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BMW to include Skype for Business in-car via iDrive

July 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

BMW is doing more with partner Microsoft to bring productivity to its vehicles. After adding Office 365 communications features to its BMW 5 series late last year, it’s now also bringing Skype for Business to its infotainment features, [...]

Uber, Yandex combine ridesharing and UberEATS in Russian markets in a $3.72B JV

July 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

As Uber continues to work through a huge amount of internal management turmoil, the company is also consolidating and rationalising more of its international business. Today, the company announced that it will be combining its rides-on-demand business and [...]

Cortica teaches autonomous vehicles with unsupervised learning

July 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Cortica is moving into mobility by opening an automotive branch for its AI technology. The key, according to the company, is in the use of unsupervised learning that allows an autonomous system to process data and figure out [...]

Rover raised $65 million for pet sitting

July 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Finding temporary housing for your dog should be as easy as renting an Airbnb. That’s the idea behind Rover, which raised $65 million to expand its pet sitting and dog-walking businesses. The Seattle-based company got a significant vote [...]

Crunch Report | Hyperloop One Tests Full-Scale Version

July 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Hyperloop One tests a full-scale version, Vizio is suing LeEco for breach of contract, MIT envisions 3D without the glasses and Microsoft has a plan to challenge DeepMind. All this on Crunch Report. Read More on Tech Crunch

Beauty startup Glossier will start shipping to Canada, the U.K. and France, with more countries to come

July 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Glossier, the direct-to-consumer beauty startup that’s raised $34.4 million in funding so far, will kick off its international expansion this month. Read More on Tech Crunch

Behind the scenes with Tezos, a new blockchain upstart

July 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

With a whopping $200m raised (at current btc and eth prices) Tezos breaks all Initial Coin Offering records to date. That’s saying something given over $1 billion dollars has gone into ICOs (Kickstarters on steroids) in 2017. Exuberance, [...]

Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria — did your brain just explode?

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

In a new study published in Nature, a group of scientists at Harvard have successfully stored a GIF— yes, like a moving meme — into live bacteria (E. coli to be specific). It’s a weird idea, but scientists [...]

Online publishing platform Verst adds tools for paywalls and prettier websites

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Recently launched publishing platform Verst released a big update today, with new features like a homepage builder, new pricing and support for subscription paywalls. CEO AJ Frank told us that his team’s goal was to create a blogging [...]