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The IAB finalizes its new ad standards

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The Interactive Advertising Bureau, a trade group representing online publishers and advertisers, has released new standards around mobile and web advertisers. Not every publisher and advertiser will follow these standards, but the standards important because they help establish [...]

Google Cloud gets a new networking algorithm that boosts Internet throughput

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Google today announced that TCP BBR, a new congestion control algorithm that it has used to improve network throughput from google.com and YouTube by about four percent globally (and by more than 14 percent in some countries), is [...]

McDonald’s is offering branded lazywear to celebrate you truly giving up

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

McDonald’s is offering delivery across North America through UberEATS, and in case you wanted to fully embrace what it means to order McDelivery to your home instead of mustering the energy to leave your shadowy layer for 15 [...]

PebblePost raises $47M as it uses online data to fuel direct mail marketing

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

PebblePost, a startup that uses online data to target consumers with printed mail, has raised $47 million in a combination of equity and debt. That includes the $15 million, RRE Ventures-led Series B that the company announced in [...]

Freshdesk owner Freshworks acquires Joe Hukum as it plans a move into chatbots

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

After raising $55 million last year to build its business beyond its existing help desk services, today Freshworks (the parent company of Freshdesk) has made an acquisition to help it fill out that strategy. The company has acquired [...]

All clouds don’t have to be public

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

For a long time, traditional IT resisted the cloud, but that has changed in recent years as companies have come to realize that they can’t survive without the agility, scalability and economics that only a public cloud approach [...]

Google brings its GIF-making Motion Stills app to Android

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Google last year introduced an app called Motion Stills that aimed to help iOS users do more with their Live Photos – including being able to crop out blurry frames, stabilize images, and even turn Apple’s Live Photos [...]

Movidius launches a $79 deep-learning USB stick

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Movidius and Intel have put deep-learning on a stick with a tiny $79 USB device that makes bringing AI to hardware a snap. In April of last year, Movidius showed off the first iteration of this device, which [...]

D-ID’s tech protects your privacy by confounding face recognition algorithms

July 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Unless you literally wear a mask all the time, it is almost impossible to completely avoid cameras and face recognition technology. Not only is this a privacy concern, but it also presents a potential liability for companies that [...]