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Watch Electronic Arts kick off E3 live right here

June 10th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Today, Electronic Arts will kick off E3 2017 with a live press conference, which you can watch right here. EA makes some of the most popular games in the world, like The Sims, Battlefield, Madden, FIFA, Titan Fall, [...]

Postmates acqhires Secret CEO David Byttow’s startup Bold

June 10th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The founder of one of Silicon Valley’s most famous flameouts, anonymous social app Secret, is the new product lead for Postmates’ app. After Secret shut down and gave investors back their money, David Byttow went on to raise [...]

How augmented reality could save tech from itself

June 10th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Indeed, as technology marches relentlessly forward, it feels like many of today’s positions could soon be displaced. But just as with past technological inflection points — whether the steam engine, the telegraph, the computer or even industrial robots [...]

Now that it owns SlideShare, Microsoft is closing its own file-sharing service Docs.com

June 10th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Microsoft announced today it will retire its older file-sharing site Docs.com on December 15, 2017, as a result of its LinkedIn acquisition. With LinkedIn, Microsoft also gained access to SlideShare, a top file-sharing network on the web – [...]

Unpacking Pinterest’s $150M Series Whatever

June 10th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

In a slightly surprising move, Pinterest raised $150 million from private investors this week. Why the firm may have wanted the cash isn’t too hard to understand. When the markets offer you lots of cash on good terms, [...]

Educating the next generation of robotics engineers, a workshop at TC Sessions: Robotics

June 10th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics will feature the industry’s best roboticists, technologists and investors. But what about the next generation? Everyone knows that there are not enough robotics engineers to go around, and the demand will only increase. We’ve enlisted [...]

Sources: Yahoo CISO Bob Lord out after AOL-Yahoo merger

June 10th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

According to our sources, Yahoo’s chief information security officer, Bob Lord, is losing out to AOL’s Chris Nims for the security chief’s chair of new umbrella entity, Oath. Read More on Tech Crunch

Target and Cartwheel apps to merge starting this summer, mobile payments and improved maps to follow

June 10th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Target’s mobile app strategy will undergo a significant change, starting this summer. The retailer announced this week it will soon combine the functionality of its Cartwheel savings app with its main shopping app, in preparation for an eventual [...]

Future of Sex podcast creator Bryony Cole talks the future of funbots and New York’s first sextech hackathon

June 10th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

In what turned out to be a surprising SFW podcast Future of Sex podcast creator Bryony Cole joined us to talk about the future of sex, teledilonics and sex robots. Not content to let the media and the [...]