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Apple has a new wireless Magic Keyboard with a full numeric keypad

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Apple packed a lot of announcements into its WWDC keynote today, even with the long running time, so it’s understandable that the new Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad didn’t get any stage time. Understandable, but unforgivable, because this [...]

Birth control app Nurx now delivers to the ‘contraceptive deserts’ of Texas

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

About half the counties in Texas don’t have the number of public clinics required to meet the contraceptive needs of the population. So Nurx, an at-home birth control delivery app, decided to give women in the state the [...]

Apple HomePod speaker favors sound over Siri

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Apparently Apple knows Siri kinda sucks, because it was the last thing mentioned in the unveiling of the new HomePod speaker. That’s why it’s dumpily named as a successor to the iPod, not Apple’s old-but-unwise voice assistant. Read [...]

Leaked NSA report names Russia in pre-election hacks, contradicting Putin’s claims of innocence

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Attribution is not an easy thing to do in the case of cyberattacks, especially if the actors have been careful. But the NSA seemed confident enough regarding certain pre-election hacks that it has directly named Russian intelligence as [...]

Everything Apple announced at its WWDC keynote

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

WWDC is usually a key event for Apple. This is the company’s developer conference. While Apple has mostly focused on software news in recent years, this one was a bit different. We got a bit of everything — [...]

The iPhone’s camera app can now read QR codes

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Remember when QR codes were the next big thing? In the U.S. you used to be able to find them on billboards, business cards — you name it. They were supposed to change the way we use our [...]

Snap acquires Placed to prove geofilters drive store visits

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

If Snapchat’s growth remains slow, it must maximize how much it can charge per ad by demonstrating they inspire purchases and physical store foot traffic. Snap confirmed to TechCrunch that it’s acquired location-based analytics and ad measurement startup [...]

Deep analysis of police body cam footage shows pattern of microaggressions towards black people

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Police body cameras don’t just record shootouts and other crises — they’re on all day every day, providing unprecedented detail of officers’ interactions with the public. If you can handle that volume of data, that is. Researchers at [...]

Clustree grabs $7.9 million for its AI-powered recruitment service

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

French startup Clustree just raised a $7.9 million Series A round (€7 million) from Creandum with Idinvest Partners and Alven Capital also participating. Clustree leverages machine learning to help both good employees who feel stuck in their jobs [...]