/Gizmo News

Submission management startup Submittable raises $5M

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Submittable, a startup used by more than 9,000 companies to manage submissions, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. Missoula, Montana-based Submittable was founded in 2010 with an initial focus on literary magazines that wanted help keeping [...]

Astro lets you manage your inbox from Slack, check email hands-free with Alexa

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Astro is today rolling out a new bot that merges Slack and email. The bot will allow you to receive your most critical emails within Slack, write and respond to emails using Slack usernames, as well as share [...]

Europe’s DP chiefs fire warning shots ahead of first EU-US Privacy Shield review

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Europe’s data protection chiefs have fired a warning shot across the bows of the executive body of the Union ahead of the first annual review of the EU-US Privacy Shield. Read More on Tech Crunch

Atlassian launches a new subscription bundle that includes all of its developer tools

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Atlassian today announced the launch of Atlassian Stack, a new subscription service that bundles virtually all of the company’s self-hosted developer tools into a single offering. Starting at $186,875 per year for 1,000 licenses, this new bundle is [...]

Tesla’s Model X earns all-around 5-star safety rating from NHTSA

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has bestowed its highest ever SUV safety rating to Tesla’s Model X. The Model X earned a 5-star rating in every category and sub-category that NHTSA tests, using the government body’s own [...]

Baby food delivery service Yumi launches with $4.1 million in seed funding

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Yumi, the Los Angeles-based baby food delivery service co-created by former TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal reporter Evelyn Rusli and Angela Sutherland is finally open for business, with $4.1 million in seed investment from VC firms Brand Foundry, [...]

Tim Cook says Apple’s car project is ‘the mother of all AI projects’

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

In a very brief interview with Bloomberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that the company has been working on an Apple car. This isn’t the first time Apple talked about the company’s ongoing work in the car industry. [...]

Google Maps updates it Local Guides program with a new points system and more levels

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Local Guides in Google Maps, Google’s gamified program for getting its users to update data in Google Maps and upload photos of local venues, is getting a bit of an overhaul today. Most importantly, Google is changing how [...]

Smart WiFi startup Eero updates its hardware and introduces a new network security service

June 13th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Eero is launching a new version of its flagship Eero wireless base station. The second-gen Eero is the same size and shape of its predecessor, but the company has drastically upgraded the underlying hardware. It’s also launching Beacon, [...]