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Bosch is building a $1.1 billion self-driving and smart city chip plant

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Tier one auto industry supplier Bosch is investing heavily in where the market is headed, with a newly-announced $1.1 billion facility that will produce semiconductors uses in self-driving cars, smart homes and smart city infrastructure. The new Dresden-based [...]

This startup wants to build VR headsets with ‘human eye-resolution’

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Earlier this month, Google virtual reality head Clay Bavor discussed the company’s efforts on a mind-boggling 20 megapixel screen that was currently under development. The screens would be a staggering 17x resolution improvement on displays in current generation [...]

See you in Warsaw on July 4

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

I’d like to invite you all to a micro meet-up in Warsaw on July 4. We’ll be holding it at Campus Warsaw, 33C Ząbkowska, 03-736 Warszawa, Poland. The fun starts at 6pm and ends at 8pm with some [...]

Google to ramp up AI efforts to ID extremism on YouTube

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Last week Facebook solicited help with what it dubbed “hard questions” — including how it should tackle the spread of terrorism propaganda on its platform. Yesterday Google followed suit with its own public pronouncement, via an op-ed in [...]

Pokémon Go is getting cooperative play and a new gym system. Here’s how they work

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Just about a year ago, Pokémon Go came out of nowhere and took over the world. If you lived in any sort of big city, you probably couldn’t go a block without seeing a Go player sprint by, [...]

How to kill a golden age

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

So I was sitting in the Theatre of Salt in Florence with my friend Jo discussing golden ages, as one inevitably does when in Florence — it having been the birthplace of that most famous and most consequential [...]

Klarna gets a full banking license, gears up to go beyond financing payments

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

After Anders Holch Povlsen and his firm Brightfolk bought up a stake of at least $225 million in Klarna earlier this month, today the profitable Swedish payments startup, now valued at over $2.25 billion, is stepping up its [...]

GM’s Cruise driverless car unit gets into high-definition mapping

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The tech used in making cars drivereless can also be very well suited to building HD maps of roads and cities, which are then in turn used to make driverless cars better. So it isn’t surprising when companies [...]

Will Amazon become a force in fintech?

June 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Amazon is the tech giant most likely to become a dominant player in fintech, predicted James Lloyd, Ernst & Young’s fintech leader, when speaking on stage at TechCrunch and TechNode’s event in Shenzhen, China on Monday. Lloyd told [...]