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Disney Publishing Worldwide, the world’s largest publisher of children’s books and apps and a division of Disney Consumer Products, today unveiled Disney Imagicademy, a new technology-driven learning initiative designed for families with children 3 to 8 to encourage children to learn by creating, do
IBM Watson, apparently not content with its Jeopardy winnings, is looking for work. After a lot of buildup, Watson Analytics, the natural language business intelligence tool based on Big Blue’s famed AI, is now available in beta under a freemium model where it’s free to get started, but
Amazon Prime is, by most accounts, a great deal. The free two-day shipping alone is worth the yearly cost, but Amazon throws in its Instant Video service, unlimited music streaming and photo storage, free ebooks, and early access to sales. Now, Amazon is adding another benefit to Prime: exclusive pr
A new trove of documents leaked from the Sony Pictures hack is now out in the wild. And, somewhat astoundingly, it takes the whole debacle to a new level of absurdity since the data includes a file directory named “Password”. Can you guess what’s inside? Yep, it’s thousands o
Announced in late February at MWC 2014 and then teased again in mid-November, the dual-screen YotaPhone 2 is available to purchase in launch markets, with the new flagship device set to cost about $620 in Europe. The phone will initially be available in 20 European countries, Android and Me reports,
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service is all about using humans to perform computer-like tasks, such as identifying objects and transcribing videos. However, those workers are tired of being treated like automatons, they’ve launched an email campaign urging Amazon chief Jeff Bezos to market M
Stripe, the digital payments company that helped drive Apple Pay’s early success, has raised $70 million in new funding, making it the 14th most valuable startup in the world. Thrive Capital and Sequoia Capital led the round, which values Stripe at $3.5 billion. The company’s market cap is now about
Amazon is obsessed with same-day delivery services. The company firmly thinks its key is having Prime customers buy as many retail items as they possibly need on Amazon. It comes as no surprise that Amazon wants to handle your takeout Chinese food or pizza deliveries as well. Over the weekend, the c
Back in October 2013 California governor Jerry Brown signed the “revenge porn” bill into law. The legislation classified revenge porn as a criminal misdemeanor which meant that vindictive ex-lovers distributing intimate content of an ex to humiliate them could face up to six months in jail and be fi
A Japanese space probe named after a falcon blasted off on Wednesday, setting off on a six-year round trip to an asteroid for samples that scientists hope will help reveal the origins of life. The launch of the Hayabusa 2, postponed twice because of bad weather, comes less than a month after a Europ
Nearly nine years ago, NASA sent its New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto. On Saturday, after all that time in transit, it will come out of hibernation for the last time as it finally approaches what was, at the time of the launch, the furthest planet in our solar system. Throughout the journey, New Ho
Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO, says he’s “made billions of dollars of failures” at the company. But, he said at Business Insider’s Ignition Conference Tuesday, what matters is that Amazon continues to experiment. Among the successes he cited: Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Web Services and more. As for t
