screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET Locating the right manuals and troubleshooting guides for Apple products used to be a hassle, but no longer. Instead of being scattered across Apple’s websites, everything you need is now on Apple’s new Documentation page. Spotted by Japanese blog MacOtakara, the Documentation page has groups for all of Apple’s products: Mac, … Read more
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Sellers on Amazon will soon be able to make product pages with just the copy-and-paste of a link. Amazon is releasing a new generative AI feature that takes information from a seller’s external website and then generates an Amazon product page for the item, complete with a written description and images. The goal is to … Read more
If you’ve ever traveled in rural areas in France, you may have realized a French peculiarity. Even in the seemingly less populated towns, there’s a hair salon. French startup Planity has been taking advantage of France’s love affair with hair salons to launch a SaaS product for these businesses in particular. Over time, the company … Read more
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Entering the chat is Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has more at stake than perhaps anyone on earth if Apple does to headsets what the iPhone did to smartphones. In a video posted to his Instagram account on Tuesday, Zuckerberg gives his official verdict on the Vision Pro versus his company’s latest Quest 3 headset: … Read more
What’s more rewarding for an angel investor than paper returns in a startup? An acquisition that turns those paper returns into a cash payout while still maintaining shares in the company. “The return after dilution was eight times my investment,” said Selma Ribica in an interview with TechCrunch recently. “I kept some stock of the … Read more
Anyone who writes reviews for a living has heard it before, and plenty: “How much did you get paid to write this?” I’ve been a critic of many things over the years: movies, wine and spirits, and all manner of tech gear, for WIRED and other publications. And no matter what it is that I’m … Read more
Rodrigo Fernandes Contributor Rodrigo Fernandes is a professor at Fundação Dom Cabral and is the CFO at Pingback, a Brazilian startup that provides a comprehensive solution for digital creators. Daniel McCarthy Contributor Daniel McCarthy is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business and co-founder of Theta, a predictive customer analytics … Read more
The Big Picture Apple’s AirPod design drew inspiration from the stormtrooper armor in Star Wars. J.J. Abrams and costume designer Michael Kaplan were influenced by Apple’s design aesthetic when revamping the stormtrooper armor for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Jony Ive, Apple’s former Senior Vice President and Chief of Design, provided creative input for Kylo … Read more
As the Consumer Tech team prepares to head to Las Vegas for CES 2024 next week, we cannot stop thinking about LG’s adorable 4K projector while also wondering what an Xbox-inspired BLT would taste like. Oh, and we also rounded up the top product stories of the week. LG Just Announced the Cutest Little 4K … Read more
Kerry Wan/ZDNET Set against a backdrop of the failed launch of Meta Quest Pro, its parent company scaling back its metaverse plans, and the long shadow cast by Apple’s entrance into mixed reality headsets with the Vision Pro announcement this summer, the Meta Quest 3 looked like a product that was destined to be one … Read more