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Baidu teams up with Bosch and Continental on self-driving tech

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Baidu has two new German auto industry heavyweights on its side in the race to develop autonomous driving technology. Both Bosch and Continental are now partnered up with the Chinese internet giant to work together on not only [...]

Apple passes $70B in app developer payouts, led by games and entertainment

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Apple may finally get overtaken by Android in developer revenues this year (or so the analysts say), but today the iPhone maker passed a milestone of its own: the company said it has passed $70 billion in payouts [...]

Plex becomes a low-cost, DIY streaming TV service

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Plex is doubling down on its support for capturing over-the-air signals from digital antennas this morning, with the announcement that it will now not only let users record TV programs, it will also allow them to watch live [...]

Nvidia’s Shield just became an even better Plex box with Live TV

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Media streaming app Plex has been around (and great) since before set-top streaming boxes were even properly a thing, but on Thursday it added Live TV integration and DVR capabilities, which make it even more useful. Nvidia is [...]

China’s strict cybersecurity laws took effect today; potentially impacting foreign businesses

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The rigorous new Chinese cybersecurity laws which we wrote about last November took effect today. They’re designed to give China’s central government more direct control over the operations of internet-based companies operating in the country. As we wrote [...]

With the Moto Z2 Play, modularity is Motorola’s new mainstream

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Plenty dismissed modularity (the concept of making a phone’s innards swappable and upgradeable) the first time around. And for good reason. Like just about every other gimmick in smartphoneland, the idea has been tried and abandoned more times [...]

Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

TechCrunch is holding its first ever event focused solely on robotics on July 17 at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium in Cambridge, Mass., and today we’re really pleased to roll out the agenda for TC Sessions: Robotics. Read More on [...]

Skype’s Snapchat-inspired makeover puts the camera a swipe away, adds stories

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Microsoft today is launching a completely revamped version of its Skype application, with a new set of features that draw obvious inspiration from messaging rivals, like Messenger and Snapchat. Yes, that means Skype now has its own Stories-like [...]

Marijuana media giant High Times sells majority stake for ~$42 million

June 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

High Times, the most prestigious brand in pot, has been valued at $70 million in a deal that sees it selling a 60% majority stake for roughly $42 million to investment firm Oreva Capital. Originally a marijuana enthusiasts [...]