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Under Armour launches two new pairs of connect running shoes
In a world overflowing with smart devices, connected running shoes aren’t the craziest idea. Hell, fitness tracking is the number one use for smartphones, so why just skip straight to the source and embed that technology right into [...]
Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi launches $1 billion corporate venture capital fund
The world’s largest automaker, Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi, has launched a $1 billion corporate venture capital fund to focus on investments in “new mobility” including electrification, autonomous systems, network connectivity and artificial intelligence. Called Alliance Ventures, the fund has already made [...]
Jump will be the first stationless, e-bike-sharing service to launch in SF
Social Bicycles, maker of the Jump pedal assist e-bikes that don’t require docking stations, has received a permit from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to launch 250 dockless electric bikes in San Francisco sometime between now and [...]
Huawei’s also selling a $1,225 Porsche-branded Mate 10
Richard Yu really tried to stick it to Apple at today’s CES keynote. The Huawei Consumer CEO favorably compared the company’s new flagship Mate 10 Pro to the iPhone X, discussing all the ways in which their device [...]
H-1B visa extensions for workers waiting on green cards are safe for now
The Trump administration appears to be creating distance between itself and rumors that it might end the practice of extending H-1B visas during the green card application process. The rumored change would have a large impact on foreign [...]
Hulu reached more than 17M subscribers and $1B in ad revenue last year
Hulu announced today that it ended 2017 with more than 17 million subscribers in the United States. That’s an increase of a little over 40 percent from the 12 million subscribers that Hulu announced back in March 2016. [...]
Toyota will offer Alexa in its cars starting later this year
Toyota announced at CES this year that the carmaker will be offering support for Amazon Alexa within its vehicles – no additional hardware required. There’s a lot of third-party devices out there that are putting Alexa on your [...]
Google’s first WorldSense VR headset, the Lenovo Mirage Solo, ships in Q2 for ‘under $400’
We got our first full look at a positionally tracked Daydream headset running Google’s WorldSense technology today. Lenovo unveiled the Mirage Solo headset today, which it hopes to ship in the second quarter of this year. The standalone [...]
