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Wiz Khalifa overtakes Psy to claim the most-watched YouTube video of all-time

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Wiz Khalifa’s Furious 7 homage, See You Again, has overtaken Psy’s Gangnam Style for the title of YouTube’s most-watched video ever. The music video, which serves as a bit of a tribute for the late Paul Walker with [...]

This scorecard shows which tech companies protect user data from the government (and which don’t)

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s newest “Who Has Your Back?” report details what exactly tech giants are doing — or failing to do — in order to protect their users from potentially invasive government data requests. This time around, [...]

Astronomer raises $3.5M to make data analytics more accessible

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Astronomer aims to ease the pain around data analytics. Collecting data is just part of the operation. After the data has been collected, it needs to be assembled and organized and sometimes that’s the most time-consuming part of [...]

The hunted becomes the hunter: How Cloudflare’s fight with a ‘patent troll’ could alter the game

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Matthew Prince knew what was coming. The CEO of Cloudflare, an internet security company and content delivery network in San Francisco, was behind his desk when the emails began. College classmates-turned-defense attorneys were reaching out to say hello [...]

Early chatbot believers Howdy and Bot Metrics join forces to deliver on the promise of bots

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Two of the largest communities for chatbot developers are joining forces with the belief that bots are only just getting started. Howdy, a company backed by Bloomberg Beta and Slack among others, announced that it has acquired Bot [...]

Google bans its ads on sites that use those annoying ‘pop-unders’

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Google today clarified a change to its ad policies, which have now been updated to include a ban on Google advertisements on any websites that utilize “pop-under” advertisements. These obnoxious, irritating and often spammy advertisements are those that [...]

Louis Vuitton introduces the pricey Tambour Horizon smart watch

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Louis Vuitton is throwing its hat in the smart watch ring with the launch of the Tambour Horizon. The device runs on Android Wear 2.0 software and was developed in collaboration Qualcomm and Google. Oh, and it starts [...]

Disney puts a new spin on its accelerator

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Over the past few years, Disney’s accelerator classes have been transitioning away from what was once a roughly standard early-stage growth framework. Rather than the “adopt-a-company” models prevalent among most accelerators, it has been leaning hard into how [...]

Suppose.tv launches a service that helps cord cutters find the best deal

July 11th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

With a growing number of streaming TV services entering the market, it’s becoming difficult for consumers to make comparisons. People want to know which service is best for them in terms of channel selection, feature set and price, [...]