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Headspace’s revamped app helps busy people turn meditation into a habit

June 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

After years of struggling to make it part of my daily routine, I’ve started to suspect that if I were mindful enough to remember to meditate, then I probably wouldn’t need to meditate in the first place. To [...]

Facebook requests input on hard questions about censorship and terrorism

June 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

How should Facebook decide what’s allowed on its social network, and how to balance safety and truth with diverse opinions and cultural norms? Facebook wants your feedback on the toughest issues it’s grappling with, so today it published [...]

Should WhatsApp let you disable URL previews?

June 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Another reminder that if you want perfect security or privacy online you shouldn’t expect every single bell & whistle of tech-enabled convenience to be handily on tap… Read More on Tech Crunch

Hardware Club raises $28 million for its hardware seed fund

June 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Hardware Club is not just a club — it’s now also a venture firm focused on hardware companies. The team has raised $28 million for the first closing of its inaugural fund from Bpifrance, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, Foxconn, [...]

Codota raises $2M from Khosla as autocomplete for developers

June 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

In recent years, GitHub has fundamentally changed developer workflows. By centralizing code on an easily accessible platform, the company was able to rapidly change the way people code. Following in these footsteps, Israeli startup Codota wants to further [...]

Spotify grows its events profile with tickets from Eventbrite

June 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Less than a week after acquiring Ticketfly from Pandora for $200 million, today Eventbrite has announced another deal to mark its deeper move into music events: the company will now show information about concerts and music festivals Spotify. [...]

Lyft sets goal of 1 billion autonomous electric rides per year by 2025

June 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Lyft has set itself some concrete goals for its renewed commitment to the Paris climate agreement, in spite of Trump’s announcement that the U.S. as a nation would be pulling out of the accord. Those goals focus primarily [...]

Snap hit another major low and is rapidly tumbling toward its IPO price

June 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

We aren’t fully sounding the :siren: bells just yet, but Snap today took yet another dive as it tapped as low as $17.11 this morning — and is now hovering just above the price that it set for [...]

Musical.ly gets into original content with new shows from Viacom, NBCU & Hearst

June 15th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Lip-syncing social network Musical.ly is getting into original content, thanks to new deals with Viacom, NBCU and Hearst, which will bring short-form video series to the app. However, unlike the original videos found on Snapchat – an app [...]