for over a decade.
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Do You Really Want to Replace Your PC with a Smartphone?
Sales of PCs continue to decline, and that’s forcing PC makers to get creative. The latest example is an attempt by Acer, currently the number four maker of PCs in the world by market share, to replace the PC forever—with the smartphone.
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Here's the Seven-Point Plan to Save Microsoft
Yesterday Quartz outlined the reasons for Microsoft’s “lost decade.” But now that CEO Steve Ballmer is on his way out, it’s time to talk about the way forward.
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The '20% Time' Perk at Google Is No More
Google’s “20 percent time,” which allows employees to take one day a week to work on side projects, effectively no longer exists.
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You Are Your Net Worth: How Toxins Found in the Rich and Poor Differ
In a finding that surprised even the researchers conducting the study, it turns out that both rich and poor Americans are walking toxic waste dumps for chemicals like mercury, arsenic, lead, cadmium and bisphenol A, which could be a cause of infertility.
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Dumbphones Are the Biggest Opportunity in Mobile Right Now
The big play for some companies, especially any that wish to expand into emerging markets, is on the “dumbphones”—aka non-smartphones, or in industry parlance, feature phones—that most people in rich countries have now left behind.
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Coders Among People Romney Would Let Across the Border
