48: The Future of Interfaces

The Fine Bros found out the internet do not think they are so fine, Alphabet is now the most valuable company in the world and Yahoo is set to cut 15% of its workforce – just another regular news-filled week here in TLC land. Our feature this week is all about the future of interfaces and we examine Microsoft’s purchase of SwiftKey tech and what that may mean in the way we interact with machines as well as with each other. This and more on episode 48 of The Lazy Couch. Episode 48. Recorded Thursday 4 February 2016. Contact: iTunes | subscribe | email | twitter | web | youtube Audio: Download episode 48 (mp3) Show-notes Geoff watches Beach House – live footage from Pitchfork Festival | youtube Kelvin watches The Big Short (2015) | Rotten Tomatoes Geoff receives his first Loot Crate | Reddit News of the week: The Fine Brothers’ reaction video controversy, explained | Vox Project Skybender: Google’s secretive 5G internet drone tests revealed | The Guardian Alphabet passes Apple as the world’s most valuable company | The Verge Google’s new algorithm called Brotli will make Chrome run faster | The Verge Google reveals how much it paid the guy who bought google.com last year | The Verge Yahoo to lay off 15% of its workforce | Wired Instagram extends video ads to 60 secs to score TV dollars | TechCrunch Uber’s new branding and logo | Gizmodo Catching up with Dropbox | NY Times Zagg to acquire Mophie for US$100m | re/code Feature – The Future of Interfaces Microsoft steps up AI push with Swiftkey deal | Financial Times Microsoft acquiring Swiftkey in support of re-inventing productivity ambition | Microsoft Blog Swiftkey is joining Microsoft | Swiftkey Blog AR startup Magic Leap already valued at $4.5bn without a commercial product launched | TechCrunch The post 48: The Future of Interfaces appeared first on Naked Tech Podcast.