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Amazon shipped over 5 billion items with Prime in 2017

January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Amazon still won’t officially reveal how many consumers worldwide participate in its Amazon Prime membership program, but it did today offer a few new stats related to that program’s adoption and growth. The company on Tuesday announced that [...]

UK eyeing ‘extremism’ tax on social media giants

January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

The UK government has kicked off the new year with another warning shot across the bows of social media giants. Read More on Tech Crunch

YouTube star Logan Paul apologies for video of apparent suicide victim

January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

January is less than two days old and already we have a reminder of the bad side of YouTube after it emerged that Logan Paul, a brash 22-year-old with over 15 million subscribers and a clothing line in [...]

Telegram and Instagram being restricted in Iran

January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Messaging app Telegram and Facebook-owned social sharing platform Instagram appear to be being blocked in Iran. Read More on Tech Crunch

Fast-growing Chinese media startup ByteDance enters 2018 with some uncertainty

January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

One of the fastest rising Chinese startups of last year had a bumpy ride into 2018 after falling foul of China’s internet censors for the first. ByteDance, the new media firm behind news app Toutiao and the owner [...]

Lab-made meat startup SuperMeat raises $3M seed to develop ‘clean’ chicken

January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

SuperMeat, an Israeli biotech and food-tech startup that is developing lab-made chicken meat, has raised $3 million in seed funding, as it becomes the latest of a crop of so-called ‘clean meat’ companies to get off the ground. [...]

Building AI systems that work is still hard

January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

Even with the support of AI frameworks like TensorFlow or OpenAI, artificial intelligence still requires deep knowledge and understanding compared to a mainstream web developer. If you have built a working prototype, you are probably the smartest guy [...]

Researchers can now make neighborhood voting predictions from Google Street View images

January 2nd, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

In a sign that computers will be able to perform image analysis as fluently as text analysis, a group of Stanford-based researchers were able to make accurate predictions about neighborhood voting patterns based on millions of pictures collected [...]

A conversation with Dean Kamen on the myth of “Eureka!”

January 1st, 2018|Categories: Gizmo News|

“I think invention is maybe like love,” says Dean Kamen. “Everybody wants to have it. Nobody knows what it is.” Read More on Tech Crunch