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Uber delivers letter of sexual harassment probe recommendations

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Former Attorney General Eric Holder and his law partner Tammy Albarrán announced some highly anticipated recommendations based on an internal harassment probe to employees in an all-hands meeting this morning. The board agreed, after several hours on Sunday [...]

Logitech’s Circle 2 is a modular home surveillance tool with Alexa and HomeKit support

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

I recently sat down with Logitech to talk about the wired and wireless versions of the Circle 2: a modular home surveillance camera with four different mounts that change where and how you’d use the camera. The modular [...]

Breitling’s Avenger Hurricane 45 watch uses dense composites to stay light

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

According to horological legend the first luxury watch made of steel – the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak caused great consternation when it launched in 1972. Up until then there were timekeepers – small, cheap watches like Timex and [...]

Instagram’s archive feature goes live, letting you hide photos indefinitely

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Last month we noted that Instagram was testing a new feature called “archive”, which lets users hide any of their posts from anyone else – either permanently or indefinitely. Today this will roll out to everyone on Instagram, [...]

Startups, I’d like to meet you in Columbus

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

I’m in Columbus this week and I thought we could have a quick meetup in advance of Disrupt SF in September. We’ll be meeting on Thursday at 5pm at the Wolf’s Ridge Tap Room. You can RSVP here. [...]

Nintendo’s upcoming Switch titles include Metroid, Mario, Kirby and an in-progress Pokemon RPG

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Nintendo is back at E3, in much more successful spirits after the sales boom with the Switch’s launch earlier this year. One of the game titles announced include an unnamed and still-in-progress proper Pokemon RPG, built by Game [...]

Tech shows every industry how retraining is the new recruiting

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Across the country, businesses in every industry are bracing themselves for a new wave of digital disruption. In the last year, Amazon announced it is creating supermarkets without salespeople, McDonald’s decided to replace all of its cashiers with [...]

Google Play introduces ‘Android Excellence’ collections that showcase editorially selected top apps and games

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

At WWDC this month, Apple introduced an entirely revamped App Store that puts a much greater focus on editorial, with plans for stories about the apps, how to’s, interviews, and more, in addition to regular postings of curated [...]

The Xbox One X: Initial Impressions

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

It’s hard to believe that Microsoft was able to make the latest generation Xbox so compact, and yet still so much more powerful. We had the chance to check out the console ourselves, and we were rather impressed. [...]