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These psychedelic stickers blow AI minds

January 3rd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Machine learning systems are very capable, but they aren’t exactly smart. They lack common sense. Taking advantage of that fact, researchers have created a wonderful attack on image recognition systems that uses specially-printed stickers that are so interesting [...]

Samsung’s C-Lab projects include smart glasses and a portable directional speaker

January 3rd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Samsung’s Creative Lab is one of the more entertaining additions to CES in the last several years. Deemed C-Lab for short, the department is a sort of in-house accelerator, where Samsung employees can build and spin off startups, [...]

Spotify faces $1.6 billion lawsuit from music publisher alleging copyright infringement

January 3rd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Spotify is facing a $1.6 billion lawsuit from Wixen Music Publishing, the publisher that represents artists like Tom Petty, Missy Elliot, Stevie Nicks and Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter first reported. The suit, filed December 29, alleges copyright [...]

The FCC is still tweaking its net neutrality repeal (but that’s normal)

January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

You may think, from the pomp accompanying the FCC’s vote in December to repeal net neutrality, that the deed was accomplished. Not so — in fact, the order hasn’t even reached its final form: the Commission is still [...]

Apple buys app development service Buddybuild

January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Apple continues to ramp up its efforts to court developers by making it easier to create and iterate their apps for its platforms. The iPhone giant has now acquired Buddybuild, a Vancouver-based app tools startup that describes itself [...]

Airbnb beats big property landlord’s lawsuit in California

January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

A California judge has dismissed Apartment Investment & Management Company’s lawsuit against Airbnb. Last February, Aimco, which owns or manages about 50,000 properties, sued Airbnb, saying that the company is deliberately incentivizing people to breach their leases. Aimco, [...]

Some apps were listening to you through the smartphone’s mic, says report

January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

There may be a reason why that ol’ “Facebook is listening to you talk” conspiracy theory refuses to die – and not just because Facebook’s ad technology has gotten so good, it’s downright creepy. As it turns out, [...]

It’s the New Year and you’re getting laundry folding robots, because the 1960s thought of everything

January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

The robot laundry folding wars are heating up. The German appliance manufacturing giant BSH is in the early stages of partnering with the U.S. and Israeli-based laundry folding robot designer FoldiMate on product development and manufacturing in the [...]

Facebook, not Twitter, will live stream this year’s Golden Globes’ red carpet pre-show

January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Facebook has scored the exclusive rights to live stream this year’s Golden Globes’ red carpet pre-show – a deal that last year went to Twitter. On Tuesday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and dick clark productions announced [...]