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With $1.6 million in funding, Zently now helps roommates split bills

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Earlier in the spring we told you about Zently, a new app for renters that helps them pay rent on time and flag maintenance issues to their landlords. Now the app can hook into your bank account, allowing [...]

These stretchy, durable sensors could be woven right into clothing

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

If we must have an internet of things, it makes no sense to leave clothes out of the party. But clothes must be worn, washed, bunched up, and folded — it’s hard to make electronics that can survive [...]

Here’s what a bunch of companies are doing for the ‘Net Neutrality Day of Action’

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The FCC is planning to reverse the net neutrality rules passed by the previous Commission — but we’re not going to take it lying down. Companies and organizations across the world and web have banded together for a [...]

Microsoft creates an AI research lab to challenge Google and DeepMind

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Microsoft has created a new research lab with a focus on developing general purpose artificial intelligence technology, the company revealed today. The lab will be located at Microsoft’s Redmond HQ, and will include a team of over 100 [...]

DoNotPay launches 1,000 new bots to help you with your legal problems

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Since making headlines last year with his DoNotPay chatbot to help people fight their parking tickets, 19-year-old Joshua Browder has been heads down building in new capabilities on his quest to democratize legal help by automating as many [...]

Facebook brings Live broadcasting to its Spaces virtual reality app

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

In an effort to seemingly combine a couple of the top tech trends of the year, Facebook will soon be allowing users of its Oculus Rift virtual reality system to livestream themselves inside VR to their Facebook friends [...]

PayPal expands Apple integration, will become a payment option in 11 new markets

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

PayPal this morning announced an expanded partnership with Apple, which will now see the payment method becoming available as an option on iOS devices, in addition to being available in more markets. Before today, U.S. users could add [...]

Revere launches with $2M in funding to sell workout drinks made from plants

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Dietary supplements aren’t regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, which means the industry is rife with dubious claims. Revere, a new startup that sells monthly subscriptions of its workout and energy drink powders, wants to cut through [...]

US venture investment ticks up in Q2 2017

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Venture investment in U.S. startups rose sequentially in the second quarter of 2017, boosted by large, late-stage financings and a few outsized early-stage rounds in tech and healthcare. Overall, Crunchbase projects that U.S. startups raised $22.7 billion across [...]